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* [[No Sympathy]]
** Some of the more severe cases of [[Kafka Komedy]] (too much Kafka, not enough comedy).
* [[Suicide Asas Comedy]]: About 60% of suicide attempts are played for laughs (65% if you add the [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] [[The Simpsons|Moe Szyslak]]).
* [[Too Soon]]
* [[The Mentally Disturbed|Insanity and Mental Illness are often played for laughs]], particularly as a result of intentionally inflicted mental distress.
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* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', one sketch, where an undertaker suggests cannibalism as an alternative to interment or cremation ends with the studio audience storming the stage in disgust (which, of course, is part of the show).
* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' Alpa makes a crack about a "dingo eating your baby" to Kirk Lazarus, which he is so offended by he almost breaks character.
* In [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[The Room]]'', Mark tells Johnny about a girl he knew who was dating several guys at the same time. One of them finds out and beats her up so badly that she ends up in hospital. Johnny's response is to laugh and say "What a story, Mark"! The critic comments on this, saying "That's not funny, you sick fuck".
* Nicko Heap in ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' often gets criticized for this, havinbg an habit of not understanding the seriousness of a situation.
* During the astronaut tryouts in ''[[The Right Stuff]]'', Alan Shepard frequently mimics 50s comedian Bill Dana's Mexican astronaut character "Jose Jimenez", but it eventually gets on the nerves of Gonzalez, the Mexican orderly, who tells him "me and my friends think your Jose Jimenez imitation is A-OK. But what you're doing with it is B-A-D.".
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' during the mission on Sur'Kesh, the party crosses paths with a rampaging yahg. Shepard and Garrus can't resist the opportunity to crack jokes about the last yahg they encountered, which teammate Liara T'soni {{spoiler|replaced as Shadow Broker}} after she and Shepard killed him. Liara does not find their wisecracking funny:
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*** Most of Jokers jokes appear not to be funny to [[Deadpan Snarker|anyone but himself]].
** EDI gets this response multiple times from crew members as she attempts humor, usually because her humor involves jokes about enslaving humanity or "accidentally" causing life-threatening malfunctions on the ship.
* Also from [[Bio WareBioWare]], ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has lots of snarky dialogue options (usually the one in the middle) which tend to involve cracking jokes at very serious situations. Sometimes your party members or NPCs will tell you that they're [[Dude, Not Funny]], but there's at least one example of [[Player Character|Hawke]] realizing that himself/herself mid-joke: an attempt to reassure [[Humanoid Abomination|Anders]] about having accidentally given himself a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] by saying "What's the worst that could happen? You turn into an abomination and start...oh. Bad joke."
* In the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang, having been told that he must kill Fire Lord Ozai, says he can't go around wiping out people he doesn't like. Sokka responds that [[Omniscient Morality License|he can because he's the Avatar]] and Aang angrily tells him that this isn't a joke.
* ''[[SkippysSkippy's List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'' has examples:
{{quote| 93. Nerve gas is not funny.}}
* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', Guy is surprisingly afraid of women for the first half or so of the game, though to be specific, every tiem a woman comes into close contact with him, he recoils in fear or starts screaming. Everyone, even in-game laughed at this and thought it funny, but also wanted to help him get over his gynephobia. Then the truth comes out to ''why'' he's so afraid of women. {{spoiler|His sister and the maids from his childhood home threw themselves onto Guy to protect him as they were all killed by invading soldiers, and when Guy came to, he was smothered in a pile of dead bodies.}} Nobody was laughing after ''that''.
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