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Caption: OK, forget the deep throat. Let’s do it doggy instead.
@4 FTW
This is a picture of suffering. No matter what happens after the shot, there is suffering here. I can’t think of anything less funny.
Total frat-boy humor. Look, something is getting fucked up, yay! Not to my taste.
Oh, and let’s hear it for ass-kicking croc-stomping elephant matriarchs!
Speaking of animals being animals, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlif… is a pretty amazing shot of a bullfrog eating a mouse. Thought it was shopped – that bullfrog has REALLY creepy eyes.
If suffering, debasement and humiliation aren’t funny to you, then you must never laugh at all, because that’s the essence of comedy, from the Greeks smacking each other around with giant phalluses (phallusi?), to Malvolio’s cross-gartered stockings, to Chaplin slipping on a banana peel, to Groucho verbally abusing Marget Dumont, to Lucy and Ethel’s inability to keep up with the conveyor belt, to Cleavon Little threatening to shoot himself by shouting “Nobody move or the n****r gets it!”, to Jason Biggs getting caught with his dick in a hot apple pie – quite literally every comedic act or moment from the entire history of literature, drama, film and television involves some measure of our being amused by someone else’s embarrassment, humiliation, ineptitude, pain or suffering.
@57: So what I’m hearing is that you think Jason Biggs’ character caught with his dick enjoying an apple pie is worth the same number of laughs as a baby elephant possibly getting eaten alive, nose first, by a croc. I guess if I ever see anyone run over by a car I’ll be too busy laughing to call 911, but at least I’ll have enjoyed a good belly laugh.
God dammit, that pic just ruined my mood.
No, @58:
I’d say it’s worth roughly the same number of laughs as George C. Scott in “Dr. Strangelove” attempting to convince Peter Sellers that 20,000,000 civilians killed in a retaliatory-strike nuclear exchange scenario is a preferable outcome to 150,000,000 killed.
@60: So, none, then. Glad that’s settled!
Taking pleasure at pain inflicted upon an animal. How is this not on the same level as a crush video?
@57: Sure, schadenfreude is arguably the basis of some humor. But do you mean suffering, debasement and humiliation of adults? Of juveniles? Of small children?
Personally, I would tend to lump animals in with small children when it comes to deriving mirth from their misfortune…in other words, I don’t.
@63:
The object of the humor doesn’t necessarily have to feel they’re suffering or being humiliated. In fact, comedy tends to work best when they are completely unaware of how they are perceived. For example: does a baby feel any sense of embarrassment when it pukes up strained carrots all over mom’s brand new silk blouse? Probably not. But that doesn’t stop people from laughing, because they can’t help but feel that, were the baby in their shoes, it WOULD no doubt feel embarrassed. Projection plays an important role in humor as well; the “there but for the grace of (insert preferred diety here) go I” paradigm.
In short, we laugh at the misfortune of others simply because it’s NOT happening to us.
And @60: I find that entire film uproariously funny, as do many others apparently, so no, I don’t the argument is settled in quite the way I think you think it is.
If that elephant wants his nose back, he’s going to have to stomp that crocodile half to death. Crocodiles don’t let go willingly, and it’s just not possible to prise its jaws open, the muscles are too strong. So get stomping!
Hey Steven I know something I would consider as VERY funny.. Why don’t you take a pee it that water and let the crocodile have little taste? If you are lucky the crocodile may think it is so funny that also he begin laughing…