Just A Bad Joke

There can be a very thin line between what's funny and what's plain offensive, no matter who you are.

Racial and cultural jokes are normally seen as extremely offensive. However, if it is someone from that culture or race picking fun at their own culture or race, then it becomes less so. The same with sexist jokes, many women would find it quite offensive if a man was standing there making jokes about women, but if a women was there making jokes about aspects of her own sex then it does become funny.

It would seem then that it is perfectly acceptable for people to make jokes about themselves, but people consider it 'bad' and get upset if someone is making a joke about something which does not relate to them. Most of the best jokes are about real life, personal experience, that people can relate to. Or maybe I'm thinking too much of sophisticated humor. Sometimes making fun of things that are different and outside our social norms can be funny. However this can be treading on thin ice because you're bound to upset someone.

"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult."

Edmond Gween

Why do people find racist jokes funny?

Why is it fine to mock disabled people, but off limits to joke about God?