Reply to Seriously - all this grief over Joan Rivers?

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "Seriously - all this grief over Joan Rivers?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 8:03 - read the list, thought the jokes were funny. And didn't see a racist one.

Her holocaust jokes remind us of the atrocities --- and it's a good thing since generations younger than me don't really seem to have a real grasp of it. So, while shocking and certainly not PC, the jokes serve a purpose by keeping the topic alive.

You just don't get her comedy. But many of us do...[b]including her peers in the comedy world who adored her. [/b]

Ps - just because a person tells a crass/racist/whatever joke doesn't mean they personally are crass/racist/whatever. You need to learn to separate the jokes from the person.

[/quote]

If you read the comments of many of the comedians who have commented on her death, you will see that relatively few praise her comedic talents but they do acknowledge that she was the one who broke through what was until her arrival a segment dominated by men. Even some of her detractors acknowledge this to be a fact. But her ability as a comedian pretty much ended with her late night talk show hosting ending up as a flop.

Admittedly there are a few among her peers who think she continued to be funny but they are a minority. The simple truth is that nasty attacks that demean other people  and making racist jokes are not well received especially when they are a staple of a comedian's humor. Sadly, that was her trademark and all that she was capable of doing.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics