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Have you considered that your average soft SV male feminist-type isn't the target audience for a couple of east coast comedians - who are by and large complete
by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Have you considered that your average soft SV male feminist-type isn't the target audience for a couple of east coast comedians - who are by and large complete degenerates, and I use that term with all due respect - riffing on degenerate topics that are humorous to a significant segment of the population?
Much of stand up comedy comes from an extremely dark place, and its successes derived from relating stories about their messed up lives to an audience who for a fleeting moment live vicariously through them or find humorous the complete insanity and barbarity they just witnessed. And this type of comedy is very successful. To deny this is at best naive and myopic and at worst deliberate ignorance of the world around us.
It's not exclusive to the east coast; go listen to some Bobby Lee brothel stories on YouTube and prepare to be uncomfortable. These are real people, telling real stories about their past.
Please understand that people have different tastes; there is a large audience for this type of humor; everyone else try not to choke on your own tears laughing it up with Stephen Colbert.
- dastbe 4y agowhat’s the joke, though?
- browserman 4y ago
- hombre_fatal 4y agoRaunchy, absurd, dialed up story-telling. All the HNers coming out to put it on record how disgusted they are with the story remind me of that Daniel Tosh clip where a heckler shouts "rape is never funny" and he goes "it's not... but wouldn't it be funny if someone raped [the heckler]?" and everyone laughs. It's like watching people get offended on the behalf of babies over some dead baby jokes and then lecturing each other on a forum.
- bobkazamakis 4y agoxD!!! It's funny because edgy
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWell, yes. But unlike most edginess, it’s edge that people can’t actually handle (just read these threads) which Diaz’s shtick. People forget that edginess used to mean that but it turned into bits like Chelsea Handler retelling how she got gangbanged over the weekend.
- stoplying1 4y agoThanks for at least going full mask off, though I doubt you realized you were doing so. I'm sure I'll get put in my place for this but JFC.
- standardUser 4y ago
- flarg 4y agoYou don't think that showing laughing acceptance of predatory behaviour normalises that behaviour instead of shaming it? (Apologies for going all Reddit ...)
- ramblerman 4y agoSure but that's not the same as assuming that people who laugh at a joke concur with the underlying behavior/idea. The OP is trying to assassinate character by what a person laughs at.
- edmundsauto 4y agoIt's a bit more than that, since it's judging someone by the company they keep and who's voices they amplify.
- alsetmusic 4y agoI think it’s worth taking into account the username of the person defending the humor. Fwiw, I have an extremely dark sense of humor and I’m not arguing in either direction when pointing out the handle. I do find Rogan problematic, however.
- standardUser 4y ago
- stoplying1 4y agoWow, just wow. Rancid takes like this are exactly why we have to have strong reactions to these things. These "jokes" are not funny, and in fact are disturbing to folks that have actually internalized and lived the fact that these "jokes" are a reflection of culture. It wasn't a joke, Jesus Christ, and the fact that you offer that up as a defense is in and of itself telling.