Jelly much?

Principle is the only reason to ever defend anything, period.

I didn't make my statement in a vacuum. I said it to someone who implied that some social-outrage was justified over the content of the joke because the joke itself wasn't sufficiently funny to compensate for its "edgy" nature.

How funny it was should have absolutely no bearing on how offended people get.

I thought McHale was awesome, and was the only reason to even watch the event. At least he made some harsh jokes that caused some Democrats, but mostly Republicans, to groan.

This event sickens me. Haha, yeah, boy, Obama those jokes about NSA spying and all of the other illegal nonsense you guys pull were hilarious! Almost as great as Dubya's WMD bit! Way to go, watchdog media! Way to keep their feet to the fire! You all deserve an event at which you congratulate yourselves!

Right, but this place shouldn't really be casting any stones at those who express fake outrage at the drop of a hat. I appreciate that you folks appear to be on the right track this time, but I get the feeling if a white male said this joke, you'd be up in arms even though the point of it would be exactly the same.

A black woman is getting scolded for making a joke about how she would have been raped, repeatedly, had she been "fortunate enough" to be a slave. I think this means the Offended Club has gone way too far.

Show me the last time a word gave someone a black eye, a bloody nose, or a broken bone. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Yep. Self-important, paternalistic behavior with a hint of weird white guilt thrown in for good measure leads to really pointless, awful, conversation.

You just said, definitively, that the joke was not funny, then proceeded to lecture her on what she had to do to be effective. I'd say the implication there is that you consider yourself an arbiter of speech and comedy.

But when people criticize a joke that is edgy, there's now this implicit threat that the speaker's job is at risk, or that they must apologize, or that they have to censor themselves in the future. People who appreciate comedy, and free speech in general, need to push back against everyone who has forgotten that…

Who cares if it was funny or not? It was a joke. Stop taking comedy so seriously. Live a little. Laugh a little. Have a good time.

"The main problem is that Jones' bit just was not funny: if she's going to tackle something heavy like this, she needed to illuminate the subject. "

"No, I think she's serious and that she really believes slavery was a good thing and wishes she would lead a life that included only rapings and pregnancy." - What Offended People must thik.

You'll never know if a joke is funny or not unless you throw it out there. Given that, I will defend everyone's right to be unfunny, and so should you.

People Who Love Being Offended tend to hate misdirection comedy.

Yep. It really boils down to Constantly Offended People get offended over something, because they can never stop being self-important and paternalistic.

Then maybe it just isn't your kind of comedy. That's fine. Change the channel when it comes on.

Is there any way to get people who have no sense of humor to quit limiting comedy? They really do just want to put an end to jokes like this. In that regard, they aren't much different than the whackjob conservatives who are offended by gay marriage and want to stomp it down.