Comedy is an Excellent Coping Mechanism
During the Great Depression people needed an outlet to turn to in order to escape the unfortunate lifestyle they were forced to live with day to day. Many of these people turned to the movies for this exact reason. The form of escapism was more entertaining and better for your liver than the alternative of turning to drinking, which is the road most people take when life gets to tough.
But thankfully for many others there were entertainers like the Marx Brothers who can make people laugh in almost any situation. They were able to turn around the problems that society was facing, and turn it into pure comedy.
Films that were humorous to audiences in the 1920s when they were first released are still entertaining to our generation almost eighty years later. Why? Well I honestly don’t know why some Jewish guy with a fake Italian accent saying “Why a duck?” is funny, but it sure is.
I think that we as a society can find the form of comedy the Marx Brothers were performing all those years ago because we are a generation raised on “Saturday Night Live.” Every Saturday night we turn on our television and watch the latest generation of entertainers mock the current political party. This is why I believe that we, as a generation totally different than the one during the Marx Brothers time, can still enjoy their movies.
During the Great Depression people needed an outlet to turn to in order to escape the unfortunate lifestyle they were forced to live with day to day. Many of these people turned to the movies for this exact reason. The form of escapism was more entertaining and better for your liver than the alternative of turning to drinking, which is the road most people take when life gets to tough.
But thankfully for many others there were entertainers like the Marx Brothers who can make people laugh in almost any situation. They were able to turn around the problems that society was facing, and turn it into pure comedy.
Films that were humorous to audiences in the 1920s when they were first released are still entertaining to our generation almost eighty years later. Why? Well I honestly don’t know why some Jewish guy with a fake Italian accent saying “Why a duck?” is funny, but it sure is.
I think that we as a society can find the form of comedy the Marx Brothers were performing all those years ago because we are a generation raised on “Saturday Night Live.” Every Saturday night we turn on our television and watch the latest generation of entertainers mock the current political party. This is why I believe that we, as a generation totally different than the one during the Marx Brothers time, can still enjoy their movies.
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