Bad Comedians

Last night's lecture was on bad comedians, I thought that this was one of the best lectures on the module.

I have never before thought about why it is that jokes make us laugh. As discussed in the lecture most if not all comedians swear. This is because swearing is funny, as we are brought up we are told that swearing is bad and wrong and almost a taboo. So it is inevitable that it will make us laugh.

Reactionary comedians tell the jokes that they do because they know that they will make people laugh about there prejudices whether they are subconscious or not.
I personally find subversive comedians funnier as they do not attack people because of their race, nationality or sex. They laugh at themselves which in my opinion is much funnier.

I don't think that we can ever really analyse why a joke makes us laugh, it just does!

Here is a website that is full of jokes

http://www.comedycentral.com/jokes/index.jhtml