THE CONCEPT OF COMEDY IN PAPA SHIRANDULA

This comedy is ideally what the Kenyan middle and low cases have the ability to associate with easily, though it can not only be restricted to this group(s). It is strategically programmed for seven thirty in the pm to grace the Citizen television waves, and just at the opportune moment when most Kenyan are having their supper or just about to.

First of all, the classification of this Kenyan series is one hard nut to crack, though its classification can be angled from different view points such as its genre or attempted sub genres during its presentation. My initial conception is that Papa as it is so synonymously referred to is a dramedy. This is to mean that it is a type of comedy that preys on the dramatic aspect of life or a situation in occurrence. This is but one of the channels in which the concept of comedy can be exposed in Papa.

Then again, it is a reality drama series as derived from its classification on the upcoming chaguo la teeniez awards slated for sometime in Mid April. This type of classification is further advanced in a comical manner, so as to dispense the reality of what is trying to be passed across. Papa's concept of comedy cuts across many comedy types. One of them is the use of slapstick technique. Slapstick is a type of comedy where the actor or performer tries so desperately hard to use unintelligent actions mostly in a non-verbal manner to illicit humor to an audience. Such as is the case of Jalang'o who wears a suit without a shirt, which is an act aimed at making us laugh without him even necessarily uttering a word.

Also, the situations that it highlight are of the stand up comedy nature but not necessarily such since they have no sit-in audience but designated for the television screen. But the concept employed are screw ball comedy where the comedy of highlighting bizarre occurrences is in play, the use of black comedy where ills such as tribalism and racism are exposed and subsequent use of comedy of situation and manners which are self explanatory. anyway, the concept of comedy in Papa cuts across very manner comedy dispensations, that it remains vague to clearly conclude which type of concept it is adversely characterized as.
Hence, in conclusion, i can allege that it is a television production that employs the use of comedy to reach an audience. Well, that is the concept of comedy in Papa every Thursday at 7:40pm

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