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any recent tragedy. eg, the vegas shooting would probably not fly too well.
by 0xfeba 9y ago
any recent tragedy. eg, the vegas shooting would probably not fly too well.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoSure it can. One joke was about how there was a video of the vegas shooting, and there was a guy running out of the frame with a full beer, as if shielding the beer was the most important thing in that situation. "The beer must've been pretty expensive... But the shots were free." It's tasteless, yeah. But it's comedy. It's hard to say there are limits.
- liberte82 9y agoIf someone tells a joke and nobody laughs, was it a joke?
- sillysaurus3 9y agoWell, judging by the upvotes, I'd say it got a few. :)
- aidenn0 9y agoIIRC Gilbert Gottfried made a 9/11 joke very soon after it happened (though that was generally agreed to be in poor taste). [edit] It was 18 days after 9/11 at the Friars club roast of Hugh Hefner Also, I recall a celebrity had a dead crocodile hunter costume for Halloween (Irwin died in September). [edit] It was Bill Maher.
- ufmace 9y ago> IIRC Gilbert Gottfried made a 9/11 joke very soon after it happened (though that was generally agreed to be in poor taste). So it didn't fly?
- probably_wrong 9y agoNorm McDonald also made a routine about Steve Irwin's death in the Daily Show a couple days after it happened.
- jimmywanger 9y agoI think that bit was awesome. Norm MacDonald is a great comedian, and he can deliver everything just perfectly. That's a perfect example of a comedian taking something supposedly solemn and turning it funny. Kind of like when a chef takes an off-cut of meat and turns it into something delicious.