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When people make jokes and then get criticized for it, we're not arguing about whether the joke was a joke, we're arguing about why the joke was funny. Sometimes we laugh for shitty reasons.
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Aren't you kinda misrepresenting your own argument? If laughter is involuntary we can't not laugh at that joke. And "not bringing arguments and conflicts into comedy".. that's what a lot of successful comedy is about.
Comedy is not about starting an argument with your audience. If they're busy parsing your joke, or hunting for what offends them, their guard is up, and they're not ready to laugh If you don't think it's funny, you aren't gonna laugh. Why can't people just let it end there?
