Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
I was in a pub quiz the other day where we got extra points for our offensive team name: Madeleine McCan't.

There are boundaries of what is acceptable and what isn't. Laughing at the rape and murder of a small girl is apparently ok. Racism not so.
Yes, although whether or not we find humour in that kind of stuff is is heavily nuanced and context-dependent, even within the narrow genre of kiddie rape and murder.

I think the reason Maddie is such a comedy goldmine is because of the whole circus surrounding the case, and the fact that her white middle class parents blatantly killed her, which *is* inherently funny.

There are other cases where small children were brutally murdered that you'd struggle to find any humour in.

You don't hear any jokes about Jamie Bulger, for example.