dead baby jokes
Infant mortality comedy
Dead baby jokes are a genre of shock humor featuring taboo scenarios involving infant death or harm.
The jokes rely on transgression rather than wit—their "humor" comes from violating the strong cultural prohibition against harming children.
They circulated widely among adolescents in the 1960s and 70s as a form of boundary-testing: What's the difference between a truck full of bowling balls and a truck full of dead babies?
The genre represents dark humor at its most deliberately offensive, appealing mainly to those who find the violation itself funny.
- dark humorComedy about taboo subjects
- black comedyHumor from taboo subjects
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- tastelessHaving no flavor
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
shock value · taboo · gallows humor · crude · inappropriate · edgy · transgressive · infant · mortality · twisted · cringe · boundary-pushing · crossing the line · juvenile · gross-out · disturbing · playground · forbidden
- jokespuns, one-liners, pun, one-liner, quips
- crude humortoilet humor, potty humor, bathroom humor, bodily functions, belching
- folk humortall tales, trickster tales, trickster stories, humorous anecdotes, fish stories
dead baby jokesclean comedy
Humor without vulgarity
dad jokes · knock-knock jokes · puns · corny jokes · gentle humor
dead baby jokeswitty banter
Playful clever conversation
wordplay · intellectual humor · dry wit · observational comedy · New Yorker cartoons
dead, deadly, deadness, deaden, deadened, deadening, undead, baby, babies