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Well, Life Didn’t Take Long To Prove My Point About Rape Jokes
First they came for the rape jokes.
You see, everyone has an axe to grind. If yours are rape jokes, I have to say, “tough it out.” Otherwise we have to outlaw comedy.
I don’t like when comedians talk about lightning. You see, I was struck by lightning, and it was very traumatic, and to this day it causes problems because of my phobia, so there is nothing at all funny about it and I want the jokes to stop.
See where I’m going?
Lesbian Suing Comic Eddie Griffin For Doing Lesbian Jokes
San Jose resident Fiona Walsh, 39, is mad. She went to see comedian Eddie Griffin perform in Pleasanton recently, and he wasn’t very nice to her. She says that she and her partner, Leslie Champlin, were sitting near the front of the stage at Tommy T’s Comedy Club on July 13 when Griffin stepped out, telling the audience ‘he was already drunk and had been drinking for nearly a week.” According to Mercury News, he noticed that Griffin wasn’t laughing, so the comedian taunted her from stage, saying she was “rigid” and she looked like a “librarian.” After noticing Champlin’s hand on her shoulder, however, that’s when Griffin went in for the kill.
“I was like a deer caught in headlights,” Walshe explained to Mercury News, adding, “I felt violated and stunned. I wasn’t expecting it to be so harsh and derogatory … That’s when I threw my drink at him, because I didn’t think he was going to stop. He was thrusting his genitals at my face, and it felt like it was the only defense I had — to throw my drink at him to stop.” Walshe was then attacked by Griffin, who threw water bottles at her and Champlin. A few salt and pepper shakers were also tossed their way as they were being escorted from the club.
Walshe will sue the comedian and club owners if she doesn’t receive and apology.
This brings other similar comedian-v-heckler litigiousness to light. In 2010, noted comedian David Chappelle had made anti-transgender remarks at a patron at the New Parish in Oakland. Most recently, Daniel Tosh joked to his audience about wanting to see a female heckler get gang raped.
Isobel Ingoldesthorpe
July 25th, 2012
Sorry but that analogy just doesn’t hold up. Thunder and lightning, whilst surely traumatic, doesn’t cause shame to the person hit (neither should rape, since it wasn’t the victim’s fault, but we all know it does). After being hit by lightning a person needn’t be attacked by a defense lawyer if she or he wants to see justice served, and the act of rape gets at the vulnerability and most personal part of a person like no other crime.
Lightning doesn’t even come close.
Sidekick
July 25th, 2012
Since when does someone have the right not to be offended?
old_oaks
July 25th, 2012
I have no idea who the comedian was but in college during parent’s w/e some comedy dick started in on “Dad Dude.”
To this day we laugh about it. Dad Dude got pissed and stormed out, 1 of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
Chuck U Farley
July 25th, 2012
@sidekick – Bingo!
Unneutral
July 25th, 2012
Make me laugh, as long as it doesn’t offend my senses.
Troy
July 25th, 2012
I used to go to comedy clubs with my girlfriend.
It was fun at first but then I got tired of all the anti-conservative jokes.
All of the black comics joked about was race and the difference between whites and blacks.
Plus I noticed that the evening would always end up with my girlfriend and I fighting for some reason.
Callmelennie
July 25th, 2012
So what’s the current payout for “feeling violated and stunned” — if you’re a white, heterosexual male, that is
Chuck U Farley
July 25th, 2012
I am so sick of all these libstains that are soooooooooooooooo offended by each and every little thing that they feel uncomfortable with. Geez, I bet you couldn’t go a day without toilet paper or Starbuck’s homosexual pedophilia-supporting latte’s.
Go to the back of the phucking line. Get a clue, or get Mumsie & Daddy to buy one for you, and transport yourself to some miserable phuckhole like Somalia or Islamabad. Then you may have earned the privilege of whining to the world about the lack of Unicorn butt-lick reamings, or aroma-therapy crystal vibration monkey shit coffee enemas in your life, you self-righteous piece of human flotsam.
Chuck U Farley
July 25th, 2012
BTW, this just goes to show that libstains are truly miserable people, and they want everyone else to be equally miserable. It is typical.
It shows in everything they do, everything they try to legislate. I’m on the rag, so everyone should be on the rag.
“It’s just not Fair.”
Life ain’t fair. If it was, I’d be the Triple Crown Winner for the New York Yankees on their seventh consecutive World Championship team and Rock Star in the off season. Guess what? Oh well, tough shit for me. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!
“It’s just not Fair.”
Dano
July 25th, 2012
Well, most comedians are LIBERALS so what this means is the POLITICALY CORRECT worshipers will be in a bit of a pickle when they are unable to SPEAK FREELY without fear of being CHASTISED by their peers and, of course, SUED by the ASSHOLES who are very INTOLERANT! Whew! That took a while… ciao baby.
CrustyB
July 25th, 2012
Countersue for racism.
Stranded in Sonoma
July 25th, 2012
Which one’s feelings takes more precedence — the liberal black comedian or the liberal lesbian?
It used to be that anything that was “offensive” to liberal blacks trumped everything. But that is changing now. It seems that the homosexual agenda has moved into first place among liberal grievances. Liberal blacks used to be able to get away with stuff. Not any more. Now they must kowtow to the homosexual grievance mongers.
How does it feel to be like a conservative, Mr. Griffin? You know, on the receiving end of liberal ire? Well, for just a few hours anyway.
Kalneva
July 25th, 2012
I commented on the Tosh thread and got only 2 llikes. What is wrong with people? I understand that rape is a traumatic thing. Just don’t laugh. If I got my panties in a wad over every joke I hear that is “offensive” to me, I would be a humorless, bubble-clad hermit. There are so few “entertainers” nowadays who don’t make classless, clueless jokes about decent, upstanding Americans e.g. Big families, flag wavers, Christians, etc., I can hardly watch tv or movies. But am I asking for their heads? No, I change the channel. That’s the difference between conservatives and liberals, right there. Conservatives Have our own ideas, libs always want to squelch the speech of people they don’t agree with, or find funny. That’s why I’m so disappointed in the people on this thread who want to silence the free speech of comedians whose jokes you don’t find funny. You’re turning to the dark side… Like I said in the thread a week ago, “first they came for the Polack jokes…” C’mon, people!
Mexican Crome
July 25th, 2012
Special treatment based on sexual orientation? Can you get out of a traffic ticket because you’re gay?
Genl Ripper
July 26th, 2012
scene from BLAZING SADDLES: “Next! What crimes did you commit?”
“Rape, murder, arson and rape.”
“But you said ‘rape’ twice.”
“I like rape.”
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Don’t have any rape jokes but I have a great Lesbian joke that I thought up back in ’97:
Q: why is catching no fish called Lesbian Fishing?
A: cuz ya went out fishing all day and you didn’t do dick!
I’m here all week, folks!
Mr. Pinko
July 26th, 2012
I hate bathroom / toilet humor.
Ya, sure. -bfh
michellesbigbeaver
July 26th, 2012
Whoopie Goldberg would say “come-on Fiona it wasn’t like it was really Rape-Rape”…….
Kalneva
July 26th, 2012
Jesuschrist, BFH, I would really like to know wtf has happened to the populace, even on a conservative blog thread. Wow. They have been absolutely brainwashed, with the idea in their heads that they’re enlightened. I guess it will be with a whimper, after all. No one gives a fuckin fuck about freedom, anymore. Hey, pussies! Don’t come running to me to protect you when it’s you they’re after, mmmkay? (I just may have arms that you little twats don’t) and I will not feel motivated to share after all this bullshit.
Anonymous
July 26th, 2012
Don’t mess with Undercover Brother!
fxdwg
July 26th, 2012
They’re comedians, telling jokes. Liberals/LGBT’s have no sense of humor and should not be allowed in comedy clubs.
Twellsy
July 26th, 2012
So I guess Don Dickles is going to be hit with a ton of lawsuits. I come from the old National Lampoon school of comedy, where everyone, EVERYONE, was a target. That was a time when, more often than not, a person could take a joke and didn’t take it personally.
Twellsy
July 26th, 2012
Christ! Did I actually type Don Dickles? Man, it’s still early in the A.M.. You all know who I mean.
Anonymous
July 26th, 2012
what a friggin letdown … two years ago the dumbass trashed a two million dollar LAMBO (meh, ferrari,?) now he’s trashing a TWO dollar LEZBO…
see what alcohol does for ya?
What Would Ded Kennedy Do? senator sandwich?
Anonymous
July 26th, 2012
“Rape jokes” are for misogynist creeps.
Fine. Perfectly valid opinion. Suing someone for telling a rape joke or a lesbian joke makes you an even more dangerous creep. – bfh
Tracy
July 26th, 2012
MONEY BACK AND LEAVIN’ TIME or MAKE A PROBLEM.
Once upon a time Andrew Dice Clay was big. Watch one of his routines, it’s easy to see, he abuses people in the audience. Still guys sat in the front row watching their ladies berated with impunity. I wouldn’t do it but different strokes.
Comedians aren’t always the most perceptive as to who can’t and can take a joke, some just don’t give a f_ ck. People get offended, it happens and in the same way a comedian sometimes bombs. Anyone can suck, even better stay home.
NObama2012!
Corona
July 26th, 2012
Liberals. Going to a comedy club. To laugh. Right.
Boobie the Racist Dog
July 26th, 2012
“You can suck your apology outta my dick.”
—- Charles “Lucky” Luciano
roachmanfwa
July 26th, 2012
Good thing Richard Pryor isn’t around anymore – he’d have to be the janitor BEHIND the stage instead of the star on the stage.
beachmom
July 26th, 2012
She must not be a convinced lesbian. If she were a full fledged lesbian, she would man up and not be offended.
BigFurHat
July 26th, 2012
Isobel,
To YOU it doesn’t come close. To me and the many many lightning bolt sufferers it is all too real. I take offense to you disregarding the true feelings of us citizens that have been assaulted by lightning, and the shame associated with being called a moron for standing under a tree with my 4 iron, like I was asking for it , or something, and will NOT let comedians speak of it while I am in the club, I will throw drinks on them!!!
!snip!
I have a tough time with people who have a tough time with easy to grasp concepts.
So I will leave you with this -
Let’s see, 1st amendment, your rape…. 1st amendment, your rape.
Nope. I don’t care that you were raped. I have to go with the 1st amendment.
I’m about to write a piece about the commenters on Salon, in regards to the Rahm Chick-Fill-A thing.
You might want to pay special attention.