I can still remember the shocked reaction of a studio audience to a dark joke told by the comedian Bob Monkhouse many years ago.
“My dad was a bus driver. He died peacefully in his sleep. It was his passengers who were screaming.”
If an essential characteristic of any joke is emotional manipulation, then this one was a classic. In three short sentences the audience’s emotional response swung from sympathy to horror to humour. The laughter was an almost cathartic release as people “got” the joke.
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