famous surgeon, comes. She is actually being a patient of Alzheimer at that hospital but she has an illusion of being at work, thus she acts like she is the
senior doctor and yells at them who just sit doing nothing but wondering how could there is a bullet in patient’s head.
The term “surgery” is a medical operation as the treatment of injuries or diseases by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the damaged part.
This term is put in this sarcastic humor because Ellis tries to remind the doctors in a crude way to do the operation quickly and not just watch the X-ray. This humor
belongs to mediation function.
2. Types of Humor in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2
The types of humor has three big categories, those are jokes, spontaneous conversational humor, and unintentional humor categorized by Martin. However,
there is no unintentional humor in this drama series. Then, the 11 sub-types of spontaneous conversational humor are not all employed since the researcher gets
9 types of spontaneous conversational humor in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2. The
others which are not occurred are satire and clever replies to serious statement.
a. Jokes
Martin 2007:12 explains that during the course of normal conversations, some people like to amuse others by telling jokes ending in a punch line. There
are only three jokes humor that researcher found in findings and those are presented below.
Dr. Bailey: I like Judy dolls. I own Judy dolls. The only problem I have with Judy dolls is theyre in the bowel of this man.
Datum 18 A patient with an unusual problem gets Bailey and the interns surprised.
The patient who is thought swallowed a lot of drugs comes to the hospital. However, after being checked by X-ray, the things that are stuck on his bowel are
not balloons of drugs but ten of Judy dolls head and get stuck in his bowel because they are too big. This quite funny since the doctors get no answer why he
swallowed them. The other morning, when Cristina arrives at the hospital and starts to
check the patient’s document, Bailey addresses her and starts the conversation by saying this humor.
The term “bowel” itself is a long tube that carries solid waste from the stomach out of the body. She uses this incident in humor to get closer to
her intern. Therefore, the function is social management and the type is a joke. The following is also the other data of joke humor.
Patient: I knew as much as her. She was clueless about how to treat cystic
fibrosis. A cholecystectomy turned into a month-long stay.
Datum 40 In datum 40 above, the context is when Bailey has a chit chat with a
patient that has already close to her for years while Bailey’s intern does an
examination on him. The patient tries to relieve the tension and becomes worried by reminding a nostalgic accident when Bailey was being an intern. She ever did a
mistake that turns his short time-curable disease on his gall bladder becomes a month-long staying at the hospital.
The medication process term of “cholecystectomy” means a surgical procedure to remove your gallbladder. This is a short amusing story from a patient
which talks about Bailey related to what she has done long time ago as her personal experience.
The purpose is to attract Bailey’s attention. Therefore the function is social management. This one is the last example of joke found in data
findings. Dr. Izzie
: Dr. Burke is talking to George and Alex through heart surgery
in the elevator. Dr. Grey
: Shepherds setting up a shaman healing ritual. Dr. Cristina
: Rock on. I have porn guy.
Datum 58 Cristina asks her friends about what case they have. Izzie wants to watch
George and Karev who do a heart surgery in the elevator because of the generator down; Grey helps Derek to set up a healing ritual asked by a patient’s parent
before doing the operation. Then, Cristina employs a joke to emphasize her unlucky situation as she deals with a porn patient, while her friends are doing
interesting activities. She has to deals with a porn guy; a patient that has to watch porn to reduce
his pain. This humor is categorized as a joke since it has a setup from Izzie and Grey’s utterances as the short story of what they do that day and a punch line
which is said by Cristina to highlight how pitiful Cristina is. The “heart surgery”
is the remark of medication process. This joke belongs to social management.
b. Spontaneous Conversational Humor
