Principles of Comedy

Bathroom Humor

Admittedly, I've never really been that much of a fan of bathroom humor. It makes me uncomfortable, and I always thought that it was kind of classless. That being said, I always did appreciate bathroom humor that went way over the top and beyond the typical penis and fart jokes. Even writing that made me cringe a little bit. I think part of it is that I think it's cheap, and that it has been overdone so many times. But when someone tells a really great joke that goes way over the top, I always tend to laugh pretty genuinely. This ties in with how I feel about exaggeration, and how ideas that are greatly exaggerated tend to be very funny.

I remember when I was maybe sixteen or seventeen me and my friends came up with this idea called the rainbow kiss. Basically it fell in line with the “strawberry shortcake” type of joke. If you're unfamiliar with that concept, I'll just copy and paste what I found on urban dictionary just now. “As you cum on your girlfriends face you punch her right in the nose, causing a nose bleed which then combines with your cum.”

So anyway, a rainbow kiss is when you eat a girl out while she's on her period, cum in her mouth, and start making out with her. This, I think is funny for a couple reasons. First of all, it makes it so that the person telling the joke isn't just being an asshole that likes hitting his girlfriend and making her nose bleed. I think that really demeaning a person, while funny at times if the person actually deserves it, is generally uncalled for and is a really cheap tactic used by people without any real class. But if you're the one telling the joke, and you're the one whose willingly covering your mouth in placenta and vaginal blood, and then willing to make out with your own cum, then it becomes pretty gross and disgusting but pretty funny too. Both of you are being gross, and there isn't any real violence to it. Maybe that's what turns me off about the original strawberry shortcake plot, it involves one sided violence that doesn't really seem that funny to me, especially in this day and age when society as a whole is trying to stop that kind of thing. Whenever violence is involved in a joke like that, it usually is coming from someone really bigoted that doesn't know any better. Of course, I want to mention that as I said before, if the person deserves it (like say, they stepped on your lawn or something), then yeah, that all goes out the window, talk about stabbing their eyes out or rainbow kissing their fucking family, but when it's unwarranted it just feels tasteless.

I think my favorite part about this joke was that it actually disgusted the people who would tell tasteless jokes like the strawberry shortcake one. In fact, inevitably and invariably, whenever I went to a party with a couple drunk bros in the crowd, one or two morons would start going on a diatribe about cumming on someones face and giving them a mustache or something, and then laugh like a fucking maniac about it and then start deriding people who thought otherwise.

I remember this one time in particular, this really stupid tan looking guy started talking about how "IF A GIRL GETS PREGNANT ID BE LIKE WHAT THE FUCK AINT U ON THE PILL U BETTER PUNCH THAT BABY OUT" when me and my friends were just trying to sit there and not be miserable, but he kept going on in that line of thinking and suddenly I just blurted out, "MAN YOU KNNOW WHATS GREAT IS WHEN YOU EAT A GIRL OUT ON HER PERIOD AND THEN CUM IN HER MOUTH AND MAKE OUT WITH HER!!!!" 

Suddenly he had this look of extreme disgust on his face, looked at his friends and said "lets fuking get out of here" and left. Up until this day that's probably one of my most proud moments. To make someone that moronic become so utterly disgusted that their only course of action was to run away.