I can’t tell if you’re still joking here, but in case you’re not - the SA accent is not the problem. The general joking and laughing about the mass rape of young girls is. “Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a bunch of cab drivers!” was bad enough, but “yowza” and “check please” made my skin crawl. What were you thinking? Do you really think lightening the mood is the tack to take here?
I can’t tell if you’re still joking here, but in case you’re not - the SA accent is not the problem. The general joking and laughing about the mass rape of young girls is. “Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a bunch of cab drivers!” was bad enough, but “yowza” and “check please” made my skin crawl. What were you thinking? Do you really think lightening the mood is the tack to take here?
Unbelievable response. Do you feel that is a fair summary of the podcast? Jokes were not being made while Jesse was describing the story, are you being serious right now?
If you wanna start litigating when people get to make jokes about what, you will not like the end result. Nothing is sacred. No one here is confused as to how horrific these events are. Humor is still extremely important and we forget that at the peril of our very souls. And I mean that!
The joke was very meta, in the sense that the funny part was precisely how inappropriate it would be to make such jokes given the underlying subject matter.
Worked for me anyway, I found myself chuckling in public at that point. But I'm something of a sucker for meta humor.
When I listen to the honest descriptions of what happened to those poor girls, I was absolutely enraged and wanted to commit violence on the men that did that to them. But as much as that affected me, and no way it was I put off by Jesse and Jeff doing what they always do; if all of a sudden they have to take a serious tone due to how *you* feel about this issue, then they've set a standard for everybody else to demand they do the same for *their* issue.
Yeah, I also took it— at face value— as gallows humor. Even as a little kid I found Michael O’Donoghue funny on olde-tyme SNL, so I’m comfortable with morbid humour- but it’s not for everyone.
Also, but… the situation of a comedian being invited on a show for a discussion of horrific crimes, is just f**king funny. Like “tough crowd” times a million
I can’t tell if you’re still joking here, but in case you’re not - the SA accent is not the problem. The general joking and laughing about the mass rape of young girls is. “Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a bunch of cab drivers!” was bad enough, but “yowza” and “check please” made my skin crawl. What were you thinking? Do you really think lightening the mood is the tack to take here?
Unbelievable response. Do you feel that is a fair summary of the podcast? Jokes were not being made while Jesse was describing the story, are you being serious right now?
I gave actual quotes from the segment.
Devoid of their context, though. That's not good faith.
Are you familiar with the concept of gallows humor?
Thank you
If you wanna start litigating when people get to make jokes about what, you will not like the end result. Nothing is sacred. No one here is confused as to how horrific these events are. Humor is still extremely important and we forget that at the peril of our very souls. And I mean that!
The joke was very meta, in the sense that the funny part was precisely how inappropriate it would be to make such jokes given the underlying subject matter.
Worked for me anyway, I found myself chuckling in public at that point. But I'm something of a sucker for meta humor.
When I listen to the honest descriptions of what happened to those poor girls, I was absolutely enraged and wanted to commit violence on the men that did that to them. But as much as that affected me, and no way it was I put off by Jesse and Jeff doing what they always do; if all of a sudden they have to take a serious tone due to how *you* feel about this issue, then they've set a standard for everybody else to demand they do the same for *their* issue.
Yeah, I also took it— at face value— as gallows humor. Even as a little kid I found Michael O’Donoghue funny on olde-tyme SNL, so I’m comfortable with morbid humour- but it’s not for everyone.
Also, but… the situation of a comedian being invited on a show for a discussion of horrific crimes, is just f**king funny. Like “tough crowd” times a million