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Yeah, the trick to doing this sort of thing is to have the persona undercut himself. You’ve got to be willing to be the butt of the joke, and a lot of the people you’re talking about are too egotistical for that.

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The comedians that are actually good at being edgy are the ones that are speaking truth to power, rather than the ones that are dumping on some vulnerable section of society.

When your comments are barely distinguishable from garbage found everywhere on the internet then you aren’t saying anything worth people’s time or money. Time to find a new way to be funny.

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Don’t shit on a comedian i like and respect much much more than you. You’re dragging the content of a six year old comedy book out of context.
This is toxic sjw bullshit where you villainize a public figure for not being progressive enough. Cross has been a voice for reason and justice for a long time, but because it’s coached in a comic style you don’t like you’re tearing it down.

You going to lecture us on the moral failings of the Eric Andre show now? That seems to be the direction you’re going.

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bad internet decisions said on September 20th, 2016 at 12:01 am

Six years ago was also four years after he called another comedian on “anti-gay, racist humor […] couched in ‘I’m telling it like it is.'” and criticized his act as being racist and too reliant on easy humour. So I have some expectations that when you call a man out for leaning on the word “queer” to make a punchline and get an easy laugh, you don’t then do the same.

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Yeah. I covered that a bit more in my review of the book (on my own blog, Fraggmented) but if you’re going to take the stance that Larry the Cable Guy is homophobic in one chapter, you can’t then make jokes about how funny it would be if Jim Belushi dressed up like a woman and sucked cocks in a truckstop men’s room in the next chapter. That’s not a question of “insufficiently progressive” or “toxic SJW bullshit”, that’s being a hypocrite and dressing up your petty grudges in the language of social justice when it’s convenient for you.

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Brogan, he’s not really saying cross isn’t funny because he’s offensive, he’s saying that poes law is hitting edgy comedy hard.

These days the lunatic fringe can yell loud enough to make it into the public discourse, sure they mostly get filtered out but it makes it hard to parody them.

Like its hard to make jokes about how revoking the jim crow laws was a bad idea, when there is a nutjob in the parking lot screaming the same thing into a megaphone and meaning every word of it.

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Heck its like when someone defaced Trump’s Hollywood star with a Swastika. It’s like is that from someone for or against him as president?

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