Comment: You think PhD candidates are dullards? Because they have a sense of humor you don't like? 

Civilized? 

Censorious is more the word.

You want to dictate what people can find funny, and anyone who doesn't agree with you is a caveman.

That's pretty much the definition of bigotry.

Here... let me look up the definition of bigotry:

intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

Seems to apply completely.