What about SNL last week, which featured a too-long skit involving three guys who shoot each other, shoot other people, police officers get shot, etc.

"Ha ha."

I do usually love the Onion, though.

(Also, at the risk of sounding old-fashioned or conservative, that skit made me wonder if any SNL writers have friends or family members in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan right now. I'd guess not.)

Not that thin a line. Difference between fiction and fact; blood and no blood; reality and improbability.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of the funniest movies ever. But it's about a guy writing a diary aout the mass murder he committed. See also Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which does have a lot of blood).

Dan: raise the bar, please. There isn't a thin line between those two links. The first is tragic. The second isn't comedy, it's tasteless. Your attempt at provoking discussion was lame, and reflects badly on you...as much as the Onion. Stick to political economics + Salma Hayek jokes.

JGM has a snobby sense of humor, lighten up!

I bet the "I'll come back and haunt you guy" sounds like Napoleon Dyamite, too.

There's also the Loudon Wainwright III song, Unrequited to the Nth Degree (1975):

Oh when I die & it wont be long
Oh you're gonna be sorry that you treated me wrong
You're gonna be sorry that you treated me bad
And if there's an after life I'll gloat & I'll be glad

Might be a plane crash, or some sort of OD
Might be a photograph in my obituary
You might see it & you'll cry a lot
Might want to wear black
Oh, I'd be dead but you can bet your life, I'm gonna get you back

I'm tired of being stuck up on your shelf
Might not wait around, Might kill myself
Not only would you miss me, you'd feel guilty to
Oh I'd be dead but it'd be too late the joke would be on you.

Ha ha ha ha, ho ho ho ho
Chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle
Snigger snigger snigger snigger
Guffaw Guffaw Guffaw Guffaw Guffaw Guffaw
Yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk

So you better take a warning & start treating me good
Start doing the things that I think you should
You better not pout & you better not cry
The grim reaper is coming to town & I just might die

Isn't it funny how some people who think that a particular piece of humor is not funny feel compelled to attack the person, not just the joke.

I think it is tasteless and not funny but so what. Keep trying most of the time I like your humor. I would rather most good humor with some I don't like instead humor that has been sterilized because everyone is average of causing offense.

Isn't it funny how some people who think that a particular piece of humor is not funny feel compelled to attack the person, not just the joke.

I think it is tasteless and not funny but so what. Keep trying most of the time I like your humor. I would rather most good humor with some I don't like instead humor that has been sterilized because everyone is average of causing offense.

Appalled Moderate: Indeed. Do you recall the line where he receives the letter saying about "a matter of some delicacy" prompting him to ask "Why is it when someone wants to discuss a matter of some delicacy, it almost never is?"