Suicide is a serious issue.
Yet they constantly do jokes about hanging themselves.
Or putting their head in the oven.
Or jokes about single dads killing themselves at apartments for men.
Probably the lowpoint about this show, not a white man pretending to be an Indian convenience store owner.
"Suicide is a serious issue."
Is it?
Who determines what is a serious issue, and what isn't?
You can say that about anything, so in the end, if we follow this 'serious' logic that absolutely forbids some topics from being made humor out of, we WON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO JOKE ABOUT, because ultimately, EVERYTHING is serious, even humor.
Often, the more 'serious' (and how do you define this, can't anyone commit a suicide non-seriously or humorously?) the topic, the funnier the jokes. There's such a thing as 'shock humor' (though it's sadly not very shocking usually)
So, suicide is serious, don't joke about it.
Rape is serious, don't joke about it.
Murder is serious, don't joke about it.
War is serious, don't joke about it.
Robbery is serious, don't joke about it.
Stubbing your toe is serious, don't joke about it.
See my point? You can't joke about ANYTHING if you start on this road. So get off your high horse and learn to laugh at suicide. It's not that serious. (No one ever dies, as death only exists for the body)
Humor is like incest....it's all relative.
Humor changes with the times. Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges were funny in their day, but aren't now. Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison were funny in their day as well. Humor changes as well as we grow older.