What occured to me today was how humor is all about acting younger than your actual age. When you’re being funny, you’re being juvenile. Because only a juvenile person would make fun of something instead of being serious. Children will mock the most stupid things because they don’t know better. And people who make jokes sink to a lower level, trying to entertain other people. And that’s why there’s a risk there, if the person doesn’t think you’re funny, he/she automatically sends you a message saying “I am not as childish as you are, this is not funny, I take this seriously”. All the way from the lowest level, like South Park, up to the dizzy heights of Frasier, it holds true. The main difference is what exactly you base the comedy on. As such it’s very easy to understand how South Park would appeal to the masses, the material is hard not to understand. More sophisticated humor, however, is much higher quality but also demands a lot more from the recipient. Watching Frasier, you have to know something about courtesy, about art, culture, language, human relations etc to understand the flow, otherwise you’ll switch back to South Park. (more…)