The phrase "aggressive jokes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe humor that is confrontational, harsh, or potentially offensive, often targeting someone or something in a biting manner.
Example: "While some found his aggressive jokes funny, others felt they crossed the line into insensitivity."
Alternatives: "hostile humor" or "cutting jokes".
A black-faced minstrel, all "swagger and assurance", he answers back to his wife and scolds his children with a litany of angry, passive-aggressive jokes.
He repeatedly refers to the "Daytime Oscars" he's won, and makes passive-aggressive jokes about the fact that the show didn't send a car for him, or about the cash bars that his rich Hollywood friends have at their parties.
Or else the butt of a supremely clever, passive-aggressive joke.
When the medium started to grow up, his false noses, frantic costume changes and aggressive bombastic jokes began to seem dated.
Barnes displayed his liking for slightly aggressive practical jokes in this match: during a break for a particularly ferocious thunderstorm, he "got a huge block of ice out of the tub in which our drinks were kept, staggered to the side of the dressing-room and tossed it on to the roof over the English dressing-room.
De Kooning's "Woman and Bicycle" (1952-53), as much a period piece as anything by Hopper, is an aggressive sexual joke.
If Freud is right that the energy released in laughing at a joke is the energy normally used to repress hostile and sexual feelings, then it seems that those who laugh hardest at aggressive and sexual jokes should be people who usually repress such feelings.
Mr. Chavez leavens his aggressive remarks with jokes, proverbs, bits of popular songs, asides to his wife, Marisabel, and anecdotes about friends, his boyhood and his days as a baseball player.
In my defense, I was ten years old, but it bothered me that he insisted on having the audience sing along with him, that some of the songs felt more like agitprop than art, that the aggressive anti-Reagan jokes (mostly from Guthrie, to be fair) seemed to please the largely self-selected crowd.
