What the Heche?

[Phoenix Lazarus]

An hearse - for the funeral next week, please.

[GMTV]

Yeah, the dead puns are brilliant and should stay.

Yes

[Phoenix Lazarus]

It's ironic that on one of the few deaths about which no-one would have objected to disrespect, if the truth had been known, I recall no flippant puns.  I allude there to Jimmy Savile

[Butchers Blind]

It's just our way of dealing with it.
Whistling through the graveyard.

[madhair60]

middle aged men doing a weak imitation of 4chan type lulz. get a bloody grip!

hahaha do you even know what 4chan is

[madhair60]

4chan well known for its wordplay

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Whistling through the graveyard.

You'll be jailed under Truss, unless her proposed act excludes dead women.

[Brundle-Fly]

It's just our way of dealing with it.
Whistling through the graveyard.

Is everybody fair game or is it just people with a public profile?

[Dex Sawash]

I enjoy serious discussion of tragedy as well as strained gags at the expense of the dead. I'm really in a deep dark De-Heched mode rn

[Video Game Fan 2000]

fame and mortality both deserve dignity

[QDRPHNC]

A tragic situation, but it could been much worse. Imagine if she had veered into a nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day.

[idunnosomename]

ah yes, but what if ONE of those babies

[Phoenix Lazarus]

If,, if, if!  If my aunt had nuts she'd be my uncle!

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Oh, Anne Heche?

[Twit 2]

As a fan of Chris Morris and Peter Cook, I really dislike bad taste humour.

[Blinder Data]

4chan well known for its wordplay

it's not the wordplay - more the shite edgelord humour in the face of tragic events

[nero]

A tragic situation, but it could been much worse. Imagine if she had veered into a nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day.

An Creche?

[madhair60]

it's not the wordplay - more the shite edgelord humour in the face of tragic events

it strikes me as a tone-deaf comparison to make considering 4chan is defined almost exclusively by absolutely vile bigotry that isn't tolerated here. entirely reasonable not to find the death puns amusing/tasteful but dark humour has always been a big part of CaB, and frankly it used to be far, far worse for it.

I'm probably taking this too seriously but 4chan is really fucking racist not to mention transphobic to a fault, so the implication that this place is the same bristles my pubes

[Brundle-Fly]

I really like dark humour, but joking about somebody's death on a public forum when they're barely even cold seems well...cold. If that's what the people want, so be it. We've lost some people on CaB and nobody would dream of making puns about them. Why? What's the difference?

Anyway, blah blah...carry on. 

Anne Heche R.I.P.

[madhair60]

I feel like there's a pretty obvious difference between the death of someone in the public eye and the death of a friend in a close-knit community.

[holyzombiejesus]

As a fan of Chris Morris and Peter Cook, I really dislike bad taste humour.

Someone used a similar argument to defend the Madelaine McCann jokes that were frequently posted on here and it was just as stupid then.

[Twit 2]

Someone used a similar argument to defend the Madelaine McCann jokes that were frequently posted on here and it was just as stupid then.

Yeah, I suppose no need to invoke Cook/Morris as a point of comparison. The jokes don't need that validation. It's fine to find gallows humour and naff puns funny in themselves.

[pigamus]

It's juvenile and always fucking horrible.

The only time it really bothered me was Dawn Foster. I suppose that makes me a hypocrite.

[Brundle-Fly]

I feel like there's a pretty obvious difference between the death of someone in the public eye and the death of a friend in a close-knit community.

Over the years, I've personally known a couple of public figures who received the Beano CaB comic death puns on their passing. I think there is a bit of goalpost moving here.  I just find it odd that CaB can be so sensitive about certain issues on one hand and then be like a sniggering student at the back of the common room when somebody on the day dies in tragic circumstances or goes too young, irrespective of their public profile or wealth.

Anyway, not the appropriate thread for this blather. No backseat moderating here. The puns will continue and I'll live. Hopefully.

Yours Brundle-Die x

[Sherringford Hovis]

"Great stuff."
Bogbrush Jerry Sadowitz

[All Surrogate]

Wait, her name's not pronounced "Hersh"?

In an episode of Comedy Bang Bang, Neil Patrick Harris intimated that she herself varied it.

[BlodwynPig]

Her son is named Homer Laffoon. RIP

[Dex Sawash]

Was searching for cookdandbombd + a filmorsomething last night, saw CaB mentioned on another forum hand wringing on Sept 11 2001 about CaB joking about things.

[Mister Six]

Was searching for cookdandbombd + a filmorsomething last night, saw CaB mentioned on another forum hand wringing on Sept 11 2001 about CaB joking about things.

Link?

[madhair60]

Link?

there was some handwringing discussion about dark humour