"Offensive" humour

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My jokes are offensive too... I got into trouble often because of them

I have a rather dark/satirical/crude/dry sense of humour which some people do not enjoy, but it works for me and those who appreciate those types of humour enjoy it.

I don't really think my sense of humor is offensive, I think people just take it too seriously. But yeah, I've been told lots of times my sense of humor is twisted, offensive or that I'm disturbed. I just think dead baby/rape jokes are hilarious, and rape is my biggest fear.

I had a very dark sense of humour as a teenager. I used to joke about death and bombings. I also didn't have a good outlook on life, either. The only thing that I didn't joke about was suicide.

I have a very dark, twisted sense of humor.

For what it's worth, I love me some dead baby jokes.

My visual/sensory thinking style makes it hard for me to appreciate dead baby jokes.

I grew up listening to australian comedians such as Rodney Rude, Kevin Bloody Wilson, Col Eliott & Austen tayshus. I only heard George Calin later in life, who is also very funny and has a similar sense of humour. Australian comedians seem to have very dark humour, much more offensive than american comedians with virtually no topic off limits.

This has given me a very dark sense of humour.

I have a fairly dark humour of inappropriate nature. I have decided to restrict these jokes to people who frequently make them prior to me.

I'd like to hear some of these jokes. PM me

I think my sense of humour could be offensive but I've learnt to keep most of the jokes and comments to myself for my own entertainment because most people don't take it well. Some jokes or sarcastic comments slip out every now and then though.

I would dispute that. While I enjoy Rodney and Kev from time to time, their humour is, for the most part, reasonably good natured, just "off-colour". Most of the comedians I've heard that I would consider "dark" are/were Americans, and the only Australian I know of that I would put in that category would be Brendon Burns, who doesn't even live or work in Australia, largely because Australian audiences found him too dark.

Carlin did some dark material as well as some light hearted, "gee, isn't this a weird phrase!" type of stuff. I loved Carlin as well, one of my favourites. Another of my favourites is Bill Hicks. But the darkest would have to be Doug Stanhope. Who else would open a set with "You know the funny thing about child pornography? No credits! I guess some people are in it just for the art!" and title a later track "For Only Two Dollars A Month You Can Keep This Kid Alive Long Enough To Produce Six More People Who Have Nothing To Eat"

I know! The worst part about it was that I had never been in trouble before at school, ever. I was always the good kid, and the teachers all liked me and actually stuck up for me when the principal did that. It screwed up my eighth-grade life for awhile. I was pretty upset.

These radio shows by Chris Morris were the comedy highlight of my life in the 1990s:

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/i ... ge=bluejam

The hosting website doesn't make it easy to get them without popups and a few more clicks than you might expect, but I got the lot without all that much trouble.

Or just go to YT:

http://www.youtube.com/user/anarquista33

I suppose the humour is about as offensive as it gets, and even I didn't like some of the worst sketches.

With a taste in humour like that, I guess my sense of humour is offensive.

The entire idea of zero tolerance was pretty bad. It was an emotive, illogical reaction to the situation, which actually ended up putting more pressure on children than protecting any.

It's amazing how measures taken for safety purposes do not always have anything to do with safety and more to do with a sense of safety.

I agree that if I find a joke offensive I will get upset but I think I would be even more upset if people were putting me down for being offended by the joke to begin with. This has been quite the case with autism and asperger jokes as of late. Many aspies are sensitive to that kind of thing yet we're getting so much crap for being offended by it. I think it's unfair to judge us like that just because of our nature.

It's a bit of a confusing concept that people would joke about murder and rape yet would condemn these kinds of acts when they occur in real life. I never get that. And it's not that I am sensitively offensive to dead baby jokes, I just never got them at all and respond to them with a blank confusion about it. Though recently when I started watching Happy Tree Friends, they feature a baby character that gets killed off pretty terrible in gruesome fashion but that show is very based around death humor and the idea is that the deaths themselves are completely unrealistic and over the top that it's okay to laugh at them, at least for me it was. But then again, these are cartoon animals. I dont think I would feel the same about humans in place of that unless I saw it for myself.

But yeah, telling a dead baby joke at a dinner conversation is a complete form of WTF? Lesson learned: know your audience before you share your brand of humor with them.

Well, enough with the arse kissing and sucking up, you hit the nail on the head. You’re a jerk and moreover if you cannot say something funny without being offensive you’re a feeble minded jerk to boot.
And to the people who’ve joined in with the “it’s ok to offend” bulsshit. That goes double for you, feeble minds make Jokes that are offensive but the weaker minds listen in.
[where is the emoticon for No I’m not joking]