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I wonder if actually comedy clubs have been effected. Do people looking to be offended go watch these shows live or is it just online bluster
They are fine. Most people don't give a shit.
I wonder if actually comedy clubs have been effected. Do people looking to be offended go watch these shows live or is it just online bluster
There's always going to be at least one person in the world that's offended by something, just because one topic hits too close to home for you doesn't mean you have a right to be upset
So we should either not have comedy at all ever or have comedy where we can joke and have fun with any topic.
I don't believe that you actually believe this.
You bet I do. On a comedy stage anyway.
Yeah I still don't believe you.
Yes because criticizing someone's comedy is exactly the same thing as criminalizing someone's comedy.
Once people get up in arms about it then it becomes a short trip to legislation.
Once people get up in arms about it then it becomes a short trip to legislation.
Amy is using the paraprosdokian technique in a lot of her material, which is basically just ending a seemingly normal statement in an unexpected way; guys like Steven Wright and Mitch Hedburg did this a lot. The punchline of a joke's only purpose is to surprise you, so in that way the joke works purely on a technical level. Whether or not it's offensive to a group seems secondary to the art of crafting and devliering the joke. It being racially charged is basically just like putting hot sauce on it and when taken in context, it doesn't seem like there's a statement being made so much as she's just trying to be surprising by playing with stereotypes. The joke works because it's fucked up and wrong and she's giving the audience the benefit of the doubt that they know that.
"hah hah England sucks so much she doesn't want it, even for free!"
No one cares, because the strip is funny.
I thought the overly sensitive ones were the people going on about censorship, cultural Marxism, and PC police over mild criticism.The overly sensitive in this thread and out there add to the quagmire that is equality. They will lump comedians and people that fuck around with race with their friends in the same bucket as the racists and bigots, disenfranchising people who are allies.
There's no such thing as a positive stereotype. We're all individuals.
Oh, wait. It's Amy Schumer? Yeah, fuck that unfunny bitch.
She made fun of Steve O saying he should have died instead of Ryan Dunn, now this. It's funny to me that all the intellectuals rally around somebody that's basically 2015's Andrew Dice Clay. I'm just kidding, I wouldn't take it that far, but she seems pretty insensitive for my tastes.
Seriously? Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRp3DJqDfOw
Here is a sample of her racial comedy. What do you think?
I think Race Jokes can work, say your joke is mainly making fun of the ignorance in society, rather than using the ignorant and biased (and possibly racist) views the foundation of the joke.
"hah hah England sucks so much she doesn't want it, even for free!"
No one cares, because the strip is funny.
Racist jokes are NEVER funny and if you think they are you ARE a racist and part of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRp3DJqDfOw
Here is a sample of her racial comedy. What do you think?
It's kind of weird to see, just by reading the 1st page alone of this thread, that people suggest whether the jokes are acceptable or not depend on whether it's funny or not. The hell? Either they are acceptable or not; whether they are funny or not do not and should not have anything to do with it.
Not Schumer's pain. The pain of racism, ethnicity, ethnic stereotypes. Whether you think they are true (i.e. comedy from 100 years ago), or lamentable (i.e. much of comedy now), there is a centre of pain to the topic.
All humour extends from pain, if you really break it down. Every joke is at the expense of someone or something in some way. Even slipping on a banana peel is predicated upon an unfortunate situation. The most celebrated comedians talk about the dark sides of relationships, family, aging... there is always something "negative" at the core of any joke.
I support social criticism of comedy. Those are conversations we need to have and our societies progress through them. But ultimately, asking for all comedy to be scrubbed of "offence" is essentially to scrub comedy. Without the painful centre, you don't have a joke.
That's literally ridiculous. There aren't even hate speech laws in the US
There are such thing as positive stereotypes... They can obviously be used in a negative way, but how is "all Americans are good workers" not a positive stereotype?
I notice that a lot of people's opinions on political correctness in comedy seem to hinge on their predisposed feelings towards whichever particular comedian is being talked about at the time.
I don't see how the original isn't saying the same thing.Your rewrite actually makes the joke say, "I used to enjoy being raped, but now I don't."
I imagined the intention behind it was to minimise the "Amy Schumer sux" drive bys which you often see in Any Schumer threads.Ha ha ha big ups to whoever changed the thread title.
Much like the Rose McGowan thread just being titled "Actress...." it was stupid as hell for this Amy Schumer thread to have been titled just "famous comedian."
If this had been Louis CK or someone it'd have been Louis Ck in the thread title not famous comedian.
Racist jokes are NEVER funny and if you think they are you ARE a racist and part of the problem.
Does Lisa Lampenelli still perform? I can't imagine people don't get passed at her nowadays.