• OpenStars@startrek.website
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      2 years ago

      I LOVE Anthony Jeselnik - he’s amazing, and I would pay to see him. I daresay that he’s one of my personal favorites.

      The difference is consent - if I pay to see him, then I want it, while if someone walks up to me (like at school) and says the identical words, that’s the difference.

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        I would pay to see him as well but what the article insinuates is that “pushing boundaries with comedy” is just bullying with extra steps, which I heavily disagree with. Yes there’s a time and a place for it but something like this makes me feel like they’re taking a jab at harsher comedy as a whole.

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          That’s not what I took from it at all. For one it’s The Onion community, so I presumed that this was satire from the start (even though I’ve never heard of this particular site before) and more importantly whereas Anthony Jeselnik is a master of his craft, the boy in the story seems portrayed as just a bully who is using whatever justification/excuse he can to avoid consequences for his actions? Hence by Occam’s Razor I went with the latter rather than the former.

          Fwiw, I agree with you insofar as that comedy needs special exemptions from the traditional rules of society bc otherwise it simply cannot be as effective in its job, in holding up a mirror to poke fun at society as a whole and thereby help us become better, plus do so with a smile on our faces:-).

          But walking up to someone and straight up calling them a “cunt” - that’s not comedy. On the other hand, paying someone to do exactly that? Now that’s comedy!:-P

          Anthony Jeselnik tells this joke: a blind guy walks up to him after the show, saying that he wants to hear more jokes making fun of blind people. Anthony goes, “You want to hear a blind joke? Okay here’s one:”, then just walks away. Classic! :-P