Urban Sophisticates Discriminate Against Terrible Comedy

If your taste in comedy tends toward the more cerebral it might have something to do with the fact that you think you’re better than other people, says Science.

Professor Sam Friedman from Edinburgh University questioned 1,000 people at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival followed by more in-depth interviews. The sociologist noted their employment, education and what their parents did for a living.

He found that middle-class interviewees had developed an interest in ‘abstract and intellectual forms of art’ thanks to the influences of their parents and university friends.

He said this preference was actually a form of ‘veiled snobbery.’

See? This whole time you were thinking you didn’t like Jeff Dunham or Larry the Cable Guy because of the racism or homophobia or general lack of amusing material, but it turns out you’re actually too spoiled to allow yourself to enjoy the racism and homophobia and general lack of amusing material in Jeff Dunham and Larry the Cable Guy’s acts. Snob!