Comedy

My husband and I were watching a comedy montage on pay-per-view the other night and I was struck by the demographics of the audiences. The audience tended to primarily be made up of people of the same ethnicity as the comedian. The Tommy Tiernan audience was pale and freckled, Paul Rodriguez was surrounded by a darker set who laughed loudest at words I didn't understand being in Spanish and all, and Louis Ramey's audience was primarily black. Why is that? Do we gravitate towards comedians who are more like us because we 'get' the humor? Is it because it gives us permission to laugh at ourselves? Or could it be that we want to be part of an inside joke somehow? I must admit that the funniest of Tommy's bits is when he ranks on the English. Perhaps it is because I am by my heritage one of those 'Brits" that I find it so funny. Would I find it as funny if he were picking on the Italians or if I was Spanish? Probably not, because I would have no personal link there. I wouldn't "get" the joke.

Anyway, I don't know what any of that means..... I just thought it was interesting. 

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