What makes you laugh?
Much of the time, what makes people laugh can be the same thing as what makes people cry. What do I mean by that and why should it be so?
If someone slips on a slippery banana skin, they could really hurt themselves. Pick up that banana skin before someone slips on it, please! However, slipping on a banana skin is a funny joke at the circus where a performer does things we would not normally do. We might not do them because it could make someone unhappy. A clown might throw a bucket of water at someone on the stage, or throw a pie full of cream in another clown’s face. But if anyone did that to you, you might feel unhappy because it would mess up your clothes!
Think carefully about what makes you laugh. It could be something from the television or something from ‘real life’ and think about the bit of it that might be hard or cruel in some way. What makes it funny if it is not kind?
In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a man called ‘Bottom’ (sorry – what was his name? Bottom? Well, that’s funny for a start!) has a magic spell cast over him changing his head into a donkey’s head. Goodness! How would you feel if you woke up and found your head had been turned into a donkey’s head? Well, Bottom does not really mind because he wakes up next to a beautiful fairy queen called Titania. She has also had a magic spell cast over her so that she will fall in love with the next person she sees. And the next person she sees is… donkey-headed Bottom!
Oh dear! If both of these characters make us laugh, are they both clowns? Bottom is a weaver. He makes beautiful fabrics using threads on a machine called a ‘loom’. I imagine a weaver could be a funny man. But can a queen be a clown? I am not sure. I would like to hear what you think. What makes her funny if she is not a clown?
First write down or draw a picture of something that made you laugh. Then have a think about how you would feel if it really happened to you. Then think about Bottom and Queen Titania and write down or draw what you think they might be like. Would you like to be a weaver? Would you like to be a fairy queen? There is nothing to stop you being both – especially in your imagination! If you would not like to be either a weaver or a fairy queen or king, tell me why that is.
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