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Reginald d hunter joke...is this racist
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Tyrone Biggums
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Comedy has and always will be about pushing the boundaries.
That's how comedy and jokes work. You need to tell them to to an audience to work out if they are funny or not. If people laugh it's worked, if people don't it didn't.
The fact some people are offended makes absolutely no differene to the joke itself.
As with Jimmy Carr's baby in a blender/erection joke.
Might offend a few people but just as many will find it hilarious.
That's how comedy and jokes work. You need to tell them to to an audience to work out if they are funny or not. If people laugh it's worked, if people don't it didn't.
The fact some people are offended makes absolutely no differene to the joke itself.
As with Jimmy Carr's baby in a blender/erection joke.
Might offend a few people but just as many will find it hilarious.
Not racist and not that funny.........I like him otherwise though, he's usually pretty good.
Captain Sensible
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I think it is racist, personally I'm not offended as I'm not either of the things mentioned in the joke and also I'm not one of these people that gets offended on someone else's behalf. But let's not beat around the bush here, if it had been said by any comedian not of black race or indeed by a bloke in a pub or a builder on a building site, it would immediately be deemed racist. It's about who it's being said by. To me that just isn't an excuse. The n word term being used in a derogatory fashion in the world is not helped by numerous black comedians that regularly use the term. We regularly hear that the term should never be used by anyone in any context, that last person I heard say that was Obama.
looney
Banned
- Jul 7, 2003
- 15,652
The fact you cant tell when I am trolling or not is a bonus in the amusement sphere for me and anyone who doesn't have you on ignore.
BadFish
Huge Member
- Oct 19, 2003
- 17,888
It is true there is a fine line between trolling and dumb abuse. Sadly the former takes wit and intelligence no surprise you so often resort to the latter...... when you are not banned anyway
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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It is true there is a fine line between trolling and dumb abuse. Sadly the former takes wit and intelligence no surprise you so often resort to the latter...... when you are not banned anyway
There's no mistake about your posts though, they contribute nothing and just add up to having a tearful whine.
GloryDays
Well-known member
Very bad comedian. That quote in particular highlights how little he regards his audience's sense of humour. Cheap.
Superphil
Dismember
We saw him at the Dome a few years ago, used the N word a lot, but also used ****** a lot, not sure it went down well with many people. Refered a lot to his usage of canabis, I think he may have had rather a lot before he came in stage. I have enjoyed him immensely on tv in the past, but after that show I kind of went off him, he really didn't get too many laughs, and quite a few uncomfortable silences.
Well said that man!
Nail on the head!
Years of a Labour government forcing us to believe, to even question, think or dare to say anything that might offend anyone or anything in a minority is sacrilege and you have no right to an opinion because you are white and therefore must be racist if you do.
Superphil
Dismember
As the word sensor has removed it, it's a derogatory word often used to mean homosexual, starting Fag...
But remember as a white person we are no longer allowed to think, say or have an opinion on anything that might in the slightest way 'hurt the feelings' of anyone or anything. And if you do, you're a racist! But at least it's not one rule for us and another for them.........!!!!!
oneillco
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- Feb 13, 2013
- 1,272
Errr...actually yes you can, and no it's not.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,465
A manifestatim of this was the way the looney left made talking about concerns on immigration a no go area. Crazy. You would hope lessons have been learnt but i suspect not
Spot on sir!
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
https://news.sky.com/story/reginald...raeli-audience-members-told-to-leave-13197406
Police are investigating a potential hate crime at an Edinburgh Fringe show after two Israeli audience members were “hounded out”.
Scotland’s national force has confirmed it received a report of a “hate incident” a gig on Sunday by Reginald D Hunter, the American comedian, and said it was “reviewing the circumstances”.
Hunter was heard telling the audience members, who said they were from Israel and one of whom was disabled, to leave after they briefly heckled him over the joke, saying it was “not funny”.
As they left his show, called Fluffy Fluffy Beavers, they were booed and heckled with expletives from other audience members after Hunter verbally attacked them.
The comedian went on to make an anti-Semitic joke about being unable to access a review of one of his shows on a Jewish newspaper’s website. He said: “Typical f---ing Jews, they won’t tell you anything unless you subscribe.”
Police are investigating a potential hate crime at an Edinburgh Fringe show after two Israeli audience members were “hounded out”.
Scotland’s national force has confirmed it received a report of a “hate incident” a gig on Sunday by Reginald D Hunter, the American comedian, and said it was “reviewing the circumstances”.
Hunter was heard telling the audience members, who said they were from Israel and one of whom was disabled, to leave after they briefly heckled him over the joke, saying it was “not funny”.
As they left his show, called Fluffy Fluffy Beavers, they were booed and heckled with expletives from other audience members after Hunter verbally attacked them.
The comedian went on to make an anti-Semitic joke about being unable to access a review of one of his shows on a Jewish newspaper’s website. He said: “Typical f---ing Jews, they won’t tell you anything unless you subscribe.”
Molango's visa
Molango's visa
That post aged well. It was a reply to Looney.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Saw him many moons ago in a club under the arches (might have been Coalition). Two older peeps in the small crowd walked out after heckling him as not funny and were hounded by him on the way out. Afterwards, he explained how the joke they didn't like wasn't actually saying what they thought it was but..... tbf he couldn't give a rat's arse if they were offended. Doesn't seem much has changed with him in 20 years!
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
- 6,514
OMG that's appalling! I saw a comedian the other day suggest the Scots were tight, the Irish were thick, the Germans humourless, the English snobby and up tight and Yanks were fat and boorish. Obviously I walked out in disgust!
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
What a pleasant world we live in.