I love a good laugh, I do. I have a great sense of humor, and I believe it's better to consider ridiculous things as humorous than tragic. However, I can't help but see the tragedy of modern humor. Comedy Central movies circulates around weed jokes. Stand-up circulates around stereotypes and gratuitous cussing. And theater movies are all pointed towards either grade school students or college students who do nothing but party. Now, that's not to say I don't watch these comedic sources and don't occasionally chuckle, but the distance between laughs is ever-increasing as it's just not that funny anymore. If this path of boiling down comedy to its easiest and simplest chunks continues, we'll have nothing to look forward to but "Dude Yer Drunk 7" the latest stirring chapter of a man who yet again decides to get close to his friends by going out for a drunken adventure . . . one . . . last . . . time! Now, don't confuse my rantings as a criticism of analyzing the elements of humor. I believe comedy should be analyzed. I believe studying comedy makes better comedy. The early greats did more than just ridiculous acts, the taught themselves what was funny and what was not funny and designed their shtick accordingly. Slapstick, the running gag, deadpan, straight man, all are concepts come from the early study of comedy. Now, the use of such devices may or may not be to one's comedic tastes, that's up to the comedian, but there's so much more to humor that's still quite funny that has nothing to do with hyperbole and inappropriate use of cuss words. I'm not some religious fanatic against "bad words;" I'm just saying it wears thin and can get to be overwhelmingly unnecessary. So please, some more intelligent comedy, please! Word play, characterization, satire, non sequitur, visual gags, whatever you gotta do, but please, please, just work a little harder to give us a better quality comedy!