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BenG549
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OK, I've not exactly thought long and hard about this but I was watching a generic "people falling over ha ha ha very funny" TV show and couldn't put my finger on why it was actually amusing.
In some cases the novelty of the situation is obviously the key, but some of the tapes were genuinely just people getting hurt and we've all laughed at someone falling over. I thought maybe in groups it's a bounding thing, if you know the person is not fatally wounded then you can build a sense of shared experience around the event; if its a stranger then your lack of care for that individual might play a part in it being funny, but it does seem a little strange to me.
In some cases the novelty of the situation is obviously the key, but some of the tapes were genuinely just people getting hurt and we've all laughed at someone falling over. I thought maybe in groups it's a bounding thing, if you know the person is not fatally wounded then you can build a sense of shared experience around the event; if its a stranger then your lack of care for that individual might play a part in it being funny, but it does seem a little strange to me.