Does certain humour offend you, or do you laugh along?

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Hello everyone, I hope you are OK.

I was just thinking this to myself, and if it is just me, everyone, or some people are similar to me while others the opposite?
The way I mean is in humour, and essentially being able to laugh at yourself. I guess my sense of humour may be odd.

It was after watching an episode of the adult cartoon South Park I thought this, some of you may be aware of the episode I mean. It used a play on the word Aspergers, and contained a group of people lead by Morpheus from the Matrix, all said to have Aspergers, but in reality they was a group of superhero's who took a special serum to interact with the 'illusion' world-the truth serum was whisky and being able to view the 'illusion' world was a result of being drunk.

I will be honest, I did laugh along, even though I knew it was poking fun at something I have.
I don't actually believe for a minute the creators of the cartoon believe aspergers or autism to be anything like this at all, as they insult near on every type of individual on the planet throughout their episodes (I have always enjoyed the cartoon, from a fairly young age as I am 26 now). Maybe if I did think they thought of it in this way, or not to exist, then it would of offended me.

I can see a flipside to this too though. It could create problems for example with Children who see this show, and they could poke fun at children they know to have Aspergers-but it IS an adult cartoon, so I think if children are watching it their parents should know their children are a bit more grown up, in the sense it would not cause them to do this, and if it would they should not watch it.

So, what are your views on this? I really would like to hear honest views, and if you would either laugh along, be offended and think it is wrong, or a mixture of both?

Also, I do not mean to offend anyone by this, I just wondered peoples thoughts is all.

I can't say anything of the South Park episode as I haven't seen it, but I generally find it a fun series although I haven't watched every episode (not all was available on channels I have).

There are forms of humor that I find to not be funny, but I have never been offended by humor. A lot of the humor I like is dark, and I have laughed out loud at many jokes I have found on Sickipedia. I have even tested myself and read all the jokes they had about topics like Asperger's/autism and the terror attack in Oslo 2011 to see if I still could laugh when I was sort of the target. A lot of those jokes made me laugh because I thought they were really funny. A few weren't funny to me, but they didn't offend me, they were just misses for me.

I'm not sensitive about jokes, but I do have some sensitivity to where I would retell said jokes.
There are times and places where it's okay, and there are others where it would be inappropriate.
For instance, I would be real careful about what kind of jokes I post here, as there are a lot of sensitive people here and it's a family friendly site. On other sites, I'd think less of it because they're more easy going about such things, and with a very few people I would just tell the jokes freely (almost) without filter.

I think there should be room in public space for so called offensive humor. It's my opinion that people who can't take that kind of humor should stay away from things like South Park and let those of us who enjoy it, watch it without crying foul when they see something they don't like. I actually like that they poke fun at everyone. That is one of the things that make them great, they don't spare anyone. That is true equality to me.

There's a difference between having shows with that kind of humor though and say just randomly sign up to for instance an ASD site with the sole purpose of telling such jokes. Again, time and place.

There is no way I can go along with offensive humor!

@Skillpaddle , I can see your views, and they are very similar to what I think myself in regards to potentially offensive humour.
I also enjoy south park for the fact that it is actually everyone they make fun of, not just one group of people. I would find it offensive if it was just one group that was targeted constantly.

I also agree about retelling the jokes, and there is a time and place where they are or are not acceptable, and follow that myself.

@Lumi , I completely respect your view though too. May I ask what it is about offensive humour you could never enjoy? Everyone has their reasons and values, so it is nice to hear other viewpoints.

It depends on the context of the humor.

I love the often offensive humor of shows like Family Guy, Beavis and Butt-head, and South Park. I wasn't even offended by any of the jokes about autism that Family Guy made.

I like satire and lampoons. I haven't seen that SP episode, but it's likely I would be amused by it. I always liked the special needs kid Timmy.

I think, when you've rolled up your sleeves, enough times, and done enough thankless jobs, gross just stuff seems like ordinary business.

It's possibly edgy, at the age, when kids are learning about how much cussing, lipstick, and sodapop are appropriate.

Adults do this, in front of adult audiences, and get booed. Andrew Dice Clay wore it out, and is now insulted. Like 'wrecking ball' and the 'flaming iguana' skit, the problem was that people already know how to take it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAurGIs0lo4

I love offensive comedy. I hear rape jokes, holocaust jokes, genocide, pedophila, and 9/11 jokes.

that's one of my favorite south park episodes!

i think it's really hard for jokes to be funny if they aren't offensive in some way.

but at the same time, i don't think it's funny to use joking in a directly cruel way.

i also don't get why a lot of humor is supposed to be funny.
my boyfriend thinks sick animation on youtube is funny. he thought i was not into it because it was offending me.
really, i just don't understand why it's funny.


people have been telling me i'm not making much sense lately, so, i hope this makes sense...

I am very glad this did not cause offence in any way, I genuinely did just wonder about this type of humour.

I do think it is the context that matters myself as well. Being directly cruel is not funny, for example bullies laughing at someone due to a disability. I think that type of thing is sickening. Jokes that can be seen as sick in a different environment though can make me laugh as long as it is not said in front of someone it would hurt, as I don't like to see people hurt.

Seaweed, you are making sense so don't worry there. I do find some animations on youtube funny, while others I don't get. I think this is probably just being human though, finding different things humorous, and not just a trait of people with aspergers.

I think that South Park overall is boring and seems to be trying too hard to be funny, so I wouldn't laugh along to anything produced by SP. However, I can see why some people find SP humour to be funny. It's just not the type I like.

That being said, I wasn't offended by that SP episode.