His life lacks direction, he struggles to find anything funny, and he’s not even motivated enough to commit a crime.Īs the Joker slumps further into his depressive state, he happens upon a television news report about an heiress called Camilla Cameo. What happens in The Sound of One Hand Clapping? Mediaite – Slow Clap For Congress: Approved Of By 82% of Americans Washington Post – Debt ceiling deadpan: The slow clap for Congress CNN – Congress gets (slow) applause for raising the debt ceiling BoingBoing – Slow Clap for Congress: Sarcastic YouTube meme TechPresident – The Internet #SlowClaps, Congress Takes a Bow eBaum's World Forum – GIF of man clapping Yahoo! Answers Blog – Ask Mike: The slow clap The Straight Dope – Origin of the "slow clap" meme? Amazon – They changed Joker's best scene? FS Passengers – Do they ever do the sarcastic slow clap? How about some jeering when its a poor landing. Urban Dictionary – definition for "golf clap"
Film one hand clapping archive#
Google Groups Archive – -n-mike: well played -sarcastic slow clap SNL Transcripts – The Sarcastic Clapping Family of Southhampton
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The Straight Dope – Movie "hand clapping" meme The GIF has since become one of the most well-known clapping GIFs online and has been used since as early as November 2007. Though Kane's intention was to cheer on his wife, it came off as a person fiercely applauding a dreadful display. During the film, Orson Welles' character Charles Kane is attempting to start a round of applause for his wife after a poorly received opera performance, but he is the only person clapping (shown below). In 2005, a poster on the Straight Dope forums noted that the slow clap first appeared on film in the 1941 film Citizen Kane. Also in 2009, Yahoo! Answers posted a thorough explanation of the slow clap on their staff blog. In July of that year, a poster on The Straight Dope began seeking out the origin of the enthusiastic slow clap which included discussion about the sarcastic version. Throughout 2009, the phrase "slow sarcastic clap" or "slow clap" appeared in the comments of numerous blogs and forum posts including Celebitchy, The Escapist and. On January 22nd, 2007, released a supercut of this type of clapping from film and television (shown below), showing the progression of appreciation from one person to a large crowd. his type of slow clap was written about as early as 2004 by late movie critic Roger Ebert, who called it an "ancient cliche." Despite being relatively different things, the double meaning of slow clap has converged, as some reaction GIFs used in a sarcastic manner have stemmed from clips of the beginning of these enthusiastic slow claps. In film and television, the "slow clap" may also refer to a moment in which a single person begins clapping and, as it becomes infectious, leads to a large crowd clapping in response to an event which is often instigated by an underdog. Sarcastic clapping was parodied as early as 1991 in an Saturday Night Live skit titled "The Sarcastic Clapping Family of Southhampton." Online, this type of sarcastic clapping was used as a text-based reaction as early as February 2003 on the -n-mike newsgroup in a discussion of a different Saturday Night Live skit.
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