When I think of bad comedians one of the first people to come to my mind is Bob Saget. I'm hoping that you all have heard of him and know that although he is now a stand up comic that tells filthy, nasty jokes he was also once the host of a family television series called "Americas Funniest Home Videos" and played a love-able father, 'Danny Tanner' on "Full House" in the 90s. But now Saget has shied away from that part of his life and has been re-inventing himself with his stand up that is nothing sweet & innocent like those shows. So for many its hard for them to picture him saying such things because of his previous show biz. One of his most recent claims to fame is his film called Aristocrats. Heres a clip from it:
Bob Saget "Aristocrats" clip. (WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN TO IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED). Pretty much its a famous joke going discussing how a poorer family goes into the office of a circus runner and start having sexual relations with each other...except it goes into poo, vomit, lotion..you get the idea. The rest of the movie includes other comedians telling their version of the same joke. So if this is a famous joke that many comedians tell there has to be a reason. People have to laugh. I feel as if comedy is a guilty pleasure for everyone but everyone, in one way or another, has laughed at a dirty joke. A joke that goes against every single moral that somebody may have but since we know that its a joke we feel its okay to laugh. If they were actually that bad then people wouldn't be able to relate enough to the jokes to actually laugh. So perhaps Saget was right, the issue isn't that the joke is bad but perhaps people have a habit of dissecting a joke too much and therefore ruining the joke.
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