(November 27, 2017 at 12:41 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 27, 2017 at 12:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.' - Mel Brooks
Boru
Yes, how is that not sociopathic? Yet it seems to be the sentiment of most people...
Sometimes I think that sentiment reflects the relief of the person watching that it wasn't he who fell in. The laughter is is maybe a way to dissipate the alarm brought on by empathy through celebratory laughter that it wasn't you.