DarkD said:
Comedians walk a very fine line and take into account dozens of factors when making a joke. And this is referring to major comedians. There are very specific contexts in a comedy club which are taken into account. I really don't want to get into comedy clubs being used as an example because they are such a complicated example with very specific circumstances. They put their jokes through a thorough vetting process to make sure they aren't offensive to anyone. Yes they make jokes that can be perceived as sexist if you disect them, but there's a lot of careful considerations being made there. Take Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show, he often jokes about the Jewish, but he's jewish himself. He also avoids all the jokes that Jews really find offensive like oven jokes. And if he does reference those, it will be in response to a clip of someone else making that joke who really shouldn't have been making that joke. This is why you shouldn't even use those jokes unless you're a professional. This may as well be rocket science considering how carefully it needs to be done. |
Being a comedian is also a craft. It takes years and years of paying dues and getting booed off stages and failed material before most comedians have any taste of success.
I wouldn't watch a dentist for 10 minutes and then magically think I can do what a dentist can do and try to extract a tooth from someone.
Comedy is a pretty tough profession actually. You have to generally be very, very smart to be able to get there and have balls of steel to withstand the crushing rejection you're going to go through at points, you have to be very strong in how you frame the topics you do talk about too.
