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more about #gallowshumor Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: I'm not surprised the Onion has more hits than misses. The key to making funny jokes about taboo subjects - genocides, pedos, rape, even race - is tha... more » Jack_Burton: Great list! A good joke makes you think about the issue portrayed! A bad joke makes you think about the (failure of the) joke. more » Mishegoss: I think almost anything can be funny provided that you understand that what you're laughing about is horrible. more » Whitney's Black Best Friend: I posted this in the first "can rape every be funny" and I'll post it again. I think it can be funny. I have a rape joke that I routinely tell. My h... more » clevernamehere: I think it is pretty hard to do a good rape joke. Wanda Sykes's detachable vagina joke and Sarah Silverman's joke about the irony of a Jewish girl bei... more » TheUptightMidwesterner: The Onion article about the enviroment being raped after "leading everyone on" is one of the all-time classics. more » whats_in_a_name: In my experience no, but I'm sure that the right person in the right situation could probably come up with one that was. more » ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: I wasn't expecting much, but the article makes good points - breaking down who is being made fun of in each joke. i never thought i'd say this EVER, ... more » greengrey: A rape joke can be funny if it's not mocking the victim. It's funny to mock the ass holes who say she was asking for it, as in the "raped environment ... more » -
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Can A Rape Joke Be Funny (Redux)?
The Sexist's Amanda Hess is almost as obsessed with rape joke humor as we are, so she's compiled a strong list of The Onion's hits and misses in the rape joke genre. [Washington City Paper] -
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New Yorker: Zadie Smith Writes About Comedy & Class Issues
Wunderkind novelist Zadie Smith has a personal essay in this week's New Yorker that's ostensibly about British comedy of the Basil Fawlty "laugh-or-you'll-cry-genre," but is actually about her father and about class.
