Ok, I get what you mean, but the funeral example isn?t even a joke; it?s just pure, crude indecency. Real ?jokes? would be several of these [https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/comedy-central-roast-of-bruce-willis-10-most-brutal-jokes/news-story/5d3addf7c874934d822c5ae75abdee6a] from the actual roast.evilthecat said:You confuse the meaning of "real".hanselthecaretaker said:I also don?t know how much more real the jokes can get; that?s why they?re good.
In the clip I posted, Bob joked about another drag queen being a meth addict. Said person would go on to nearly die from overdosing a few months later. In that sense, the joke is true.
But the emotion expressed by the joke is not real, and the audience knows that, partly because the context and format is set up to reinforce that it is not real. The distance I'm talking about is psychological distance from the emotional impact of the joke.
It is very different from me going up to someone at at their child's funeral and talking about how their kid was a loser and how much I hated them and am glad they're dead. It's not fair or reasonable to expect someone to have the emotional distance to find that funny. It's not divorced from that person's real life right now, and that's what I mean by "real?.
I particularly thought the worst was what Martha Stewart said about being surprised back in the 90?s that Dennis Rodman is still alive in 2018, when he was actually contemplating blowing his head off with a shotgun in the Palace of Auburn Hills parking lot back then.