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Poverty for Comedy
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Much like child-abuse, sexual harassment, AIDS, world-hunger and boy-bands, poverty is a universal societal ill that can bring out the best in us as much as it appeals to the worst. To be poor means that there is the establishment of a hierarchy that you are at the bottom of. Things that create a good quality of life like health-care and fresh produce are not as available to you than if you were born rich. You are constantly working terrible jobs with non-existent benefits for long hours with little pay and one slip-up can leave you likely to get arrested for the crime of being homeless, and like all other harsh realities, Black Comedy can help us cope with the injustice of it all. Bankruptcy Barrel is often a prop used with this trope, showing that they are so poor that they lost their shirt in the repo, and they usually subsist on a Dog Food Diet when adequate Poverty Food is too pricey and they have no more shoes to boil. Contrast Kill the Poor, where poverty is both serious and lethal. See also Dysfunction Junction and Hilariously Abusive Childhood. |
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Loretta Lynn and George Burns once had a televised pissing contest about which one of them was poorer growing up. Burns ultimately won the duel. |
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Osmosis Jones: The title character, a white blood cell, talks to Drix, a cold pill, about growing up in "the wrong side of the digestive tract". | |
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The Simpsons' Perpetual Poverty, when not used as a plot device or ignored entirely, is often Played for Laughs, typically with jokes about their house falling apart at random (the walls being so thin that the family members can punch through them to get to each other's bedrooms) and their budget (at one point Marge claims to feed the family on $12 a week: "I stretch your father's meatloaf with sawdust"). | |
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In Yo-kai Watch, Manjimutt is typically depicted as being the apex of Butt-Monkey status. The proof of this is when he gets inspirited by Supoor Hero, whose power is to make victims unlucky and poor, but ends up having no effect as Manjimutt is already at the maximum level of poverty. This only serves to make him even more depressed. | |
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In the Dave the Barbarian episode "Rite of Pillage", Dave has to pass a series of tests to prove his barbarian-ness for the honor of himself and his family. One such test is proof that he can pillage villagers, so he is sent to pillage a house, only for the child to tell him that they are so poor that they could not afford to pay attention. He then goes off on a failed stand-up routine. | |
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Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows (2019) claims that before she became a vampire, she lived as a gypsy where her family was so poor that they could only fuel their campfires with donkey dung. When the dung ran out, they burned the donkey. | |
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Loweezy of Snuffy Smith has a laugh with a neighbor after her house was broken into. The would-be thief, finding nothing to steal, instead left money on the kitchen table. | |
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In A Very Potter Sequel, Professor Lupin is financially struggling like in the books (as well as an alcoholic), but this is completely Played for Laughs. When they first meet him, they mistake him for a homeless bum, to which he loudly insists the he's not (anymore). | |
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Yo Mama has an entire playlist of videos based around "yo mama's so poor..." jokes. | |
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Vow of Nudity: Walburt the barbarian's cheerful offhand mention of growing up in a leper colony is played as a punchline. | |
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The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch (originally from At Last the 1948 Show, later revived by Monty Python) is a parody of nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods. It features four men from Yorkshire who reminisce about their upbringing. As the conversation progresses they try to outdo one another, and their accounts of deprived childhoods become increasingly absurd. | |
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. plays Mera's family's Perpetual Poverty for comedy. She's portrayed as a Big Eater who is always eating grass or ice because she can't afford food, and when she comes into money, she loses it right away. | |
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El Chavo del ocho is a comedic portrayal of life among the quirky residents of a poor neighborhood, especially El Chavo, a homeless boy living in a barrel. | |
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In Futurama, Doctor Zoidberg is completely broke, despite being a doctor. This due to his complete lack of actual medical talent, his employer being incredibly cheap, and Zoidberg's own inability to handle money when he does have some. Luckily for Zoidberg, he's an Extreme Omnivore and is permitted to live in the dumpster next to where he works. Every aspect of this is Played for Laughs. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball stars a family of five living off one unimpressive paycheck, with many jokes about the Wattersons' financial woes: Gumball's sweater came out of a sewage pipe, everything they own is a ridiculous Shoddy Knockoff Product, the list goes on. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Can You Spare a Dime?", Squidward's attempts to forge his own destiny as an artist (or a football player, or spaceman, or football-playing king in space) don't go as planned. He ends up on the streets begging for change, living out of a cardboard box that gets repossessed after he's unable to pay the rent, and is forced to eat his own paintings to survive because nobody will buy them. | |
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Team Fortress 2 plays the Soldier's combination of insanity and poverty for comedy, because he's a deranged nutjob with little to no grasp on reality, yet continues to be loudly jingoistic and enthusiastically violent rather than dismal and depressed. This makes it easy to laugh at him for eating expired army-surplus soup out of rusty tin cans and building armor and weapons out of junk he finds in the trash, while also hoarding expired sour cream in a stolen refrigerator. He's just like that. | |
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The Homestar Runner Old Timey cartoons take place in a vaguely Depression era setting, where all the characters deal with comic levels of poverty, only having things like parsnips and "water soup" to eat. Sickly Sam bears the brunt of it— he's basically a skeleton who says he hasn't eaten for years, and wears a dirty "potate" sack instead of clothes. | |
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LISA the Painful has Ollie Nickels, a perpetually sweaty and poor man living on Garbage Island who's apparently tried to enter every business imaginable only to fail in all of them. In order to recruit him, you have to pay his massive debt of... two magazines. | |
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One of the staples of Li'l Abner. The town of Dogpatch is extremely poor and the inhabitants constantly on the brink of starvation — and it's never taken even remotely seriously. Creator Al Capp grew up poor himself, and took a fair bit of inspiration from his own childhood for the comic, but decided to exaggerate it to ridiculous extremes and play it all for laughs. On a couple of occasions, the characters even commented on this, lamenting that their cartoonist had made it and was now comfortably well off, while they were as poor as ever. | |
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