Joking about a tragedy: Is it ok to do it?

DubArk · 20-03-2008 01:17PM

All of the above.

ojewriej wrote: »

KF was just an example. What if you want to crack a gay joke? Can you be sure that no one listening is gay?

You are right though, it's all down to knowing your audience.

I am gay! And i love gay jokes. So good one!

Collie D · 20-03-2008 01:19PM

DubArk wrote: »

I am gay!

ASL?

The Master · 20-03-2008 01:20PM

Dudess wrote: »

No I don't think everything is fair game for humour. Cracking jokes about the holocaust = being a c*nt.

Jokes about the holocaust are not funny:mad:
My grandfather died in Auschwitz*

*After he fell from a guard tower while shooting jews
Awaits ban................

Dub6Kevin · 20-03-2008 01:29PM

How does one gain access to the mythical inner sanctum of the Lolocast?

Dudess · 20-03-2008 01:32PM

Something like The Producers, which takes the piss out of nazis, is brilliantly funny.
But a joke about, say, a child getting thrown into an oven at Auschwitz - it's just not funny. And I'm not getting offended on behalf of a particular community - I literally think it is just not funny.

20-03-2008 01:45PM

It's funny as long as it does not directly link to you. Madeline McCann jokes are hilarious, but if it was your daughter it wouldn't be, obviously enough.

Also in the right context, everything can be funny. Even holocaust jokes.

Collie D wrote: »

ASL?

And how much?

Raspberry · 20-03-2008 01:56PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

I still laugh at 9/11 to this very day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bV9iNStEI

Posted on SA a day after 9/11.

20-03-2008 02:00PM

Ha. But footage of people running speeded up is hilarious no matter what happens.

Raspberry · 20-03-2008 02:01PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Dudess wrote: »

But a joke about, say, a child getting thrown into an oven at Auschwitz - it's just not funny. And I'm not getting offended on behalf of a particular community - I literally think it is just not funny.

I beg to differ.

excerpt from The Diarrhea Anne Frank

7/20/43: god i had to shit so bad. i've been holding it in for two years. finally let one rip out the attic window, hit some krauts patrolling the street. looks like we're all going to some camp now, oh well.

~SomethingAwful.

Setun · 20-03-2008 02:02PM

Raspberry wrote: »

I still laugh at 9/11 to this very day.

Posted on SA a day after 9/11.

that's a bit bizarre.

20-03-2008 02:08PM

It just seems like Raspberry is trying to get in the Lolocaust forum, but is only stealing their humour from Something Awful.

Collie D · 20-03-2008 02:11PM

Raspberry wrote: »

I beg to differ.

excerpt from The Diarrhea Anne Frank

~SomethingAwful.

Regardless of the subject matter that wasn't funny

Raspberry · 20-03-2008 02:11PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Deleted User wrote: »

It just seems like Raspberry is trying to get in the Lolocaust forum, but is only stealing their humour from Something Awful.

I'm cross posting because it's relevant to some of the posts in this thread, I don't even know what the Lolocaust forum is.

DubArk · 20-03-2008 02:27PM

All of the above.

Collie D wrote: »

ASL?

Mind your own!

I can think of many an offence Joke but this is not the forum to tell them in. One needs to pick their audience.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work that one out.

Plan_D · 20-03-2008 02:41PM

Dudess wrote: »

No I don't think everything is fair game for humour. Cracking jokes about the holocaust = being a c*nt.

Dudess wrote: »

Something like The Producers, which takes the piss out of nazis, is brilliantly funny.
But a joke about, say, a child getting thrown into an oven at Auschwitz - it's just not funny. And I'm not getting offended on behalf of a particular community - I literally think it is just not funny.

But you are mistaken is thinking your personal opinion is the end of it.

I don't think it is the joke that matters but more so your audience.. Telling holocaustic jokes to Jews. Bad. To me = ok

etc etc.

Rb · 20-03-2008 02:45PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

I find controversial jokes the funniest. Some are "bad" but they're hilarious, like the Maddie and the Pope one. I've a sick taste in jokes though, apparently.

ryoishin · 20-03-2008 02:52PM

maddie and pope joke, do tell!

Depends whos listening and how you say it.

What about rape jokes?

6th · 20-03-2008 02:55PM

After a certain length of time its ok.

Thanks to the Microwave & TimeMachine Forum we'll be able to joke about things before they happen!

GhostInTheRuins · 20-03-2008 02:55PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Of course it's ok to do it. People that are afraid to joke about certain things have problems. Everything can funny if you look at it a certain way.

Rb · 20-03-2008 03:00PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

6th wrote: »

I dont think I'll ever get over it ... oh wait.

So much anger...

I feel sorry for the Mod forum already.:D

Collie D · 20-03-2008 03:03PM

I remember my dog dying and the gf getting a taxi over to mine. The driver shouted something out the window about "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and I had to be restrained. Looking back I still would have loved to deck him.

I know it's not exactly 9/11 type stuff but I was upset that day

DubArk · 20-03-2008 03:05PM

All of the above.

Raspberry wrote: »

I still laugh at 9/11 to this very day.

Posted on SA a day after 9/11.

I really think the joke has gone past it's sell by date and you need to get out more and find some NEW material! :rolleyes:

Dudess · 20-03-2008 03:06PM

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Of course it's ok to do it. People that are afraid to joke about certain things have problems.

What if they're not afraid but they just don't find it funny?

I basically find some bad-taste jokes funny, some not funny. It's not a choice.

Pighead · 20-03-2008 03:10PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Collie D wrote: »

I remember my dog dying and the gf getting a taxi over to mine. The driver shouted something out the window about "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and I had to be restrained. Looking back I still would have loved to deck him.

I know it's not exactly 9/11 type stuff but I was upset that day

Heres a wee joke in memory of Collies dog. Its what he would have wanted bless him.
http://www.jokefile.co.uk/sick/dogs.html

Collie D · 20-03-2008 03:12PM

Pighead wrote: »

Heres a wee joke in memory of Collies dog. Its what he would have wanted bless him.
http://www.jokefile.co.uk/sick/dogs.html

Nice try piggie but she wasn't run over..that and it was a couple of years back so I'm not bothered by your lame efforts

EDIT It says a lot about how predictable you are that as soon as I saw your name I knew what your post was going to be

Pighead · 20-03-2008 03:14PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Collie D wrote: »

Nice try piggie but she wasn't run over..that and it was a couple of years back so I'm not bothered by your lame efforts

Plus the dog in Pigheads link is a cartoon.

BLOBBY · 20-03-2008 03:16PM

After a certain length of time its ok.

i lost my son i would not like 2 know that he could be turned into a jock

phantom_lord · 20-03-2008 03:16PM

my username on a poker site was madeleinelol during the summer, and it got banned for being offensive. some people have no sense of humour

GhostInTheRuins · 20-03-2008 03:17PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Dudess wrote: »

What if they're not afraid but they just don't find it funny?

I basically find some bad-taste jokes funny, some not funny. It's not a choice.

Well that's different. If it's a crap joke and it wasn't funny, fair enough, but if the only reason you didn't find a joke funny was because of it's subject matter then you really, really need to lighten up.

:pac:

Das Kitty · 20-03-2008 03:30PM

No way Jose. Have a bit of respect.

Would anyone agree that past a certain age a joke needs to be either so lame it's funny (pirate jokes) or shock you a bit to be funny?

I think Tommy Tiernan said once that the best reaction he gets to jokes are the ones where the audience initially laughs but then realise that it was bad taste. The HahaOoh effect.

I love a sick joke now and again, but I have heard a lot of "jokes" that are just sick and not funny. The balance has to be struck.

I watched The Aristocrats, and tbh it was mostly tame, Bob Saget seemed to be the only one who pushed the boat out in terms of taste.

Joking about a tragedy: Is it ok to do it?

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