3. Scatological humor. Generally speaking, anything that makes a nine-year-old laugh isn't relying on its audience's well-developed sense of wit.
2. Let's call this one "victimization by reference", or any in the broad swath of "ha ha, I made you look at the thing", i.e. Loss, Rickrolling, stickbugging, Dickbutt, OK-below-the-waist, and so on. These are tremendously funny to the assailant, amusing to bystanders, and infuriating to the victim. Comedy that harms people who haven't earned it is cruelty. Which brings us to...
1. Person as punchline. Any comedy where the laugh line is an identity (or a stereotype thereof) is essentially evil. "Its hilarious, you see, because that man is fat/a Jew/autistic" destroys more joy than it creates and can be done without in its entirety.
A distant fourth would be memery/referential comedy, because any imbecile can say "the cake is a lie" when they see a cake to score laughs from those in the know. But I've laughed when Nintendo suddenly has Mario transform into his SMB1 representation often enough that I can't denigrate it too badly.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
3. Scatological humor. Generally speaking, anything that makes a nine-year-old laugh isn't relying on its audience's well-developed sense of wit.
2. Let's call this one "victimization by reference", or any in the broad swath of "ha ha, I made you look at the thing", i.e. Loss, Rickrolling, stickbugging, Dickbutt, OK-below-the-waist, and so on. These are tremendously funny to the assailant, amusing to bystanders, and infuriating to the victim. Comedy that harms people who haven't earned it is cruelty. Which brings us to...
1. Person as punchline. Any comedy where the laugh line is an identity (or a stereotype thereof) is essentially evil. "Its hilarious, you see, because that man is fat/a Jew/autistic" destroys more joy than it creates and can be done without in its entirety.
A distant fourth would be memery/referential comedy, because any imbecile can say "the cake is a lie" when they see a cake to score laughs from those in the know. But I've laughed when Nintendo suddenly has Mario transform into his SMB1 representation often enough that I can't denigrate it too badly.
Wait, how is your number 2 (heh) causing harm to anyone? At worst it's mildly annoying
3. Scatological humor. Generally speaking, anything that makes a nine-year-old laugh isn't relying on its audience's well-developed sense of wit.
2. Let's call this one "victimization by reference", or any in the broad swath of "ha ha, I made you look at the thing", i.e. Loss, Rickrolling, stickbugging, Dickbutt, OK-below-the-waist, and so on. These are tremendously funny to the assailant, amusing to bystanders, and infuriating to the victim. Comedy that harms people who haven't earned it is cruelty. Which brings us to...
1. Person as punchline. Any comedy where the laugh line is an identity (or a stereotype thereof) is essentially evil. "Its hilarious, you see, because that man is fat/a Jew/autistic" destroys more joy than it creates and can be done without in its entirety.
A distant fourth would be memery/referential comedy, because any imbecile can say "the cake is a lie" when they see a cake to score laughs from those in the know. But I've laughed when Nintendo suddenly has Mario transform into his SMB1 representation often enough that I can't denigrate it too badly.
Wait, how is your number 2 (heh) causing harm to anyone? At worst it's mildly annoying
"Harm" is an extreme term for it, admittedly. The goal is to annoy, waste the time of, misdirect, subvert the expectations of, etc the target. Whether they find any amusement in the joke is immaterial, and indeed frequently the prankster finds amusement specifically in the annoyance, the disappointed expectations, and so on. That's what I mean by "harm".
If my tone and the ability to write multiple paragraphs on the topic of degenerate forms of comedy havent given it away, I'm a terribly self-serious person. I probably weight nuisance and setting out to waste someone else's time more heavily than most.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
The stickbug one I kinda like because the song and dancing stickbug are cute
Loss is very dumb on the order of "you lost the game", rickrolling at least involves playing a fairly catchy song so I've never minded it.
They're all a million times better than back when the internet was obsessed with tricking you into clicking links to shock images or screamers or pages that spawn infinite pop ups.
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RingoHe/Hima distinct lack of substanceRegistered Userregular
Also I dunno about lowest but my favorite running joke on the forums is the chain of people correcting the previous person with a correct definition but incorrect word and continuing the chain.
I've always felt that mispronouncing/spelling Benedict Cumberbatch is a weird one, not because I think there's anything lesser about the humor but just because saying or spelling Benedict Cumberbatch is generally amusing enough to me that any variants end up being less funny.
I got that, but why do people think it's funny? Is it because they smoke a lot of pot?
Asking someone to explain why something makes them laugh seems a bit like asking someone to explain a flavor.
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The lowest form of comedy (that I joyfully participate in) is just references to funny things. I think my middle school friend group was just guys who said The Simpsons to each other.
Yeah joking aside I actually like cinnamon toast crunch because it has a more savoury edge whereas most kids cereal just tastes like sweet sweet and more sweet
That said, I still eat it as a dessert snack, not a breakfast.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.
I dunno Oscar, I think we can and do have worse! Saying "Gesundheit!" after someone uses an obscure word, for example. Or deliberately mispronouncing names like 'M. Night Shyamalan' or 'Benedict Cumberbatch'. What else you got, SE++?
(To be clear, I'm talking 'low' in terms of structure, here, rather than level of cruelty or even how funny the joke is. Perhaps a good rule of thumb is 'How easily could an AI be trained to make new examples of the wit-form with human-equivalent timing and execution?')
Why are puns considered a low form of humor? I like a good pun.
Because some people hate fun.
I was looking for someone at work on Thursday. Her name was Olga. Couldn’t find her, looked everywhere. When I finally found her I said, thank god I found you, I was looking in all-ga wrong places.
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Blake, being judgy about meme tattoos, yeah I'm ok with the backlash on that. Like ok, whatever reason you did it for or what it reminds you of, if you have it and are happy about it, good for you. Meme tattoos are still generally a bad idea in my opinion.
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is that humour or just telling your dumb student their language structure is awful
3. Scatological humor. Generally speaking, anything that makes a nine-year-old laugh isn't relying on its audience's well-developed sense of wit.
2. Let's call this one "victimization by reference", or any in the broad swath of "ha ha, I made you look at the thing", i.e. Loss, Rickrolling, stickbugging, Dickbutt, OK-below-the-waist, and so on. These are tremendously funny to the assailant, amusing to bystanders, and infuriating to the victim. Comedy that harms people who haven't earned it is cruelty. Which brings us to...
1. Person as punchline. Any comedy where the laugh line is an identity (or a stereotype thereof) is essentially evil. "Its hilarious, you see, because that man is fat/a Jew/autistic" destroys more joy than it creates and can be done without in its entirety.
A distant fourth would be memery/referential comedy, because any imbecile can say "the cake is a lie" when they see a cake to score laughs from those in the know. But I've laughed when Nintendo suddenly has Mario transform into his SMB1 representation often enough that I can't denigrate it too badly.
Wait, how is your number 2 (heh) causing harm to anyone? At worst it's mildly annoying
"Harm" is an extreme term for it, admittedly. The goal is to annoy, waste the time of, misdirect, subvert the expectations of, etc the target. Whether they find any amusement in the joke is immaterial, and indeed frequently the prankster finds amusement specifically in the annoyance, the disappointed expectations, and so on. That's what I mean by "harm".
If my tone and the ability to write multiple paragraphs on the topic of degenerate forms of comedy havent given it away, I'm a terribly self-serious person. I probably weight nuisance and setting out to waste someone else's time more heavily than most.
Loss is very dumb on the order of "you lost the game", rickrolling at least involves playing a fairly catchy song so I've never minded it.
They're all a million times better than back when the internet was obsessed with tricking you into clicking links to shock images or screamers or pages that spawn infinite pop ups.
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I dunno, the image of someone inventing a robot whose sole function is to mime jerking off any time anyone speaks to it kinda made me chuckle.
I never got why it's funny. Because it's silly and absurd or something?
Asking someone to explain why something makes them laugh seems a bit like asking someone to explain a flavor.
Why do kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
it's the absolutely bonkers amount of sugar.
I think its sugar content is actually on the lower end. Which is more an indictment of everything else, but.
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That said, I still eat it as a dessert snack, not a breakfast.
Your mom is a lower form of wit than sarcasm!
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Grand Theft Auto humour
I... its a dick... with another dick coming out of its butt?
I'm just, I don't know how else to explain this.
I don't know what a DragonBall Z character has to do with this.
Why are puns considered a low form of humor? I like a good pun.
Wait I thought we were talking about the microwaveable cheese?
Because some people hate fun.
I was looking for someone at work on Thursday. Her name was Olga. Couldn’t find her, looked everywhere. When I finally found her I said, thank god I found you, I was looking in all-ga wrong places.
She was Not Happy.
Satans..... hints.....
Trash what is other people’s bodies.
Nice work, Weaver.
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