I find no entertainment in fiction or nonfiction involving someone being royally dumped on by everything in existence. I'm talking about shows like The Mighty Boosh (to borrow from my girlfriend's Brit fetish list.) or most sitcoms on tv today. Shows where, despite a main character's best efforts, nothing turns out right and they get the short end of the stick anyway. See also: Invader Zim (although it has its moments) any torture-porn horror film (any horror in general, especially if it ends badly for the protagonists) and anything that feels the need to pull the Women In Refrigerators trope out for extra drama (for non TVTropers, it's when the villain casually offs a hero's loved one(s) for extra drama/evil points and the loved ones were clearly only in the film for said deaths)
That's not to say I don't enjoy it when a really terrible person gets their comeuppance, but I absolutely HATE something that expects me to laugh at a moderately nice (or even moderately evil) person as the entire world conspires to make their life a living hell.
That's not to say I don't enjoy it when a really terrible person gets their comeuppance, but I absolutely HATE something that expects me to laugh at a moderately nice (or even moderately evil) person as the entire world conspires to make their life a living hell.