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Anger Management and Emotional Control | Monday | Period 1
"Good morning," Bruce said from the front of the ordinary classroom where they were meeting today. "To follow up on last week's session on music, today I want to talk about other forms of media that can help relieve tension. Specifically, comedy."
It was a weird class for him to be leading, since he himself hadn't ever really been very interested in film or TV. Not in a long time, anyway. And the shows and movies he did like were usually dramas. Destroying Unpleasant, that kind of thing. But it was certainly relevant to the aims of the class, so he was squeezing this lecture in.
"If you're not familiar with the genre, comedic shows and movies are usually on the shorter side, and have the goal of making the audience laugh," he clarified quickly. "Physiologically, laughter releases endorphins, hormones like the ones we've talked about in previous sessions, that can put you in a better mood. They also reduce tension in your body, which can have the same effect of relaxing you and making you more open to enjoying yourself. Although there are plenty of reasons to laugh that aren't related to something you might watch on television, sometimes when you're not in the best mood and you don't have friends around, watching something that can make you laugh might be your best bet to feel better."
"Since we're well into the semester now and most of you aren't new anyway, I figure you've all probably had sometime to get acquainted with the television sets in the dorms," Bruce said. "So let's start with going around and saying a favorite comedy show or movie you have, and how it affects you when you watch it. And then if there's time, we'll watch an episode of a comedy show for the rest of class."
It was a weird class for him to be leading, since he himself hadn't ever really been very interested in film or TV. Not in a long time, anyway. And the shows and movies he did like were usually dramas. Destroying Unpleasant, that kind of thing. But it was certainly relevant to the aims of the class, so he was squeezing this lecture in.
"If you're not familiar with the genre, comedic shows and movies are usually on the shorter side, and have the goal of making the audience laugh," he clarified quickly. "Physiologically, laughter releases endorphins, hormones like the ones we've talked about in previous sessions, that can put you in a better mood. They also reduce tension in your body, which can have the same effect of relaxing you and making you more open to enjoying yourself. Although there are plenty of reasons to laugh that aren't related to something you might watch on television, sometimes when you're not in the best mood and you don't have friends around, watching something that can make you laugh might be your best bet to feel better."
"Since we're well into the semester now and most of you aren't new anyway, I figure you've all probably had sometime to get acquainted with the television sets in the dorms," Bruce said. "So let's start with going around and saying a favorite comedy show or movie you have, and how it affects you when you watch it. And then if there's time, we'll watch an episode of a comedy show for the rest of class."
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"Or maybe there's some sort of schadenfreude involved? Better seeing these horrible things happen to other people than to themselves?"
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"That could be," Bruce agreed. "I've always suspected that's how soap operas keep running, at any rate. And reality shows."
He'd never seen a reality show in his life, but he was still pretty firm about that opinion.
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He hadn't seen any, either. But, you know, there was the internet.
And Wade.
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