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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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lulu_quality 12th-Jul-2012 05:15 am (UTC)
Well, at least now I know who to write off from existence...
betelgeuse 12th-Jul-2012 05:24 am (UTC)
this entire thing is just so sickening.
bloody_morgan 12th-Jul-2012 07:15 am (UTC)
mte
violue 12th-Jul-2012 05:28 am (UTC)
I just experienced a huge mood swing, omg. I was reading comments from people on tumblr, and there's so much negativity, and they don't understand, and knowing there's nothing I can do to make them understand is suddenly making me feel so helpless and hopeless. They're not seeing the bigger problem with all of this, all they're seeing is "WAH WAH IT'S FUNNY IF YOU DON'T THINK SO THEN THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM (INSERT ADDITIONAL STOCK INSULT HERE)" ..they're not seeing that rape jokes just further desensitize society to a real problem, they're not thinking about how that girl must have felt, they're not seeing how STUPID they sound, and it's so overwhelming I want to cry.
songfire3 13th-Jul-2012 12:15 am (UTC)
Here, have some ammo!

Seriously, wtf is wrong with people?!
tlcspice 12th-Jul-2012 05:38 am (UTC)
QUEEN

what_the_chelle 12th-Jul-2012 05:56 am (UTC)
Daniel Tosh has made a career out of being a caricature of a antagonistic slightly racist white guy. That's his thing. His "joke" about rape wasn't funny but half the shit he says isn't funny.

Comedians attempt to find the humor in terrible aspects of life all the time. I'm not sure why this particular instance of a joke being inappropriate and not funny is such a big deal.
sozzney 12th-Jul-2012 06:03 am (UTC)
because he was joking about how funny it'd be for a particular person in the audience being gang raped by 5 guys after she spoke up about his "joke".
This wasn't a "haha that game totally raped me, man" joke, this was a "this chick just ruined my joke, wouldn't it be hilarious if she were gang raped right here and now?"
what_the_chelle 12th-Jul-2012 06:06 am (UTC)
Ok I guess. It just doesn't offend me in the way it seems to bother everyone else
molkat 12th-Jul-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
"Daniel Tosh has made a career out of being a caricature of a antagonistic slightly racist white guy"

If that's his act then he should grow thicker skin and not get surprised when people call him an asshole. What these comedians want is freedom of speech and from criticism. They want to say shocking things on stage and have no consequences other than a paycheck.
nowakingeye 12th-Jul-2012 02:35 pm (UTC)
what is your point
sozzney 12th-Jul-2012 05:58 am (UTC)
And ex-friend of mine (and someone who openly talks about her wet dreams she has about Daniel Tosh on the regular) just posted this long thing all, "OH WELL I'M NOT GOING TO TIP-TOE AROUND AFRAID THAT I'M GOING TO OFFENDED SOMEONE. NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE OFFENDED. PEOPLE ARE TOO EASILY OFFENDED. IT'S GOOD TO JOKE ABOUT RAPE." Just because you know one person who was sexually assaulted who is okay with rape jokes, doesn't mean everyone else who DOES get offended is just being "overly sensitive" and need to get over it. But then again she has done blackface a couple of times and defends it, calls black people the n-word because she thinks it's hilarious, and makes sexist, degrading jokes on the regular. She's basically Tosh's target audience.
lulu_quality 12th-Jul-2012 06:58 am (UTC)
Drag her. No matter what someone is going to be offended, right? Might as well be her.
ms_mmelissa 12th-Jul-2012 03:19 pm (UTC)
But then again she has done blackface a couple of times and defends it, calls black people the n-word because she thinks it's hilarious, and makes sexist, degrading jokes on the regular.


I can see why she's an ex-friend.
courtkneee1 12th-Jul-2012 06:16 am (UTC)
anthony jeselnik rape jokes >>>

but really i'm pretty disappointed in all of them. what he said wasn't even a joke, just straight up a defensive attack.
courtkneee1 12th-Jul-2012 06:19 am (UTC)
oh god, kumail is there too?? :( guess no one's perfect.
rally_pchan 12th-Jul-2012 06:19 am (UTC)
alright


i hate you, i hate you, i hate you, and i hate you.
drop_the_g 12th-Jul-2012 06:24 am (UTC)
I just wanna thank all yall for these comments! I <3 how ontd is so sleek when it comes to social issues. The more these things are discussed, the more privileged people start to realize how the playing field is not level by any means.
so_chic_doll 12th-Jul-2012 06:30 am (UTC)
People don't really seem to understand that this is beyond a rape joke-- his response to the girl was fucking terrible and was said to try to threaten her as a women.

FUCK ANYONE WHO SIDES WITH THIS DOUCHECANOE.
treradical 12th-Jul-2012 06:48 am (UTC)
shutup
trick_is_point 12th-Jul-2012 06:55 am (UTC)
No. And, rude.
drop_the_g 12th-Jul-2012 07:06 am (UTC)
slayer_the12 12th-Jul-2012 07:08 am (UTC)
It's comments like this that make me wish I had LJ notes.

That video is disturbing. I wonder what kind of person you are to find it funny.
dirtyknife 12th-Jul-2012 07:12 am (UTC)
Shut the fuck up.
so_chic_doll 12th-Jul-2012 07:12 am (UTC)
"Are we going to over analyze every comedians comedy bits now?"

Telling a woman in the audience that it would be hilarious if she got raped right now is not a comedy bit.

If she was "in" on the "joke"-- I'd still think it was gross, but then that's her choosing to be a part of that.

His comment was an attempt to shut her up by threatening her in a setting where obviously everyone else in the audience would side with him.

It was way over the line-- I'd hope even if you're okay with "rape jokes", you could see why his comment to the woman was unacceptable.
pamelalillian 12th-Jul-2012 06:37 am (UTC)
ummmm ok
noheavenlychoir 12th-Jul-2012 06:44 am (UTC)
what the fuck is this shit?
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