Giggles

[Lalwendë]

Humour is all about personal taste, so I don't think quality judgements are always possible. Why do I think it's about personal taste? Well, humour often arises from our own experience of the world - here's an example: I find Pauline from the League of Gentlemen hilarious because I've had the misfortune to meet many such women; the line 'dole scum' makes me laugh because this is how they truly do view unemployed people. And having been unemployed and on the receiving end of their bile, this term is deeply and darkly satirical to me. But many other people find it utterly unfunny as they do not necessarily have that experience, or, having had it, they find themselves unable to laugh about it in retrospect. By the same token, certain types of jokes make me pull a face like I'm sucking a lemon because they make fun of things that I'm sensitive about.

As to PJ's use of comedy, I did find some of it good, in fact most of it was good, apart from what he did to Gimli. He played on Gimli's height and appearance a little too much, which I found to be cheap humour, much in the manner of the playground bully endlessly poking the 'speccy-four-eyes' or 'duracell' kid. After too many of these jokes I'd had enough. The "shall I get you a box" was delivered excellently by Orlando Bloom (perhaps he has a hidden talent for comedy), as it was very deadpan and subtle, but the remarks by Aragorn to Eowyn seemed merely snide, the kind of thing people say behind their backs.