Bad Comedians

Many comedians are considered to be bad. Their jokes are quite explicit, sometimes rude, sometimes racist, sometimes sexist, but comedians can get away with this through the medium of laughter and comedy. Sometimes jokes can be offensive and people will take offense to it. For example if a white man was to talk about a black man and refer to them a 'nigger' in a joke it might be deemed racist and offensive, but should a black comedian do the same thing it wouldn't be looked down upon. This link will take you to a comedian called Chris Rock who openly slates 'niggers'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6-Wc0PDc4.

Recently it was revealed that another bad comedian, Frankie Boyle (pictured below), made a string of jokes about people with down syndrome. While he was making these jokes he realised there were people talking in the front row, he spoke to this couple and the lady said their daughter has down syndrome. Frankie Boyle was unrepentent and carried on with the jokes anyway. This was too far and not even the medium of comedy can save a comedian when they make jokes like this. He probably would have recovered if he had stopped the jokes after he had spoken to the couple.
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Many jokes have to be taken with a pinch of salt. There are many sexist jokes towards men and women, for example, 'why do women have small feet?'...'So they can stand closer to the cooker', and 'what's the difference between a new husband and a new dog?'...'A dog only takes a couple of months to train'. When telling these jokes it would be a lot easier and more comfortable to say the joke against the man, this is because previously the country has been a very male dominated society and the joke against women could be taken offensively because times have changed.

Jimmy Carr (pictured above) can be quite a controversial and bad comedian. His jokes can be very crude, the audience he is aiming at is probably very young, but if an elderly person was to go to one of his shows some of his jokes may be offensive. Also he regularly interacts with the audience and makes fun of random people. Most of the time the people just laugh along but not always.

Comedy is about the only way people can express their minds these days. This is because it isn't serious. People who take things too seriously are very few and far between. Offensive jokes are always the funniest and this is probably because we know as an audience that the comedian is being bad by using that material.