Context: Jokes

One day in my Writing II class we we're talking about being too sensitive and how we take things too seriously, and I agree with that. We live in a generation where if you don't find something funny it's wrong or shouldn't be said. This can relate to comedy, have you ever heard someone say "that joke was too far" or it was "too offensive"  and them not understanding it's just a joke. Now there can be very poor jokes, I feel that jokes have to have a certain type of context. What makes a good joke from a bad joke?

Let's start off with the subject off a joke. Should you be allowed to joke rape or race?

Now you're thinking, "that's very mean of you to think that's okay to joke about!" Well it's a joke first of all and I think the comedians that tell them don't approve of rape or racism. I feel that people get too oversensitive and just hear a joke about rape or race and think it has to deal with teasing the victim. Also people will say, it's not cool to joke about that when someone has gone through it. Most of the rape jokes I've heard was making fun of the person committing the rape or relating to race, it's half the time the person making fun of his own race. Now I feel like you can make fun other people's races, but the same has to do with context. I will go over this later in my blog.

Let's begin with the big one, "rape jokes" Now most people think men can only come up with rape jokes, well wrong. Tina Fey writer of 30 Rock actually wrote 2 rape jokes. I will be only focusing one out do the two. This joke takes place in Season 1, Episode 7. Where the character Tracy is going on Conan, and the people he is working with want to know some interesting facts about him. They say they want to know stuff he does with his wife. Tracy replies "Me and my wife like to play "rape." She go in the bathroom and do her hair. Then I put on a ski mask" Then the other writer replies " Okay, not that." Now the joke aims about how inappropriate that would be o bring up on a talk show. The has to deal with rape, but the context points an other way.
Now onto my second joke, it's from underground comedian Hannibal Buress. The joke is about Hannibal calling Bill Cosby a rapist, the joke goes on like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzB8dTVALQI&ab_channel=eyesight
We see that people ain't laughing at him committing rape, but the irony of him telling people to behave by pulling up their pants or not cussing on stage. While he's a rapist.

Now on to the last joke about race. Joking about race is a hard subject, there's a way of doing it and a way of not doing it. George Carlin says it the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQHN1ipLPdY&ab_channel=DeepHauz13
He talks about how words are just words, and we shouldn't get offended by them. I feel that video sums up my blog perfectly.
It's okay not to like a joke, I don't like many jokes either, but I won't tell no one they can't joke about that. It's okay to be sensitive, just don't stop people on stuff you don't agree on and say they shouldn't have a voice.