Eye of the Beholder

('Eye of the beholder' Credit: Wrenne Evans)

Humour, like beauty, surely is in the eye (ear/mind?) of the beholder.

Speaking to Cs by phone he told me about a comedy television show he was watching. The Canadian show features a man who secretly films his own aunt being confronted by an actor who deliberately antagonises her by his actions and words. The aunt, having a caustic nature, reacts in ways that Cs finds hilarious.

It didn't sound hilarious to me. If the show had been fictional I might have thought the idea to be humorous.  A sort of 'Candid Camera' which generally was good natured in the situations it secretly placed people. However the idea of someone secretly filming their own relative to generate an antagonised reaction sounded cruel to me.