You probably think sarcastic jokes are sharp, witty, and very observant. The brilliant twist of a fact or situation is not only humorous but also amusing.
Sarcasm can be funny when it has nothing to do with the audience or has everything to do with the speaker.
Not only are people misusing sarcasm, they are abusing it.
People expressed hostile, critical comments in an ironic way such as saying "don't work too hard" to a lazy worker. The use of irony introduces an element of humour which may make the criticism seem more polite and less aggressive, and most of the times sarcasm was used to disguise insult and open blaming of other people to get the upper hand in an argument.
Sarcasm in nature is to :
1. make fun of a group of people
2. criticize an individual
3. express the resentment in a situation
When you are making fun of a group of people (can be a race, a department in your company or blonde etc.), you are forming a hierarchy in the society and disguise your disrespect with sarcasm. As to being sarcastic about an individual or a situation (your boss, client, professor etc.), you are passive-aggressively communicating anger, disagreement, or doubt while not owning up to it.
When people joke sarcastically, 50% (or more) of what they said are truely what they felt. They just want to get away with it by adding "oh, I was just joking."
The only exception for truely humorous sarcasm is making fun of the speakers themselves which shows self-confidence and consideration by being funny without deameaning anyone else.
