The affective element, otherwise known as humor appreciation, is involved with enjoying the joke and producing visceral, emotional responses depending on the hilarity of the joke.
The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from film critics, who pointed to the film's unintentional hilarity, weak acting, and poor screenplay writing.
Their discoveries--such as discarded underwear, nude photographs, hidden liquor supplies, and lovers' trysts--would provoke shrieks of hilarity from the studio audience and red-faced embarrassment from the unfortunate contestant.