Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 hours agoDave Chappelle accuses SNL of banning him from telling anti-trans jokes in his monologuewww.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down11
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkDave Chappelle accuses SNL of banning him from telling anti-trans jokes in his monologuewww.lgbtqnation.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 hours agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarerocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·7 hours agoYes, this is a flex for SNL. George Carlin said it better, but good comedy is punching up, not punching down. What we have now is multi-millionaires like Cappelle and Rogan competing to gargle the balls of multi-billionaires while calling it “entertainment”.
minus-squaresouthsamurai@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·6 hours agoYup, you can joke about anything, but you gotta do it well, and not base it in bullshit like that.
minus-squarezero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoEh, Carlin also famously defended jokes about sexual assault, so maybe he’s not the best role model for comedians punching up…
Yes, this is a flex for SNL.
George Carlin said it better, but good comedy is punching up, not punching down. What we have now is multi-millionaires like Cappelle and Rogan competing to gargle the balls of multi-billionaires while calling it “entertainment”.
Yup, you can joke about anything, but you gotta do it well, and not base it in bullshit like that.
Eh, Carlin also famously defended jokes about sexual assault, so maybe he’s not the best role model for comedians punching up…