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Dark humor (aka black humor) is about finding something funny in a difficult situation, one where humor is usually not acceptable. Dark humor is not about being offensive. While some humor is del...
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2019-12-20T00:40:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T10:46:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Dark humor (aka black humor) is about finding something funny in a difficult situation, one where humor is usually not acceptable. Dark humor is not about being offensive. While some humor is deliberately offensive (and much unintentionally so), being "dark" has nothing to do with it. Though there can be offensive in finding humor at all in a very serious circumstance, such as murder, rape, genocide, etc. The actual jokes may or may not be offensive, depending on how they're written. As for humor, yes, something has to be funny to count as dark humor, or any other kind. What's the measure? Humor is like selling something; you determine its worth based on how much people are willing to pay for it. It's funny if people laugh.
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2019-02-01T14:54:26Z (almost 6 years ago)
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