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In Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land a major turning point in the plot comes when the main character realizes that all humor is based on human pain in some form or another.
Humor is such an individual thing. What one person finds funny leaves others cold.
Personally I don't care for humor that makes fun of anyone or any group, but there are exceptions. There is a fall on the floor funny (to me) thread in the borderline PD forum about being borderline. I guess it's funny to me because the folks posting are laughing at themselves, not at some one else.
I personally have a very dark sense of humor. It's a way of maintaining my own mental health given the work I do. My co-workers frequently don't "get" my humor.
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