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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b) that you give a shit what Tosh has to say about anything. With or without rape jokes I never found him all that funny.
c) the level of slacktivism this shit inspires. Your grandfather's fought in wars so this douchebag can have the freedom of speech to say whatever he wants and these idiots would take it away but can only muster a blog post or two to do it.
And he can say whatever the fuck he wants, just like everyone who is calling him out is free to do.
Oh, and my grandfathers weren't American. So no.
effin americans didn't even show up until it was about money.
But mentioning what our "grandfathers" fought for has no place in this argument because this isn't about free speech. It's about saying something awful, and then seeing nothing wrong with it and that everyone else is just ~overreacting. Because no. Fuck that.
c)nobody fucking said he couldn't say shit.
Never been happier to not be American. Us Soviets didn't have high regard for freedom of speech.
Edited at 2012-07-12 06:02 am (UTC)