{"id":4323,"date":"2005-11-17T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/11\/17\/funnygirl\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:02:19","slug":"funnygirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/11\/17\/funnygirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnygirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3918'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ceerock\/54722large001.jpg\" align=\"left\">We screened the footage of my werewolf spoof last night and people laughed, which is good. But I laughed more than anyone&#8230;like uncontrollable painful laughter&#8230;embarassing. Something about viewing your own footage, your own connection to a project, makes it so much funnier&#8211;seeing someone bring your dialogue to life, their mannerisms filling out the characters you created, intensifies the humor. It&#8217;s not unlike the way new parents are so delighted with the smallest and most mundane things that their new baby can do: look, he smiled, isn&#8217;t that amazing? Um, not so much. We screened other people&#8217;s films which I found mildly amusing but which the makers were hysterical over, so I&#8217;m not alone. And I&#8217;m guessing that the more movies you make, the less intense this effect becomes.<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We screened the footage of my werewolf spoof last night and people laughed, which is good. But I laughed more than anyone&#8230;like uncontrollable painful laughter&#8230;embarassing. Something about viewing your own footage, your own connection to a project, makes it so much funnier&#8211;seeing someone bring your dialogue to life, their mannerisms filling out the characters you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-17J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}