Should Dark Humor Topics be OFF LIMITS in Comedy? 

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My past was... not good. Dark humor has helped me cope with some very difficult. Laughing at my own pain has kept me alive. Laughing at another person's pain is cruelty.

My dad has been a respiratory therapist for 20 years now. He has a dark sense of humor because he has seen some terrible things. I love my dad, and all his jokes Also love the BTS. That was an incredible rant 😂

My sophomore year of highschool there were school shooting threats going around on Instagram during the school day. Most of the kids who could drive left. Those who couldn't, their parents picked them up. By the time I got to 5th period there were six kids out of twenty something. The sub questioned why the low number, and when we told her she left. SHE. JUST. LEFT. US. We were six highschool kids in a class with no teacher scared for our lifes. Dark humour was 100 precent a coping mechanism. Said some stuff about school schoolings that would definitely get me cancalled. Just sometimes if you can laugh at something it doesn't seem so scary anymore.

“You’re not as impressive as I thought” “Good”

Dark Humor is necessary to deal with deep dark scary subjects. Veteran here. Soldiers have a very special strain of dark humor for dealing with the stresses of service. It's an important outlet for venting those emotions and putting them in context.

Before even starting this, I’ll see if y’all agree with me. I think that the worse the pain, the greater the mystery, and the more helpless we feel, that’s when we most need to laugh. I’m so thrilled to see Ben, too!

I'm with Ben. Sunday brunch is about getting people you really like into a room where you can eat until you are bursting on things you wouldn't eat the rest of the week. Brunch with mimosas and fruit is for people who can afford it, not the vast majority of working class America. Instead, we want it cheap, fast, and plenty. In most cases, it's something people do to catch up (usually the mimosa crowd) or the church crowd (Goes both ways). But I have never seen a happier bunch of people than the ones who go to a place with limitless waffles and bacon. Everybody wears elastic waist pants and greets everybody in the restaurant like a long lost cousin. If you go to the same place 3 weeks in a row, you are going to be related. Not sure how that happens, but it does.

Love the BTS bit at the end!!! You should include these with every podcast guest!

Haven’t watched the video yet, but in response to the title - I don’t think in any way it should be off limits. But I will say there’s a very fine line between dark humor and just being offensive to a marginalized group. If you aren’t part of the group yourself I’m not saying you shouldn’t make the joke at all, but you SHOULD run it past people in said group first

The shopify ad may have been taken a bit literally by me, you asked what is constantly growing and my first thought was "trees :)" And again, I will always vouch for bombas. Anyone reading this, just get yourself a pair, you'll love them.

Love the BTS footage! Another great episode Rebecca I love this podcast ❤😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Dark humour is often very theraputic to those who have experience in the situations joked about. It turns the worst experiences in life into something to laugh about and brings people away from dark, depressing thoughts. Those who have been hurt the most tend to have the darkest senses of humour in my experience. Two of the hardest days in my life were made bearable by dark humour. The day my father died and the day my siblings and i buried him. We all were making highly inappropriate jokes the entire time as a coping mechanism. To make ourselves laugh more than anything but making our siblings laugh was a bonus. Those who get offended by dark humour are usually people who have no experience with the situation and are trying to show empathy towards those who have by getting offended on their behalf. My advice to everyone is to remember if you are offended by a dark joke to be thankful that the experience is something you havent had and this is a coping mechanism for many people to make life more bearable.

You can tell that they’re really close friends by how they talk to each other, especially how Rebecca talks to him vs. her other guests haha

“No”…But with the caveat: 1. You have to take into consideration WHO you are…IF you can pull it off (in many, many ways and areas of life and experiences) or risk getting cancelled. 2. You don’t take it *too* far (it isn’t straight up hate speech, yelling fire in a theatre and other dumb stuff like that). 3. Not considering your audience might be problematic (For instance, you don’t make an obnoxious joke about the government/response on 9/11 to a group of First Responders for The FDNY).

Christopher Titus is absolutely brilliant. You’ll be rolling and then BAM he hits you with something so real and so painful and then he’ll hold your hand and lead you back to finding the funny in those experiences. Life is hilarious and incredibly hard and painful and he’s got that balance down pat.

I love the ability to cope using dark humour. My dad died in 2020 and I still get people who say "sorry for your loss" when they find out. I've always been at a loss as to how to respond to that, so I've taken to saying "It's ok. You didn't kill him." which gets a laugh about 75% of the time.

I saw Ben for the 2nd time this week and absolutely loved both shows. He is an incredible human and I love your friendship

First! Hi Mrs Rodger’s!!! (Definitely not watching this in class-)

Hi! Mrs. Rogers! I’m kind of new but I love love love your am I the bad apple series!!! :)

As long as you judge your audience, if they just suffered their loss and it's still tender let it go.

Dark humor is very helpful. If you dont like it… don’t watch that comedian. It’s very beneficial for the mental health of others. Different branches of the apple tree. Do what’s best for you… but that doesn’t mean others can’t enjoy dark humor.

Dark humour is only not ok if you havent gone threw that yourself. You need that personal connection to it for it to come across to the audience in a positive way

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First love you guys. ❤❤❤

I work in healthcare. Dark humor is necessary to stay sane.

Second, this video is really good

"You went to church?" "Yeah" "Did you burn?" "No" Im Crying oml

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Used to be, in this country, that dark humor would spring up just days after a national tragedy, it was part of our coping mechanism. For instance, just days after the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, jokes sprang up about one of the astronauts on board the shuttle. 9/11 took away our ability to joke about national tragedies. Just ten years after that horrible day, I told a 9/11 joke and was told that it was very distasteful. With that said, our national maturity has dropped. The best example of that is the phrase "That's what she said." Say those four words and people start laughing hilariously. So, in 1970, when I was ten years old "That's what she said." was my favorite joke for a few weeks, and then after saying those four words I was pulled aside and told, "That's immature and stupid." So, if it was immature and stupid in 1970, then I can only presume that adults today have the EQ of a nine year old in 1970.

hey Rebecca I have an idea of profession to bring on the podcast; Loctician or dreadlock artist; they amount of crazy stories as a loctician I could tell you is crazy but I really do enjoy what I do

Went through 2 of my friends basically ending their own lives. There’s always a fine line between joking and genuinely being a dick. You should at least know your audience beforehand, don’t obviously make a dark joke to a grieving mother. Time and place and situational awareness is key.

Hey Mrs. Rogers! Love the podcast! Do you think you could do an episode on disney workers?

I loved seeing the bts footage at the end I love watching bts stuff. I love knowing what happens behind the camera which is why i used to watch the special features of movies when i was younger. I don't watch movies anymore really. Mostly RU-vid now

Brunch is "Breakfast for Lunch" and is suppose to be an obscene amount of breakfast. Alcohol can be involved, but is not the focus.

Do you mean the cardboard box of un matched socks I refuse to match cus childhood turama 😅 takes me like 10 mins to find a pair but it's worth not having to go threw that stuff again (I'm the middle child also the only one in my family with autism and one of my "chores" as a kid was matching my entire family of 5 socks my mom would come over to me turn off the TV and dump like 3 laundry baskets of socks in front of me and I wasn't aloud to do anything else until they where all matched some times it would take the entire weekend 😢)

I love the behind the scenes.

Humor is a coping mechanism, ask the military, ban coping, see what happens.

Mrs. Rogers, your nails are looking so good.

Bro brunch is like the only time I eat breakfast foods. I usually skip breakfast but brunch for me is eat a tone of breakfast for fun~

Please do another live soon!!!

Eyy he's the guy from the Florida Man skits right?

That guy that made it out of Florida with all his limbs.... lol

For me certain dark humor i dont find funny like anything about parents to me and certain things are not ok both of my parents are deceased and i hate any dark humor jokes about parents

Dark humor is like food, not everyone gets it.

Who else loves this series?

Answering the question in the title, I say no. Maybe be careful about what you say like definitely but also for the part of the audience who don’t like dark humor comments then don’t go to that comedy show. If you are familiar with what kind of jokes that comedian makes then don’t go to their shows.

Who knew brunch would break Ben😂

21:33 That is the basis of most comedy. Comedians use logic to build up to the punchline, but then stop using logic to make the punchline super funny. That's why the audience laughs so hard, because the punchline was unexpected and so ridiculous.

Dark humor is meant to be edgy in the process it will offend some and make others laugh if made off limits who determines the limit?

You should interview an author next!!!!!!!!

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Dark humor is my life.

Before I watch this no is my opinion if it’s not targeting a specific real person

Dark humor is great!!!

L.A. brunch all alcohol no food!!!

Y’all give siblings vibes

Not to be negative at all, but this guy's story is not the story of a famous hilarious comic s story. Clearly he has never heard of Richard Pryor or Dave Chappelle, because they were younger than him and weren't bombing and much better.

To answer the title…DEFINITELY NOT