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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I'm curious what female comedians will say about this...if they'll say anything. Also, does anyone recall any female comics doing bits on rape jokes? I'm genuinely asking bc i haven't heard of any who have, and if there indeed aren't any that should say a lot.
The majority of rape jokes or rape joke are like the male rape jokes. Whitney usually make an implication about looks in them.
Sarah Silverman does them quite bit, like the "I was raped by a doctor, which is bittersweet for a Jewish girl." The only time it has been funny was when she was in The Aristocrats and put herself in the joke as part of the family but then parts of it was creepy but parts of it about the nature of showbiz was funny.
Is it really that hard to just be a decent person and NOT say these things? idgi. If you have to use juvenile, crude, and offensive jokes constantly as part of your act, you probably aren't a good comedian.
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By the way, Kumail, if you think Tosh is anti-rape, you're an idiot. Making a woman feel unsafe is by encouraging an auditorium full of people to find it acceptable that a woman be gang-raped for not liking what you have to say is PRO-RAPE. So fuck off.
By making "jokes" (not a single funny one here, so I guess they held their 'funny' rape jokes for...the future?) you're contributing to a world in which women and the trauma they go through is less than nothing you're CONTRIBUTING TO RAPE CULTURE. Congratulations, you're all fucking assholes you are condoning rape.
Seriously, people can get oversensitive sometimes, but rape is not funny. It's not funny at all, and you're not being "edgy" or "promoting free speech" or any of the other inane excuses people come up with.
/seriously raging rn