I'm Very Excited For This "Can We Take A Joke?" Documentary About Comedy And How It Offends People

 

You know what the cool thing about jokes are? It’s that at the end of the day, they are just that- jokes. And jokes, in my opinion, by definition can’t be offensive because if you’re offended by a joke, you’re just not the right audience for the show. A joke can rub you the wrong way, sure. You can find a joke un-funny, of course. But jokes are subjective- It’s why some people find the George Lopez Show laugh out loud funny, and why Arrested Development got canceled after 2 seasons. But the crux of the issue is people who get mad, outraged, upset, and offended by a joke. And it’s all pretty much bullshit. For example, say you go to see a comedian, and he tells a funny joke about a guy who fell into lava and died. You slap your knee and have a good laugh. Fell in lava and died, how wacky! Right? But then 10 minutes later he tells a joke about a guy who got hit by a car and died, and someone you know had just got hit by a car and died, you can’t then decide “That jokes hurts ME, so I’m OFFENDED”. That’s not how it works. A comedian is writing jokes. You can’t get all huffy and puffy over it…I mean you can, but what good does that do you?

The point is, it’s when people start calling for jobs, starting petitions to get advertisers to pull out of shows, that kind of shit, when we have a big problem. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. But don’t tell other people that they can’t watch it just because it isn’t your cup of tea. And that’s the beauty of it- we have so many options, you aren’t forced to watch, listen to, or read anything you could find offensive. People want, so bad, to be offended by something just so they can SJW the shit out of it and be the leader of the troupe trying to censor it. It’s such bullshit, completely disregarding that on the other side of the coin, there are tons of people who enjoy that type of thing. At the end of the day, it’s all about different floats for different boats, as the saying goes. And as Gilbert Gottfried said, the point of a comedian is to find where the line is drawn, and then deliberately cross it. And if that makes people uneasy, oh well.