What is Dark Humor?

Son: Mom, what's dark humor?

Mom: Do you see that man without arms over there? Tell him to clap.

Son: Mom, I’m blind.

Mom: Exactly.

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Explain Bear

Listen up, buttercup. The joke is funny because the mom is using dark humor on her own blind son. She tells him to tell the armless man to clap when the kid can't even see. It's funny because it's messed up. You probably think the sun rises in the West, don't you?

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