too serious

[jwest]

what subject matter, in your opinion, is too serious to joke about?

when i hear speeches or comedy sketches about politics, religion, race, sex, almost anything really, im not so uptight, and i can laugh at it. but for me, death is too real, too serious to kid about...

 

[bi-one]

Real misery or fatal disease are not very funny subjects...
Thou I can laugh about death, but not about someone who actually is.

 

[GL]

You know, I'm surprised by what subjects make me laugh. Things that are either not politically correct or perhaps taboo. However, I do draw the line when someone makes light of violence towards women. I grew up around a lot of strong women and admire them for who they are. As such, I take a very dim light when someone makes jokes about violence and rape.

 

[sb]

People should be free to joke about what ever they want to joke about. Cancer is hilarious.

 

[luminum]

I thinle verything is worth a laugh, or people wouldn't be able to deal with it.

I got into a tiff once because we were discussing how alzheimer's was correlated with aluminum, so I joked that one could induce alzheimers by injecting liquid aluminum into someone's brain. A girl (who was infamous for making things all about her) called me out saying that she didn't appreciate it because her aunt had alzheimer's. I shot back that my grandpa had it, too, and that she wasn't winning this one.

My psych teacher just commented that sometimes people have different ways of dealing with things.

The reason why I feel almost everything is fodder for humor is because everything that happens in life (exception being humor that seriously advocates something horrifficly wrong to do), to me, including death is an objective hapinstance. Personally, I find death to be no loss, just a neutral state that the dead person obtains. I don't believe in suffering after death. So if there's a reward, it's good. If there's ntohing after death, then one has lost nothing. So if the person is in no net loss after death, then a joke about death is game for me.

 

[MidnightPrism]

A little humor can lighten many situations. Death would be something that shouldn't be laughed about though

 

[FPNY]

People should be free to joke about what ever they want to joke about. Cancer is hilarious.

Now that's funny!

 

[J-23]

For me, it all depends on the context and the person who's making the joke. I think it's important to find the humor in things -- If I didn't, I'd go nuts -- but you have to incorporate a sense of respect, as well.