I've always enjoyed blacker comedy styles. I hate watching a "comedy" film that uses embarrassment, sex, and cheap gags as the driving force behind the comedy. Black comedies are general better written and deeper. Basically, I like to laugh first, and then think, or visa versa. I don't think it makes one sadistic to laugh at fictional extreme misforture, it only means you're willing to take things with a grain of salt. Too many people get wrapped up in right and wrong and separate it into extreme black and white. There isn't only grey, but blue, and yellow too. Does laughing at the man on TV or across the street running over his out of place cat with a steamroller make you a sadist? No. Does laughing at yourself doing it? Maybe, depends on whether you're laughing at the irony or the thought of murdering your poor feline. Intentionally chasing down your cat with a steamroller? That's sadistic, but someone else laughing at you, well, imagine if you saw a man rolling over his yard with a crazed look on his face after a darting cat. That's kinda funny...
earlshaggwell wrote...
I was once told a story about a man who was cutting branches off trees in the forest. he cut a branch on the wrong side of the ladder. when it broke he fell and the branch crushed his skull.
There's a reason Darwin Awards books are filed under comedy...