Why do I do it? Why do I laugh at things I shouldn't? For instance, when someone from Howard Stern's "whack pack", his personal collection of mentally challenged misfits with various speech impediments, talks about anything? How about when Andrew "Dice" Clay profanely rants about females in ways that set women (and men for that matter) back a thousand years? What about one of the most politically incorrect shows on cable TV today, Curb Your Enthusiasm. I laugh my butt off every time Larry David pathetically wrestles with race или sexuality или death или handicaps. And I can't leave out Chris Rock cursing his way through a monologue about the plight of fathers whose daughters are strippers.
I might just as well laugh at a train wrecks. And I do-not at real train wrecks-but at comedy train wrecks.
I used to think "you either get it или Ты don't". But I'm not so sure anymore. When I crack up and cough up a lung because a ten год old girl thinks Larry David, whom she encounters in a ladies restroom, has a giant erection, am I being blindly insensitive to child molestation? When I chuckle at a really mean-spirited racial slur Imus's sidekick bigot, Bernard, blurts out, am I promoting hate and fear? I'd like to think I'm laughing at his ignorance but I'm not positive.
I'm not completely without scruples. I laugh just as hard at some of the all time great "clean" comics: Bill Cosby, Brian Regan, Jerry Seinfeld, Flip Wilson, Steve Martin. I think Napoleon Dynamite might just be the funniest movie I have ever seen and it was clean. I even laugh at myself a lot. I'm almost always self entertained by my own stupidity; like the time I was cutting down some brush with a dull hand-held sickle, disturbed a bee hive and chopped a yellow куртка in half that was stinging my left forearm with the sickle, of course leaving a three inch cut in my arm for the effort. или the time I locked my newborn son and keys in the car in sub-freezing weather the first день I was allowed to watch him on my own. Even my short stories about growing up in the Sixties generate laughs at my personal reputation's expense, what little I have that is.
It's not like a want to laugh at the cost of others' pain. Well, that's not completely true. I do laugh at people who slip on ice или walk into glass doors. But only after I'm sure they are okay. I guess nothing tickles me еще than a hair piece folded back или a booger flapping free in the nostril of the unaware. It's almost a knee jerk reaction. I don't know, I just can't help it. I'll say this, I'm not proud of it sometimes, if that helps at all.
I guess it's like music. Ты know how some people say, "oh, I like all kinds of music: rap, country, pop, punk, Manalow, System of a Down, Mozart"? Well that's how I feel about humor. I like all kinds: stand up, sit coms, ad lib, filthy, clean, sight gags, accidents.
However, there are some types I don't like, making me a tad еще complicated than a total ignoramus. I don't like ethnic stuff, like "dumb Pollock" или "drunk Irishman" jokes. They seem to me to maintain cultural myths that плащ an underlying bigotry, a position that those who Любовь such jokes disdainfully tag as politically correct. And how about those jokes about people with no arms and legs-wassup with that? I'm not a Фан of слон jokes either-I just don't get them. Hmm � I guess there is such a thing as "getting it или not".
Unfortunately, I have that dark side though; like that classic bit by Kinison about what goes on in the mind of a dead man being raped by the mortician's sick assistant. Now that was funny but in an ashamed-of-myself way. I know it's wrong. I even scream, 'oh that's so wrong' as I bellow in doubled-over hysteria.
So why then do I laugh? Well, probably because I think it's funny � dah. And why do I find this stuff funny? Maybe in the case of Clay или Rock, it's the shock. Maybe in the case of Martin или Regan, it's the delivery. Maybe in the case of Seinfeld или David, it's the predictability that there is humor in the most odd scenarios. Maybe in the case of Winters или Williams, it is the unpredicatability of the ad lib.
Maybe I simply have a defective brain stem. Whatever the reason, I'd rather be this way then never laugh at all, Ты know, like dentists and Dick Cheney.
[I know, Ты probably don't like cheap dentist and obligatory Cheney jokes.]
This Статья was written by humorist Robert Crane. Please visit his Популярное website for еще x
I might just as well laugh at a train wrecks. And I do-not at real train wrecks-but at comedy train wrecks.
I used to think "you either get it или Ты don't". But I'm not so sure anymore. When I crack up and cough up a lung because a ten год old girl thinks Larry David, whom she encounters in a ladies restroom, has a giant erection, am I being blindly insensitive to child molestation? When I chuckle at a really mean-spirited racial slur Imus's sidekick bigot, Bernard, blurts out, am I promoting hate and fear? I'd like to think I'm laughing at his ignorance but I'm not positive.
I'm not completely without scruples. I laugh just as hard at some of the all time great "clean" comics: Bill Cosby, Brian Regan, Jerry Seinfeld, Flip Wilson, Steve Martin. I think Napoleon Dynamite might just be the funniest movie I have ever seen and it was clean. I even laugh at myself a lot. I'm almost always self entertained by my own stupidity; like the time I was cutting down some brush with a dull hand-held sickle, disturbed a bee hive and chopped a yellow куртка in half that was stinging my left forearm with the sickle, of course leaving a three inch cut in my arm for the effort. или the time I locked my newborn son and keys in the car in sub-freezing weather the first день I was allowed to watch him on my own. Even my short stories about growing up in the Sixties generate laughs at my personal reputation's expense, what little I have that is.
It's not like a want to laugh at the cost of others' pain. Well, that's not completely true. I do laugh at people who slip on ice или walk into glass doors. But only after I'm sure they are okay. I guess nothing tickles me еще than a hair piece folded back или a booger flapping free in the nostril of the unaware. It's almost a knee jerk reaction. I don't know, I just can't help it. I'll say this, I'm not proud of it sometimes, if that helps at all.
I guess it's like music. Ты know how some people say, "oh, I like all kinds of music: rap, country, pop, punk, Manalow, System of a Down, Mozart"? Well that's how I feel about humor. I like all kinds: stand up, sit coms, ad lib, filthy, clean, sight gags, accidents.
However, there are some types I don't like, making me a tad еще complicated than a total ignoramus. I don't like ethnic stuff, like "dumb Pollock" или "drunk Irishman" jokes. They seem to me to maintain cultural myths that плащ an underlying bigotry, a position that those who Любовь such jokes disdainfully tag as politically correct. And how about those jokes about people with no arms and legs-wassup with that? I'm not a Фан of слон jokes either-I just don't get them. Hmm � I guess there is such a thing as "getting it или not".
Unfortunately, I have that dark side though; like that classic bit by Kinison about what goes on in the mind of a dead man being raped by the mortician's sick assistant. Now that was funny but in an ashamed-of-myself way. I know it's wrong. I even scream, 'oh that's so wrong' as I bellow in doubled-over hysteria.
So why then do I laugh? Well, probably because I think it's funny � dah. And why do I find this stuff funny? Maybe in the case of Clay или Rock, it's the shock. Maybe in the case of Martin или Regan, it's the delivery. Maybe in the case of Seinfeld или David, it's the predictability that there is humor in the most odd scenarios. Maybe in the case of Winters или Williams, it is the unpredicatability of the ad lib.
Maybe I simply have a defective brain stem. Whatever the reason, I'd rather be this way then never laugh at all, Ты know, like dentists and Dick Cheney.
[I know, Ты probably don't like cheap dentist and obligatory Cheney jokes.]
This Статья was written by humorist Robert Crane. Please visit his Популярное website for еще x