Black Black H...umour
How come he looks so silly? – It's just that his neck is broken. Here's a vivid illustration of black humour for you. It suggests certain type of humour when comical effect is achieved through distortion, a sort turnover (often blasphemous one) of moral values. As a result people laugh at things which under slightly different circumstances would evoke only terror chills of terror up and down one's spine.
Black humour is not something light and charming you can giggle at without having some uneasy feelings left deep inside you afterwards, - if you are a normal person that is. It leaves people who hear your jokes with a sort of negative impression which scarcely contributes to their being in a good mood throughout the day.
People who are excessively into black jokes are harmful for your health. Most likely they can 'boast' quite pessimistic approach to life (peppered with distrust, sarcasm, a few spoonfuls of various fears and occasional paranoia). These people hardly ever think positive and are never good-humoured, which means they will make your mimicry work in the direction of disgust rather than happiness with the abundance of their grotesque jokes. They are passive and observe the world with its hardships from aside without trying to change anything or fight with the difficulties, they just play their black jokes on an unchangeably awful state of things.
The laughter of people who are very keen on black humour is 'heavy' and brings equally heavy emotions and feelings to their interlocutors. It leaves their psychological condition altered as well if they blackjoke excessively, - the more black jokers do it, the less positive emotions there are left in their ability to view life with its black and white stripes. It results in their turning into some sort of 'black heart' of their own negative emotions rather than good-humoured heart and soul of any company.
It doesn't mean, however, that avid jokers should be strictly prohibited to have a few black jokes on their minds and then tongues, it's just that it's better to avoid their excessive usage.
Black jokes are often used in specific films or TV programs, for instance in black comedies. You can't even imagine how harmfully such films influence your psychological health, pushing the invisible 'black' buttons inside you. What does it mean? It means that you start getting attracted to terrifying things and treating them as jokes, it sort of turns your values upside down and no longer puts them to rights. It blurs the limit between the good and the horrible in your mind which makes you see both as equals sometimes. Even under imaginary, 'humorous' circumstances such state of things is unacceptable rather than normal.
Why be fond of things that bring you nothing good? No reason at all, right? So why not switch to good positive humour in case the black one is your prerogative. Believe us, this change will make you see the world in different light. Or, to put it simply, it will make you see that there is actually much light in the world, that it isn't a dark awful place, that it's a not that bad place to live. There's a saying about two men who when look out the same bars, see the surrounding area differently, - one sees mud, the other – stars. Black humour will hardly ever contribute to your seeing stars, that's for sure, so why not keep it in mind when joking about somebody's broken limbs!