what's good cocksucker wash ya balls and clean that dirty monkey.

It can be bad. A lot of comedy is just unfunny. A premise as lazy as offending people outlived its novelty like 5 years ago at least. Maybe I just grew up. Shockjock humor just went out with the original South Park and Eminem and whatever else.

Chappelle is a great example of how the angle is important. In one of his first Netflix specials he has a joke about trans people where the premise is just sticking their nuts on a table. Kinda boring. Lazy. Then in his new one he has an LGBTQ joke that is really well thought out and clever. The extended road trip metaphor. Now I'm sure some people found both offensive. I think the latter was actually really funny.

I don't think any subjects are off limits. It's the approach that makes or breaks the joke.

a lot of comedians hide behind the “it’s a joke!/it’s a bit!” guise a which i think can be stupid

not if its funny

that's what y'all always forget

ari's explanation for that tweet was crazier than just the whole scheme of it's a joke.

nigga a middle aged man talking about dethroning gods with middle school rhetoric.

wasn’t it basically just “that’s my schtick I do it whenever a celeb dies “

yeah. but it was a lotta wierd s*** underneath it to.

no but i can be too lazy

this guy is a moron lol “destroying gods” i’m crine

Didn't he basically quit the show because they were making him go too far

Depends who your audience is. Thats all I'm finna say

You can't just start making Nanking jokes to Chinese people. Just like you can't make some jokes in public, it gets real cringe

I’m pretty sure he and Neal Brennan had full creative control. The way he always describes it, it seems like he walked away because of stress/pressure and mental health reasons. He reached the top of his profession from a business standpoint, but was unhappy and unfulfilled.

If the shock value feels tryhard and takes away from the joke, it absolutely can go too far.

Yeah

There's a line where people might say obscene things "as a joke" when they're actually trying to normalize negative discourse

He was called out for it tho

nah he felt like ppl were laughing for the wrong reasons and he was just reinforcing stereotypes

“Chappelle thought the sketch was funny, the kind of thing his friends would laugh at. But at the taping, one spectator, a white man, laughed particularly loud and long. His laughter struck Chappelle as wrong, and he wondered if the new season of his show had gone from sending up stereotypes to merely reinforcing them. "When he laughed, it made me uncomfortable," says Chappelle. "As a matter of fact, that was the last thing I shot before I told myself I gotta take f__ time out after this. Because my head almost exploded."

That's what I was talking about maybe nobody forcing hi.literally but the outside pressure to co tribute to that was there

no

Yea, don’t think it should be illegal or anything but it’s certainly corny

"Everything's funny, till it happens to you"- Dave Chappelle
It only goes far if it hits home

There's a line between making fun of a group of people and using "comedy" as a form of hateful rhetoric towards them. I think obvious cases of the latter shouldn't be protected as free speech, and it's mostly closeted bigots who think the grey area between the two is funny.

Nah I don’t think so. You don’t have to like it or agree with it but it’s got to be like this. 9/11 jokes were coming out within hours of the event.

No I don't believe it has enough power for that

Even if it's a bigot it's just one jerk off doing a show