What Makes Racist/Phobic/Non PC Humor Funny? - Why lol?

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Been thinking lately about what makes jokes that are labelled as racist, phobic, or shit-postery so funny.

Is it that we are literal bigots laughing like NPCs watching Kimmel?

Is it because the jokes acknowledge the bias inside of us that we fight against internally irl? Are we laughing at ourselves as a sort of acknowledgement as much as just because a joke is funny?

Is it that jokes are jokes and nothing else matters?

Is offensiveness like spice where it just adds a nice bit of zing to a well prepared joke or occasionally salvages a poor one?

I'm interested what you all think.
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Well, I think it's most likely that human beings evolved a sense of humor as an advanced method of coping with fear and other intense negative emotions. Things that we find uncomfortable or otherwise frightening, unsettling, etc to deal with, we tend to respond with by finding it humorous. That's why things like dark humor and bluntly approaching subject matter that most of us find in some way taboo or unethical is something we find funny.
 
Creative freedom by dumping PC for the worthless intellectual perversion that it is
 
In my experience the problem with PC humor is that it's assigning rules to what you can pick on. These rules don't really have set boundaries (boundaries keep moving or changing) and once you start catering to them, you're now catering to the idea that a ton of stuff is off-limits and who knows what new thing will be next. It's why certain material that was fine at one point in time and received a lot of laughs is now considered terribly offensive. What this means is that PC humor can quickly become only palatable to certain audiences, because "only certain things are allowed to be made fun of." When entire routines are geared against only one set of things or people or something, it attracts only one or a few kinds of audiences. When you remove what is able to be picked on you increase how many people are going to laugh at your shit. Sure when you start shitting on women, only the men are going to laugh. But the next bit where you shit on men is going to get laughs from the ladies.

Let everyone laugh, don't be so weak. If we're all capable of picking on each other then we're all capable of taking a joke as well.

edit: It's also important to note that PC outlets for humor often quickly devolve into ranting about a subject, preaching to a choir that overwhelmingly agrees with you, and becomes a "mutual agreement circlejerk" rather than a comedy show with punchlines. Basically, just shitting on things amongst mutually angry people who like to feel upset in company.

edit 2: Also, when you have a selection of jokes or subjects that are "approved" to be PC and "friendly" and okay, you really beat the joke or the subject over and over until it's no longer funny. Yes, we've heard that joke, a version of that joke, or that subject be made fun of a million times, and no, it's not original or funny anymore. Find a new topic.
 
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One word.

Transgression.

Comedy at its heart can be summed up as "the proper and expected thing being replaced by an extremely improper and extremely unexpected thing" or in a word, subversion.

Someone behaving or facing consequences in a way that is comically improper or ridiculously unexpected surprises us on a subconscious level, and the reaction to this once your conscious mind catches up is amusement or laughter (i.e. the initial "HOLYSHITWHATTHEFUCK" shock of seeing Hillary Clinton fall down a flight of stairs, followed by overwhelming amusement of realising "holy shit this is hilarious") and you can pretty much nail down this basic exchange in any joke.

(Ofcourse, one can say much the same about horror i.e. the scariness comes from subverting the normal and mundane and substituting something innately unpleasant or unsettling)

How this relates to jokes involving bigotry or outrageous subject matter is simple. In this modern age, the words being said or the events described or whatever are so utterly against societal norms and expectations, and are treated as so utterly taboo by those with political/media loudspeakers, that the initial "HOLYSHITWHATTHEFUCK" shock is amplified tenfold, meaning that even a really fucking crap joke can cause absolute hysterics from those watching from a safe distance, and the more improper the setting/outrageous the humour the more this is amplified.

For example if I were to type the word NIGGER here on kweekyfarms, it aint exactly going to bring down the house since even if its against wider social norms, its absolute fucking mundane incarnate in this here setting. If I were to interrupt a BLM moment of silence by screaming NIGGER live on camera then...well you get my drift.

This is why about 10 or less years ago, such transgressive humor was kinda in decline as every normie and normie mainstream comedian was doing it, and thus the shock had worn off immensely. Nowadays the innate shock potential is higher than it probably has ever been.
 
Comedy is supposed to be basically be a no hole barred kind of thing. It's also supposed to a little biting and mean, whether it's toward the subject telling the joke or another party.
 
Comedy in one way or the other is based on someone on the receiving end.
Like it or not a joke always needs an objective, someone or something to be mocked unifying people who otherwise would mock each other. For some reason SJWs like to pretend they don't play by these rules but you can clearly see their salt and rage when attacking those outside their bubble with smuggy remarks, what they like to call "punching up".
At the end of the day we all like to laugh at something, is natural, but no one wants to be at the butt of the joke, also normal. Pretending that things work on other way is naive at its best and moronic at worst.
 
Because it's generally something you're not supposed to find funny... also, it triggers pussies. It's just like kids telling dirty jokes or using swear words; they were brought up being told things like that are horrible, and if any teachers, parents, etc. hear them, they flip their shit.

Honestly, some of it wouldn't even be that funny if it didn't get such a big reaction. Even using the N word in any context makes people act as though you just committed the biggest atrocity known to man, so naturally people use it because it's funny to make people react that way.
 
Because it's absolutely hilarious when people get offended by them and act as though you're a monster for making them. You could warn everybody the kind of joke you're about to make, make it, and you'll get the same response every time. It's funny because it works every time (especially in today's world) no matter how much the offended deny it.
 
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