Humor is the spice of life. It is what makes human interaction bearable. Humor makes life's worst tragedies bearable and helps us survive through tough times.
This sanctity has been desecrated and modern humor has degenerated into something ridiculous. These days we have stand-up comedians and their humor is dry, dreary and boring.
I have tried giving it fair treatment, subjecting myself to hours and hours of horse manure but stand-up comedy is just the worst.
All these guys do is observe and identify themselves as belonging to a particular social group mostly ethnic or religious and use their understanding of the functionality of said group to make the intellectually inert laugh. A loud irritating laugh that is as a result of the person next to you laughing and having nothing to do with the joke. This attempted humor is blunt, painful and numbing to the brain.
The understanding of the subtlety of humor is non existent these days. Modern humor embodied by stand-up comedians is crude, shallow and uncreative. If you enjoy stand-up comedy, well you have a problem. But hey! That's my opinion.
I think that for humor to be funny it should be refined, satirical, ironic and deep. It should be open to different interpretations. Each person should see his or her absurdities reflected in the joke. Humor should be society laughing at its own reflection in the mirror and not some regurgitated bullshit about some social,characteristics that are observable by all.
So if you're a stand-up comedian or if you do enjoy such hopeless humor... Get a life!
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