I usually don't like humor based on someone acting stupidly.
By
Rachel
on March 01, 2007
A famous example of this is I Love Lucy. Lucy repeatedly acts like an idiot, people are supposed to laugh, then her husband is supposed to rescue her from her own idiocy.
I haven't watched much because I find it so painful and awful to watch, but I know the scene where she works at a conveyer belt trying to process candies. She can't handle it and they start overflowing, so she starts eating them to go away.
I just want to tell her she's an idiot and to learn how to act less stupidly. There's enough idiocy in the world already without inventing more. If I wanted to watch stupid people, I'd leave the house.
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Discussion (8)
Bah. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. I rest my case.
Jackass is all about stupid people doing stupid things, and it's the funniest thing on TV
I find social stupidity tough to watch although I do enjoy it. It's better if I watch it with friends because if I watch it alone I just keep pausing it. Not quite sure why.
Ryan, while I'm not familiar with your counterexample, I specifically said "usually" because I think some things might pull it off really well, or people may be able to tolerate a little and find it funny and find a lot bad, or find certain kinds okay and some not. So, unless you have numerous counterexamples, it's not much disagreement.
But you may find it funny. That's fine. This is more surveyish than anything else anyway.
I often find myself cringing in empathy when other people are laughing.
This is the Tom Green Show
It's not the green tom show
This is my favorite show
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Humor involving a person behaving stupidly can be funny, but if it's based entirely on stupidity than it's a failure.
It depends, sometime it is funny, sometimes it makes me sick.