Just about everyone and their momma has been offended by a joke. Taking offense has been around since the beginning of time. Comedy, as we know it today, started in Vaudeville; Vaudeville was the most popular form of entertainment of the late 1800’s. It staged live entertainment and pulled in audiences from around the world. Vaudeville also created multiple genres of drama and comedy. Giving birth to stand-up comedy and popularizing inappropriate humor. Approaching serious issues with inappropriate humor is know as being facetious. This form of comedy is ‘A-OK’ among the majority of comedy lovers. Still some find that treating serious issues with humor insensitive and/or offensive. However humor is a safe way for morbid questions to sit in our brains and make us wander about our own morality. Before we talk about the word facetious and it's importance we need to wonder when does a joke go too far? Is it when a single audience member cries out or when The vast majority of an audience is outraged. The judgment of a jokes offense should not simply come from anyone else but you. When pondering if joke has gone too far we are not simply wondering “Is this joke offensive?”. We ask ourselves is this joke morally right. Is that all that matters though?
Comedian Ricky Gervais seems to knows the answer claiming that “It all …show more content…
Being facetious is a comfortable way to bring society to a mirror to reflect on our actions and behavior. Charlie Chaplin did this in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. The political satire comedy’s goal was to make fun of 1940’s most notorious monster, Hitler. While making fun of Nazi Germany as a whole. Despite Chaplin's fears that wartime audiences would dislike a comedy about a dictator. It was the second-most popular movie in the US in 1941 and is still brought up everyone once in awhile. The film brought most laughter and smiles in a time of hard work and lost making it very beneficial to the
Comedian Ricky Gervais seems to knows the answer claiming that “It all …show more content…
Being facetious is a comfortable way to bring society to a mirror to reflect on our actions and behavior. Charlie Chaplin did this in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. The political satire comedy’s goal was to make fun of 1940’s most notorious monster, Hitler. While making fun of Nazi Germany as a whole. Despite Chaplin's fears that wartime audiences would dislike a comedy about a dictator. It was the second-most popular movie in the US in 1941 and is still brought up everyone once in awhile. The film brought most laughter and smiles in a time of hard work and lost making it very beneficial to the