All humor has at its core a tragedy for someone, but that tragedy is made funny to the audience by their distance from the tragedy either physically (Watching someone else get hurt is funny, but if such pain had happen to the viewer it would not be funny) or temporally (9/11 jokes are quite funny to many Americans now when they wouldn't have been in 2001)
This applies to all humor and all tragedy.
Humor is tragic to those closest to it.
Tragedy is hilarious to those removed far enough from it.
Tyler Green
why do i find pic related funny then big guy?
Mason Long
Because you're a sick fuck
Adam Bell
Distance = Humor - Tragedy
All distance, all space, is the difference between something that's funny and something that's sad. If something is far away, that is because it is more funny than it is sad. If something is close, that is because sadness and funniness are nearly equal, you neither laugh or cry. That's why distant stars are hilarious, but your nipple is almost neutral.
Eli Cook
What about this? Where is the tragedy in this? She got what she deserved, no? She learned a valuable lesson.
Jordan Morgan
That's not entirely true.
Tragedy ceases to be slapstick funny, especially by way of violence, very quickly. It's because if you aren't a psychopath, you have this thing called intuitive sympathy. By nature you are curious enough to wonder what it might be like to be the object of abuse, and for a moment, you shudder, before shaking back into the complacency that comes with being detached from it.
Austin Baker
Algebraic rules don't apply to theatre class, johnny
Justin Torres
The idea that all comedy has to be at someone else's expense is a bullshit myth propagated by people who want an excuse for being assholes.
Tyler Brooks
This is quality right here
Juan James
You got too close to the tragedy, so it stopped being funny.
