Poor taste and too soon humor

[cooleddie74]

Wait: somebody's contemplating a Ghostbusters movie being made in 2088? There's your real news right there.

Damn holochamber reboots. They know no tasteful boundaries.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

bad Challenger "joke"

Gee. That isn't even slightly clever. The ones I mentioned were still awful, but at least they didn't just involve repeating an advertising meme.

Hey, don't look at me, I didn't write the damn thing.

 

[HIjol]

To use myself as an example of an "Emoter"' (especially in matters such as these) I still do not find Twin Towers jokes funny, and never will...tragedy is tragedy, and the loss of one or many affects us all...to each their own, to be sure, but poems and songs and flowing prose serve better than jokes when it comes to tragedy...IMO...

 

[USS Triumphant]

To use myself as an example of an "Emoter"' (especially in matters such as these) I still do not find Twin Towers jokes funny, and never will...tragedy is tragedy, and the loss of one or many affects us all...to each their own, to be sure, but poems and songs and flowing prose serve better than jokes when it comes to tragedy...IMO...

I'm not sure I've ever heard a Twin Towers joke. There's one about what happened to the terrorists in the afterlife that is *a little* amusing, but that really isn't specifically about the towers.

 

[Pingfah]

I'm not sure I've ever heard a Twin Towers joke. There's one about what happened to the terrorists in the afterlife that is *a little* amusing, but that really isn't specifically about the towers.

I was working in a news room at that time, the jokes were flowing before the second tower had even fallen. I'm not in any way exaggerating there, they were literally wise cracking while the whole thing was going down. Cynical bunch, journalists.

Well, what do you think? Are you offended by the Ghostbusters II joke, or do you feel it is over the line and inappropriate?

Is that even really meant to be a joke, though, or just an atmospheric moment in a "stuff's getting weird" montage?

Well, the "better late than never" line is supposed to be a joke. It's hardly mercilessly mocking them either way.

Personally I find the Hollywood fascination with profiteering off recent disasters (United 93, The Impossible etc) as being far more distasteful. They may treat the subject matter with reverence, but they are still just designed to make money off other people's misfortune.

 

[cooleddie74]

I can't remember a single joke about the physical destruction of the Twin Towers themselves and that's a pretty positive thing. Frankly the only real jokes about 9/11 are the clowns and morons involved in the Truther movement, and they're about as funny as a lingering stomach virus.

There was one joke on Family Guy told in the episode where James Woods assumes Peter's identity and vice versa that seemed to get an equal number of laughs and groans but that wasn't about the Towers themselves but the attacks in-general. Aside from that, though, it's hard to recall any 9/11 joke being told that doesn't involve the terrorists themselves and seventy-two virgins.

 

[JarodRussell]

No jokes in the form of “A horse walks into the World Trade Center“, but there were lots of image jokes. Several variations on the last view of a guy in the WTC, a video where the Twin Towers bend to avoid the airplanes, etc..., one movie had a scene where the terrorists figure out the whole afterlife promise must be bullshit, but before they can abort the mission, the passengers storm the cockpit. Don't know what film that was, only saw the clip on youtube.

 

[scotpens]

I was working in a news room at that time, the jokes were flowing before the second tower had even fallen. I'm not in any way exaggerating there, they were literally wise cracking while the whole thing was going down. Cynical bunch, journalists.

Maybe that's the same sort of gallows humor that's common among doctors and other health professionals. Having a morbid sense of humor helps to keep from being overwhelmed when you deal with sickness, suffering and death on a daily basis.