• king_comrade@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I really find this take to be completely low minded. Comedy is more than making a statement and receiving laughs for it. You might say comedy is on a spectrum and offensive humour is ,I’d argue, near the bottom of it. The absolute best comedians are the ones who can take a complex and sensitive topic and have you laughing about it. The worst type of comedian is one who goes full kramer and then gets mad that no one finds it funny. However, fundamentally the quality of a joke is determined by the audience and never by the jester. Joke about anything you want but if no one’s laughing you’re probs just a cunt hiding behind a thin veneer of ‘humour’.

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      You missed the point completely. Shit posters DON’T CARE if you find it funny. But they are amazed at those with such empty lives that they would impose their “virtue” on a meaningless shit post. I hope my life never becomes so empty that I am in a constant state of rage as I condemn all that don’t 100% agree with all my view points

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        your life is at such a low point where people being annoyed at shit posts bothers you though. such that you feel the need to defend and define what ‘real shitposting’ is and should be about.

        is it really about them? or is about you feeding the trolls.

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          It’s about people with empty lives devoid of humor and living a life of rage

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            people like yourself? because that’s how i’m interpreting you based on your posts here.

            you can’t seem to let other people do their thing.

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        Aight chill babe, firstly making the shitpost is as brain dead as the replies to it, we are both wasting time in a very niche corner of the internet. Secondly, I didn’t see this was the shit post community 😅 that’s on me. You do seem a bit prickly for someone ‘making a joke’ though, maybe cos you’re a shitty jester. Now dance little meme monkey, dance and make me more memes to ridicule!

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    3 days ago

    Therefore my racist joke is funny. You don’t get to decide because you didn’t laugh at it.

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      Exactly, you still be a racist, homophonic, xenophobic, whatever phobic idiot and still be funny. That doesn’t mean your beliefs or perspective is legitimate or agreeable, it just makes you funny.

      One of my wife’s old aunts was one of the funniest ladies I knew … wild sense of humor and she could make anyone laugh. But she was a complete conservative and racist.

      She had the Irish kind of humor where she could literally make insults at you and about you or someone else and still make you laugh.

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      Racist jokes are often hillarious.

      You don’t make racist jokes because they’re not funny. You don’t make racist jokes because they’re racist and dehumanizing.

      A joke doesn’t don’t stop being funny because it’s racist, but it does become dehumanizing and reflects very poorly on whoever is telling the joke. It also signifies a lack of wit because racist jokes are often very, very easy most of the time.

      It’s not that someone telling a racist joke isn’t funny. It’s that they’re also a piece of shit.

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      I have tremendous admiration for the works of Python, but yeah, especially every time I’ve seen him in the last few years, especially discussing this concept, he’s just awful.

      just an absolute twatwaffle

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    Seems about right. Is this a rare time where Lemmy has a sense of humor?

    Haha. Seems like alot of people are taking offense. Perhaps mr. Cleese is poking a sore spot here.