thinking about how often humour is geared toward eliciting laughs on the basis of someone else's pain, fear, anger, ignorance, or putative "inferiority"...
Most humour is based on that. I read a theory somewhere that laughter often comes as a relief that the humour isn't at our expense. I am not sure I believe that.
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Most humour is based on that. I read a theory somewhere that laughter often comes as a relief that the humour isn't at our expense. I am not sure I believe that.
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