7:00 pm - 07/11/2012
In the wake of a female audience member accusing Daniel Tosh of making a rape joke at her expense, comedians have taken to Twitter to comment on the controversy.
While numerous comedy fans and professionals have tweeted messages condemning Tosh's response to the female heckler, some comedy figures, including Jim Norton, Louis C.K. and Opie of The Opie & Anthony Show, have expressed support for Tosh and for a comedians' right to speak uncensored.
Dane Cook, who performed at The Laugh Factory on the same night as Tosh, had a darker message: easily offended people should kill themselves.
Not familiar with Anthony Jeselnik but his tweet was the worst I've seen.
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Patton Oswalt (and other comedians) Defend Daniel Tosh
In the wake of a female audience member accusing Daniel Tosh of making a rape joke at her expense, comedians have taken to Twitter to comment on the controversy.
While numerous comedy fans and professionals have tweeted messages condemning Tosh's response to the female heckler, some comedy figures, including Jim Norton, Louis C.K. and Opie of The Opie & Anthony Show, have expressed support for Tosh and for a comedians' right to speak uncensored.
Dane Cook, who performed at The Laugh Factory on the same night as Tosh, had a darker message: easily offended people should kill themselves.
Not familiar with Anthony Jeselnik but his tweet was the worst I've seen.
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URGH. these people.
Louis C.K. was a complete piece of shit when he treated the LGBT community as a monolith and tried to lecture us on how to "better deal with bigotry."
Yes, please tell us more on how and when to be offended, white cis heterosexual men.
Edited at 2012-07-12 02:20 am (UTC)
he did not that motherfucker
I never liked him and never understood his brand of comedy and don't get why he's like the 'enlightened' comedian now.
Sookie put this perfectly.
this gif is literally me
fucking men appropriating rape
SHUT YOUR IGNORANT FUCKING LOUD HOLES
For the record: http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-com
Even if *that's* what was said.....HOW IS THAT BETTER?
/bittercustomermissingchannelsrightnow
It's free speech, but there are consequences. Clearly, the community of comedians value free speech rather than the trauma it inflict on some audience members.
Comedians learn that you can't tailor your act to appease everyone, so they write of some potential audiences. Audiences that don't like rape jokes don't buy their stuff, so either they stop doing it or they don't care or notice this absence because these people weren't part of their audience and they keep doing it.
I don't see the problem and outrage. They're free to boycott Tosh and all the rest, but I don't think this is turning into the teachable moment but more a conflict that will make people stick to their current position.
and likely will never be raped
+ they have 0 empathy as human beings to have any idea how encapsulating that fear is, esp if you've been harassed, assaulted, or raped before
Can't say I'm surprised all these dude comedians are rushing to Tosh's defense. I remember some controversy over that Jim Norton person yukking it up over how ~fat and ugly~ some female convention goers were, not shocking he would say anything in defense of rape jokes.
Edited at 2012-07-12 02:05 am (UTC)
Sounds dumb as fuck and I like Norton.
It was ruining my memory of Ed.
Kumail Nanjiani @kumailn
Do any of you truly believe Tosh would think it was funny if a rape happened in front of him? No. None of you do. It's called sarcasm.
2:13 AM - 12 Jul 12 via Twitter for Android
MIB's reply tweet, about 2 minutes later:
Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack
@kumailn What kind of rape? Straight-up rape or funny rape? Because he might think a funny rape was funny.
2:15 AM - 12 Jul 12 via web
i went to unfollow him but apparently i already had
Edited at 2012-07-12 02:04 am (UTC)
the response I got was horrible until the kid was like, "maybe I was wrong." and then deleted everything. ha, take it.
but point still stands that those are the ppl who would defend him naturally