Louis-Dreyfus also is the daughter of billionaire financier Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, who was reported to be worth $4 billion at the time of his death in 2016.
“If I tell rape jokes at a funeral of a beloved community member who was brutally murdered and raped everyone should laugh. Because it is comedy it is justified.”
If you disagree does this mean “nothing is OK to make fun of”
Or should we admit that context applies?
“Ah I only meant in comedy clubs”
Come to Atlanta and say the n-word and find out.
“Why are you attacking me? It was a joke”
Hmm, either you are wrong or everyone who hates the n-word. Guess which I think it is?
Reading the room means tailoring your material and performance to what is getting laughs, but you need to get some laughs before you can start the read.
Dude, never complain about votes.
I agree with you, at least in principle, but once you start making edits because of votes, you lose ground. Restate, explain, whatever, but just don’t bring votes into it. All that does is create an adversarial situation that may well not happen otherwise.
You take the downs votes and the up votes as they come, and deal with them without referencing them. You’ll have a much better experience if you stick to that, I promise.
What other parts of your life do you apply such black and white logic to? How did you arrive at this conclusion?
South Park has been making offensive crass comedy for a zillion years. Chapelle says whatever he wants about marginalized groups and still has an audience and plenty of cash. Where is the harm? I don’t see standup comics making trans and gay people the butt of jokes as much anymore. Is this negative to you?
I think most of these comedians getting in trouble for being politically incorrect are just not being funny. The biggest sin of Chappelle’s standup, IMO, was that his jokes weren’t funny. Just played out conservative jokes.
The best comedians can always pull it off because they know it’s about the focus of the joke. I have no idea who the original writer was, but there was a reddit thread about a cishet comedian who did
“You know how I know trans women are women? Because when we have sex they don’t finish either”
I love it. It’s a joke about trans people, but it works because the butt of the joke is the comedian himself… it even affirms trans identity.
Right, “he saves more than he rapes” is honestly funny, though probably not a joke to tell outside the context of a shock humor show. “Hahahaha at least trans people weren’t slaves hahahahaha” is just not funny.
It must come to as a shock that some trans people are, in fact, POC. The latest standup was, unfortunately, “old man fails to remain comedically relevant societal changes and goes full-boomer rather than practice self-reflection”. He used to be a good comedian but clearly lost his touch or is phoning it in knowing that right-wingers are likely to shell out ridiculous money for hate.
If you think PC culture is hindering your ability to make jokes, maybe you aren’t that much of a comedy genius
Isn’t she a billionaire?
Seinfeld is pretty much on his way to becoming a billionaire but they have opposite views on what is a matter of common decency
