Seth Cotlar: Is there a name for the law by which gallows humor gets less funny in direct proportion to how close the actual gallows are?

Is there a name for the law by which gallows humor gets less funny in direct proportion to how close the actual gallows are?

It shall henceforth be known as Pence's Law. bsky.app/profile/suka...

I dont know. Ask Mike Pence

It feels like a bathtub curve. Gets less funny as the gallows approach but picks back up when you're firmly in the noose and the only thing left is the humor and the ride.

“First time?”

Right? That’s where the phrase comes from, after all. The many heroes of history who got off a banger right before the axe fell.

I believe it’s named after that weirdo Italian guy who made the holocaust movie

Roberto Benigni! I loved that film when it first came out...now I'm wondering whether I'd still feel the same way.

The Benigni Boundary.

The Doork Threshold. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...

The Day the Clown Cried - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Ruggero Deodato!

Congrats on coining Cotlar's Law.

Guilotine's Razor

I was just thinking earlier today, The dark humor is getting really fucking dark these days.

there's a German word for everything

and they all have about twice as many letters as you could ever need

That's not true. The difference is that terms that consist of two words in english (like "gallows humor") are a single word in german ("Galgenhumor"). But the sum of the letters is often comparable or can differ in either direction.

Too Soon Corollary?

“Gemütlichkeit,” I sobbed (over a massive lager stein).

I can’t think of a succinct way to say “gallows humor loses its charm when the rope’s around your neck”.

when the one with the noose around their neck makes a joke, it's gallows humour when the audience makes a joke, it's part of the execution

That’s fair. Maybe “Gallow’s humor falls off when they starting tying ropes”

it's more about the fact that gallows humour doesn't become less funny when the noose is around your neck but that it's ONLY funny if the noose is around YOUR neck anyone not in danger making jokes is just cruelty or bad taste and will never sit well with whoever the noose is going around

The inverse scare law?

String-up Theory

Beer and wurst sounds appetizing. Far wrong wing fascism doesn't.

ok the NY Times Pitchbot was one of the very few things I missed about Xitter. they're not over here, huh.

its the inverse, whoever wrote that tweet is in the least amount of danger

Irony?

"That cuts too close to the quick"

Whistling past the gruppenführer.

I wonder if it has more to do with how long you’ve been at the gallows? Like it’s too raw right now to joke, maybe later.

Goofus and Gallows

Rude

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