A lunch date with Robin Williams!!

In class on Tuesday we discussed comedy.  We learned that unlike tragedy, comedy is unforeseeable.  Which is true in a way somewhat.  Though the best comedy is something you can not predict it can still be good.  A great example of unpredictable comedy is the late and great Robin Williams.  We were shown an interview of him on the Jimmy Carson show (I believe that was it).  It was really funny.  He went from trying to eat the mic to drinking Carson's coffee.  I didn't think he was going to do any of that and it was great.  Now lunch date a short film we watched is about an older lady who misses her train and stops at the train stop dinner.  When she orders her salad and leaves it at her table while she goes get her civil ware.  When she comes back she finds a man sitting there eating her salad.  First she accuses him of eating her salad and he just gives her the look of craziness.  So she just stares him down.  Finally she starts to pick at the salad while he is eating it.  After a while he comes stops eating and gets two cups of coffee.  It is almost as if he is apologizing for eating her salad.  Then the woman leaves to catch her train.  About half way to the train she realizes she left her bags at the dinner.  She goes back to see they are missing.  She gets very upset and starts pacing around.  You see her bags in the next booth along with her salad uneaten.  She realizes this and starts laughing as she takes her bags and leave.  Though if you pay attention you can see that her bags aren't in "her" booth with the man.  It is predictable but still funny.  Why you may ask?  Because there is a good chance that you have done something stupid like that such as putting your bags in a car that looks like your's only to realize that it isn't yours.  It is moments like this that make you laugh and wonder what you were thinking.  It is especially funny because it isn't officially you messing up it is someone else.  So I leave you with the great words of Mel Brooks on comedy "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."