Daniel Tosh and Rape Jokes

[Mizzougrad96]

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.

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."

 

[Buck]

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.

 

[Buck]

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.

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."

Very good example, and a funny example.

 

[Riptide]

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.

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."

Very good example, and a funny example.

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

 

[Buck]

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.

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."

Very good example, and a funny example.

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

I disagree.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

 

[Buck]

I'm not a regular viewer of the channel, but I am a frequent viewer.
I don't watch Stewart or Colbert.
I watch Tosh and some stand-up specials, but only when I'm tired of flipping channels.

As I said, I like Tosh, and I don't believe any topic or word is intrinsically unfunny.
A lot of people found Lenny Bruce offensive. A lot of people have found various comics offensive.

 

[YGBFKM]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

Next thing ya know, they'll be showing breasts. The horror!

 

[YGBFKM]

Tosh is quite funny.

 

[Stitch]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

Next thing ya know, they'll be showing breasts. The horror!

Ha! was funnier than Comedy Central. Comedy Central became dead to me when it stopped showing Almost Live!

 

[Bruce Leroy]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

No love for Workaholics?

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

Next thing ya know, they'll be showing breasts. The horror!

I don't know what that means.

 

[Pilot]

It's odd that so much stuff on Comedy Central, pretty much everything besides The Daily Show and Colbert Report, isn't funny at all.

Always Sunny re-runs and South Park make me laugh.

 

[93Devil]

If you can find Louis CK commenting on Jerry Sandusky...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I remember when Silverman got in trouble for using the word Chink on Conan and Guy Aoki, the leader of one of the Asian groups started a boycott. When she was on Stern after the incident, she said, "I only have problems with two Asians, Guy Aoki and (some name). Guy wants people to boycott me and the other guy put pee pee in my Coke."

 

[SFIND]

The only thing on Comedy Central that had any amount of comedy was South Park, and that's because they actually hid some somewhat-intelligent humor behind the ****, ****, and fart jokes. The rest of Comedy Central is just plain ****, ****, and fart jokes pretty much, which I can't stand. As for Stewart and Colbert, I wish Stewart would just give the Democratic Party a blowjob already, and I wish Colbert would just stick to interviews.

God, how I don't miss Cable. What a waste of money.

 

[Double J]

I remember when Silverman got in trouble for using the word Chink on Conan and Guy Aoki, the leader of one of the Asian groups started a boycott. When she was on Stern after the incident, she said, "I only have problems with two Asians, Guy Aoki and (some name). Guy wants people to boycott me and the other guy put pee pee in my Coke."

That is outstanding.

 

[Ace]

Daniel Tosh smug, annoying and freaky. I not only don't get his humor, I marvel that he isn't punched in the face routinely.

That said, my kids love his show. I walked past the TV the other day, and it featured a clip of a guy skateboarding down the street while taking a dump.

Daniel Tosh stands on the shoulders of wackos and attention whores.

 

[McCrank]

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?

Jim Norton had a great 10 minutes about Sandusky and Penn State in his last special ("Please Be Offended"). There's funny there.

If someone doesn't find a particular topic funny, that's their right, but it doesn't make it objectively unfunny or inappropriate. I don't think what Tosh did was wrong; in fact, I think the girl from the audience was the real dummy. She has right to find any subject objectionable, but not inject herself into the show. No one was there to see her. I also don't think Tosh was particularly funny in that instance. But, as a comedian, he has earned the right to try and make "sensitive" subjects funny. He just may fall flat from time to time.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I haven't seen Norton's latest special yet, but he's another comedian who I think is brilliant, who, if you went through the bulk of his jokes, there will be people who will be offended...

Jim Norton, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Jeselnik, Amy Schumer, Kathy Griffin all have portions of their act that are likely to offend some people.

Don't like that kind of humor, go see Jim Dunham and Peanut.