Every Sunday, without fail, my family had the same routine. We woke up, got dressed in our best, went to the 10 AM service, and then finished off the morning with our favorite Chinese Buffet...

Absurdity is a wide genre of comedy that encapsulates comedy at its finest. From the slapstick absurdity of the Three Stooges to the intellectual absurdity of Monty Python and the quick absurdity of most improv shows, comedy is absurdity at its core. It takes the premise of a serious situation and takes it "up to eleven." Every comedy writer knows how to take something bland and make it absurd.