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Yes, anything can be funny. No, some things aren't funny.
Debate Score:12
Arguments:8
Total Votes:14
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 Yes, anything can be funny. (5)
 
 No, some things aren't funny. (1)

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Can anything be made the subject of a joke?

Yes, anything can be funny.

Side Score: 9
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No, some things aren't funny.

Side Score: 3
3 points

What the habitually offended fail to understand about provocative humor is that it's rarely the taboo subject itself that is the source of humor in a joke (and if it is, then it was a bad joke); more often, a taboo subject simply serves as a vehicle for otherwise common humor. eg:

Q: What's the best thing about twenty-five-year-olds?

A: There's twenty-five of them.

While the subject of this joke is pedophilia, an almost-universally condemned perversion (among first-world countries, at least), the source of humor is a sophomoric pun. This joke could be made funnier by adding new elements of humor, not new elements of offense. Jokes change; subjects don't. That's the point of iconoclasm.

549 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.
1 point

I tend to make a few jokes about something that recently happens, no matter how tragic.

I don't get too much into it just because... it gets old pretty quick.

Just a facebook status, a few comments, and then I move on. Then, a week later, everyone else posts a bunch of shit they found on the internet.

549 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.
1 point

Anything can be funny. It just depends on what type of humor you have or what offends you. If you aren't offended anything can be made a joke, even tragedies an all of those bad stuff.

487 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.
1 point

Laugh at everything or laught at nothing. Everyone has their own sense of humor. Something terrible or sensitive to one could be hilarious to someone else and vice versa. People can be hypocritical about it.

430 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.

I've been doing it for years ;)

430 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.

Yes. :)

116 days ago | Side: Yes, anything can be funny.

You can't make fun of a tragedy until approximately 22.3 years after the tragedy occurred.

That's why it was impossible to make jokes about AIDS without feeling like a jerk until sometime around 2003.

549 days ago | Side: No, some things aren't funny.
1 point

i feel like some things are beyond humor, i dont know how you would apply humor to something like nucleosynthesis or other esoteric and boring things

435 days ago | Side: No, some things aren't funny.
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