zENON bABE OF THE 21ST cENTURY by hexgirlfriend
holy shit this is righteous.
(Source: hex-girlfriend)
While some laugh at Daniel Tosh’s obnoxious and offensive humor, others don’t give in to the racism and sexism. My story on Tosh’s show ripping on women…
We know Daniel Tosh is just a comedian. But somebody has to take on comics who exploit racism and misogyny for cheap laughs.
Every episode of Tosh.0 can be summed up thusly:
- Actually funny joke to lull you into thinking this may be entertaining.
- Then “slut whore tranny tranny fatty slut fatty.”
- Then horror when you realize people around you are still laughing.
This guy makes me so angry. I’ve always had a sort of rule for myself that if something is funnier and more clever than it is offensive, I’ll let it slide to a certain extent. I mean, we can take a joke. But these aren’t even jokes. It’s incredibly lazy, this “comedy” style he has. I’ve seen it replicated in every middle school. Point at something, call it a name, laughter.
“Words like ‘bitch,’ ‘slut,’ ‘whore’ — whenever a guy starts improv for the first time, he’ll fall back on these when describing women and automatically assume it’s funny. I try to explain that there’s no need because it doesn’t help make your bit funny,” O’Neill said. “Its always the cliché first sketch that’s fratty about a girl being a slut, and we have to train comedians to be more creative than that. Every comedian is different, but this type of humor isn’t the way to get respect. Tosh gets away with it because Comedy Central allows it.”
I no longer feel sad that I don’t have Comedy Central at my house.
I can’t stand this guy. Now, I proscribe to Carlins ‘you can joke about anything’ state of mind, as long as you can do it right. I think you can make racial jokes and sexual jokes and fat jokes and ugly jokes and gay jokes and slut jokes and you can do it without demeaning anyone or in general being an asshole. Comedy that’s offensive can be hilarious when done right. You can, in fact, be tastefully offensive. If you can’t figure out how to, say, make a gay joke without making it homophobic, or make a joke about a woman without it being sexist, then you can’t make gay jokes or jokes about women. Tosh is like that drunk teenage douche bag who goes “ha. look at that slut” & all the other drunk teenage douche bags laugh so he thinks he’s a fucking comedian. That’s not being a comedian, that’s not intelligently playing off of a stereotype (thereby making people realize how stupid it really is), and that’s not even being silly or intentionally unintelligent for comedic effect, that’s being a sexist slut-shamming asshole.
Also, how creative do you even need to be to make fun of youtube videos? Seriously? If you can’t handle that you’re probably not as fucking funny as you think you are.
