Bad Comedians

There are all kinds of comedians who are bad for different reasons. We have those who tell racists or sexiest jokes, and those who tell jokes that are just not funny, both kinds make them bad jokes. I have to say I’m not really the sort of person who finds comedians funny, other than Michael McIntyre of course!

The most common jokes, are stupid ethnic jokes, every society has someone in it that is classed as stupid, like the example used in the lecture of the stupid Walsall blokes.
‘Why are 17 Walsall blokes standing outside a nightclub?’
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I know not particularly funny, but you get the idea. A lot of comedians who tell these sorts of jokes, for example about the Walsall blokes, could well be from Walsall himself. The same could go for religious jokes, if they are joking about their own religion. This seems to make it more acceptable, that you can laugh at yourself, but obviously it is just a joke, you wouldn’t be talking about yourself like it seriously would you?

People tell these sorts of jokes because inevitably stupidity flourishes in modern societies. This is based on competition, rational, calculation, and technical innovation for stupidity which means failure and downfall of yourself and others alike. Ethnic Jokes also shift the responsibility for the world’s problems on to someone else.

The question is should we feel guilty about telling or laughing at such jokes?
Well in my opinion maybe not. Jokes by definition aren’t true. Jokes create comedy not be addressing ‘truths’ but structurally by creating contrasts and shifts in logic.
As the incongruity theory suggests humour is produced by the experience of a felt incongruity between what we know or expect to be the case, and what actually takes place in the gag. Jokes also hold no opinions.

Despite this I think, that if someone is purposely telling a racist, or a sexiest joke, which is going to clearly upset people, and this is the reasons it is being told. Then it is wrong. I suppose what I’m trying to say is that a joke told purely to make people laugh is OK, but jokes told to upset or discriminate against people, I don’t agree with at all! These types of Jokes are unreasonable, and immoral, it’s not right to make someone feel upset because of a joke, there meant to have the opposite effect. I do think that most people who tell jokes do so, only to make people laugh, it’s just the odd few who tell them for other reason’s and unfortunately ruin it for everyone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/news/2004/10/04/14689.shtml This is a list of the funniest living comedian's.