[pshrynk]

Freud has said that all humor is about pain and humiliation. We tell jokes to relieve our pain or to adequately deal with the humiliation that we experience in our lives. Don Rickles made a career of insulting people. Lenny Bruce made a career of talking about things that the public wan't ready to talk about. "The Aristocrats" is a movie about telling a joke about horrible people doing horrible things. Name a joke or a comedian and I am pretty certain I can show where the pain is. There's a lot of pain in the Holocaust and 9/11 and deaths in Iraq. As George Carlin pointed out, you can make anything funny if you do it right.