Rodney Dangerfield

Let s decode some of his jokes.

Now this was year 1974, everything in society was different back then... If we joke about something now, it can be acceptable but in future it might not. What determines this is, our distance from those particular emotion and logic. We can even make jokes about death, bu you cant make them next to a person who lost their loved one past year. The more entangled to the drama, the less it will be funny. If you can learn to distance yourself, you will naturally bring laughter to a degree. At first, it seems to us, there is only one way to respond to something emotionally but by the time you mature yourself, you actually can distance yourself from many dramas.

So when he jokes about kids looking like you cant tell a boy from a girl, was okay and funny back then. Now what he has found a negative... Like I taught in my other articles since life has  a flow from negative to postive in our minds, we naturally have a tendency to hear him talking better things than a negative this time.., this is a subtle expectation underneath our reality...

Then he goes, He asked that person if that teenager was a girl or boy and the person answer= Boy, that s my son... then Rodney asks, are you the father and he answers= NO I am the mother.  (laughter)

He took a negative and dragged it to even more negative. This is always a powerful set up for a joke, we use two negatives instead of only declining from positive to negative... we show a negative and decline even further to the negative which makes a joke even more funnier. This is one solid technique, most skilled comedians, cartoonists use. Do not forget this technique and  the polarities take part.

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Now in his other jokes. he proceeds to talk about how his life is hard and bad, his bank, his dentist, his psychiatrist ... here he constantly escalates in bad, for comedy go for the bad, mistake, wrong and negative. One simple techniqure and he is implementing it perfectly here... With it example it goes worse, and this is another technique, things should only go worse in comedy..

What makes the negative more alive? If you picture it, explain it with people, conversations, mimics and connections.. Here he uses some.... He says, he told his psychiatrist he has suicidal tendencies, and answer of doc is, =Pay in advance. This is the worst because it s about lie&death. Strenght of negativity is bigger here than the bank and the dentist. His technique is perfect.

He enlarges the psychiatrist example=

- Doc help me, all I think all day long is I am ugly

-He says lay down face down.

Comedy is your assumption, you can assume people act wrong, so wrong, and that s funny just like Rodney did perfectly... I will show many examples as such, and it will establish a basis in your mind.