Artists have been using comedy to hold a mirror up to society, for thousands of years.
For that alone, I love them dearly.
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Artists have been using comedy to hold a mirror up to society, for thousands of years.
For that alone, I love them dearly.
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Norm Macdonald was almost in a class of his own.
You could spend hours on Youtube watching his stuff.
I am still sad that he is gone. So funny and completely unique.
You could spend hours on Youtube watching his stuff.
I am still sad that he is gone. So funny and completely unique.
Not just comedy, but movie/TV as well.
Making quality entertainment has taken a backseat to virtue signalling, moralising, and representation for every colour and sexuality. Which is all fine, but if it's your primary focus then you're unlikely to produce anything interesting or memorable.
Making quality entertainment has taken a backseat to virtue signalling, moralising, and representation for every colour and sexuality. Which is all fine, but if it's your primary focus then you're unlikely to produce anything interesting or memorable.
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Bollocks. The Rings of Power didn’t make race its primary focus, they just cast a few black folks so others might feel welcomed to watch a show as they feel represented. And people lost their shit. Some folks just can’t accept that not everything is about them anymore. They see a few other people getting representation and act as if they are being attacked. I’m white, middle aged, middle class and male, but I enjoy seeing other perspectives in comedy and film. It’s informative.
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On this I think people get a vastly different impression of shows if they follow marketing and articles covering the show, rather than just watching the show in a vacuum. Consciously avoided Rings of Power media hype for this reason so not sure if it applies, but I think amplifying right wing criticism has definitely emerged as a strategy companies use to create a smoke screen around projects in order to insulate them from bad word of mouth.
Is your Ghostbusters remake trash? Just pump out a bunch of content screen-capping tweets with fifteen retweets and thinkpieces about how sexism exists. Like with that Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial, when corporate think-tanks try to appear empathetic and express solidarity with a social cause it is like a robot wearing a human skin suit. Just generally offputting and stimulates revulsion.
Comedians are definitely walking through a minfield in 2022 with the exception of Ricky Gervais and Larry David? Gervais just doesn't care what the twiterati think and Larry David allows us to see that the joke is almost always on himself. So he gets let off the hook? David has tackled at least a half dozen hot topics over the years that could've seen others have their careers in tatters? Gervais still makes great comedy series (Afterlife was brilliant) It's pretty difficult for a stand up comedian doing a set without seeing someone cringing in the back row though? In this day and age voices of complaint are louder and more pervasive than ever. "The new puritanism is alive, well and powerful" - Barry Humphries
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Comedy should not be censored.
Ever.
Ever.
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Should they be allowed to yell fire in a crowded room?
Blanket statements like that rarely make sense. What's more, comedians can generally say what they want but venues aren't obliged to give them a platform, particularly if they don't find what they say funny. The purpose of a comedian is to entertain the audience, if you're not doing that, then maybe the issue is with the material and not the audience.
Ffs dweebs - its not hard. Comedy will be just fine.
Punch up not down
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Punch up not down
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It seems comedians get the benefit of doubt much more often than not. Chappelle, Gervais, Rogan, Louis C.K are still doing shows and raking in the cash, unless I'm mistaken. What's the problem?
Cancel culture exists, but not for people like them.
Cancel culture exists, but not for people like them.
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Gervais afterlife is amazing. His baby joke has me choking.
Chapelle peaked after black bush IMO.
Here is a comedian doing jokes about racism and homophobia. It’s just funnier than outright racism and homophobia.
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Chapelle peaked after black bush IMO.
Here is a comedian doing jokes about racism and homophobia. It’s just funnier than outright racism and homophobia.
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Within reason, I mean Michael Richards.
Yeah nobody should be off limits, that's the whole point.
The problem (if you can call it that) is people enjoy their comedy and know they are jokes.
You can joke about anyone and anything, it depends what the joke is.
I don't know that anyone is arguing different
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If a comedian can't keep up with the times that's on them. The Australian comedy scene is probably been the strongest these past five or so years than it's ever been.
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Nobody is off limits but if you are just shitting on people who are already doing it tough, don’t be surprised if people don’t laugh.
There is always a point when people get offended
Usually when the joke is on them.
Saying 'punching down' is so stupid, like that's really a patronising insult in itself by classing a group as being below them.
And there is the problem, which is what we see repeatedly with far right nutjobs who love a laugh at any minority they can find, but draw the line at comedy aimed at them, which most is because their views are so out of line with normal people, it's funny.
I laugh at most things, If I think I'm not going to laugh, I change channels in the worst case scenario.
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I'll put up with a lot.
As what used to be a conservative 15 years ago a lot of my beliefs are easily mocked and I get that.
But good luck to them, I have a pretty dark humour so I get it..but like you said, change the channel.
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