Was somewhat surprised to see that parodied/recreated on a music video recently(ish):
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Q: What has four legs and one arm?
A: A happy pit bull.
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One of The Bard’s sickest - in all senses of the term - puns right there.
Thanks, Sugarplum!
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My favourite Tommy Cooper joke was apparently done off stage. He was famously tight, but didn’t mind splashing some cash on a joke; even just for a free gig.
Scene: Library, interior: Tommy Cooper enters.
Tommy Cooper to the Librarian, “Do you have a pair of scissors?”
Librarian, “Here you go, Mr Cooper.”
Tommy Cooper uses the scissors to cut the bottom of on one leg of his trousers, and hands the cloth to the Librarian, “There’s a turn-up for the books.”
edit for clarity.
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Groan.
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Nonsense. I had the should be dead heart attack followed by a stroke, I joke about it and dying all the time, my daughter gets it and jokes about it as well.
It makes a certain relative squirm when I joke about it but I don’t like them, it’s my health, and I just don’t care but I will dial it back around people like my mom.
When I think sick humor early Saturday Night Live isn’t even on the radar. When I think sick humor I think of people like Sam Kinison, Doug Stanhope, Redd Foxx, Lisa Lampanelli (she’s moved on), Bob Saget, etc… Doug Stanhope is still performing, the others are gone so maybe it is dying off with all the greats. I haven’t seen any recent comics that could replace the ones I mentioned in the the sick humor department. Nikki Glaser can get into some sick humor and make people laugh so maybe it’s not dying off.
Who knows but I don’t have any problem with that type of humor and it’s never too soon for a good joke.
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That may have inspired this:
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I’m impressed by the way that “The League of Gentlemen” used the cover of sick humour to sneak some real horror on to TV.
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I disagree with the idea ‘it’s never too soon for a good joke’; that shit ain’t cool at the scene of a fatal accident, or an intentional police shooting…
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Thanks for pointing that out 
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Gilbert Gottfried talked about “to soon” a few years ago.
I don’t think anyone’s lost an audience bigger than I did at that point. They were booing and hissing. One guy said, “Too soon!” He was just a face in the crowd, but now I wish I knew who it was, because his comment became part of the language. “Too soon.” I had never heard that before. I knew there were times where people wait to make jokes about something, but I always thought that concept was ridiculous. Is there an office with a guy behind a desk who decides when it’s not too soon anymore?
You can do jokes about the Lincoln assassination and the Titanic, and no one says anything because everyone involved is dead, and their grandchildren are dead. I actually think that’s in worse taste. You’re saying, “Screw all those people who died, I waited for it to become unimportant to us.” When I do a joke about September 11, or the Japanese tsunami, what’s funny is that it shocks the audience. They are responding to the fact that it’s tragic, and you’re acknowledging it.
With the Challenger explosion, or any other tragic event pre-internet, there were always a bunch of jokes that would come out immediately. Everyone was in a rush to tell their friends, everyone was laughing about it, and it was okay. Now, with the internet, it makes me feel sentimental about old-time angry mobs. In a mob you actually had to throw on your jacket, go outside, use your hands. Now you can join a mob sitting on your couch in your underwear. I feel like people who get outraged like that are patting themselves on the back. “You see, I was offended.”
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There’s a time and a place for everything.
People who can’t seem to distinguish when those times are, (or who just don’t care) tend to be the inspiration for this saying:
Again, lookin’ at you, Chapelle. Gottfried too, for that matter; also another hasbeen whose act is stale a/f.
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Most of the comedians in The Aristocrats were old farts, so don’t try to tell me that sick humor is a young person’s game.
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… South Park is still around, but probably no longer, let’s say, “relevant”
Whatever the next wave of edgy humor is, we’re likely to be the old people who are confused and horrified by it 
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South Park may not be as culturally popular as they once were but they are often still good and relevant. I haven’t watched in years but a few weeks ago randomly put on the newest episode about chat GTP and found it so topical that I literally learned about the subject from the show right before everyone was talking about it online. A lot better than the most recent simpsons thing that I saw which was about moes tavern being like a private disney+ character club which made me sick at how awful and pandering it felt.
(But yeah I don’t hear people talk about South Park like they did in the old days. Not sure it’s cool anymore)
Are the South Park guys still climate change deniers/weirdo libertarians? I enjoy the show (was just watching some twenty-year-old episodes on Pluto last night in fact) but every now and then I run across an episode that’s pretty cringe-worthy for its blind spots.
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