To answer my own question it probably depends on the joke.
How do you all feel about it?
In many cases the comedians turn the most sensitive issues in a context that makes them hilarious. In laughing everyone comes together.
That is the case with modern comedy anyways.
Older comedians though… I’m thinking of robin Williams specifically. Before there was a lot of technique to reference. They put a spin on life that was all inclusive yet hilarious. It plays on the social dynamic and the the individuals sense of being inherently wrong.
I really think it’s pretty genius what those guys did.
Haven’t really kept up on comedy lately but used to watch the ■■■■ for hours.
Social intelligence…(a friend argued this) is probably the most valuable form of intelligence. It will make you like able and well spoken regardless of what you understand.
Humour is the hardest medium though as not everybody will find humour and can be extremely toxic. Offence can be brutal at times.
Although I use it as a coping mechanism all the time. Probably too much. Nothing like a bad day ending up in the middle of no where. To get me clicking my heels three times and saying “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
I use irony versus my symptoms as well. A lot of the times when I get suspicious thoughts I correct myself by singing ‘Paaaaranoia looove’ and then the beat kicking in from tupacs california love, sometimes out loud. Not a great joke but it cheers me up.
A lot of very funny people have a very dark side to them. Mark Twain hated people. Richard Pryor was bitter, and Robin Williams killed himself. Being funny is a mixed blessing.