Now I like America's Funniest Videos for basically the same reason I like Jackass and that is people getting hurt and something funny happening. The only difference is the that in America's Funniest Videos, it's ordinary people usually doing something stupid that just happens to be funny. Like for example one clip was of a family taking a photo while on a dock and as the picture is about to be taken the dock falls down and everybody gets drenched with water from the lake, and now that was one funny clip.
Now when I think about it, it seems that human have enjoyment when other humans are in pain. It seems kind of weird that we(humans) like to laugh when other people are in pain. However there is a certain amount of pain were people find it funny or just scary and gross. Like for example people who watch the movie Saw don't just go watch to laugh, but rather go to watch it and "try" get scared. So next time when I watch a funny video I'll try to figure out why I enjoy to laugh when people are in pain and were the limit is between funny pain and just uncomfortable pain, and maybe you should try to do the same.
Mahmoud:
ReplyDeleteYou really need to think about every single word you write. Although people hurting themselves can be very funny, you barely touch on that in the last paragraph, and you leave it with a "I'll have to think about it." You should have already thought about it for THIS assignment. You need to organize, cut down on redundancy, work on your technical writing, and do an in-depth exploration of both why YOU think something is funny as well as why it IS funny.