777 Jet crashes at SFO

tom1944
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:16:34 +0000

Making fun of names is not an uncommon humor device. There is a sketch where a football team is introduced and the names they have are the point of the entire sketch. The names clearly fall into stereotypes.

Clearly since people died the joke is in bad taste but that does not mean it is not funny to many people. The other day I watched the show on women comedians on TV and they all addressed this issue.
Joan Rivers told how she told a joke about her husbands suicide.
Bad taste is funny especially when you have no immediate connection with those impacted. We know it is not right and if we were more connected we might be offended but since we are not we can laugh.