Abstract
On the basis of a reception study of comedic television series, this article extends analysis of class-based social and moral tastes to humor. The results it formulates are focused on a sample of young people from the cultured fractions of the middle and upper classes. In sharing their comedic likes and dislikes, the individuals interviewed here situate themselves socially, and express both what they aspire to and what they reject in terms of cultural consumption, lifestyle, etc. The article examines the symbolic mechanism at work in the expression of these divided and hierarchical comedic tastes and seeks to demonstrate how social and moral dimensions intersect within humor, understood as a class affect.
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