Immortal Comedy: People Falling Down

I am a child.  Don't get me wrong: I generally prefer dry, dark, intellectual humor.  But when it comes down to it,there is something about a person falling down that appeals to an entirely different, more instinctual part of the brain.  The part of the brain, I think, that makes us long for water, and open skies, and physical contact with each other (a part that is a little overdeveloped in your mom, it would seem) makes us laugh out loud when someone unexpectedly does a faceplant on the subway.  It is not something of which we should be ashamed, no more than we should be ashamed of the soaring in our souls when we look out over the Rockies.  The mirth we all find in people falling down is not cruel schadenfreude.  We are not thrilling in the unfortunate harm of others.  Rather, we are finding joy in the physical manifestation of the sameness, the humanity, that part of ourselves that we see mirrored in others when they trip and break their noses on a flagpole or drunkenly slip off of the bar they're dancing on.

So let us revel in our deeper humanity.   Call in Bob Saget: it's time for some Home Videos.

(Note: The same argument can be equally made for people getting hit in the groin)

Comments

[Ann Coulter]

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/snoring-duck/#comment-585347

That's what I think about this post.

[SEO Hack]

" . . . or drunkenly slip off of the bar they're dancing on."

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[Kiora]

Interesting to know.

[poortefopriah]

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