/lit/ - Literature

>>8941157
Unironically r/truefilm...you know...on reddit. Best you can do after that is read film critic hulk essays and watch video essays on youtube.

>>8914328
>There is so much more to comedy than just wit.

This my point, i can see how clever they are but they are missing something.

>I just don't understand why you think this is unique to comedy

I don't think it is unique to comedy but is certainly more easily lost. Think about the popularity of anime in the west. Action and drama are gigantic inside and outside japan, but there is no great crossover comedy from Japan (Gintama kinda, but not really). Why? Because 70% of the jokes are puns based on their weird language that are almost impossible to translate or often based on their culture. On the other hand a fight is a fight and a love story is a love story. Romeo and Juliette carries over in almost every culture because you can get the drama whilst ignoring the context. Whereas a movie like Scott Pilgrim vs The World would not even make sense to a modern day person who does not play video-games or follow the indie music scene.

Half the jokes are references and the rest are in a very specific modern comedic voice. A joke can "go over your head", their is no similar term for drama or action, you don't have to "get" a thriller. That is how inside jokes work.

>Yes, contextual knowledge helps but at the same time to properly enjoy the meanings and implications of a play such as Aeschylus's Agamemnon a knowledge of his line and the myths surrounding them is required. It's good without that knowledge but better with. Gogol is funny without knowing the world he satirises, even funnier with.

Agree with this although not familiar the plays, I think comedy suffers from this more than drama, much more.

>Again I don't mean to sound like an ass but I think you are seriously misguided to tell me and the many other readers of literature like me out there that we really aren't having fun reading comedy just because you can't, and that when we cry from laughter from reading or watching these works that we are being facetious.

I think you would enjoy them even more if you understood all the goofs and gaffs intuitively without a wiki.