lol pie
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Originally Posted by Flint
The difference could also be in the set-up. It could, potentially, be funny to impulsively trip a co-worker as they walk by (with no pre-meditation); but if, instead, you had spent hours building a booby trap, only to film it knocking down a random passerby, then E (effort) would be greater then P (punchline) causing C (comedic index) to be negative. Also, in this case, the greater part of the joke is the creator of the set-up, not the victim; IE the creator becomes the subject. I should add that the very senselessness of the act could counter-intuitively have a positive, absurdist quality.
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This is almost exactly what I almost posted and didn't.
My example went like this:
Goofball is walking along and another sticks out his foot and trips the poor bastard. People laugh and thinks it's funny. The goofball dosn't think it was. The goofball not only feels like shit because it was a mean spirited. He says so. Part of the on -lookers agree part of them do not.
The ones that find it funny use the very reason they laugh as validation that is was in fact funny dismissing the targets feelings of the contrary.
vs an actually funny one
Goofball goes to church. She wears a dress and somehow the toilet paper gets stuck in the hem and flows out behind her as she leaves the room. Into the hallway she goes until a kind samaritan helps her out. Funny as hell.
oh and I absolutley abhor funny home videos. The above example would lose that funny quality if put on tape.