Has No One Got A Sense Of Humour Anymore?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49395718

[Mozz71]

I think it"s easy to say its a lack of humour when the joke is not about you. Its like a black joke or an Irish joke. Whether its offensive isn't up to us. I will say that in no way was the joke intended to cause offense, so they might have been better off just saying "You know, that's not cool", rather than the slightly pompous statement they did.

[ludwig]

// I think if people with the condition are finding it offensive then its offensive. //

I actually doubt they are, but if so, tough. Just because you're offended by something, doesn't mean you're right to be offended by it.

I'm offended by humourless twits claiming to be offended by everything, but that doesn't mean they should be made to shut up. It just means I need to ignore them.

[teacake44]

I'm not aware of any comedian making jokes/pun about cancer, as I'm sure it would go down like a lead balloon, and rightly so. But they seem to think that any other condition is ok to have a crack at, because for some reason its lesser of a problem, ( is it) a good comedian does not have to go this far. May be I'm a whinger and that's just my coping mechanism.

[ummmm]

I think Frankie Boyle went there when he was taking the pee out of a ginger audience member.

[Peter Pedant]

oh I have a sense of humour - I keep on wanting to hit 3T !
ter-daaah ! er tourettes also have involuntary movements - subtle huh

I note no one has cracked any jokes on this hunourless thread

so .....

I get heartily fed up of whinging on here for a start . - MamaL
oh come on Mama, you havent whinged for at least a week - ter daah!

[Peter Pedant]

just a little jest-ette to cheer people

I'm not aware of any comedian making jokes/pun about cancer,
o damn I wish people wouldnt throw down challenges like this

Nixon 1974 when he was looking for a vice president(*) said of ? Eagleton ( not chosen because he concealed a history of depression) - he grows on you - like cancer !

yeah yeah in fact he chose a joke - that fella who couldnt walk down the corridor and chew gum at the same time - Gerald Ford



(*) Nix-who when he was looking for a vice-what-he-done?

[Ellipsis]

A simple statement of fact/fiction: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have Tourette's"

Turned into a pun: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets"

i.e. it's not finding humour in the condition itself, it's finding humour in the pun.

[Peter Pedant]

hey hey look on another thread ....[theland]
Brexit Cake.Has anybody got a recipe? Or know where to buy it?

lets see if anyone has a sense of humour
ans1 - any recipe for sourdough will do
ans2 - yeah but half the ingredients arent available
ans3 - you will only know if it will rise after you have baked it
ans4 any recipe where you have cooked your goose

just a few one liners in the hope of lightening your day

[Ellipsis]

Get yourself up to Edinburgh, Peter, a stage awaits you ...

[Peter Pedant]

ay thenk yew

it is nice to be appreciated - even elliptically

[jourdain2]

I'm trying to remember where I heard a young woman saying, very seriously, "All humour is a form of abuse". It was quite recently and the horrific thing is that she felt herself to be mainstream and really believed it. ?????? :( :(

[Ellipsis]

All humour is a form of abuse? Hahahahaha

[royfromaus]

Crunchy meringue, whipped cream and strawberry sauce

[Peter Pedant]

21 gun salute to roy from US for trying to contribute to a british humour thread - like Pres Trump or Prince Andrew he would rather shove his hand down ....

all humour is abuse sounz like a recycled - all property is theft
Proudhon 1840 - golly gosh some jokes bear the test of time
ter-daah ! - perhaps she was looking like the cat ( er passy) that had got the cream because she knew of the literary allusion

humour - you are laughing at an out-grouper who does not deserve or can possibly part of the group ( in-grouper)

po-faced one liners - yeah I seem to generate a lot of them ....

[woofgang]

the other thing that occurs to me is that it matters who makes the joke. I have heard disabled people make really wincemaking jokes about disability and as a part of the group when the jokes were made, I have laughed; but would not dream of making the same jokes myself...so do we know if the comedian has Tourrettes?

[Mamyalynne]

On being told his gag had won, Olaf commented - “This is a fantastic honour but it’s like I’ve always said: jokes about white sugar are rare, jokes about brown sugar … Demerara.”

[aelmpvw]

now that's funnier than the winner ...

[dannyk13]

Agree with Ael. It is funnier.

[Ellipsis]

> do we know if the comedian has Tourrettes?

No, he doesn't.

Generally that rule applies to "isms", like racism, sexism, etc. It's OK to tell Jewish jokes if you're Jewish, it's OK to tell jokes about women if you're a woman, and so on.

But this wasn't a joke about Tourette's. It was simply a pun.

> "jokes about white sugar are rare, jokes about brown sugar … Demerara."

I saw that one but thought it was a bit racist to re-publish.

[ichkeria]

I didn’t get this joke the first time I heard it and I still don’t.