# Bad taste humour **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525 "2008-01-14T20:49:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/1 "2008-01-14T20:49:18Z")
[Very interesting article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...12/njoke112.xml) and I admit I laughed hard at the jokes at the end of it (but then I think it’s been established that I’m kind of sick). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/2 "2008-01-14T20:52:30Z")
The link hooks up to the front page of a british tabloid with dozens of stories on it. Which in particular should we be looking at? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/3 "2008-01-14T20:56:47Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] the front page of a british tabloid [/QUOTE] That’s no tabloid, that’s the very respectable, conservative _Telegraph_. [Try this link](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/njoke112.xml). ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/4 "2008-01-14T20:58:50Z")
Those jokes are pretty shit. Apart from the Gordon Brown one, which is excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/5 "2008-01-14T21:20:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The slapstick and images produced consistently positive responses… The Brits find slapstick funny. Who woulda thunk it? I don’t get this one: Dr Harold Shipman’s last meal was a curry. He said he enjoyed it but he could have murdered a nan. And why don’t Brits like people with red hair? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/6 "2008-01-14T21:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] I don’t get this one: Dr Harold Shipman’s last meal was a curry. He said he enjoyed it but he could have murdered a nan. [/quote] Naan (or nan) is an Indian flatbread traditionally eaten with curry. “Nan” also means grandmother. Dr Harold Shipman was our most prolific serial killer, who specialised in killing the elderly in his care. Put those elements together and you should get it. > [@](#): > > And why don’t Brits like people with red hair? Because they’re ginger. ETA: despite our shameful export of Benny Hill, and the existence of Norman Wisdom and Last of the Summer Wine, most of our humour _isn’t_ actually slapstick. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-taste-humour/433525/7 "2008-01-14T22:42:17Z")
I liked the jokes at the end but I give a lot of leeway of topics for joking purposes. Over-all as jokes they were ok. I thought the ginger baby one was the best in the lot.