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In Maya Angelous excerpt, Whats So Funny? she pointed out that vulgarity and crudeness happens to be the direction in which comedians, entertainers, and pile take their harlequinades. She explains that so-and-so the obscene profanities, are people who are just as vulgar as their jokes. By us anticing with them, we are not only biasing down to their level, we are also taking character in the humiliation. I agree with Maya Angelous point. For example, laughing when someone makes a joke towards someone else who suffers from corpulency not only humiliates that person, but makes them feel disgusted with themselves.The person laughing is applauding the comedian. Whats the humor in that? Theres a difference between being funny and being disrespectful. A herd of us tend to be confused as to where to draw the line. While others simply like to enshroud it. Its almost like a form of bullying, but not a lot of us see it like that. Ms. Angelou believes that there are other ways to make jokes and start conversation without having to stoop low and belittle someone. Our generation has grown to become more shallow and vain through the years.When entertainers, comedians, and people use vulgarity and crudeness to express their thoughts and use it in their jokes to make an audience laugh, it paves a highway for the audience to chime in and think that it is okay to behave that way. Perhaps the person making the joke is hiding behind the shallowness in order to prevent exposing their own insecurities? Maybe theyre development obscenities and humiliation as a self-defense mechanism. I never even thought about the larger picture until now. Ms.Angelou is right. Nothing should stop us from saying thats wrong. We dont have to laugh at someone elses mean joke just because its meant to be funny. Maybe the frigid shoulder to a rude joke would be the bigger reaction. Either way one as an individual needs to realize when someone has crossed the line. I feel that Maya Angelous Whats so funny? has definitely opened up my eyes and made look at things from different survey because Id be lying if I said I wasnt one of those audience members.