10 Wrestling Moments You Felt Totally Guilty For Laughing At

WWE comedy is an oxymoronic concept, which really is strange; as a performer, Vince McMahon was a laugh riot of hammy facials, guttural, practically demonic line delivery, and cocksure strutting. 'Mr.' McMahon was a grotesque masculine exaggeration able to pop punters with a gulp. This is something of which only Great Men are capable.

As a promoter, McMahon has...a specific sense of humour. Specifically, it is akin to that of a toddler. The (often all too literal) sh*t Vince finds funny is, almost objectively, not funny. WWE was funny, once upon a time, which makes us mourn for the past but does allow us to cannibalise it. Spoiler Alert: you won't see Bobby's Sisters on this list. You wouldn't feel guilty for laughing at it because no f*cker did. WWE should feel guilty for devising, scripting, drafting and presenting the angle in the first place.

In the words of the incomparable Jim Cornette, "Funny don't draw money." While that may be true, some moments in the annals of wrestling history do more than compel us to part with our cash.

They force us to question the ugliness of our very nature...

We're trash, humanity. We didn't need Twitter to confirm that for us.

When we see somebody fall over, we don't empathise with their plight. We p*ss ourselves laughing because the very notion of our fellow man struggling compels us, involuntarily, to remove what is a mere mask of pretence. As Jeff Jarrett helped clarify, it helps if the person suffering is perceived as weaker than us. We are trash and we are drunk on the most insignificant degree of relative power.

Which is why you cannot help but guffaw at the sight of the GIF above. Beetlejuice, the entertainer, suffers from both dwarfism and microcephaly. Jarrett doesn't merely crack him with a guitar shot. He cracks him with a guitar shot to the back of his head when his back is turned, putting himself over as a brilliant d*ckhead, which was far more plausible tan his role as the saviour of WCW.

If we're trying to rid ourself of the guilt, we might point towards the fact that Beetlejuice put himself forward for the punishment, and that, for a non-wrestler, he bumped better than hips-first John Cena. He looked like a spilled beer bottle spinning before it crashes, punch-drunk, to the floor.

But no: it is funny because he is little.