Sinfest

[ShadowCell]

your mom is a minute detail

[Michael]

[Michael]

Instead of answering this in an abstract way, I've been trying to think of an example of an okay rape joke. Not sure how it'd go...

The closest I could find is this joke by Jimmy Carr about beating your wife.

It works because he's talking about one horrible thing and you expect him to give the traditional, morally sound reprimand, but instead he resolves it with another, equally horrible thing. So it's both a classic misleading - which is like, 90% of all jokes - and an unexpected shock which can be... funny? somehow nice? You can giggle at it in a schoolboy way knowing that it's very, very wrong.

So I think this one's OK because the joke value comes from putting two horrible things together in a way that's obviously wrong: IE the wrongness of beating your wife is emphasized, not disputed.

Of course if it hurts you to even hear it mentioned this way (or if you feel making jokes about it is inherently disrespectful, like some people do), that won't help at all.

P.S. Sorry for analysing a joke
P.P.S. "Analysing a joke is like dissecting a frog: the frog dies and nobody's that interested"
P.P.P.S. It's almost exactly the same joke as the ending to this flight of the conchords episode

[Dennis J. Squidbunny]

I posit this Peter Serafinowicz video, in his impersonation of Samuel B. Movie

Because its important to post this clip as often as possible

[Dogen]

Is it weird that I sometimes think of Gary when I see Jimmy Carr? It was especially strong when I watched him in this video about incest.
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[cixelsyD]

I dont like rape jokes, they are so offensive!
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[kame]

Nope because free speech means free speech, not just the stuff you agree with, also rape jokes are funny.

[Sam]

so yeah this one day, Rape walks into a bar

[Sam]

and the bartender says

[Sam]

hey dragonwriter what'll you have

[Arc Tempest]

Ba dum tish.
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[Adyon]

I tried to think of a rape joke I'd heard that was actually funny. But almost all I've heard aren't. Like the first link by cixelsyD of Jim Jefferies, I was laughing until he did his last line of the joke. Then I rolled my eyes. The woman talking to her mom and his awkward-ness. Hilarious. The end...One, by then the joke was predictable. He could have said something to make a funny twist if he'd tried. I guess I just don't laugh at "This is funny because it's socially wrong to say." =P

[Mr Gary]

I'm sure I recall a joke by Sarah Silverman about being raped by a Jewish doctor and her mom's response which was hilarious.
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[Mizike]

"I was raped by a doctor -- which is bittersweet for a Jewish girl"

Love Jesus is Magic
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[Lasairfiona]

Damn, there is one I like but you have to pantomime it for it to work.
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