WHEN TO CHOOSE THE HIGHER GROUND AND LET A FELLOW AUTHOR LIVE…

With her opinion, that is.
Crapatola! You got to know, that when a funny person has a choice between anger or defusing the situation with laughter, they will always choose the latter. In this scenario you may assume I’m the funny person and my writer friend isn’t. So here goes…
A self-proclaimed, unfunny writer friend and I got into a heated debated over what’s humorous and why. Hm. Shall I say that the idea that she should be the expert on this was a sticking-point with me? I mean, let’s face it, she’s not funny and we both know it. And yet for some reason she decided to school me in the art of being funnier when I write. 
*Shakes head*
Hey, I’m all for learning and growing. I’ll even take advice when I deem it useful or sage but, her thoughts on the subject? Well, they were so far afield I was speechless.

Here’s her list of taboo subjects a writer must stay away from if they hope to make a reader laugh.
Sex

Embarrassment

Swear words

Death

Or a weakness of any kind
And, here’s my list of subjects to explore and make a reader laugh.
Sex

Embarrassment

Swear words

Death

And a weakness of any kind
Hm. How could we be so far apart in our thinking? I love her to pieces but, she’s wrong and to prove it here’s my tossed gauntlet example…
Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod! “Jethro! JETHRO! You can’t be dead.” Trudy frantically examined his ghostly complexion and wanted to die too. “Holy fucking shit!” She jumped off his stiffer than usual pleasure stick and cried, “This is just great and so not fair. How was I supposed to know you meant it, when you said the only way I’d get off before you did, was over your dead body?”
Anyone else care to give it a whirl?
Riley