Some people find rape acceptable. Some people find murder acceptable. Some people find genocide acceptable. Some people are horrible and some people's actions should not be lauded by reasonable people.

"Stop trying to silence women about the problem of rape."

I love jokes about everything, and I'm bored.

The people who do and say the things you mentioned are awful people. Did Martin do or say those things?

Rape is terrible. No rational person supports rape. Doing so is misdirection humor to make the person telling the joke out to be an obviously horrible person.

"If instead, you said "what about cancer patients, eh? Fucking nerve to go around hair falling out, making funny noises when I'm trying to go to the store, slowing down traffic on the sidewalk. What the fuck is the matter with them?" I assume that very few people would laugh."

So, a murder isn't a tragedy? I don't understand why you're playing a game with words just to be combative.

It was the exact same as Louie CK's "Rape is never acceptable. Unless you want to have an orgasm in someone's body and they won't let you. How else are you supposed to do that if you don't rape them?" joke. The person telling it used misdirection to make themselves the butt of the joke, which is that they're so…

Exactly. Horrible people trivialize rape. That is exactly why David Brent's joke was funny, and it was exactly why Martin's was too. They trivialized rape. The audience should hear the joke and think "oh my god, only a real piece of garbage would do that! Why is Marin calling himself a real piece of garbage!?!"

Allow me to explain the joke to you. Martin is placing himself in the absurd position of being the obvious bad guy. No one finds rape acceptable. No one thinks that it is a humorous act. The bit here is that Martin is SUCH a terrible human being, he thinks rape is just fine. The bit is that he's awful. What's…

HOW DARE YOU MAKE A RAPE JOKE

How can you not know George Carlin and his rape joke about rape jokes?

It completely makes light of rape!! It trivializes it to nothing more than a way to get attention!

This joke made fun of the person telling the joke. He put himself in the absurd position of being an obviously vile and terrible individual. The bit here is that he painted himself as a CLEARLY horrendous person.

Please never express an opinion on comedy ever again.

And when a husband whose wife died of cancer hears a cancer joke, should he be outraged at the person who told it?

In poor taste: a joke about a hobbit raping an elf.

"Just imagine porky pig raping Elmer Fudd!"

Humans catch diseases daily, and we make jokes about it. Humans are murdered daily, and we make jokes about it. Humans die in accidents daily, and we make jokes about it.

In that bit, Martin Freeman did exactly what David Brent is. Martin made himself out to be an obviously terrible person. That was the exaggeration. That was the absurd piece that made it a joke.