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= Sick Humor= By Lia Monaco media type="file" key="muckrakerrant.m4a" align="left"media type="file" key="meanvidclips.m4v" width="421" height="421"

I love comedy. Not just one type either, my taste ranges from Monty Python, Louis CK, Aisha Tyler, Nick Swardson, Daniel Tosh.. you name it I will probably like it at one point or another. But, there is one type of "comedy" (to even call it that sickens me quite a bit) that I cannot stand. This is when a person, usually someone overweight and under the age of twenty, is doing something really stupid while being recorded on camera and then they hurt themselves with in an epic "fail". I find it far from hilarious when a lady is jumping on a trampoline and falls head first into the ground. Oh hey I think she has a C-Spine injury hahaha! First off, that is not only embarrassing for the victim of the prank or accident, but why would you keep that video? If someone I knew tried a flip off the high dive and ended up smacking their head on the board before flailing down ten feet into a pool, I don't know about you, but I would be running to their aid instead of continuing to film and chuckling behind the camera. And not only do these people send the movies in to "America's Funniest Home Videos", but they get money for them? My god, has this country lost all decency? I don't want my children growing up thinking that a lady slipping off a coffee table onto her ass and then obviously being hurt, is funny! The show "Ridiculousness" on MTV is the epitome of this disgusting type of humor. One of the previews I saw of this show (before it aired for the first time) was a little guy, who fell off his bike and then got run over by another kid on a bike going at least 10 mph. Excuse me for thinking realistically, but wouldn't he have broken a few ribs? Maybe damaged a vital organ? I don't know, maybe I should stop paying attention to all those pesky details and just laugh at this 12 year old's mishap with gravity and then again with heavy bike tires. I am ashamed to say that I live in a country that condones this type of behavior. A country who's media consists of obese people slamming into walls off of slippin-slides and cats being thrown off of roofs instead of quality entertainment. I'm not sure about the rest of America, but to me, laughing at someone getting hurt is a bit sadistic and shouldn't be taken lightly.