This troper's had one of his best friend's die in a car accident. I felt grief obviously, but I made a remark in my mind that "Oh that's neat, a opening at his workplace!" since he was trying to help me get a job at the same place, there just weren't any openings yet. After that remark in my mind, I slightly snickered and felt disgusted with myself afterwards.

When MJ died, I instantly made jokes. When Billy Mays died, I said "HI! BILLY MAYS HERE WITH HARRRRRRRRRG!!!!"

My sister's group of online message board friends all but ostracized her for laughing at a Michael Jackson joke - about three days after he died. I still laugh at them. Hey, if they were funny while he was ''alive''...

This troper usually deals with adverse situations like this, due to having a terminal case of HurricaneOfPuns. However, nine times out of ten, the joke is only utterly hilarious to me...

Case in point: I was at a job interview, and was asked the question "How would you deal with a difficult co-worker?" Thinking it would be a wonderful way to break the ice, I immediately began with, "Well, I usually use an aluminum baseball bat..." before giving the straight answer. It gets better. I was interviewing ''at a major, well-respected university''. '''On the day of the Virgina Tech shootings''' (which, for what little defense it offers, I was ''completely'' unaware of, having not heard the news that day). I didn't get the job.

This Troper joked about the school shooting in Finland on the day of the event. Yeah, I know. But sometimes it's the only way to not freak out.

Which one?

In 2005, this troper's dad had prostate cancer. Less than a year later, this troper was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Sometimes, the only thing you can do is make catheter jokes together--and we've both been in remission since early 2007.

Wow, you guys have balls... which will probably get testicular cancer.

Dude...not funny.

That's a joke, son.

Niiice

Well, this joke has turned downright cancerous, growing far out of control...

Damnit guys! This is the cancer killing [[strike:/b/]] Tvtropes.

This troper recently attended the funeral of his friend's mother. Oddly enough, the friend in question was the one who was laughing the most at the funeral and afterwards, casually mentioning that the only thing she'd miss would be her snort-like laughter. It should be mentioned that she also really, REALLY hated her mom (heck, she moved across the country to go live with her dad to get away).

ThisTroper broke her leg (both bones at the ankle) last year while sledding down "Suicide Hill", and the process of getting able to walk normally again was long and painful. However, the fact the family took time to laugh about it was what kept her sane the whole time. We'd frequently make jokes about how she shouldn't get into fights with hills because they're so much bigger and heavier, note how silly I acted when on pain meds, and she'd earned the nickname of "crip", and her cane was a "crip-stick". The cruel-yet-funny approach made getting over the physical and emotional trauma much easier.

This Troper, for everything. All the time. I joked about cancer, but it was slightly justified, since my sister had it. She got better.

My mother and mother-in-law have both had cancer. Go to a cancer support network sometime and you'll see the kinds of humor that are used to cope with the illness. Dark stuff, but still pretty funny if you're dealing with it together.

Definitely. When my friend got cancer, I went to visit him one day, and when I walked in and said hello, he shot back with a "Dammit, I didn't polish my head, now it's not shiny enough to be presentable." I couldn't help but smile even though I wanted to cry.

This troper needs to but keeps it inside his mind for fear of being lynched (oh the puns, they just won't stop coming) as they take DeadBabyComedy to whole new levels.

Are you, by any chance, black?

This troper did a Machan Joke to his mother and her friend, both sprung up at the same time and tried to deliver divine punishment.

This troper broke a minor bone in his hand (5. metacarpus, to be accurate). The doctor repositioned the bone, and it healed well. Six months later, the same bone got a contusion, but it seemed like it were another fracture. This troper visited the same doctor with it, walked in and said: "Hi, doc! I hope the warranty is still valid after six months for a repositioned bone." He is quite a DrJerk, but laughed out loudly when he heard it.

This troper has a friend who lost his hand while setting off some cheap Mexican fireworks. He's sad he lost the hand, but makes the most of it. For instance: once, when he was cooking something, he put one of those oven mitts you slip your hand into onto his stump, introduced himself to a girl there that he didn't know and held out his oven mitt. When the girl reached out out and grabbed the mitt, he yanked his arm back and started screaming. The girl also screamed. It was hilarious.

This troper combined it with DeadpanSnarker... well a bunch of times, but one in particular was when i was watching ''{{Juno}}''. When that girl whose name I don't remember was chanting "all babies want to get borned" (yes she actually said it that way), I snarked, "Well that's a stereotype if I've ever seen one". If you don't get it YouSuck.

That, or we just don't like the movie and didn't pay attention.

Again, YouSuck.

I remember her as an Asian with English as a Second Language

The personal example I always think of when I hear the phrase "gallows humor" happened when my grandfather was dying. My parents and my uncles and aunts were all at my grandparent's house, late at night, and talking about how my grandmother was still at the nursing home with my granddad, even though she had barely slept in a week. My aunt put it quite nicely; "What do you do when your seventy-year old mother won't go to bed?" When there's nothing else you can do, laughing about it really helps.

I do this often, I find that puns seem to be the most inappropriate jokes, but I still love doing it, for instance, after hearing that there were wildfires in Australia, I said something along the lines of "I'm sorry for anyone born and razed there".

Was this on a forum for a webcomic? I remember seeing someone say that. It was hilarious.

AwkwardZombie?

Yeah. Though by now I'm not expecting a response.

Preemptively: This troper was the only one who laughed when the Health Class lady warned her (and everyone else in earshot) not to give CPR to people who were thrashing, cursing, or otherwise making a big fuss "because they're the people who will sue you." Even though you saved their lives. And this troper plans on doing just that.

Ever heard of Good Samaritan Laws? It's illegal to sue someone for saving your life. Ungrateful _______s!

Won't stop the ungrateful shits from trying, I'm sad to say. And then they have the gall to wonder why people are giving them DeathGlares on the streets...

The Good Samaritan Laws prevent the victim from sueing the person who saved their life- if that person was trained. The reason being that "correct" lifesaving techniques usually involves some sort of bodily injury. For example, you're not doing CPR right if you don't hear or feel ribs crack.

This troper once said to his brothers, who were running around the kitchen while he was washing dishes, "Stop doing that before you slip and stab yourselves with one of these knives. You wouldn't want me to die of laughter, would you?"

This troper is known for her exceedingly ''dark'' sense of humor, especially with her online pals. Some favorites include "Mmm, corpse juice...", "AAAAAHHHH my dick is on fire!!!!", and "If you ever do that again, I'll feed your intestines up your ass and out your mouth. Maybe I'll stuff some IN your mouth for good measure."

This troper's sense of humour is often wildly inappropriate-- which is usually why I keep it to myself. It's often fairly self-deprecating-- my parents and siblings have all expressed annoyance at how I will slip in a sly joke in the middle of a furious diatribe which is legitimately upset and emotional-- and then I get pissed off when they spot it and laugh. Par for the course: me-bashing, jokes about Big Gay Teenage Murderers, jokes about fetuses, and personal threats that go waaaaaaay over the top.

A couple of days after the 2002 school shooting in Erfurt/Germany, the first 'big' school shooting in Germany, with the media blaming it all on the so-called 'Killergame' Counter Strike, ThisTroper bought a T-Shirt with a counter terrorist from said game on it, as well as crosshair aiming on him and the caption: Player of Killergames! Run as fast as you can.

Father died on last Christmas Eve, aunt died three days before. Okay, it's sad. But the day before father died, sister was dressed in black elegant clothes, and said something along the lines of "I'll mourn in style". It was funny even if aunt died two days before. But then, it became a FunnyAneurysmMoment when father had a heart attack few hours later. Nowadays, we mostly laugh a bit at how much of a ContrivedCoincidence my sister had at the moment.

This troper is fond of using the the threat "I'm going to rip your eyeballs out of their sockets, shove them down your throat, and eat some popcorn as I watch you writhing in pain, choking to death on your own eyeballs" The trick is to make the delivery melodramatic enough so that people will know that you're joking. Of course, when I'm with my friends I can casually threaten them as much as I want, so I don't have to worry about people getting freaked out.

This troper mocked his golden retriever relentlessly when she was diagnosed with cancer, had half her body shaved, and was locked in a cage wearing people clothes so she wouldn't disrupt her stitches. At the time, her odds were still decent. A month later, I kind of feel bad about it...

Well that's kind of me-- wait, your dog was wearing ''pants!?''

I do this so much and so often, some of my friends have started thinking I'm some sort of an Unfettered CompleteMonster. It didn't worry me at the time, until I myself began having problems discerning whether my words were jokes or had some truth to them.

This troper makes many jokes about his families varied disorders, mostly about myself and my Asperger's. Also, I have made jokes about my sister being Bipolar (not the obvious "Its like living with two different people" one), my dad having Glaucoma, me being of mixed race (black and white, so I show up gray on momochrome), and myself being afraid of stuff in video games (I'm such a pansy).

This troper loves inappropriate jokes and DeadBabyComedy. This, surprisingly, hasn't gotten him into any real trouble yet, mostly because everyone he hangs out with has a similar sense of humor. It could have caused some problems, though, in his English class last year. Let's just say that you should never assume that the teacher isn't pregnant and tell her about the difference between a Cadillac and a thousand dead babies. Of course, she just kind of laughed along with it, but, uhm...yeah. She was just that kind of awesome teacher. Most wouldn't have been quite so forgiving.

What ''is'' the difference between a Cadillac and a thousand dead babies?

I don't have a Cadillac in my garage.

Okay, but what does that have to do w-- Oh.

This Tropette can't watch people folding flags without (bitterly) laughing, because at her Grandpa's funeral, they folded the flag wrong, and had to un and then refold it.

As a member of a USAF Base Honor Guard, we fold flags quite a bit. There are times that flags just don't fold quite right, whether from the material of the flag, there being any red showing, or just because the flag (especially for a funeral) didn't get to a 1-3-5 fold (number of stars visible in each row). I know that, if I were in charge of the detail, I would refold rather than give a family a flag that was not perfect.

When I parked my car in a lamppost in front of a group of my friends, some tried to calm me down by reassuring me the damage was light, and it happened to everyone, etc. That didn't help. What did help, was a friend who walked to the car, looked at it, and said, completely straightfaced: "I think it's broken". That did help, somehow.

This troper does this a lot, probably because he finds it difficult to emotionally connect with tragedies unless he sees the reactions of the people involved, and because he tends to make silly comments about things, even when being completely serious.

When my friend told me Micheal Jackson had only died about an hour or so earlier, the first thing we both said to eachother was "Sickipedia is definitely crashing."

The only time you'll ever hear this troper sing is when an ambulance, fire truck or a police car go by with their sirens on. You'll hear Another One Bites the Dust, Disco Inferno, and Bad Boys respectively.

Within 24 hours of Steve Irwin's death, this troper was singing a version of ''Advance Australia Fair'' containing nothing but the word "crikey".

When having an entire lesson dedicated to Australia, our teacher started talking about Steve Irwin and his (then recent) death. She asked us if anybody knew how he'd died, to which this troper replied: "The same way he lived: with animals in his heart."

After my grandfather's amputation he would say he was a "foot shorter." Little known fact: Gallow humor gets worse every generation. Friend - "How's your grandfather?" Me - "Dead." I bet he would have laughed!

When asked for his father's address, this troper desperately wanted to give the address for the cemetery he's buried in. Couldn't remember it.

This troper has a bit of a reputation for this type of humor. It catches people so off guard they can't help but laugh. At Thanksgiving dinner for example, I learned that my brother's friend's father had been dead for several years. My stepdad remarked that he would probably end up forgetting that and say something to said friend about him. I felt compelled to give an example. "So what does your dad do?" "Rot."

This Troper loves dark humor. He's got a major skeletal problem and has had several surgeries, so naturally he can make jokes that nobody will want to laugh at. For example, in his dorm one time, his dad offered assistance, and he replied (with no offense intended) "What do you think I am, crippled?" Silence ensued from his father and his roommate's end of the conversation for several minutes.

As I said on the BreadEggsMilkSquick TroperTales page, I casually joke about the fact that my grandfather tried to rape me with a carrot when I was around 4 years old when he was drunk.

PAY ATTENTION TO ME

This troper suffers from a host of mental conditions. He jokes about collecting and trading them with his friends, many of whom also suffer from some form of psychosis. The day he caught his fiance cheating on him, (which happened literally a week before Christmas) he quipped on some forums, "Hey, at least I don't have to get her anything this year."

This troper has a rather nasty glasgow smile, or smirk if you prefer, as it's only on the left. Whenever someone tells him to smile, he laughs and says, "Bitch, I'm always smilin'!"

My friend is going to die soon from some sort of brain defect. He made his peace, and now spends his time making everyone feel reeeeeally uncomfortable. Since everyone knows he's dying and that he constantly jokes about it, he knows that everyone he asks is going to answer his joke in the following way...:

What do you find buried six feet underground?

-sigh- I don't know... You?

NO! Buried treasure, you bitch! Way to be insensitive!

This troper's friend once got a phone call for his grandfather, who was long dead. After telling the caller this, they then asked him for his grandmother, who was not-so-long dead. After telling the caller ''this'', my friend, for lack of knowing what to say, asked, "can I take a message?"

This troper simply finds all forms of death funny. It's because if I can find my own HMSN funny, how can anything else bother me?

When this troper heard that BrittanyMurphy died, he was like "Wow. The Grim Reaper must really suck at his job. He took the wrong Britney."

This Troper loves to combine said kind of humor with deadpan smartassery. His current favorite line for bad days when his family asks him how he's doing? "Oh, I woke up this morning and wasn't struck by a meteor while I slept. Today is a ''great'' day!"

I tend to have a way with making my sister uncomfortable with the way I joke about the situations we land in. Say that we're home alone, the lights are out, and we've been hearing some odd sounds from under the house. I turn to my sister and say "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if (insert horrible scenario here) happened?" Or I'd at least put on some scary music, saying in a (sickeningly) happy voice "Now we have a soundtrack!!" Her usual response would be "Shut up!" or "Change the music!! Change it now!" It's actually worse when I'm by myself. If I'm in a scary situation, I think of the worst case scenario (no matter how impossible it is) and laugh about it. Trust me, when you have an EvilLaugh like I do, no one messes with you...

This troper came up with the term 'ethics of humour' to describe the thing he doesn't have an ounce of. Jokes about the recently dead? Fair game. Holocaust jokes? Ditto. Naturally, this has led to a few "Crap, I shouldn't have said that" moments with friends. Nowadays, the only things I won't joke about are things that are really upsetting friends or, to a lesser degree, family members. ''Most of the time''... *evil smirk*

This troper also has a bad habit of making wildly inappropriate comments at the worst possible time. One time he was staying at a hostel in Germany with his brother and noticed a large non-functional spotlight in the common room by the windows. His brother asked what the spotlight was for, and without missing a beat, this troper answered "finding Jews."

This Troper's grandfather has done this recently. He's old, has a bum leg, shingles, and pancreatic cancer. The doctors have told him he has less than a year, making this a crappy summer. He also just moved out of the house he lived in for forty years into a smaller house (also emotionally wrenching). He said "You might as well put a picture of the old house on top, the new house in the middle, and the local graveyard on the bottom." It made This Troper laugh and laugh and feel so much better.

This troper managed to squick everyone else in the car out by telling them that decapitation was the best way to go, and then launching into a whole thing about how she hoped if her head was missing, someone would go find it, because just having a random head lying around would be weird.

Don't know if this counts as Gallow's Humor, but in class, our teacher was telling us about how some cultures in history treated their dead. We got around to a personal assignment about how we would like to die, and how we want out funerals. the day the assignment was suppose to be turned in, one of my friends was cuaght in an arson crime. I went to go visited him in the hospital, asked him how he was doing, and he told me to go turn in the assignment for the teacher. On his paper, he apparently wanted to "Die in a blaze of Glory" and he wanted to be "Cremated for his Funeral"(he would have changed it, but his hands where bandaged up).

When my aunt was studying arts, the teacher made the class a work about anything they wanted to express. Then, this asian girl that very recently lost her father made everyone make and decorate their own little coffins in class. HilarityEnsues, as some people decided it was a good idea to make windows and have 'coffins with view', or paint them pink with nice little ribbons so it looked cute instead of that 'depressing black'. Then, the male population revealed against this thread and painted the coffins...pale blue.

Right after my grandfather's funeral, I was getting a ride home by a couple of my cousins. Just as we were about to reverse out of the church's parking lot, we almost hit a man walking behind the car. "Watch out", one of them said to the driver, "We probably shouldn't cause another funeral"

This troper is blessed with a BelovedSmother. One of her ways of dealing with it is snarking about her situation.

This editor, as a fan of both ''GurrenLagann'' and ''{{Homestuck}}'', once made a ''SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' edit based on the former called ''Sweet Bro and Hella Simon''. The exact same day I thought I would make a follow-up, in the actual comic, the CaptainErsatz of Kamina died, which led to me reliving Kamina's death, and for a while I thought it would be DudeNotFunny, even though it had nothing to do with the scene in question besides involving Kamina. Eventually, though, I decided I'd do a second comic anyway, and even linked to this very page when I posted it.

The military: This Troper as a child was looking at a Browning 50 cal "Liberator" machine gun and made a comment about the name, a middle-aged looking soldier looked at me and said "'Coz it'll liberate you!" and then laughed with his mate.

My grandmother, who is awesome and well-loved, had uterine cancer a few years back. When she underwent a hysterectomy, my dad (her son) joked that she'd been spayed and was now an "it".

Some friends of mine have been using this for years to deal with their mother's illness, which is slowly robbing her of strength. Everyone in their family calls her "Gimpy."

And when I got a concussion and a bone fracture from a bike accident some years back, "Gimpy" patted my arm and said, deadpan, "You know, you really need to stop being intimate with the pavement."

This troper's brother once said, "It's freezing out. There are probably some homeless people in the city who aren't going to survive the night." I immediately broke into uncontrollable laughter.

To get the joke, a story has to be told first, so bear with it. This Troper had a bad reaction to a medicine for the stomach bug/flu when he was younger, and his body started to dry out after a few days, causing neck spasms (his neck would lean backwards by itself and have to be ''forced painfully'' into normal position). He didn't know what was going on, and didn't say anything, stupidly enough. When he and his mother were at the doctor again, she told him to bending his neck, and his reply was "I'm not doing this"- at which point, she walked up to the receptionist, pointed him out, saying "See what his neck is doing? ''He'' isn't doing that.", and he got to the doctor right away. Now his tongue started swelling and it was harder to breathe, and the doctors noticed. They had already called the ambulance, so they gave him some anti-allergy medicine. At this point, this troper kind of stopped moving, so his mother held up her hand with all digits extended, and asked the age-old question, "How many fingers am I holding up?" This troper couldn't speak well at that point but also couldn't resist (in a situation threatening death by suffocation, no less) saying "four", waiting for the horrified looks on the faces of his mother and the two doctors, and then saying, "your thumb doesn't count as a finger", at which point, his mother said "He's being a smartass as usual, he'll live".

After going through six months of chemotherapy, this troper was having lunch with a friend when the friend told me that the food I was eating was bad for me. I looked up at him and asked, "So what's it going to do, give me cancer?"

This troper struggled with depression and suicidal ideations for most of her life. She's also the one person in her group of friends most likely to crack a joke about it, while her friends look on in horror. "Why did the chicken crossed the road? To commit suicide and get run over."

This troper's family is always like this when asked how we are most of us especially my grandfather and me tend to say "well my name wasn't in the paper this morning so it must be a good day"

Be sure to bring some friends though. It's always more fun to hang together.

BlackComedy thinks you're all being a real noose-sance.

Methinks BlackComedy is rather hung up on its own importance...