Poll: Is anything exempt from humour?

[Bagged Milk]

I like to think of jokes as if it were implemented in a game. If you are really good at telling jokes, you have a higher chance of pulling off a rather tasteless joke. So if you're level 100 in jokes, you have a 100% chance of telling a knock knock joke, but a 25% chance of pulling off a dead baby joke at an abortion clinic. Whereas, if you're level 1 in jokes, you will have a 50% chance of telling a knock knock joke, and a 0% chance of telling that dead baby joke.

Nothing is off limits, however, you should probably refrain from telling jokes that you aren't the right level for. Just like you probably shouldn't pickpocket someones clothes in Skyrim at level 1.

Gosh, that was a really stupid analogy.

 

[FalloutJack]

Nothing should be exempt from humour.

Everything should be exempt from bad humour.

Know what I mean?

I like what he said thar. Most people are voting no, but I'm voting "It depends" because of what he said. Cleverness.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I got called 'doctor death' when 9/11 happened because of all the jokes i was telling about it...5 minutes after it happened was too soon?!?

Nah, everything is cool when it comes to jokes but don't be suprised to get a punch in the face if you target the wrong person. That in itself is quite funny though so everyone gets a laugh

 

[omicron1]

Ok, I know what the Starship line is about (and bravo!), but what's the Fringe line from?

On topic: Some things should be exempt from humor in public/with people unfamiliar with your standards/lack thereof, but in private, whatever makes you giggle, go right ahead.

 

[Quazimofo]

im sorry, i totally mis-clicked. I meant to vote "no" rather than "yes"

but yeah, there is going to be a joke about it, if it exists. if there are no jokes, then there will be. it is only a matter of time.

its like rule 34, but much less disgusting, and a hell of a lot funnier (how about that, jokes are funnier than porn. who woulda thought?)

 

[GTwander]

Everything is ok to poke fun at, or nothing is.
Once we find "the line", said line can be moved in any direction, at anyone's discretion, to suit anyone's agenda. Bullshit follows.

 

[Xdeser2]

To me, nothing should be exempt from humor, but theres definatly a way to cross the line into being an asshole about it.

 

[waj9876]

Nope, you can make fun of anything you want. If anyone comes after you legally, they are in the wrong.

Now if you take it too far, say telling a rape joke to a parent who recently found out the whereabouts of their kidnapped child. Raped and killed. Don't be surprised when they knock your teeth down your throat.

 

[MrStab]

It's just about who you're with for example when we have LANs we'll spend all night and the early hours of the morning telling one another in extreme amounts of detail how we're going to mutilate, kill and desecrate their corpse while raping their closest friends and relatives. However this isn't the sort of joke I'd tell my mother so it's all about context and your audience.

 

[C F]

Some topics might be practically exempt in certain instances (i.e. the times when it would be so inappropriate it no longer evokes any form of amusement[footnote]And if a joke that was meant to be funny isn't, am I at all obliged to call it humor?[/footnote]), but in the long run, I don't think anything is truly exempt. There's going to be some kind of joke about every touchy subject told when and where it'll probably get a laugh.

 

[Something Amyss]

Are any subjects, such as the Holocaust or MLP, exempt from having the piss taken from them?

*ahem*


(Posted the inferior modern version solely because of BARROWMAN!)

I think that answers the question.

But more seriously, any topic can be funny. Some are harder to actually be funny.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Ok, I know what the Starship line is about (and bravo!), but what's the Fringe line from?

Its from Tachyon: The Fringe, a game it seems no-one else has heard of. Cookies for getting the Starship one though.

 

[uhddh]

Nothing is exempt. Comedy is tragedy + time after all.

Really as long as the joke isn't too crass or tasteless, it should be fine.

 

[Twilight_guy]

No. Also, I already saw this in some rape thread not too long ago. You can make a joke about anything but you're responsible for possible offensive consequences. Saying 'it was just a joke' is not an excuse and is not a shield. If your joke offends, you offended and you are responsible because you made the joke.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, I'd say recent tragedies should be taken seriously, but nothing should be sacred. A lot of people deal with grief by joking about it and I do this myself. Holocaust tend to be tasteless and bad, but done right it can work.

The worse the tragedy or misery behind a subject the harder it is to joke about it and it's more likely to be considered offensive. In short what I have to say on the matter is what this guy said:

No. Also, I already saw this in some rape thread not too long ago. You can make a joke about anything but you're responsible for possible offensive consequences. Saying 'it was just a joke' is not an excuse and is not a shield. If your joke offends, you offended and you are responsible because you made the joke.

It's not a defence that you were simply joking.

 

[poxyrom]

As a white, upper-middle class, straight, western, heterosexual, healthy, anatomically normal man who has never experienced the death of a relative, has only ever lived in a town that is primarily compromised of white, upper-middle class, straight, western, heterosexual, healthy, anatomically normal people, has no relative under the age of 20 and has never met anyone with cancer, mental illness or any serious disability, I do believe that nothing is exempt from humor, although this may be a somewhat objective point of view.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Nothing should be exempt from humour.

Everything should be exempt from bad humour.

Know what I mean?

I agree to disagree and I agree with both. You have find humor in everything or this world would suck.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I want to say yes, but I can't think of any good jokes that have to do with the twin towers going down, rape, or child molestation... which is rape, but not women rape thats a big deal right now.