A coworker turned on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" at work today. I only saw snippets, but from my desk I could hear most of it. I was mildly appalled... mildly because I wasn't surprised by it. The idea of every comedy show is "sit back, and we will present to you funny things. This is funny!" It wasn't funny, though; it was repulsive.
Becoming a Christian has definitely altered my sense of humor. I can't enjoy a lot of things I used to laugh at. Humor is an intriguing psycho-sociological cloak that we drape over experience. I laugh at a lot of things that are probably humorless to most people, but I don't think any of them involve characateures of suffering in the fashion that is presented by the majority of current (and probably past) comedy shows. To me a dysfunctional marriage has no business being mined for jokes. It's too important, too tragic. Laughing distances ourselves and diminishes the seriousness of the reality.
- J
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