What ended up happening, as became quickly apparent during the sketch, was the expert, a sweet smiling woman named Daisy Rose, trying to create a romantic comedy with the newscaster. She uses many of the romantic comedy cliches to try to set herself up with the interviewer. She uses cliche lines (e.g. saying she hasn't laughed since she broke up with her ex boyfriend, but the interviewer got her to laugh again, she has to run and catch her plane and the interviewer has to decide whether he will run after her, that they should meet in their "special spot," etc.) and general rom com setups, such as giggling and looking down and then at the interviewer, having acoustic guitar music playing in the background that gradually swells as things get more intense. The interviewer is, of course, perplexed about the whole thing.
As silly and light as the premise of this sketch is, I think the satire and satirical point is interesting and worth noting. The use of dramatic irony- the romantic comedy expert has no idea how ridiculous and out of place everything she's saying is- has two purposes. First of all, just to lay bare just how similar and silly most romantic comedies are. The lines she uses can all be found, in some form, in nearly every rom com. The second purpose, though, is a tad more serious. I think it makes an interesting comment on fans of romantic comedies (such as myself) and their tendency to sometimes look for the movie moment and movie setup and movie relationship instead actually creating unique situations. The romantic comedy expert, despite saying emotional and intense lines one would assume were directed at a love interest, is merely speaking to a man she met not even a minute earlier. I think it's supposed to make those fans think about their idea of what falling in love is.
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