Sam Morril created an entire bit around a dead baby.
The comic found bleak humor in the reaction to an alligator killing an infant. He focused more on a comedy club patron’s outrage, expanding the bit in the process.
Dark? Yes. Funny? For some.
Morril wasn’t gleeful that a child had died, but he used it to explore the boundaries of humor and why we get outraged by select jokes and not others. Plus, black comedy allows us to process grief. It’s called gallows humor.
Dave Chappelle’s latest rant is different. And, sadly, it suggest a cultural rot that cannot be ignored.
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