The true test of integrity is when it affects you, and you still find it funny.
What is "Fair Game" in comedy? Page 4
Actually thinking about it if you've got a sense of humour you're right sooty.
It's if you know someone who is possibly suffering that it might touch a nerve but there's always someone who won't like it.
I love South Park by the way.
I love SouthPark.
The truest test of my sense of humour is Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
It's like some of the greatest comedic minds in the world, have decided to concentrate on insulting, me and me alone.
Still find him hilarious.
Love the scene where the missile is about to hit him and he says " Oh I've wasted my life". Eeeeeeexcellent!
Him and Eric Cartman. I swear on my first job as a care manager, I told a minion to
"Respect my authoritaa,"
And then hit him in the knees with a truncheon.
But being a tad more serious, it's not the subject of the jokes it's its nature, and intent.
Also people who are not mocked, are often the most excluded.
Quote: Mike Greybloke @ March 13, 2008, 7:17 PMIs this funny?
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/03/13/hiv-positively-funny/
I thought it was.
Hilarious, hail Cartman!
I completely agree that the intent behind the joke affects its acceptability. Yesterday I found this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzzY2Z78VE
of Sung Hee Park, a supposedly South Korean stand up comic who has just arrived in America. Her opening gag would certainly be racist if told by many comics - but given the context, it's not.
Question is, how obvious does the intent need to be to make ordinarily offensive material non-offensive?
There's a comic who calls himself The Amazing Racist who does quite nasty stuff that could be taken as genuine, and for me that doesn't work because the intent is too well hidden.
Very funny, and she is very hot. She's sorta like Dave CHapelle in reverse. Ongoing proof for me, that you can get away with anything as long as it's funny.
Quote: sootyj @ March 16, 2008, 4:14 PMOngoing proof for me, that you can get away with anything as long as it's funny.
Yes, indeed. I agree. You can even conceivably get away with poor punctuation skills...as long as it's funny.
Usually it isn't, is it old Soot?
Quote: Skibbington von Skubber @ March 16, 2008, 4:23 PMYes, indeed. I agree. You can even conceivably get away with poor punctuation skills...as long as it's funny.
Usually it isn't, is it old Soot?
Skib, it's not your place to correct or bring up spelling mistakes or errors especially in the way you are, keep it to yourself in the future please.
I think it's clear that comedy goes through phases. There was a time when jokes about 'blacks' and 'poofs' were deemed acceptable, whereas now you can only get away with this if you're doing it in an ironic way that recognises what was wrong with the way it used to be done.
Not that I'd bother, personally: I'm of the opinion that 'cruel' comedy of whatever kind is steadily becoming its own cliche. I'd welcome a return to the kind of comedy that's funny without being hurtful. But that's just me - and besides, I've laughed at everything from the most shockingly bad taste jokes to the most puerile toilet humour, so I'm not setting myself up as a bastion of 'good, clean comedy'. God, that would be dull ...
The more I think about this subject, the more I think it's intent, mor than content.
A mean spirited joke about Maggie Thatch in her later years, can still be deeply offensive.
Jokes that all Americans are fat, stupid, and gullible, are racist.
At the same humour can be used to draw people with disabilities into the conversation of ever day life. The Holocaust has often been best addressed through humour.
I think you mark a subject as off limits, at your peril.
Quote: sootyj @ March 24, 2008, 2:51 PMJokes that all Americans are fat, stupid, and gullible, are racist.
But they are aren't they?
Partridge was fair game.
Quote: sootyj @ March 24, 2008, 2:51 PMThe more I think about this subject, the more I think it's intent, mor than content.
That's definitely what it is.
It's as simple as that.
Your characters can pretty much get away with anything they like, so long as it's them that ultimately pay the price.