Why are jokes funnier the more sick or cruel they are?

Asked By: DeathOfCuHullian 31-35, M 5 months ago

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Posted by lostinchicago Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:14AM

Truth is more funny than fiction....

If I said all the blacks in the 70's had hair as big as a lamp shade that's pretty funny and true....

People today have been trained to "gasp" at such a thing today but those same people tell the same jokes in their homes.....

They don't BS me.

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Posted by bijouxbroussard Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:34AM

Only if you have a sick or cruel sense of humour...

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Reply by DeathOfCuHullian Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:36AM

I do its a fantastic coping mechanism
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Posted by peza Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:24AM

Are they ?

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Reply by DeathOfCuHullian Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:25AM

If you didnt laugh you would cry
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Reply by OnewithJC Nov 29th, 2012 at 4:04AM

That's pretty much what I do....
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Posted by HakujitsuSeiten Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:14AM

it's stupid human's thing

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Posted by Agonystick Nov 29th, 2012 at 4:13AM

I don't think they necessarily are. They just have more of an impact. For me, I usually sort of chuckle at the same time as moan in disgust at those kind of jokes.

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Reply by DeathOfCuHullian Nov 29th, 2012 at 4:13AM

Yeah I know what you mean. The shock factor has a lot to do with it
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Posted by OnewithJC Nov 29th, 2012 at 4:13AM

I don't know, why is this true for you? I find no joy in hurting others or seeing my loved ones/ friend's hurt. I find laughter together with my friends more fulfilling that laughing at someone's expense.

I can imagine that this might be true if it happened to the one cruel (just so they knew how they made others feel)....but I don't even care to be there to see it, I want to be somewhere laughing with my friend's (about something unrelated, something truly joyous).

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Posted by billstickers Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:36AM

what do you say to a sick dog?
down syndrome down

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Posted by turtlesplash Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:20AM

because humour is a kind of reconciliation of conscious and unconscious feelings

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Posted by Bedlamborne Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:15AM

Astonishingly enough... people appreciate jokes that seem to be more on par with local lewdness... who would have thought?

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Posted by MathMan789 Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:13AM

I don't think so... People say I'm too boring if they want, but I don't like gross & tasteless humor

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Posted by edinburgh1964 Nov 29th, 2012 at 3:12AM

my mother in law is in a ****** bad mood, he broom failed its M.O.T

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Posted by Rod41 Mar 29th, 2013 at 11:42PM

A funny sick or cruel joke is funny only if it can transcend the stigma of being sick and cruel.

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