I feel relax when I watch this kind of comedy, because I do not need to feel sympathy. Superiority theory says people feel sudden glory when something bad happened to others. It is true that we can feel happiness when feeling we are much better than others; however, it is also easy to feel pity about them if those people are really poor or in the tough situation. Therefore, I always found when I laugh at others, I have burden on my shoulder that told me to stop. When watching physical comedy, I knew those people are volunteer to this show, which means, although they know they might have a really bad ending, they still want to try it for fun. That shows they do not care loss face, and in some way, I feel like they want to be laughable, because that is the aim of the show. Therefore, when watching people fail in the show, I always laugh so hard without feeling sympathy. Laughing is like a favorable response to this show, and I use laugh to support this show.
In my opinion, the most hilarious one is the No.9 player, because he is really serious when observing the rotating obstacle. I think he was trying to keep calm and stay cool even though he knew he would not jump on it successfully. I can see that he was confused by the obstacle but he was still trying to find a right spot just like solving math problem. Then, I laugh harder when he failed.
Moreover, I like it because I can laugh as hard as possible in order to reduce pressure. Due to the relief theory, people laugh to unpack their repressed feelings. In the reality, sometimes we cannot express our true feelings due to our identity or situation. When seeing people have higher position make some dumb mistakes, we usually cannot laugh because it is offensive. When hearing the joke our friends said, we might laugh because we do not want to disappoint them, even if it is not funny. In order to survive in the society, we must control our feelings to become socially acceptable. However, this comedy enables us to laugh sincerely. We can laugh at anyone who failed or struggled in the game without considering punishment or other's feelings.
Moreover, I like it because I can laugh as hard as possible in order to reduce pressure. Due to the relief theory, people laugh to unpack their repressed feelings. In the reality, sometimes we cannot express our true feelings due to our identity or situation. When seeing people have higher position make some dumb mistakes, we usually cannot laugh because it is offensive. When hearing the joke our friends said, we might laugh because we do not want to disappoint them, even if it is not funny. In order to survive in the society, we must control our feelings to become socially acceptable. However, this comedy enables us to laugh sincerely. We can laugh at anyone who failed or struggled in the game without considering punishment or other's feelings.
It's very interesting that you feel that the willingness to humiliate themselves seems to insulate the contestants from loss of face, and enables us to laugh. It would be hard to laugh if we knew they were forced to do this sort of thing, for example.
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