Hello Elisi:  I'm well aware of "black humor" and its role in life.  However, we're not in stressful situations right now and there's no need for it as a coping mechanism.  We're not in that Safeway store, having just survived this incident.  We're safely in front of our computers.  

Mental illness is no joke and humorous little quips trivialize it and distract us from addressing the importance of developing early intervention programs and procedures to avoid the escalation which culminates in actions such as Ms Feys'.   

You needn't advise me to "lighten up" I acknowledge that I'm a bit of a prig on this issue and shall remain so.  Mental illness and our wholly inadequate mental health system is a huge issue in America today and using an incident such as Ms Fey's actions as a platform for "stand up humor" won't help us address that issue.  BTW: Would you make a joke of a physically handicapped person tripping and falling down?