(Pp again. I'm taking about the one he tells Jerry Seinfeld in Comedians in Cars. Google it and watch the video clip. It plays better out loud than on paper, imo) |
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Guy has a raging toothache. Dentist looks at it, says it has to come out.
Dentist gets his needle out for a shot, the patient freaks out and says no to the shot. Dentist gets the laughing gas out, patient freaks out and says no to the gas. Dentist goes into the other room, comes back with a Viagra pill. Patient says, How is THIS going to help my pain? Dentist ----------It will give you something to hold onto. |
Dark humor is about dark events. No one thinks the events are funny, Dark humor is about the Holocaust, 9/11, dead babies, pedophilia, school shootings, slavery, etc. Dark humor isn't haha the holocaust was so funny. And dark humor isn't right for every audience. Sometimes people who have experienced something very difficult and painful can still find dark humor funny, other people don't. Dark humor is not the joke you tell without knowing your audience. |
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So what's the joke exactly? I really have an issue with "dark humor." If the events aren't funny, where's the humor? Who do you tell these jokes to? What's the actual Holocaust joke we're dancing around?What's so funny about it? I'm just dying to hear what's so frickin' funny about the mass event of human destruction and murder. What's the actual punchline I'm missing? Since I'm apparently so devoid of humor and all? |
You aren't devoid of humor, you just don't have that dry, dark, witty sense of humor and that is okay. See the Jonestown joke above. Some people find the wit funny. No one thinks what happened at Jonestown is funny - people were murdered and it was awful. But the joke is still witty in a dark way and some people can see humor in that. Others can't. There are lots of jokes that other people think are funny that I don't think are funny at all. So be it. We all have different sense of humor. |
So you would tell that joke to a descendant of the Jonestown massacre, and that would be OK? They would be "witty" enough for you? The "wit" of mass murder would resonate with them? You would literally tell that joke to someone who knew someone at Jonestown? I find that very hard to believe. And if you wouldn't, why not? There's your answer. |
No one is saying to tell the Holocaust joke to the face of a Holocaust survivor and every one is saying you need to know your audience. Hence why the poster didn't think it was right even for here as it would offend some people. You don't get dark humor. That is okay. Other people hate insult comics / roasts - it just comes across as mean - but they have their own audience. |
| On the day God was handing out chins, I thought he said “gins,” and I said “Make mine a double!” |
Translation: Do not, I repeat do not, ever show your racist/xenophobic/a-hole tendencies to the general public. This needs to be hidden at all cost. ONLY tell these "jokes" to people you know to also be racist, xenophobic and general a-holes, so they'll laugh at your "jokes." This way you will feel good about yourself and be able to move on with your day, thinking you made a funny. |
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What’s the difference between a dig and a well dressed man?
The man wears a suit and tie. The dog just pants. |
Should be “dog” and well dressed man |
I'd tell you a few jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work. |