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.
Leo Miller
the tragedy lies within the devilspawn that was created in that ordeal
Justin Anderson
That's clearly a tragedy to the bitten pup. Look at the fear in his eyes, you insensitive prick. He's literally in the jaws of a beast, staring right at the fangs which maul his little snoot. Oh my.
Kayden Torres
This post = Self-Indulgence + Autism
So mostly autism
Oliver Rodriguez
>assuming tragedy has an additive inverse I'm gonna need a proof of that, yo.
Jacob Powell
Assuming base 10, it's actually
-Distance = Tragedy - Humor
The negative distance is equal to its tragic value minus its humor value.
Isaiah Long
All jokes have a victim.
Even puns have a victim, namely the listeners who are forced to make the connection in order to understand the jokes.
Even knock-knock jokes (Orange YOU glad I didn't say Banana?)
David Jackson
Lit can't into math? Base is irrelevant, you have no numbers here... Algebraically these are equivalent.
Mason Long
Quin. Francis Flute the Bellowes-mender Flu. Heere Peter Quince Quin. You must take Thisbie on you Flut. What is Thisbie, a wandring Knight? Quin. It is the Lady that Pyramus must loue Flut. Nay faith, let not mee play a woman, I haue a beard comming
How much lsd did you have to smoke to see tragedy in this?
Parker Roberts
Well you are technically right. There is still an evocation of tragedy in this picture. Otherwise it would not be funny.
Adam Brooks
He's literally pleading to not play a part and is being forced to play it. Tragic, in a sense.
Jayden Fisher
I can't help but to agree. Nothing is funny unless someone is the victim of something, even if he's a victim to himself.
We are a sick species.
Michael Adams
Q: How do all the oceans say hello to each other? They wave!
Q: What did one wall say to the other wall? I’ll meet you at the corner!
Q: What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese!
Q: Where do cows go for entertainment? To the moo-vies!
Q: Why did the elephant paint himself different colors? So he could hide in the crayon box!
These are all tragic, in a sense.
Eli Wilson
>puns
See I'm the victim of these "jokes"
Robert Morris
The tragedy is the writer of the jokes who thought they were funny
Cooper Russell
These aren't actually humorous. The humor would come from someone being told these and their groan at how bad the jokes are (making them the victim of the the bad attempt at humor)
Jose Gonzalez
What's tragic is that some people actually laugh at these jokes.
Matthew White
I laughed that the idea that these puns utterly btfo OP's edgy pseud argument.
Owen Parker
Read any of the four posts above yours.
Hunter Adams
>OP's edgy pseud argument.
It's a fucking Mark Twain quote, you illiterate
Samuel Thomas
Retards changing the definition of a joke in order to desperately cling to a simplistic worldview?
Aaron Phillips
Define "joke"
Daniel Sullivan
Wow did you know that everything I write has been edited and approved by Jesus?
Charles Bell
Puns aren't jokes.
Someone reacting to a pun can be a joke.
Dominic Garcia
joke jōk/ noun noun: joke; plural noun: jokes
1. a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
Gavin Watson
And you think puns fit that?
Leo Howard
This.
The Carlos meme isn't in the puns he makes, its in the "Carlos!" Punchline
Lucas Wilson
And the pun would be told with the expectation of the reaction. Even if the joke is that the pun isn't funny, that still makes it a joke on a meta level.
Not only does the above apply, but unironically making an unfunny pun also applies because they said it to cause amusement or laughter even though they didn't get results.
Joseph Robinson
Ah, so failed humor still counts as humor? An interesting definition, where the negative still counts as the positive.
Carson Taylor
What is the English word for "failed humor"? Is there one that doesn't just apply a negative to a word related to humor? Someone tells a joke to someone deliberately trying not to find anything he says funny, is the joke literally nonexistent because he didn't laugh? He just deleted it as a concept by not finding it funny?
Colton King
Do you not understand what a venn diagram is? Is a broken car not a car?
Jaxson Roberts
Oooh, you're so smart dude!
that shit has been said for centuries by every scholar, so fuck off
Landon Torres
A broken car was once a car.
A failed joke was never a joke.
Or, you believe that everything is either a joke or a failed joke.
Evan Clark
>centuries
Mark Twain hasn't been dead for centuries
Carter Bell
Pretty much, yeah.
Evan Walker
I'd say you're correct about a specific type of humor, however not all humor fits under this umbrella. What about absurdist humor? Or ironic humor?
Jose Peterson
>What about absurdist humor?
Victim is society and its view of reality
>ironic humor
Victims are those not on the in-joke. You're not laughing at the in-joke you're laughing at the plebeians who don't understand.
Jeremiah Young
What about puns?
Aaron Lee
Read the thread
Jackson Taylor
>People are attempting to alter the premise by saying puns are not jokes, when the initial claim was humor as a universal and puns have and can be genuinely attempted by an interlocutor with the intent to make the receptor to experience humor (i.e. laugh and experience the psychological state associated with humor), and the receptor having a genuine psychological and physiological response to the pun matching with the criteria set for a person experiencing humor and reacting to such stimuli, due to what was uttered by the interlocutor (and not the process thereof, or the greater context outside of the pun) and attempts to scrutinize this moment of humor as done so far have been meta-responses rather than actual examination of the actual response in the thought experiment.
Andrew Collins
Has anyone ever had a genuine laugh at a pun where it wasn't targeting a victim?
Robert Wood
First prove that puns are funny by providing a funny pun
Ryan Perry
Humor is the realization of sanity in the insane
Owen Johnson
Humor cannot be proven but it can be appreciated.
Henry Garcia
Puns victimize language, (by way of twisting words) inadvertently becoming the most vile humor, and modulating the dialogue itself into a nonsensical farce of good comedy.