How long before dreadful news becomes comic fodder Page 2

For me, I think the more 'distant' you are from an event in time / space then the easier it is to poke fun. The idea of a relative being raped or murdered and then becoming the butt of a pub joke, for those people involved, such a piece of bad news will never become funny.

I think there's an important distinction to be made here. There is a difference between 'comedy' and the pub jokes that do the rounds after a particular event. For example the Time Trumpet Muppet 9/11 is not even on the same scale as the 'Could murder a chinese' and 'the indian they ordered arrived burned.'

Not that I get offended, but it's the same old "Do you wanna hear a really sick joke?" with the heard-em-before punchlines bolted onto the latest topical news - neither that clever nor funny.

imo Muppet 9/11 and Woody Allen's holocaust references are true examples of comedy derived from tragedy. The pub jokes I wouldn't class as 'comedy'.

I think you should be able to joke about anything but society isn't there yet. You could never tell a Maddy joke on TV for example. I have several jokes I would use in my stand up act but if I sense the crowd won't laugh at them or be offended by them then I don't use them.

By pub jokes i'm referring to the ones passed around rather than standup, AJP.

The ones Aaron and I mentioned are definite pub jokes.

I'd love to hear what Frankie Boyle would come up with. (If he would, which I think he would.)

I have said would too many times.

You want some would zooo?

You got would?

No would sorry, but I have an erection, yeah I put up a shed today in my garden.

You're not the only one, sheds turn me on too.

Must be all those big tools?

Quote: zooo @ August 18, 2007, 11:08 PM

You're not the only one, sheds turn me on too.

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All that lovely, hard wood. Coated in special varnish to protect from the elements...