Backwoodsman - it is not the death that Goody has earned, but the publicity.

It is my thesis that gallows humour (as good a name for it as any other, I suppose) works only if the subject is generally well thought of - which I say that Goody is not.

So most Jade Goody jokes are not funny.

Your examples of types of unacceptable jokes is flawed in that it concentrates on those that give comfort to bigotry. Jade Goody jokes in general seem to be based not on bigotry (save perhaps for the bigotry of society against the ugly, which is well documented over substantial periods) but on condemnation of her choices.

An interesting contradiction that she poses is that based on normal social criteria one would assume her to be stupid (another class of people against whom society is bigoted) whereas since her first Big Brother series she has proven able to continue to capitalise, to her profit, on her notoriety, better than others who might be thought to be of more intelligence - for example Jodie Marsh - who has (AFAIK) done well in money terms but not as well. The same would be true of Katie Price (Jordan) - who appears consciously to play to the lowest common denominator.