I think the issue here, though, is not so much the inability to grasp the concept of comedy, but the fact “punching up” is generally more respected than “punching down.”

I get that people digest content differently based on a million different factors. I get that victims and those close to them (rightly) can’t tolerate jokes about this shit, but... I can’t be the only person who remembers how critical that skit was of Kelly.

“things I disagree with = troll”

you’re welcome. Good luck.

Literally some Handmaid’s Tale shit.

The only thing worse than Veterans would be, like, a blatant racial slur or something.

You’re right, next time I want to go to Tokyo form the US, I’m packing the minivan!

I see a lot of people being awfully cynical here. Meanwhile Tebow, living his best life, is soon going to settle down with a beautiful woman and Nel-Peters is going to have what every woman wants most, sex with a 31 year old virgin.

Come on. Can we decide that something is annoying, without it becoming a prejudiced comment about someone’s gender? Man or woman, that screech is downright annoying, and she’s doing it for half of the entire game.

Shut the fuck up.

Is HamNo gonna come in here and defend this too? You aren’t a real journalism outlet until you let both sides speak....

Wait, a popular comedian using a rare nationwide platform to inform people about a historical injustice almost no one knows about should be criticized because he didn’t take direct action to rectify those injustices? Is there like a group of militant comedians somewhere trying to stage an uprising or something?…

“Hey, why won’t white America acknowledge these injustices?”

No one is giving him a cookie. He’s a comedian who made a joke with a purpose. He’s not MLK, and he’s not pretending to be. Grow up.

Disagree. I disagree about the cookies part, that feels like a jaded stance to take, to jump ahead to the part where we’re assuming dude did it for the clout/props.

Cool. I’ll go back to not giving a fuck then. Solve your own problems. Nice 10,000 word blog entry about your indifference, by the way. Very productive.

thank you, Samberg said some real shit there and I don’t have a problem with it.

yet another display of “Yay Progressive Whites!” with the subsequent back-patting for calling out an obviously grotesque moment in American history on national television, yet doing nothing else about its historical effects on the community today.

“Pretending POC are just as bad erases the damage white people do when gentrifying.”

Most people really don’t get it. I have extremely liberal friends who think that if they work overtime and go into a higher tax bracket, they wind up taking home less money. I try to explain progressive tax rates, but people really don’t get it. And just last week I was sitting on a train from Denver to California and…