Lol punching down, he was at the height of his popularity when he joked about how good fucking children must feel on SNL, is it possible to punch further down that that?
Okay, I’ll stop now. I take it that comedy fans like pool are the reason that Dave Chappelle left his show and went to South Africa.
You don’t see the difference between — “Pedophiles must really enjoy having sex with children to risk getting caught”
And “Asian men are all really women”
You see no difference in the premises that underlie those jokes?
Merely using strong language or describing shocking actions is not what is bothering people about his latest jokes.
Both of those things might perhaps be labeled “offensive,” but they are jokes based on two different sets of premises, one that is funny and another that’s just demeaning to a group of people.
These comedians must be trembling now that the SDMB scolds have pitted them.
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Do you have a link to his leaked set, the full bit instead of one quoted sentence, how do you know he wasn’t making some weird point or something unless you watched it with an open mind and heard the entire thing?
Just as your appearance heralds a discomfort akin to hearing a prankster child ringing a doorbell and then running away.
Riiight and you are the guy that said he went to three shows of the guy that joked about how he pulled his dick out in front of a girl with Down’s Syndrome behind a dumpster and how it’s not ok to rape anyone unless they won’t let you have sex with them, and masturbated on the playground of his children’s school while volunteering. Dude if you don’t like him anymore it’s cool, but just say your a pussy that can’t handle his humor, don’t hide behind some made up alt-right comic thing, in any event you put a lot more money in the guy’s wallet than I ever did.
Come on. You’re not really this dumb. Are you?
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I’m a Louis CK fan who listened to it with an open mind, hoping for the best. Now, even though I hate whiteboy edgelords, I can recognize when they’ve come up with legit funny shit. Louis did not deliver. This was just an old fat dude going “dang kids these days with their pronouns and twitters, who can understand 'em”.
I think the audio has been taken down. It was out there for a while. You’d have loved it, he made fun of transgenders and school shooting victims and asian men.
Idiocy isn’t a power, no matter how many Republicans claim it to be so.
This would have be an okay joke if he had just left out the black people part.
His jokes about the Parkland kids were terrible for a number of reasons, but mostly because Fox News pundits already beat him to the punch. Laura Ingraham et al. have already plucked that low-hanging fruit. Not saying the entire topic should be off-limits, but if you’re going to go there, you had better do something really different and clever with it.
I remember a leaked routine Louis did years back when he joked that 9/11 was ok because some of the people who died might’ve been assholes. He followed that up with about five minutes on whether it was wrong to rape a fetus. The guy’s always said fucked up stuff. It ain’t new.
Again, look behind the fact that he’s using shocking language or saying shocking things. It’s the premise of the joke that’s the issue.
Both of those are about shocking ideas, but the premise is something clever and insightful about humanity. Same with the “pedophiles must really love raping children.” Those jokes are about something interesting behind the curtain. That’s very different from the jokes that are pissing people off now.
The premise behind the 9/11 bit was totally not
meant to be clever. It was 100% about saying something fucked up to get a shock laugh. I’ll try find the clip
Hell, listen to the numerous YouTube videos of Louis C.K. On Opie and Anthony, they’re very long but he makes way more offensive jokes than his stand-up specials and not to make some social point it’s just shocking humor.
But what’s different about that, compared with what he’s doing now: it doesn’t beat up on any demographic group. The 9/11 bit doesn’t stick it to the marginalized, or to the less-empowered. What he does now often does stick it to the less-powerful. He’s punching down, now. He didn’t used to.
That’s the distinction that some in this thread are missing.
Don’t be such a snowflake, are you offended by words? I would think a failed sci-fi author would be in favor of free speech, am I right? Does pussy offend you, I didn’t put it in quotations like you did, wasn’t that the point of a Louis C.K. bit? I thought pussy would be gentler than calling you a faggot cunt nigger deer, you know the same thing the guy you paid to see multiple times live said in his standup.
I must have missed where iiandyiii called for censoring Louis C.K.
Louis C.K is free to say whatever he wants. And so are we. No one’s rights are being trampled on, for fuck’s sake.