Except this is a quote from Pat Robinson. It's powerful for us to take his scare mongering and respond with "based"

Some things are better to only joke about among people you know. When my wife says "I'm going to kill our son", I feel safe laughing about it. He's maddening, and he saves the worst of it for us. He's lucky he's cute.

But when a stranger jokes about something like this, there has to be a whole supporting context for transgressive comedy to seem safe and therefore funny.

Isn't comedy theory boring? Anyway