Is It OK to Joke? Comedians Navigate Humor in a Dark Time

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Comedians are grappling with both the horrific and the mundane as they try to process a shared experience into jokes

Even as they follow grim events on the pandemic’s front lines, many Americans are finding things to laugh about on the home front—Zoom fails, crash courses in home schooling, the cabin fever of family members and pets. Social media is awash in Seinfeld-ian observations about breadmaking, work-from-home wardrobes, and other quirks of life under lockdown.

Professional comedians, too, are grappling with these two sides of the crisis—the horrific and the mundane—as they try to process the shared experience into jokes. Late-night...

 

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I made a few dark jokes at my local hospital for covid-19 patients. You should’ve heard the gasps.

I’m sure it will be some stupid shit about Trump

Absolutely bring on some levity, it's great to bring back focus and perspective!

Why did you picture Patton Oswalt? He is not funny. Just a leftist hack that bashes people with opinions different from his.

johnfund Working where? Is there a comedy club open nobody is aware of? If it is based on social media response, this was an incredible waste of time.

The short answer is, yes.

The entire thing started out with toilet paper 😂 how could anybody resist a little bit of dark humor?

The entire political climate is a joke so yeah, everything has a funny side even covid19

Three C-List comedians to support your assertion? Cool. Alternatively, you can always channel the spirits of Paul Lynde, Phyllis Diller, and Jim Nabors; they are laugh riots.

You call that comedians?

Comedy is dead now. Who wants to see a comic onstage anymore? Cheap F words, sex jokes. Although, there’s a lot of material to use on the hi-jacked Democratic Party: Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Biden. Lol!!

How is there a measurement for this right now? Via social media!!?!?

You guys should ask Louis CK. His special is killing it (and is hilarious).

Those are the best comedians you can come up with for this article?

Late night TV has be skewing Trump as an idiot since the ‘16 campaign and now he’s on the verge of nationalizing the government with the Senate, Justice Dept and Supreme Court in tow. It’s no laughing matter and despite what he said yesterday there will no Nov. General Election

I choose not to be around the revelers but to feel the exact nature of this occasion and mourn with the victims and meet this woe with a saddened heart because it has wrought destruction not joy.

It’s better than okay. We need it.

Of course it’s ok to joke during a horror show.

It’s always ok to joke, context matters....then again I’m a big fan of gallows humour.

A corpse and tRump walked into a bar........

Yes cause it is against terror

Nobody cares

would be weird if it wasn't allowed to laugh ... it is a necessity nowadays

Bring on the jokes! We need to laugh staypositive

Enforce all grocery stores employees, deli stores, pizza shops, steaks, and hoagies stores. You must wear a facial mask, wear glasses and gloves. protect your customers just the same as you protect yourself. change your gloves every 15-minutes, Gloves also carry germs.

Yes

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