Once upon a time a comedian did a bit in a set that didn't go over well. Someone in the audience repeated the joke to another person, who also didn't get it. That person repeated it again to a man who, seeing the humor in it, died laughing.
The dead man's family went after the one who had told him the joke, who protested that seeing nothing funny in it, they could not be blamed for the fatal hilarity. The person who had first repeated the joke had the same excuse, and pointed the finger at the comedian.
The comedian's lawyer first argued self-defense, saying that it was their client's job to slay the audience and with the alternative being dying on stage... if a stand-up comic can't stand their ground, who can?
The prosecutor tried to bring a sentence of murder in the third degree, but the jury rejected that, while still finding the comedian guilty of the lesser charge of MansLaughter.
I got four tweets into queuing up this joke before getting to the punchline and deciding that it doesn't work, as the visual connection between "man's laughter" and "manslaughter" is tenuous without being lexicographically cute about it, and even then it's pushing it.
But humor, like all art and perhaps more so than most of it, is subjective so I shouldn't decide for myself if this is funny enough to post or not but rather leave that up to the viewer to determine.
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