Jonathan, with a typical spirit, sees humor as a free amusement for the mind that relieves us from the chain of routine thoughts and eases their tyranny, preventing us from becoming slaves to them. Some recklessly generalize how comedy maintains the tyranny of a specific system or situation because it makes it tolerable. Real comedians express what others are ashamed of, aware of what hurts or scares them. This can also be claimed through racial and sexual humor, which aims to vocalize racial and sexual anxieties that the audience traditionally cannot accept.

Chaloner says, "All audiences are characterized by stupidity, but a bad comedian is one who lets them know that." He insists, "If they can be led, it is only in the direction they want to go."