Daniel Tosh and Rape Jokes

Who's Daniel Tosh and why should I care?
Besides didn't we already go through this over on Sports & News when someone used the line from Blazing Saddles as the subject and everyone else just ran with it?

 

LA Times

 

Someone who would go to a Tosh show and not expect to be offended is an idiot.

Someone in the audience at any standup comedian's show who thinks it's their place to heckle the person everyone is there to see is an asshole.

 

Wonders what the big deal is regarding inappropriate humor

 

No topic/word is intrinsically unfunny or offensive.
All topics/words are subject to context, delivery and intent.

This is very much in line with Tosh's act. I think he's pretty funny, but not everything hits. When your act is based around threading the public's line of offensiveness/inappropriateness, you've got to expect splashback.

 

Of course, when you get splashback, your best move is not to say, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if you got raped, too?"

There's a long line of Sandusky jokes there, too, but who would laugh at them?

 

I would laugh at them depending on the joke and the delivery.

 

In you don't find inappropriate jokes funny, then I don't really know what to say to you. For me, it's a staple of our newsroom and, usually, the only thing keeping most of us sane.

 

Very well-said.

Sarah Silverman has a lot of jokes about being raped. One of her her first big jokes was "I was raped by my doctor, which as a Jew is so bittersweet."

 

A lot of jokes are not funny, but that's because the joke isn't funny not because a word or topic is off limits.

 

Very good example, and a funny example.

 

Yes, but can men make rape jokes at women's expense? No.