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Does simply saying you're a comedian mean you can say ANYTHING about ANYONE, no matter how vulgar, nasty, untrue or prejudiced it is?
Joan Rivers, Greg Giraldo, George Carlin all spewed nastiness. Peole laughed! In fact may doubled-over in hysterical laughter! But I wonder how people would have felt if THEY were the butt of the "jokes" and the one-liners. It's all funny till it's about YOU....or YOUR loved ones. So, cremated Jew jokes, dead baby jokes, ridiculing people's physical conditions, etc....ALL OK? As long as you say you're a comedian? Really? Spewing racial hate is ok? Mocking people's faith in God? No problem, right?
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- Anonymous7 years ago
I see your point. I do beleve there is a segment of socirty that thinks that it is acceptable to laugh at others rather than with them. It's all fun of course, till the joke is on or about them. That's what it seems to take to get thatcrowd to realize that if it's hurtful to you then you have to see it as hurtful to thise who are the butt of the joke. A comedian can be funny without being hateful towad anyone.