Unit 2 and Sherlock Jr.

The types of comedy that Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. displays is mainly slapstick and situational comedy. An example of situational comedy is when, Keaton finds the money sorting through the trash, he finds out its an old woman's and must give it back. After Keaton does this another gentlemen comes along and finds a pile of money in the trash, of course which he gets to keep. Another example of situational comedy is when Keaton is being questioned by a family if he stole the mans watch, only to have a receipt for the watches exact value in his wallet. Another example of situational comedy is when the car, towards the end comes off its axis and floats on the lake. In terms of todays comedies people manly still do use situational comedy but I think that this has evolved since Keaton's times. Now situational comedy involves drugs, sex, some sort of violence to get a cheap laugh. In Keaton's days the comedy would be incidental occurrences that one would find comical, not involving drugs or sex, many things considered taboo in cinema, up until the mid 1900s.