I think we may be missing the mark with each other and actually agree more than we both realize. Relieved about the no dead baby jokes-I never for a moment thought you would tell one around someone who had lost a child, my only point was you can’t always know and you can’t always know what you don’t know.
I would be willing to offer that I think that gay people can tell gay jokes and POC can tell race jokes, but I may be talking out of school here.
And I enjoy gallows humor far more than you know-just ask my family and friends.
So, are we friends yet? Do you have a joke for me?
Well not only do you got rape jokes, there’s the racism of brown people along the equator being hypersexual, and racial slurs against the native peoples of Alaska. How is this right wing reactionary allowed on you tube?
George Carlin is probably most famous for his “7 dirty words” bit. at the time he was an anti-establishment comic and everyone was clutching their pearls at such blasphemy. But he was poking society, making us better. he believed in free speech.
The rape/Eskimo bit is the same thing. He is talking about free speech.
But i assume someone will come along and say he’s an old fart that doesn’t get that you can say those things anymore.
It’s as if you’ve watched Jim Jefferies do his dead babies joke:
He also does one on miscarriage in his new Netflix special, “This Is Me Now”, in which he talks about a couple in the audience who’ve suffered a miscarriage. People who require trigger warnings should probably avoid comedy shows. Or at least have some familiarity with the style and type of material the comic is known for before purchasing a ticket. And you don’t have to laugh at all the jokes. Some jokes are not for you. That’s why there is more than one joke in a performance.
If you ain’t smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, what the fuck did you think was going to happen!
Never liked him either, but last I checked he is yet another person who’s ‘cancellation’ means he keeps making money hand over fist and being treated as a celebrity. Are there any actual examples of comics getting hurt by ‘cancel culture’, or is it just stuff like Jerry Seinfeld flopping with lame jokes like “gay French King” and actively offensive comics like Stern and Silverman making bank? (And no, I’m not going to list off comics that I like, because that’s a Cafe Society topic not a GD topic).
To add, are there any comics who are not actually benefiting from “cancel culture”?
ISTM that having a few hundred people that would have never come to see your show publicizing how “offensive” or “non-PC” your show is can only be seen as free advertising.
Not a comedian, but Rowling of Harry Potter fame certainly benefited when her books were condemned by religious fanatics.
Unless what is being publicized is actual reprehensible actions, like Louis CK or Cosby, then is there really such a thing as negative publicity?
I have to say, as a stand up comedy lover, that it is getting increasingly difficult to find a standup these days that is truly laugh out loud funny. Mildly amusing maybe, but not funny. I can’t tell you how many comedy specials I’ve switched off lately in the middle of because I didn’t laugh once. No edge to these people at all. That was pretty rare say 10 years ago.
