Funny phrases: remember, discuss, laugh

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

We each have our own idea of humor. However, all thinking individuals are united by a well-timed joke. She is always highly regarded. Funny phrases are repeated repeatedly, sometimes after many years, and their authors become real legends.

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Not everyone is able to come up with something brilliant, having come up with a replica on the go, in between times. For most people, it is enough to remember what funny phrases have already been said in such an environment. And this is quite enough to pass for a wit. Previously, in the pre-computer era, when there were no even televisions yet, in the forties, in the early fifties, the great novels of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov served as an invaluable storehouse of "winged words and expressions". The books written by them were interesting in themselves, but what really made them stand out was the very funny phrases written down and presented to his brother Petrov (it was a pseudonym) by Valentin Kataev. He heard them in Odessa, in the 20s, during the NEP. Then they got so used to these aphorisms in the glorious southern city that they did not perceive them as jokes, but simply used them as usual (“Dusya” is a respectfulattitude towards people of both sexes, “do not teach me how to live” - a response to moralizing, etc.). Actually, there were practically no other literary "pearls" from which one could draw preparations for future jokes at that time.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, Kuzma Prutkov was the author of many comic aphorisms. The shortest of them was the call “Watch out!”, but the collective authorship gave birth to many others: “You can’t embrace the immensity”, “If “lion” is written on a cage with a donkey, then don’t believe your eyes …” and so on.

Cinema

Books by books (“shmigi books, I read them all”), but it was also the most massive of the arts. And comedies were filmed in the Stalinist (and subsequent) years a lot. Some of the artists, deep people with a complex spiritual organization, were extremely annoyed by the fact that all their work, in the understanding of the average viewer, fit into one or two funny phrases said in several episodes. How angry the brilliant Faina Ranevskaya was at “Mulya” (“Mulya, don’t make me nervous!”) From the film “Foundling”! In the eighties, Sadalsky also got it with his “purse-purse”. Actor Yakovlev, who at that time played in the film adaptation of "The Idiot" and many other serious films, was also remembered by many as the manager of the house, "requiring the continuation of the banquet." But there are also unconditional successes. And today, inviting guests to the table, many hosts notify guests that “the meal is served, sit down to eat, please” (“Gentlemen of Fortune”). Commenting on the results of the process, even very experienced lawyers mention “the most humane court in the world” (“Caucasianprisoner"), adding that the monument cannot be planted ("Gentlemen" again).

There are a lot of examples when funny phrases from films became favorite folk aphorisms, while injuring the souls of the artists who said them from the screen. Let's say the same Aleksey Buldakov as a general toasting endlessly.

However, actors still get used to such fame, but what can you do. After all, people's love should still be appreciated, even if it is not manifested in a very successful form.

Conversation

In terms of their popularity, artists who utter humorous and satirical monologues under the lights of the footlights often surpass popular singers and movie stars, not to mention politicians. Arkady Raikin, who began his stage career at the time of the greatest lifetime glory of Ilf and Petrov, is deservedly considered the coryphaeus of the genre. The funniest phrases were said by him in the seventies, during "live" performances in many cities of the Soviet Union, many of them were publicly quoted from television films with his participation. Almost everyone knew about the “Greek Hall”, and when visiting the Hermitage, they even asked to see it (in fact, such an exhibition does not exist). And also “diffcit”, “I started smoking and talking at the same time”, “the era was disgusting”…

Then came the era of Zhvanetsky, who, perhaps, was surprised at his own success, because he said what everyone saw and heard. His faithful friends, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, wonderfully performed his miniatures: “Where were you from eight to eleven? - It's me, Koltsov!”,“And that’s allit’s a pity that we didn’t hear from the head of the transport department…”. Many other artists of the colloquial genre perform well, replenishing the folk lexicon with winged and very funny phrases.

More examples of popular funny phrases

In the movie "The Leader of the Redskins" one of the bandits shares with another thoughts about the possibility of ten minutes to run to the Canadian border. The expression became common in conditions of extreme haste. In the absence of time, but this time for amorous courtship, a phrase from Munchausen is used about mutual damn attraction. The need for accuracy in following instructions is illustrated by the words about “woman” (who has flowers) and ice cream (for children, with an emphasis on “I”). In the company of slightly overdone friends, it is quite acceptable to hiss a verse from a song about the “airplane wing” in a loud whisper, it will also turn out funny. And patience and the need to save nerves are declared by the call "Calm down, Hippolyte", with an indispensable stroking of one's own stomach. In general, there are countless examples.

Humor in politics

Jokes from high tribunes during the years of the existence of the USSR were rarely heard, it was believed that very serious people rule the country, and therefore it is inappropriate to laugh during their speeches. The situation changed after the collapse of the huge state. The heads of the new countries began to give out funny phrases one after another, sometimes not wanting it themselves, but often quite deliberately. The most prominent post-Soviet wit was V. S. Cheromyrdin, who possessed the finest humor. With their fleeting andwith topical jokes, he helped the people survive the hard times.

Let's quote the most famous of them. “It’s impossible to sew something on Chernomyrdin!”, “We wanted the best, but it turned out as always”, “We continue what we have already done a lot.”

A sense of humor is also a talent that is not inherent in everyone, but there have always been truly witty people among world politicians. And the current president of our country does not go into his pocket for a word.