Giggles

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Eomer

I must disagree, sir. Any sexist, racist or whatever else kind of joke told in a circle of, say, 20 people may elicit loud laughs from everyone, but it would still be bad humour.

The exceptions that prove the rule.

Seriously though, that would be "good" humour as far as it's audience is concerned (in the sense that it would work well as humour for that audience). Open it up to a wider audience and it would not necessarily work so well. So it would not be as "good" as humour that had a broader appeal. It's all subjective, you see, and you can only get some kind of objective view when you judge it by reference to the breadth of its appeal. But doesn't that mean that the more popular the humour, the better it is? Perish the thought!

Originally Posted by Eomer

This is still arguably better than having the non-book reader remember Gimli as the short clown.

Arguably indeed. I would rather see Gimli fondly remembered as the short clown than generally overlooked.