Soon after the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, humorous materials related to Covid-19 have started to circulate on social media, in the forms of jokes, memes, clips making fun of different facets of the pandemic experience, from the habits causing the spread of the contagion to daily living in quarantine. This phenomenon ascribes to disaster humor, i.e., the kind of humor that stems from difficult situations depicting high impact losses, tragedies, and concomitant or background crises in a playful way, often linked with others’ distress and with black connotations. In this work we tried to disentangle the factors affecting Covid-19 ralated humor perception during the worst phase of the outbreak in one of the most affected countries, Italy. The historical moment and geographical coordinates in which the survey took place would allow us to investigate not only the role of content and personality factors, but also the effects of psychological distance (perceived risk, spatial and social distance from the epidemic) in affecting how people laugh at misfortunes and terrifying events. We conducted a large-scale survey enrolling about 1751 participants (age 18-81) distributed over the different regions of Italy. Participants were presented with 36 Covid-related humorous items in different formats, as well as NonCovid humorous items as a baseline condition.