What Your Favorite Comedy Films Say About You

Screwball Comedies
If you prefer screwball comedies, you may be the sort of person who strives toward class equality in society. Screwball comedy fans are often those who subscribe to folk wisdom rather than scientific or highly intellectual ways of problem solving. Also, you may go to the movies to feel better about your own life, as the solution to any obstacle put forth in the screwball comedy is often apparent to the audience before it becomes clear to the characters. In short, you find it easier to avoid unnecessary complications if you avoid thinking too deeply when there is an easier and more obvious solution to a problem.

Screwball fans may be talkative and friendly as well as socially assertive. Women may enjoy screwball comedies more than men. Women are often forced to work hard both inside and outside the home and therefore are under more pressure to solve problems practically. It also helps that the woman in a screwball comedy is usually smarter than her male counterpart. Screwball comedies often hinge on snappy dialogue, so their fans may be more language oriented rather than spatially oriented. Examples of modern screwball comedies include Two Weeks Notice, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Big Lebowski. Classic examples include Some Like it Hot and Bringing up Baby.

Slapstick Comedies
People who prefer to solve problems using science or math may be fans of slapstick humor. Slapstick humor relies less on dialogue than it does on action, and can be actually be understood easily no matter what language the characters speak. If you like slapstick you may avoid becoming emotional in the face of adversity, as this type of comedy is understood by the logical part of the brain. This may be why men are stereotyped as slapstick fans as these are more traditionally considered male characteristics.