yelling is funny

I think it’s funnier than hell when two people shout at each other because they’re in different rooms or in noisy places. Or when they’re both wearing hearing aids.

For example, I was producing a script where two people were talking in a nightclub. A very funny script based on miscommunication. They started as if they were cozied up shoulder to shoulder at the bar. But it got really funny the louder they got, as if the music was drowning out all reasonable conversation. Finally, I just pumped horrible club music into their headphones and they had to not only yell to be heard, but they had to enunciate every word. Which created pauses because the other person had to take a moment to try and understand. The combination of yelling and enunciating and trying to communicate was, well, hilarious. And it made us all realize how exhausting trying to communicate in a nightclub is. Because it’s not possible. I guess that’s why people dance.