Daniel Tosh took a bunch of heat for making rape jokes at a comedy club.
"“Masada says Tosh asked the audience, ‘What you guys want to talk about?’ After someone in the front said ‘rape,’ a woman in the audience started screaming, ‘No, rape is painful, donâ??t talk about it.’ Then, Masada says, “Daniel came in, and he said, “Well it sounds like sheâ??s been raped by five guys” â?? something like that. I really didnâ??t hear properly.’ He continues, ‘It was a comment â?? it wasnâ??t a joke at the expense of this girl,’” writes Buzzfeed.”
How much should we tolerate? What is an acceptable level?
Somewhere in time between the New Deal and the present day, Liberals have fooled the American public that SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it is written that, “you have the right not to be offended”.
They are all about “free speech”, until someone says something “insensitive”. It’s fucking bullshit.
If they are offended, they have the right to change the fucking channel.
I love inappropriate humour, not because it pokes fun a terrible situations, but because it makes me look at bad things in a totally different light … it takes the edge of bad, depressing and scary things. Things that could happen to anyone at any time. It allows me to come to terms with the fact that the grim reaper and his scythe is waiting somewhere along the road for everyone.
As bad as I feel for people who are ill or who have had terrible accidents, the selfish side of me sees this and is terrified by it. If I find humour in it, no matter how inappropriate and it seems a great deal less scary.
But I can see the flip sode of this and as paradoxical as this may sound if illness or other bad shit was happening to pthers I loved I don’t think I’d be able to find the funy and would get offended. But we are all paradoxical, hypocritical creatures.
[quote]pgtips wrote:
I love inappropriate humour, not because it pokes fun a terrible situations, but because it makes me look at bad things in a totally different light … it takes the edge of bad, depressing and scary things. Things that could happen to anyone at any time. It allows me to come to terms with the fact that the grim reaper and his scythe is waiting somewhere along the road for everyone.
As bad as I feel for people who are ill or who have had terrible accidents, the selfish side of me sees this and is terrified by it. If I find humour in it, no matter how inappropriate and it seems a great deal less scary.
But I can see the flip sode of this and as paradoxical as this may sound if illness or other bad shit was happening to pthers I loved I don’t think I’d be able to find the funy and would get offended. But we are all paradoxical, hypocritical creatures.
Just my 2 cents (Or 2p)[/quote]
I think it is your job as a comedian to make it funny.
If you cant, you are not much of a comedian, are you, and if you get pelted with rotten fruit, people are trying to tell you something.
I love inappropriate humor. I think making fun of victims can cross the line though, maybe the woman in question was raped by five guys and didn’t want to re-live it on her fun night out. It’s one thing to make fun of racial stereotypes, sex, awkwardness in general and another to use a victim of externally applied violence for a cheap laugh. Given statistics, sexual assault is pretty common and would alienate a lot of viewers. When it’s personal, it isn’t funny.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Somewhere in time between the New Deal and the present day, Liberals have fooled the American public that SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it is written that, “you have the right not to be offended”.
They are all about “free speech”, until someone says something “insensitive”. It’s fucking bullshit.
If they are offended, they have the right to change the fucking channel. [/quote]
[quote]pgtips wrote:
I love inappropriate humour, not because it pokes fun a terrible situations, but because it makes me look at bad things in a totally different light … it takes the edge of bad, depressing and scary things. Things that could happen to anyone at any time. It allows me to come to terms with the fact that the grim reaper and his scythe is waiting somewhere along the road for everyone.
As bad as I feel for people who are ill or who have had terrible accidents, the selfish side of me sees this and is terrified by it. If I find humour in it, no matter how inappropriate and it seems a great deal less scary.
But I can see the flip sode of this and as paradoxical as this may sound if illness or other bad shit was happening to pthers I loved I don’t think I’d be able to find the funy and would get offended. But we are all paradoxical, hypocritical creatures.
Just my 2 cents (Or 2p)[/quote]
I think it is your job as a comedian to make it funny.
If you cant, you are not much of a comedian, are you, and if you get pelted with rotten fruit, people are trying to tell you something.
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I agree with you there. If your a comedian and can’t make it funny your not a very good comdeian.
I was looking at it from my perspective where I get myself in trouble quite alot due to my inappropriate sense of humour and failiure to contain it sometimes.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Somewhere in time between the New Deal and the present day, Liberals have fooled the American public that SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it is written that, “you have the right not to be offended”.
They are all about “free speech”, until someone says something “insensitive”. It’s fucking bullshit.
If they are offended, they have the right to change the fucking channel. [/quote]
Free speech works both ways. If you want to say something edgy go ahead, but don’t be a pussy when someone calls you an asshole.
Nothing worse than whining free speech about someone else exercising their free speech lol
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Somewhere in time between the New Deal and the present day, Liberals have fooled the American public that SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it is written that, “you have the right not to be offended”.
They are all about “free speech”, until someone says something “insensitive”. It’s fucking bullshit.
If they are offended, they have the right to change the fucking channel. [/quote]
Free speech works both ways. If you want to say something edgy go ahead, but don’t be a pussy when someone calls you an asshole.
Nothing worse than whining free speech about someone else exercising their free speech lol
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Somewhere in time between the New Deal and the present day, Liberals have fooled the American public that SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it is written that, “you have the right not to be offended”.
They are all about “free speech”, until someone says something “insensitive”. It’s fucking bullshit.
If they are offended, they have the right to change the fucking channel. [/quote]
lol both incidents were oversees, I guess some people have a comprehension problem.
“It’s now very common to hear people say ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights; it’s actually nothing more…it’s simply a whine. ‘I find that offensive,’ it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I’m offended by that,’ well so fucking what?”
[quote]Aggv wrote:
If it’s not inappropriate, it’s probably not that funny.
This video answered a lot of questions for me. I’m a Visa student and I have always “known” that ‘cunt’ is supposed to be a forbidden word in the English vocabulary so I was always afraid of swearing when I was hanging out with North American people. That guy is very funny.
I think some are confusing “tasteless” with “inappropriate”. The picture of “cancer boy” is just tasteless, these are inappropriate:
How do you circumcise a hillbilly?
Kick his sister in the jaw.
What’s the difference between a hooker and a drug dealer?
A hooker can wash her crack and sell it again.
What does the mafia and a pussy have in common?
One slip of the tongue and your’re in deep shit.
What does one tampon say to the other?
Nothing, they were both stuck up bitches.
Mozart for example used inappropriate humour (they called it indelicate or risque back then) quite successfully, put never was tasteless. Good comedians such as Carlos Mencia or Louis C.K. operate on the border between tasteless and inappropriate, and are incredibly funny.
The “inappropriate” material which Richard Pryor used 30 years ago wouldn’t shock a 12 year old today, as society has been further desensitised to what “tasteless” really means.
if Todh was actually funny or smart…which he isn’t
Just a jim brewer dane cook mash
He could’ve easily turned that rape situation into a few funny things
He could’ve told a story about a “polite rapist”
“Raping the rapist”
“Smelly pussy causing rapist to run”
“Woman too fat to find pussy so rapist puts dick in fat roll”
“Rapist on a gameshow or a dating show”
“Rapist episode of MTV Cribs”
“Rapist having a press conference to express his or her inability to go shopping without people taking photos…pleasing to be treated like a normal person so they can live in peace”
A comc should be able to either make any topic funny or be able to use it as a bridge to another topic
When you’re onstage and ask “what do you guys wanna talk about”
You should already know your crowd or who you draw and what they’ll suggest…which means you should already have jokes lined up or ways to escape into something that won’t lose you fans
Shit
If tosh had said “go fuck yourself I’m not doing that” and ragged on the person who said it he would’ve owned the show…crowds love it when a comic goes after hecklers and other rude people
But yea Tosh isn’t very funny and isn’t def not clever enough to pull it off
He as funny as the annoying drunk guy at a party who just says shit for no reason…while everyone still sober
