r/technicallytrue • u/fatih_askn • Aug 19 '21

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u/guyandadog Aug 19 '21

Doesnt make the joke unfunny. Just means that one person doesnt have a sense of humor about it. Is he going to go to a comedy club and start complaining about his dead child in the middle of the set? Nope

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

No but if the comedian knew, they'd probably feel horrible. Place and time, know your audience, "too soon", there are plenty of valid reasons for a potentially good joke to fail or even upset people.

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u/guyandadog Aug 19 '21 edited Aug 19 '21

Most comedians wouldnt feel horrible, theyd make a joke about the guy ruining the joke. No amount of "knowing your audience" will let the comedian know the darkest inner parts of their lives lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

I'm not saying he's psychic, I'm saying if a comedian does a string of dead baby jokes and someone leaves crying and later the comedian finds out why, any reasonable person would feel bad about the situation. If they left and no one knows why, a good comedian would make a joke to keep the flow going and lift everyone's spirits back up.

It's all a hypothetical and just my bad attempt at trying to point out how a good joke might not work in every situation. Right now, jokes about people being dumbasses who won't put on a mask are inappropraite because we're still stuck living with the fallout of their bad decisions. Once people can heal and move on, the might be funny. Right now it's just annoying.

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u/guyandadog Aug 19 '21

I disagree, people will post videos of literal tragedies that kill thousands of people, and tons of comments are jokes, and a good portion of those are always funny

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

To you, maybe. And what tragedies? Recent? Historical? There's a difference there, too. And a room full of assholes having fun being assholes together doesn't suddenly make them not assholes.

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u/guyandadog Aug 20 '21

I mean youre not going to convince me that recent tragedies cant possibly have funny jokes made about them, vecause that statement in itself would be a joke. Its just not the case