Thread: Funny controversial things

Such as this one

I was responding to the perhaps-funny and definitely-controversial post here:

Originally Posted by Mr_Blonde_OPS

Saw this from a post on a friends Facebook page. Family Guy Season 11, Epsiode 15.

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Don't even know what to say. I'm not one to put the blame on television, movies, or video games. There are always going to be people who are fucked in the head and don't know the difference between reality and fiction, that take what they see and make it something it shouldn't be. I don't think crude humor is always a bad thing, but when people make it reality it makes me sick to my stomach to watch. Just speechless thinking someone COULD have watched this episode and thought, "that's a good idea, let's do it in real life". Or it's just coincidence that makes that joke hard to watch now.

... but decided that this was a better thread for it.

Some time in the past, a few friends and I were talking about the whole idea of "too soon." In an attempt to get to the core of how we humans keep entangling humor and tragedy, I started trying to make jokes where the punch-line was "too soon."

So, in this case, the joke might go:

"Two bombs walk into a Boston pub. One of them explodes. The second one says, "too soon?"

[there are obvious ways to make that a better joke, but I'm not trying to be inappropriate just now :) ]

It's sort of like an Aristocrats style joke, except instead of a punch-line that works via outrageous contrast it's a punch-line that folds the joke back on the very transgressions being committed. The joke describes something awful, and telling the joke is awful. The punch-line that works inside the joke also works to describe the joke. Humour + Meta-humour.

In any case, our evening of thoughtful introspection on the human condition quickly turned into a free for all of trying to one-up each other in terms of being both funny and horrible. We did too good a job, and some of the jokes were legitimately cringe-larious, but in the cold light of morning I was pretty uncomfortable recalling some of what was said and admitting that some of it had been said by me.

Cheers,


AetheLove