Paul McDonald lecture about bad comedies was a really interesting and funny lesson. I have learned a lot of notions about different kinds of jokes such as: Stupid people jokes, Canny jokes or Ethnic jokes among other concepts. Another outstanding factor that was presented in the lecture was the notion about humour as an instrument of change.I think that the explanation about the different sorts of humour theories was a very good point. It is true that humour is based on surprise elements that create incongruity. Besides, we must not forget that another comic key notion is the superiority theory, which explains that people laugh when they have the feeling of superiority over somebody or something. For this reason, we think that the stupid people jokes are very funny. But should we feel guilty about laughing or telling these kinds of jokes? The answer is an ambiguous one. It depends on the intentions that the comedians have at the moment of telling these jokes. However, I believe that these jokes are inoffensive in general, although we must also take into account that there are some people that can get offended by it.
Finally, I would like to points out that every sort of humour is part of social life and it helps us to relieve our social inhibitions. Therefore, I think that humour is a positive subjective response to the vicissitudes of life, as Melvin Helitzer points out in his work Comedy Writing Secrets, 1987.
The next link is a website about bad jokes where you kind find a lot of funny examples of stupid people jokes, ethnic jokes and "bad" jokes in general!
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