It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.