Investigation Ideas

1. How different comedians manipulate language

   From a list of about 5 comedians I would find a typical example of how each person manipulates language and their speech patterns to their own advantage to entertain an audience. How these people's career language is altered to become humorous to an audience and the differences and similarities they hold between each other.

2. Comedians with different accents and dialects and how they use them to their advantage

   In Britain there are such a wide range of accents and variations of language, comedians very often make jokes about people with different accents and also of them selves and their accent. Being able to imitate different accents can be a great skill in the world of comedy and I think that delving into this would make for a very interesting investigation

3. Comparison of language between different comedy programmes

   There are a lot of comedy programmes on TV now and they all have different themes; I think it would be interesting for an investigation if I took fair data from a range of them and compare them to collect the differences and similarities they have and how different techniques are used and why.