On Twitter I've seen several people complain that Ebola can be joked about but diseases like cancer and the like are off limits. Do you think 'harmless' jokes about Ebola are okay (for whatever reason)?
Anything and everything can be joked about, sometimes you need to relieve the tension of a situation, yes there can be a bad time to tell one, but it can be used for good!
Not sure I follow the distinction. Whether or not it's cool to joke about something has less to do with entire topics being off limits and more to do with whether the comedy is done well or not. Some topics are much more difficult than others to do
well, which leads some to say you shouldn't joke "about" the topic in question. I think usually the real problem is that so many who think themselves comedians joke about it unskillfully. I don't know whether I think cancer is a more difficult topic
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