Adrian Bardon's God Loves Drunk People Too

Sometimes, You Just Need a Little Push
Everyone loves a good light hearted story, and the story “God Loves Drunk People Too” is just that. “God Loves Drunk People Too,” is a funny story about a couple who gets an unexpected visitor in the middle of the night. When this visitor asks for a favor the couple must decide whether or not they should help him. This story’s humor belongs to the Incongruity theory because at the beginning of the story when the main character refuses to help someone, the audience begins to think that something bad may happen to the husband or the man will be stranded in the rain. But at the end of the story, the reader gets a hilarious surprise when what they expect to happen is nowhere near the actual outcome of the
Incongruity is something that doesn’t fit or is out of place. The Incongruity is used when the author or comedian sets up a pattern for one expected outcome and then delivers a very different outcome. The audience is given an outcome completely opposite of what they originally expected. In “The Philosophy of Humor,” Bardon states that when denied the gratification of immediate desires, we are secretly delighted when our intellects expectations are frustrated. And that there is pleasure found in the experience of the absurdity rather than in the reaction. From the beginning of the story, the reader is led to believe that the drunk is stuck in the pouring rain needing his car pushed. When the man goes back outside to help the drunk after a little persuading from his wife, the reader would naturally believe that the drunk would be waiting by his car for the man to help him push. However, an unexpected turn in the story happens when the man calls out to the drunk and he answers back from not a car, but a swing set. With this new outcome, the audience is sent into unexpected, giddy laughter. The immediate desire of the reader is that the man will go help the drunk man push his car. When the outcome of the story is revealed, the audience gets a feeling of frustration because it is not what they expected. However, a feeling of pleasure also occurs because of the absurdity of the new