Yous all need to chill out, you're acting exactly how they expected
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The amount of pearl clutching on Lemmy is WILD. Fucked up jokes can still be funny
Sorry, but are you comparing Charlie Kirk with George Floyd?
they both died and both had jokes during the roast
One was a public provocateur deliberately farming outrage for money and fame, who was murdered by a lone psycho.
One was an private citizen strangled by a cop for nine minutes while onlookers begged for his life, and became the focal point for a national civil rights movement.
But yeah, same-same. 🙄
exactly as you said, same same. also do you need a new pearl necklace after yours snapped from clutching it too hard?
People keep acting like the article is about to take the ability to be tasteless away from them.
That is not what the article is about.
The article is about whether or not Kevin Hart is a hypocrite and a coward.
After George Floyd was murdered by an off-duty cop, Kevin Hart reached out to his family, offering sympathy and support, even attending his funeral.
And then he produces his own roast, hires an openly racist white comedian to tell a racist joke mocking George Floyd.
That looks like hypocrisy.
And after George Floyd’s family called out Hart for turning his back on them, he acted so shocked, like it was nothing to do with him, and petulantly asked why they were mad at him.
That looks like cowardice.
He he hired the clowns, he put up the tent, and when confronted by the slightest hint of criticism from people he supposedly cared about, he proceeded to piss his pants and tell everyone that it wasn’t his circus.
That’s what this story is about, not some pearl clutching attempt to make you be nice.
And if you think that I’M a prude? You’ve got the wrong cunt, precious. 🤣
Anyone else loathe how this clown manages to find AI-coded buzzwords constantly?
This isn't about x, it's about y Comedian did joke, so scared and a coward.
Not only X and Y. But they did X and Y, and then X and Y
I fucking hate how language has become castrated by AI, and how the NPC meme has evolved :(
This is just how I write man, especially when responding to tantrum-throwing children who have no reading comprehension. And since your comment focuses entirely on my style without addressing my argument, I'm just going to assume that you are completely unable to understand or counter it.
basically your argument is you should tell offensive shock humor jokes at a funeral and give sympathy and love at a roast? it doesnt really make sense does it? funeral is not the place to tell dark humor jokes, like DUH. a roast is a place to tell those
Your take is exactly the opposite of my argument, and I'm amazed you've gotten it so twisted. My argument is that Kevin Hart is a two-faced piece of shit. He kissed up to George Floyd's family when it made him look good, and then acted like he doesn't know them when the comedian he hired on the show he was in charge of made a joke about Floyd's last words.
And on top of that he threw Tony Hinchcliffe under the fucking bus. His man made the joke on his show and Hart immediately crumbled when called out saying, "it wasn't tasteful" and then made a big deal about how the blowback from the joke should not on Hart. Motherfucker, you wanted your roast to be a safe space for transgressive humor, and now you want to be all, "guys, guys, I didn't like it either but it's NOT MY FAULT, MY HANDS WERE TIED!" That's bullshit and he knows it.
But if all that's too much, I'll simplify my argument even further: FUCK KEVIN HART.
I used to like Kevin Hart, I haven't paid much attention to him lately. I suspect that's why he wanted to do this show, to try to gain some relevancy again, and of course the money.
I didn't watch, I only skimmed the linked article, but generally, I agree with him. He gave some apparently edgy comics a platform, and they said edgy things that not everyone would find funny. So what? Everyone got what they paid for. Don't like their jokes, don't watch the show. End of issue.
More importantly, though, Kevin Hart performed in Saudi Arabia.
Who gives a flying fuck about any of this or any of these people, is the bigger question.
I find it funny that every negative comment about Kevin Hart seems to have a downvote.
Well now I guess we know what he is doing with all that cocaine energy. Neat that he is supporting the smaller social media platforms though.
Him saying it's just a job and the job was to create a successful production is exactly the kind of apathy the rich and powerful shouldn't be allowed to have. The banality of evil and all of that.
Kevin Hart is more than capable of creating an amazing roast without hiring known racists. I think the difference between Shane Gillis and the other comedian (whose name escapes me because he's not good enough to be on my radar, except for when he says some shitty things) seems to me to be undeniably massive. Shane doesn't come off as truly hateful, or racist, or misogynist, etc. Maybe I'm speaking from a white, straight, male comedy lovers' biased perspective but Shane's jokes feel like jokes where the truly hateful comedians' "jokes" feel like character revelations.
I think there's a place in comedy for roasts and I don't think we need to platform the worst people to make them successful or entertaining.
Well said. Thank you for articulating that.
what an unlikable guy. never understood his appeal
Who's Kevin Hart?
He was the subject of a roast.
See, the joke works like this: Kevin Hart has lost a lot of popularity and apparently gotten desperate to remain relevant (did I hear rumors of porn?), so thus, I pretend to never have heard of him. This is funny because it's a direct contradiction to what he's trying to do. The end.
Ah, I get it now. Totallyed whooshed, my bad.
i guess hes a comedian or actor or something. hes terrible, always has been. boggles the mind hes so popular
Some people used to find him funny a long time ago
He had some good comedy. When he was considered a comedian. Thats long past.
He also goes by Mark Normand.
Bret Hart's non-wrestling adopted black brother.
As a guy from ourside US the whole roast thing is baffling to me I know is a culture thing but the Fat guy bombed like 10 jokes outright and the Rock coming to hit on his wife was more sad rather than funny. There where some good ones but well still the question that got lodged in my head is why the fuck the fixation with "anything goes comedy" why you have to let anyone pick onto your worst because is comedy? I tought I would see something like Smosh's funerary roast but not even.
I'm from the US and if comedy roasts are a cultural phenomenon then I wasn't aware of it.
Yeah, I don't get them either. Best case scenario you can have a mild chuckle at the people you consider friends who know you the best exposing how they really see you after being given an invitation to do so and then living with that knowledge for the rest of your life. Worst case scenario all of the above, minus any lighthearted levity, but add in deep-seated insecurities causing you to become defensive and driving a wedge between you and your loved ones permanently.
Roasts are intended to be good natured. Insults from friends who actually like you a lot. They aren't meant to be taken seriously. And it's done with the consent of the roastee. Not everyone has skin thick enough for it.
At least, I think that's what you are confused about.
Yeah but some go like "anything goes" and that's just mean instead of comedy. Smosh's funerary roasts where much better they didn't seemed to go overboard.
Its a roast, so it isn't gonna be funny to begin with
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