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yes, all humor should be politically correct
Its what hacks do who aren't actually good observers or have an original perspective. They repeat the same tired racist bullshit and then give a look to the audience like "I WASN"T SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT....BUT I DID!!!!!"
Its fucking cheesy as shit.
If Chris Rock or George Carlin get a little un-pc while delivering a bigger, funnier joke, I'm fine with that. All Tosh is is a tired hack with a tired "offensive schtick."
The worse thing about it is that talentless hack has a catch all for all the criticism of his stupid unoriginal bullshit... "Sorry the PC crowd doesn't like me! I'm edgy!" Only he isn't edgy, having a formulaic show where you repeat formulaic racial stereotypes in uncreative ways isn't edgy, its trashy as hell.
I'm not even backing Rob. Seriously, let that shit slide and don't even acknowledge that hack. The dude has a formulaic TV show and that is it. The formulaic TV show Rob has is like one of 20 things he has going. His best response would be "Who? That second rate comedian with the unoriginal show? Who gives a fuck what that loser thinks besides his 7 viewers. I have pro model boards, shoes, and run an entire professional sports league, and have starred in 3 tv shows. Ridiculousness was my third show, how about you? Do you think you'll ever even get a second, or maybe even just one original show?"
your first comment simply criticized him for making fun of women, people of color and the disabled. what you're saying here is more that you don't find the caliber of his comedy very high and that he's a hack. that's a little different.
i don't think anyone would argue against you that his show is "trashy" and that he's a hack. i mean shit, it's a show where he makes fun of internet clips
My original point was that is the type of shit he depends on for laughs, not that taboo subjects can't be touched upon in comedy, and his whole thing is really just repeating stereotypes without much else for a laugh. A typical Tosh joke would be something like a video of a black guy going into a store and him saying "Hey look, a black guy is going into a store, I bet he's buying kool aid and Watermelon!" and then a devilish look at the audience, then a woman walks in and he says "who let her out of the kitchen?"
The problem I have with it is not even really that it offends me, but that it's cheap, unoriginal, and not very funny. His whole shtick is shock, and after you've read an Andy Roy interview he just isn't shocking.
Whoever mentioned Chris Rock as being on the same level as Tosh- No. Chris Rock is far more well respected of a humorist. Whether or not he has the top rated show on a cable channel doesn't really matter, fuck, Pauly Shore and Carrot Top were super popular at one point too. Also, his jokes aren't really about "white people this, white people that." He does racial stuff, but actually, most of it is about black people. He criticizes his own people far more than any other group. He goes at black people like Woody Allen goes at jews. Both bring up other groups mostly for the sake of comparison. Off the top of my head, I can actually only thing of jokes of his that are about black people, you got "black people vs. ni****s," black people use robotussin as the cure for everything, hip hop used to be defensible now it is indefensibly ignorant. Actually, I just remembered one, after Columbine he made a joke about being scared of young white men, which was an obvious play on the larger social fear of young black men. Chris Rock actually talks about specific aspects of cultures that he actually observes, he doesn't just repeat stereotypes, which is all Tosh does.
Oh, and I looked up Tosh's wikipedia entry. A white man who decides to move to LA to pursue his comedy career after college instead of getting a job clearly has privilege in American society. And yes, that does make a difference in terms of his commentary
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