• CheGueBeara [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Jimmy Carr makes jokes like this all the time. His whole thing is, "white guy says horrible oppressor things and audience laughs at the terribleness", which is always, at best, walking the line between making fun of the horrible take vs. simply promoting it. Often it's just the latter, you know many in the audience are laughing because they think women/the gays/whoever really are "like that".

    There are thousands of Jimmy Carrs and that style of humor is now boring, formulaic, and slowly dying out. Good riddance.

    • VapeNoir [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Carr himself thought it was a good joke, saying that it was "fucking funny", "edgy as hell" and had an educational value.

      The fuck is he, 15?

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      making fun of the horrible take

      I have to admit I didn't watch the skit, I just read the tweet. Thanks for providing some context. I still think it's an inappropriate joke

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        All his jokes are inappropriate, so yes. He appeals to both the people who play along with the idea that it's a bad take (so that British libs that think of themselves as modern and progressive can laugh) and those who don't, which is where it becomes shitty. It should always be unambiguously making fun of the bad take.

        Kinda like Chapelle only there's more "plausible" deniability.

    • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's funny when he's a host of a game show making mean jokes about the contestants. But yeah, this is way off the mark.

      There can be a good joke about the fact nobody talks about the Romani genocide. This one was just the regular boring shock jock humor.