TNTtimelord wrote:That image many people found funny, especially when directed at themselves. It was one person who couldn't take a joke from that single post that ultimately caused the downfall of that topic.
But overall, we as a community needs to improve our humor and ways of receiving humor. The best jokes and comedies almost never go without the expense of something or someone else.
I kind of disagree with this. I think it's culturally subjective. There are very few jokes that you can tell that are funny across all cultures. While there are a lot of places where schoolyard bully humour may be engendered/condoned in children and would manage to translate into people's adult lives, which is part of why this type of comedy remains successful, in other parts of the world, and/or in different time periods, people could hear the exact same joke and think "Is that supposed to be funny? It just sounds mean," or even not register that it's supposed to be a joke at all.
The point is... despite people doing whatever they will, and liking whatever they like, it's not
actually necessary, and certainly not necessarily the "best" comedy.
To be fair to that one person, I have to say it's obviously gonna be difficult for some people to just "take a joke" when the "joke" is so unfunny that it's impossible to tell that it's a joke in the first place. Like... you can't even place the fault on the person for not being good-humoured if the spirit of what you're saying completely fails to translate. Besides, the whole "It's your fault if you don't find this funny" attitude isn't selected for in successful comedians. No professional becomes successful by placing some sort of weird obligation on their audience to laugh at everything they say. (Or well, maybe certain talk show hosts do that with laughter/applause cues but no one would argue that it makes them good comedians.) Their job is to be funny enough for the audience to laugh.