There are already tons of jokes about Osama's death; is it strange for humor to move this quickly?

Well, seeing as though mine are thus far the only Bin Laden inspired jokes on that thread, I feel compelled to answer. Humour & in particular satire should have no limits. This is the way it’s always been for donkey’s years. I like it that way :¬)

10 plus years of preparation is plenty of time to think up jokes, albeit of the dark and macabre type; but it’s Bin Laden – and it’s 2011 – what did you expect?

Coincidentally, an anagram of, Osama bin laden…….

Lob da man in sea……. :-/

Besides, it did take ten years to catch a man in a dress wearing flip-flops.. say no more.

As with almost all other forms of communication, humor has sped up considerably thanks to the internet. It used to be that a joke would take weeks or months to go from coast to coast, but nowadays they spread literally at the speed of light.

I remember when the Challenger shuttle blew up. Immediately, there were dozens of jokes (all in bad taste) about it.
Humor may be a coping device for us.

No.

When Indira Gandhi was shot dead in 1984, long before the internet had crept into our lives, I heard a joke about it within 20 minutes of the news. An updated version of the joke still works – “What’s the difference between Floyd Mayweather and Osama Bin Laden? Mayweather can take two rounds”

It is never to soon.

I was going to make the same observatin that @filmfann mentioned. I don’t think it went 24 hours before the jokes started. Here’s one updated from that era.

Q: What color are bin Ladin’s eyes?
A: Blue his brains out.

Well, I guess instant jokes are fine if it is not about one of your guys.

Yes, it’s strange. Jokes are no problem weeks or months after the killing. To me right now is a bit too soon.

@mowens Ask Gilbert Gottfried about that one :D

@ragingloli, none of “our guys” deliberately murdered thousands of innocent civilians in an attempt to establish a global 7th-century-style theocracy.

Dude deserves everything he gets, in his (last moments of) life and in death.

A joke about Laden is a small price, considering the people he killed and the property he destroyed on our land.

Maybe, its a way for Americans to vent.

I think Rock Hudson jokes started before the body was even cold!

I think humor is just a way many people deal with stressful or uncomfortable situations. I remember at my own grandfather’s funeral, the minister was lying about how well he knew our family and he kept mispronouncing the name of one of my aunts. Here we are at the funeral of our own dearly beloved and we are cracking up, calling my aunt by the wrong name and snickering.

Did that mean we didn’t really care for my grandfather? Absolutely not! We had been under stress for several weeks before his death, and had a rough time during the week after he died. When we finally had the funeral, we were grieving and had little sleep. Laughter just made things a tiny bit easier.

Also weirdly enough, things that weren’t especially funny in retrospect seemed hilarious at the time. I think people were looking for an excuse to laugh.

People sometimes feel guilty about thinking inappropriate thoughts. And humor is a way to voice those thoughts in a more socially appropriate manner than just outright saying rude things.

I seen Bin Laden face before 9/11, on urinal cakes in men bathrooms. He was already a joke to begin with.

Not at all, I assumed it was too slow…I am not for it, as this is more serious. But, the immature people making money need something to get laughs, and this is a hot topic.

Here’s one

This is pretty subjective. I don’t think it’s too soon.

I should have clarified better: I wasn’t asking if it’s too soon to make jokes, I was asking if, historically, jokes about an event have come this quickly after an event.

Except for 9/11, every major tragedy I remember in life had jokes almost immediately following the event.

@keobooks Even 9/11. I heard some within hours.

@filmfann 7-up and Teacher’s?

‎9/11, Al Qaeda, global terrorism and now this from yesterday’s Sun “Children would kick balls over Osama Bin Laden’s garden wall and never get them back, neighbours revealed yesterday.”
What a swine that man was.

To be fair, they gave the kids money to buy new balls.

@Qingu Maybe, but that still doesn’t excuse mass murder.

Well, I can’t really argue with that.

Have you gone to a bar and ordered a bin Laden? It’s two shots and a splash.