Amanda Mims Meditation

"Take sex for example. There's nothing funnier than the ridiculous faces you people make mid-coitus."-Dogma, written by Kevin Smith.
In class we were talking about sex, and how it is always funny; unless however you were the two prospective students sitting in on class, but them feeling uncomfortable made me think that everthing was that much more funny. And sometimes you do get the awkward laugh because it makes people feel uncomfortable, other times you get full out hysteria. Whether it be the act of sex or just talking about it, sex is funny. Sexual innuendos are always so fun to make and its usually quite simple to twist people's words around or to just change where the emphasis on the sentence is. And after reading Lysistrita it is easy to see that sex is quite universal, more than 2000 years ago they were joking about it just as we do today. It was suggested that we write on how to stage it, or rather how we would stage the play. I see it as very Saturday Night Live-ish. Original SNL, with slapstick and gimmics. Exaggeration is key, the Greeks exaggerated using masks and grotesque faces and bodies. I think it is important to keep the masks and the freakish bodies but make them more modern. I believe the play should also definately be performed for an audience of my peers because they would laugh at the same things that I would and I could enforce those more. The humor on sex is completely different with each generation, and as mature as we think we are, when it comes to sex...everything is funny.