MARTIN SAMUEL

Dutch drivers greatness is made all the richer by his dark side. Its why, even in an inferior car, he can still shatter Lando Norriss dreams of first world title

L ouis CK, the comedian, was explaining one of the myths of his trade. They say comedy should never punch down, he said, but thats not true. You pretend you dont like comedy that punches down. If you have a maid or a cleaning lady in an office who has, like, five jobs, and she sees the boss walk by whos a billionaire and she says, F*** him, youre like, Yeah. But if a billionaire goes up to a little cleaning lady and spills coffee on her head and goes, Ha ha, of course its a trillion times funnier. Punching up is crusading punching down is just horrible. So its hysterically funny.

And thats how comedians like it. Dark. If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs, wrote Tina Fey.

马丁·塞缪尔

这位荷兰车手的伟大之处因其桀骜不驯的个性更显非凡。正因如此，即便驾驶性能逊色的赛车，他仍能击碎兰多·诺里斯首夺世界冠军的梦想。

喜剧演员路易斯·C·K正在解释他这一行的一个迷思。"有人说喜剧永远不该欺凌弱者，"他说道，"但这并非事实。你假装不喜欢欺凌弱者的喜剧。假如办公室里有个身兼五份工作的女佣或清洁工，看到亿万富翁老板经过时骂了句'去他的'，你可能会附和'没错'。但如果一个亿万富翁走到瘦小的清洁女工面前，把咖啡泼在她头上还笑着说'哈哈'，这当然好笑一万倍。挑战强者是英勇之举，欺凌弱者则令人发指——正因如此，后者才显得荒诞至极地可笑。"

喜剧演员们偏爱这种风格——黑暗幽默。蒂娜·菲曾写道：“若想逗乐观众，不妨让男人扮成老妇人，再把他推下楼梯。”