(March 17, 2018 at 4:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: No one makes fun of aids or cancer.
Really?
I have no problem making fun of aids or cancer if it's done in a not-offensive way. It's not the topic, but what you say about it and the meaning in your discussion, that is important. It's not about how bad the disorder is, either. Like, I'll make jokes about death, and that's about as bad as it gets. What matters is the actual meaning and message of the joke, not the topic.
For example, I mentioned that Ricky Gervais does this brilliantly. This is a hilarious clip of him joking about teenagers with cancer.
It's not that cancer is a funny topic, it's that the meaning of his joke is the exact opposite of actually insulting children with cancer. People don't walk away from this thinking "yeah, kids with cancer are such dishonest and greedy people". They think the exact opposite; the joke actually increases empathy towards them. That's what makes comedy so clever. It's the inherent irony of appropriate and thoughtful humor that differentiates it from ridicule.
