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Monday, June 23, 2003 Will & Grace Is probably one of the more humorous and all-around enjoyable comedy shows on television currently; however, it only came to my realization today, during an episode where Grace was apparently "fired" from her job position, that I quite possibly take a strong resemblance to Grace in her character. I've always thought that people usually laugh at something - whether wrong or right - because they can identify with it in some respect. I'm not talking about the type of laughter used to release confusion, uncomfort - that's something different altogether. I'm talking about genuine laughter due to humor. I think the root of this, whether people wish to admit it or not, is because they identify with it in some respect. Deep down - something completely unpolitically-correct can be humorous because we can either relate to it, or we identify with it as something we've observed as a 'truth' or a humorous perspective to portray the truth. Either way, there is something we laugh at because we identify with it as something we understand. This comes back around to Will & Grace being an excellent comedy show for the fact that I think it's clever, but moreso, I've realized that I really can identify with Grace's character. The way she is offended. The way she likes to be right. The way she can still admit she's wrong, but that she'd rather not. The way she loves her friends, but they drive her crazy at the same time. The way her friends don't understand her sometimes.. or are always picking on some of the qualities she'd rather keep unique (such as her preference in dress attire). The way she thinks it's humorous, almost, that her friends don't understand her (I recall one episode where they thought she was going crazy, and she just decided to play that up because she knew what they were thinking... and then finally she told them.. "guess what! I'm not crazy! I just knew that you guys thought I was!.. so I was playing the part!" ... and then her friends don't believe her and reply to her, "Oh ok. Yes you're right, honey. You're not crazy. (still obviously just saying that to 'appease' her in their minds)."... and then she can't believe that they still think she's actually crazy when she has directly told them she knew all-along what they were thinking.) Her temper and anxiousness. Her 'sporaticness.' Her sometimes-extravagant-'out-there'-solutions-to-a-seemingly-easy-to-fix-problem. Her paranoia. Her best-attempts at perfectionism in the things she does take seriously. Hehe.. I dunno.. just various random things... but I think she's great in the show.. and I've never really realized that she does kind of resemble how I could see myself as an older person. Haha. I don't know if that's a *good* thing, but I personally think it's a humorous thought. . . . babbled Lin |
