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Painful Fails

Jan van Leyden

Adventurer
Don't think that this is Schadenfreude: There is a difference between being pleased by another's misfortune, and finding a possibly grievous accident funny.

The humor seems related to Slapstick, although, the degree of potential harm seems to be much higher.

Schadenfreude essentially doesn't care how much harm is done, although it's considered bad taste to admit to it in case of real injuries.

Yes, we have some sort of "unplanned slapstick" in this videos in that actions fail and in a rather extreme way. Another planned way of doing slapstick, in which, I hope, noone was really hurt :] can be seen in the movie Staplerfahrer Klaus which borrows from German movies about working hazards, exaggerating (blood warning!) while maintaining the typical dry language known from these films.
 

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