Humour can delight as well as hurt. It becomes toxic, when sarcasm oversteps the limits of acceptability. It offends sensibilities when fun becomes malicious slander or vulgarity. Punning ( play on the different meanings of words ) is fraught with rudeness unless words are carefully chosen.
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