![]() ![]() On the British sitcom Coupling (also streaming on Amazon Prime), there is a citation of a phenomenon called the “giggle loop”, an involuntary impulse to laugh during a most inopportune moment, causing you to swallow the laughter and suffocate it within, which of course amplifies it, eventually causing a most inappropriately timed and loud laugh. Let this bastard out and you’ve got whiplash,” warns the show’s resident know-it-some, Jeff Murdock. The Documental set is made up of giggle-loop landmines. The comedians make faces, put their testicles inside the pipe of a vacuum cleaner, make their heads bleed, fool around with props of all types. It is so puerile, so unashamedly stupid, that watching it frequently feels dirty. ![]() This, then, is less about comic sophistry than about surprise. Gaki no tsukai gif professional#Įlaborate costume-based routines fail to evoke a laugh, while a fortuitously timed stutter gets a professional to break down and lose his place in the competition. “That stutter was incredible,” admits the comedian on his way out, and Matsumoto must then deliberate which comedian should get the point for his exit: the one who stuttered, or the one who first reacted to the stutter before the laugh-er, thereby evoking the laugh. It all sounds nuts but once you’ve waded in 20 minutes deep, Documental is difficult to look away from.
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