A dork with a gaming channel that for some reason generation-z kiddies embraced to their hearts to the tune of millions of Youtube dollars. Apparently, he also hates Jews.
The threat to comedy is from self-declared moral guardians such as yourself. It's bad enough that many comedians have commented on it and some refuse to do college campuses anymore thanks to it. Because only someone who completely lacks any intellectual honesty would conflate the two.
It's completely consistent. It's saying if your comedy is so bad people can't tell it's comedy, don't be surprised when people interpret it as not comedy.
According to Google, Jerry Seinfeld has a net worth of 820 million dollars. Chris Rock is worth 70 million. Seinfeld just signed a deal with Netflix. Yeah, those college kids are really hurting them.
They are not weighing in when they are not here to discuss things with. If I wanted to see their opinion I would have looked. If I wanted to give them a paycheck I would click on their bullshit. I did not care to do either, and perhaps you are just here to spam advertise for these losers?
These fucking red skins. They're alcoholic uneducated casino janitors and somehow think they understand important issues like YouTube and eurotrash racists.
Don't bother trying to find out. My ex introduced me, and for some reason she found him funny, whilst I found him to be a screeching imbecile.
No. I just had a read of that, and they're right. One of my favourite comedians is Jerry Sadowitz, a man who knows few bounds and whose humour would have the SJW set spontaneously combusting in utter outrage. He goes much further than PewDePie, but people get the joke. Well, mostly, at one gig it was filled with students who had apparently not comprehending an act branding itself as the most offensive one in the world, might, y'know, be offensive.
Yeah, Frankie Boyle gets a lot of this himself. Whether or not the audience "get" the joke can be a big part of perception. My mum hates Frankie and considers him "vile and disgusting" but she'll piss herself laughing over the same sort of stuff from Cornish comedian Jethro just because he makes his act a rambling, jovial "dirty old farmer" rather than "angry Glaswegian".
Where's the humor in paying people 5 bucks to hold a sign saying "Death to all Jews"? In reality that's pretty lame and lazy.
Look at Eddie Murphy. Pretty much universally beloved, yet no part of his early '80s "I hate faggots" routine would fly today. Sensibilities change, and smart successful comedians are able to change with them.
Except that the blacks generally, in fact, still "hate faggots." So as a vehicle for society's introspection through humor, catering to pc "sensibilities" has removed another avenue, comedy, for airing society's foibles to possibly raise awareness (beyond a laugh) and perhaps engender some honest debate.
I was talking about comedic sensibilities, not PC sensibilities. Seriously, go watch some of that stuff. It's just cringe-inducing. There's certainly room for a current-day comedy routine on black homophobia (which is yet nowhere near as general as you describe), but jokes about having to guard one's anal integrity when a "faggot" is around just don't resonate anymore.
^Fair enough on the specifics, I didn't know the details. I was addressing a more general intolerance of words that offend certain protected segments of society, but find other culture specific slurs and jokes quite funny, even reasonable. Decades ago: The Sprouts. The Phlegms. Miserable fat Belgian bastards? Or more recently as Matthunter might ask, how does a Welshman find sheep in long grass? Irresistible. Funny and acceptable, but Belgians or Welsh are not protected classes so any offense is purely irrelevant and not compelling.
Hard to say how much is due to PC and how much simply due to changing tastes or even dare I say greater sophistication on the part of audiences. Broad ethnic stereotypes were a staple of American comedy for decades. Today they're an uncomfortable anachronism. Take Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Is it politically incorrect? Sure is. Is it funny? Ehh… not to me, and probably not very many people my age or younger. But you may have a point about the Welsh, or any population considered provincial being a safe target. I'm thinking of any sitcom set in New York where the character from the Midwest will always be depicted as hopelessly naive, sexually repressed, etc.
It really depends on how you do it. Look at David Chappell. His humor is very race and difference oriented. I always got the idea his humor is more inclusive and appreciative. Not to mention he will mock black people also. We have cultural differences, but it does not mean we all fall into a stereotype, and it does not mean that if we do it is a terrible thing unless the behavior is bad. People like PDP and Milo are negative when they make racial references.
You disagreed with my Indian jokes? I don't understand. I was just kidding. It's all cool. Don't get your headdress in a bunch, Chakotay.
You can pay any idiot to do anything. This is hardly something special or groundbreaking. And I say this as a guy that likes offside humour.