Red is Not Funny
Wikipedia defines common symbolic connotations of the color Red as:
Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, sex, excitement, speed, heat, arrogance, ambition, leadership, masculinity, power, danger, gaudiness, blood, war, anger, revolution, radicalism, socialism, communism, aggression, summer, autumn, stop, Mars (planet), respect, Gemini (star sign), December.
Red is also associated with the Nazi party, AIDS, Red Cross, emergency, dynamite, and roses. Most of the words are extreme, a lot are even negative. All of them are likely to draw some amount of emotion from a person, and the color red itself can have a physical effect on the body--increased blood pressure and heavy breathing.
The one thing that is clear from all of this is that red is not funny...
The clumsily obese sans type; the blinding white background safely voiding the cutout actors of context. It's a design ploy as low brow as the films themselves--a desperate attempt to simply be recognized. They dance, jump up and down, and scream at the top of their lungs to get a reaction of any kind... since they must realize that nobody is laughing.
I suppose red is also the color of doomed comedy
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