History PlayingWith / DudeNotFunny

* '''Enforced''': "The audience finds Bob's jokes offensive. We need to address this by having a crowd not find his joke funny."

* '''Zig Zagged''': The audience seems ashamed for laughing, only to decidee

* '''Subverted''':
** Bob tells the joke to his frat brothers, and they surprisingly think it's funny as hell.
** The way he told the joke was so offensive, it's [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilarious.]]
** [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny The audience laughed at Bob for making an offensive joke, especially when they know they're at an inappropriate place.]]
** The audience got used to rape jokes, so they laughed anyway.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Everyone stops laughing when one guy in the group declares that his younger sister was raped a year ago.
** Because Bob got laughs from his buddies, he tells the same joke on a first date with Alice. Alice leaves in disgust and never calls him again.
** Unfortunately, the one guy who took offense to it (or just a random asshole in the group) recorded footage of the people laughing at the joke. The reactions of the rest of the world upon seeing the footage is instant and the whole group is now painted as insensitive monsters -- whether or not Bob gets the worst of it for making the joke in the first place depends on the story's writer.
** ...until FridgeHorror kicks in and they stop laughing altogether, simply because they've [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore heard too many rape jokes before this]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some find the joke funny, others find it offensive.

* '''Enforced''':
** The subject is strictly off-limits.
** The context in which the joke is told. For example, it ''might potentially'' be OK for Bob to tell that kind of joke in the locker room (and/or if it's a joke about ''[[SelfDeprecation him]]'' being raped), but not in a mixed-gender setting (and definitely not to rape survivors).

* '''Downplayed''': Bob tells a joke that his audience is [[ItsBeenDone simply tired of]].

** Bob is chased by an angry mob wielding TorchesAndPitchforks [[DisproportionateRetribution after telling a clean joke]].

'''Basic Trope''': A joke or comedy routine is poorly-received by its audience, usually because it breaks some [[UnacceptableTargets sort of taboo]].

** UnacceptableTargets

* '''Averted''': Bob does not joke about or discuss ''any'' sticky subject matter, or at least doesn't tell any rape jokes.

** OnceAcceptableTargets, UnacceptableTargets

'''Basic Trope''': A joke or comedy routine is poorly-received by its audience, usually because it breaks some [[OnceAcceptableTargets sort of]] [[UnacceptableTargets taboo]].

** Bob tells a (perfectly G-rated) knock-knock joke, and people felt he insult their maturity.

* '''Straight''': Bob tells [[BlackComedyRape a rape joke]]. Instead of finding it funny, the audience were disturbed.

** Alice tells a rape joke about a guy being gang raped. She got beaten to a pulp by the audience.

* '''Reconstructed''': It is played in a way to show that most of the audience is victim of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, while Bob can enjoy such jokes without thinking in the least that BlackHumor's topics are acceptable in real life.