Written by TheChoujinVirus
Note: the following is based on my own opinions of the matter, do not take it personally.
Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.
I’ve been seeing and reading a ton of things about comedy. Yes, ya boy likes comedy and am a fan of some of the older comedians like Robin Williams and George Carlin. A lot of it I do enjoy, but some comedians ya boy isn’t fond of. Those are the ones who many views as punch-down comedians. To give a curiosity of what punch-down comedy, we usually may have to take a peek here with the late George Carlin’s statement:
To summarize, Punching Down usually targets those that are disenfranchised (such as PoC, Minorities, mostly those not in power or have any form of societal survival.)
Why is this a problem you ask? Well, I remembered that comedy used to be something of two creeds: Nobody got hurt and nobody cries. In short, usually, you could do something funny but not at the expense of mocking people for things that are issues. For example, it’s okay to make fun of some socio-economic issue or problem but not the people itself. Some people think that because South Park did it means it’s somehow okay to copy them (and usually when they try the shock jock route, it makes their idea worse.)
As for me, one such big stink was the Dave Chapelle situation on Netflix. Now, in my honest opinion, I wasn’t a fan of Chapelle. In fact, I only knew of him because of my high school days it was mostly just quoting “I’m Rick James, bitch” and other Chapelle stuff. It was kinda the internet meme of the days. Though comedy changes and things do, but the idea still remains:
Don’t hurt people and don’t make people cry.
Though don’t think that ya boy can’t say that you can’t do thing’s “offensive”. What ya boy’s trying to mention is one can do comedy and bash someone or something that doesn’t resort to offensive tropes. For example, you can let’s say bash Katlyn Jenner and make fun of them. Just make sure the punchline isn’t something that bashes their trans status in a negative light. Also just because it was funny ten or fifty years ago doesn’t mean it’ll remain funny now? Don’t get me started on folks using race and such
Why you ask? Simply put, Times change
As for comedy and the rules I go by and listen to? Because I want to be entertained by stuff that makes me (and others) laugh. Folks have other tastes but so long as they’re respectable, i’m fine by that.
why fine by that?
well then…
References
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