How do you feel about offensive jokes/dark humor?

Question

I like offensive humor sometimes, I know how to take a joke. I love shows like Family Guy, which is filled with dark humor.
However there’s always that one guy who HAS to say stupid offensive jokes to get reactions 24/7. At that point, it just gets annoying. Like you don’t gotta make “get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich” jokes about every woman you see. What is this? Middle school?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Johnny Lawrence was the local boy and all American boy in a small town in the karate kid movie when violent sociopath Daniel LaRusso moves to town. They meet at a beach part where Daniel becomes obsessed with and starts creeping on Johnny's newly ex-girlfriend Ally. Johnny arrives at the beach to patch things up with Ally but she's in no mood and they argue, now yes Johnny should have walked away when she made it clear she didn't want to talk with him and he shouldn't have taken her radio and shut her music off but one thing he is not doing is getting violent. Daniel like any creepy white knight seeing an opportunity to insert himself into his target's life intercedes an escalates the situation demanding Johnny return the radio which he does and Daniel falls over. Daniel now has the radio but embarrassed at falling over attempts to attack Johnny who wishing to avoid a physical fight avoids Daniel's rabid attack by stepping aside as his karate instructor has taught him allowing Daniel fall to the ground twice, but when it becomes clear that the enraged Daniel will not stop Johnny is forced to defend himself, Johnny approaches Daniel with non-aggressively to help him up but Daniel sucker punches him forcing Johnny to use force as is his legal right to defend himself and deescalates the situation by leaving. Then the next day while playing soccer Daniel trips and takes out his anger by assaulting one of Johnny's friends. Daniel later visits a karate Dojo hoping to get learn karate so he can get revenge on Johnny but it turns out to be Johnny's Cobra Kai Dojo. Imagine a guy who started a fight with you lost to you and the next day turned up at a gun store you were in attempting to buy an AR15, well that's how Johnny must have felt when Daniel turned up at the Dojo, so Johnny and his friends decide to teach thug Daniel a lesson and show him that his violence will not be tolerated. Months go by and it appears Daniel has got the message though he continues to perv on Ally but that's not Johnny's problem. At Halloween Daniel starts the feud up again by soaking Johnny in cold water in the bathroom while he rolls a joint, while fleeing the scene Daniel causing a multi-car collision and once, it's clear once again that there is no telling what damage this unbalanced violent individual will do so it falls once again to Johnny to contain Daniel's fury. Unfortunately for Johnny local karate master and child battered Mr Miyagi intercedes and assaults Johnny and his underage friends, Daniel then convinces Mr Miyagi that this is all Johnny's fault. Mr Miyagi takes Daniel to the cobra Kai Dojo to challenge for another fight at a karate tournament, Johnny even promises not to defend himself against anymore of Daniel's unprovoked attacks ununtil the tournament and Daniel being an aggressive sociopath continues to push his luck. Johnny defending his title to no one's surprise advances to the title but karma catches up to Daniel when the boy he assaulted on the soccer field injures his leg and is unable to compete any further. As Johnny is about to rightfully receive his trophy Daniel is granted unnatural strength from the demon soccer Mr Miyagi, either that or he gives Daniel an illegal substance to enable him to defeat Johnny in an upset, using an illegal kick. A good sportsman Johnny lets go of his sadness at losing, subjugated his ego presents sociopath Daniel with the trophy.

If you've watched the Cobra Kai series it shows that hands down, Daniel LaRusso is a bad, vindictive and petty human being. Here are some examples.

•His inability to let go of the past regarding the Cobrai Kai is disgraceful. Seriously, it’s his own personal singular agenda. Because His victim mentality makes him believe he was bullied ( he was actually the bully), then they should be made to suffer. He is incapable of forgiveness or moving past.

JackofSpades · Accepted Answer

I STOLE THIS MEME i'm sorry I love all jokes that are made with the intent to make people laugh.

smokeandberry · Accepted Answer

I love dark humour but I think it completely depends on the person & the context.

I'm in a groupchat and a guy was making a joke out of a disabled person, there was nothing to the joke he was literally just laughing at the fact this kid was in a wheelchair and had a tear rolling down his cheek - that's fucked up?
I'm friends with people from lots of minority groups so after hearing about their experiences the majority of racist, transphobic etc. jokes are boring as fuck to me.. but I think it's pretty easy to tell those who are throwing out a not very well thought out joke to those who are outwardly insulting trying to hide under the cover of 'humour'

HerLucidNightt · Accepted Answer

I like them sometimes. I just don't like the ones that are completely insulting, then try to hide behind "ohhh i just have dark humorrrr" like, no, shut up, you're just a dick.

But here's a joke:
I don't know why people believe the stereotype "white people can't jump". They clearly haven't seen the 9/11 footage.

DaveDavidson · Answer

I love them, in the right context. As in not just being an annoying edgelord all the time.
I know a lot of people who work in police and EMS, and am trying to do so myself. They ALL have an extremely morbid, dark sense of humour and joke about the things from work with each other. That's just how they deal with it.

thisisausername9999 · Answer

i 100% agree with you. Family guy, south park, rick and morty and comedians like dave chapelle are actually funny because they are just trying to make light out of some dark times, while the edgy kid is just trying to trigger people through distasteful comments. I was watching this omegele racist compilation where they were making fun of an Asian girl and a black guy as soon as they entered the live chat, and it was actually kind of sad

Jean-Marie_Céline · Answer

Frankly, it depends.
You can make black humour without being tasteless or gratuitously offensive.
There's a fine line between being provocative and slightly outrageous, and being a tasteless vulgar slob.

Hermes-Paris · Answer

Dark humour takes a master to pull it off without getting his ass beat once or twice. Most folks just come across like a 6th grader with a turd joke. It's hilarious done right.

Shanesia_OTS · Answer

Well I enjoy offensive jokes & dark humour every now and then. But not constantly and not when it comes to race, child exploitation or those with special disabilities.

When it comes to the sexist jokes I'm quick to flick back something snarky in my defence that always keeps them quiet.

FactQueen · Answer

I don't like misogyny, racism, or homophobia. But nothing should be off limits for a joke.
The British equivalent of "get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich" is "get your knickers on an make us a cup of tea". I laugh at jokes are about periods, incest, rape, terrorism, the disabled.

sagevalentineee · Answer

I got to be in the right mood, sometimes I can get a bit triggered because I wonder if the person is really joking. For example, when bantering sometimes friends make jokes about my heritage, being half Chinese and half English.. like 'Go back to China' and sometimes it really gets to me. I just try to remember that those people have good intentions and try to be chill with it. For some reason I'm just a little sensitive and sometimes cannot deal with it.

MyHonest2Cents · Answer

From my personal experience, using dark jokes/humor usually brings out the insecurities in people.
The ones that are very insecure will direct the words to themselves and get offended while missing out the whole point being a joke. The ones that are confident and knows that they aren't what the joke is making fun off would not react that way.

So you could say, I use it to test people. And I get along much better to those whom aren't offended by my dark jokes/humor.

LightlySaltedSeal · Answer

Of course, dark/offensive humor is the only reason that the comedy industry is still standing. Dark/offensive humor takes something that the majority of people deem offensive/bad and makes you think about it while also cheering you up because they're are usually very funny.

Drowningkingfish · Answer

You've gotta be careful doing that because most people are not desentised to making jokes about 9/11, special needs people, pedophiles. Among these jokes are forbidden ones that should never be touched because everyone will get offended by them. Even yourself slightly, e. I holocaust, African trade slave.

LaureenVO · Answer

Some are funny, but sometimes you just feel that it's not a joke. There is a difference. As example, some guys say bad things about woman and when they get mad 'it was a joke'. You clearly saw it wasn't a joke and they use it as excuse. I think there is a difference between dark humor and making excuses to say what you want.

Aislin9 · Answer

There are a lot of funny things in this world but offensive/dark humor isn't one of them. It speaks volumes about who tells them and also who laughs at them.

SomeGuyCalledTom · Answer

I agree with you @justinthegreat, I love a bit of dark humour (American Dad does it better than Family Guy though, just saying :P)… but it can be done to the point of overkill. And of course there are times it's just straight up inappropriate. Meeting the parents of your German girlfriend is probably a bad time to go cracking nazi jokes.

NewZion · Answer

The best kind of humor:

StinkinSkunk · Answer

They're pretty funny in the right moments, but if you don't know what you're doing it comes off as overly edgy and cringy.

JKingOff · Answer

I feel like it's awesome and that It ultimately makes fun of people that actually have that mentality. I feel like the people that get offended by such things are usually those that have that mentality, don't have a spinal column, or have a paper thin epidermis... Maybe a small dick to boot.

MeatPuppet · Answer

It depends on the target of the offense and whether or not it's coated under a layer of irony and that said irony is actually well performed instead of being used as a cheap cop-out for being a racist prick.

theChineseWASP · Answer

It depends for me some offensive jokes I don’t like. I prefer humor that makes fun of yourself versus other people.

Gospeedracer · Answer

Sometimes jokes making fun of people who have no sense of humor are the best kind of jokes. If you learn how not to get triggered life you will be much more happy. Being offended is a choice and I shouldn't have to tip toe around people that choose that.

JimboGB · Answer

Yes I do like some dark humor, and people who don't take themselves too seriously. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. I believe that's one of the secrets to life, once you can laugh at your misfortunes, you've found an inner peace. An inappropriate joke in an intense moment has prevented me from getting angry many times, it is like having the power to defuse a bomb.

Gvardiecky · Answer

As asperger, it could sound weird for somebody. But i love that. I like make fun of everything. Sometimes, i say something like "keep going and you end up on my list of executions" it a funny because people that i tell them that, know that i writing my own constitution.

AcidT0y · Answer

I like dark, dry humour. Not so much with the sexist, racist shit though. I don't find it offensive, I just don't find it funny

archiz · Answer

It's fine from time to time like you said but if someone is constantly targeting you or someone else then it's annoying.
I learned to switch it to my advantage and reply with a more offensive joke🤷🏿‍♀️
You get what you ask for💁🏿‍♀️

may2019 · Answer

I feel like there's a very fine line between what's okay to joke about and what isn't. But I also feel like sometimes the best jokes can be made after crossing that line, as long as one goes about it the correct way. If it's truly a joke, I feel it's fine, but if it's a "joke" and its more derogatory than funny, it's probably better left unsaid.

HawkPerception · Answer

I enjoy dark humor. Use it all the time with my girlfriend. She enjoys it just as much. Anyone who gets offended by it is someone I can't get along with.

AaronKrieger · Answer

I've been watching South Park, Family Guy, and American Dad since I was seven years old. Hell, I watched South Park a couple of episodes, so you could say that I like it.

katjmj · Answer

I appreciate dark humor, and know how to take an offensive joke and give one back, provided that it's in the right setting and context. There are just some who come off as an insensitive asshole.

StephenCF · Answer

They’re the best jokes (the darker, the better — especially when still clever) 🤡 Anyone who’s willing to enjoy or tell them are gonna be a great friend of mine 😈

winterfox10 · Answer

I used to enjoy dark humor, until I realized how unclever so much of that stuff is. It takes a greater amount of wit to make a joke out of something simple and playful than it does to say something that you know will offend people.

DiscomfortZone · Answer

Uhm... I'm not saying chauvinism jokes are without potential, but like any other topic they have to be actually funny, not just plain "offensive". I too enjoy dark and "forbidden" humor, but it has to be tactful and ofc funny!

slatyb · Answer

Family Guy is great, so is South Park. That humor may be offensive to some humorless people, but I wouldn't call it offensive.

letssee89 · Answer

Love it. It's a joke. If it bothers somebody, they can fuck off. It seems like "offensive" jokes only bother people that the joke describes and they can't take a joke.

Agape93 · Answer

Minus certain things, yeah. I have a naturally dark, dry humor.

ItzLaura · Answer

I think it's funny as long as its not over excessive

FictionalCharacter · Answer

I enjoy offensive jokes and dark humor. That I even roast myself haha.

Anonymous · Answer

It's not funny when over used and obviously meant to humiliate someone in front of others.

jgracem · Answer

Dark humor is the best kind because there are really no rules you have to follow. Any thing goes.

Zarapeachy · Answer

I appreciate it, it’s funny. But time and place for everything

Bo_Nerr · Answer

They're funny, but there's a time and place lmfaoo it's especially annoying when they overuse shit

swashdeadlove · Answer

If I think it’s funny I ignore it but if I think it crossed limits then gonna point that out

DamnSam · Answer

Depends how funny it is... Family guy isn't dark enough... "Ugly Americans" is where my "dark" starts...

Anonymous · Answer

It's just low-browe cowardly jokes to make themselves feel better by putting others down - only inadequate guys do it

Liam_Hayden · Answer

Offensive humor: Everything offends someone so just enjoy what you enjoy as far as this goes. Dark humor: I love it.

Massageman · Answer

I appreciate well-crafted humor of almost any genre.

FatherJack · Answer

I love it... and actually prefer being the target of it in banter , to dishing it out

rienna888 · Answer

i find everything funny except like most holocaust jokes, and racist jokes

whitehide · Answer

I love it, but I understand how some might not like it

Valricthehalfling7 · Answer

There’s a time and place for it haha some stuff is just to dark for me to laugh at but some dark humor is great

Hazelstar · Answer

I don't understand dark humour. I just like light hearted humour.

Lucious22 · Answer

It’s hilarious but very important to read the room and the people you hang with

Lman3000 · Answer

Love em I'm a dark and toxic man so shit like this is my jam.

Crankor · Answer

Family guy is meh. Now rick n morty is where its at 😀

RockSolidExorcist · Answer

I absolutely love it. Dark jokes are staple diet back here in India.

ERR0R_ · Answer

I think it's fine as long as every knows that it's not meant to offend anyone

ThisDoesntWork · Answer

They are okay if they aren't repeated often, and aren't meant to be offensive just for the hell of it.

ImAddi · Answer

I love offensive humor but I agree with the guys who always have to make those jokes because it's just not funny

Silver158 · Answer

Fine, it's a joke that's all the people who find them offensive are usually unfunny anyway.

Roberts0101 · Answer

Fucking love dark and especially offencive jokes, because I dont get offended by much

vax2net · Answer

I like a bit of dark humour but there's time for everything

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