Should comedians have boundaries?

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Runa216 said:

Mnementh said:

I think George Carlin and Dave Chapelle are equally funny. And Chapelle makes mostly jokes about black people.

Chapelle was fine before the trans jokes started. Now that's all I know him for, and that's bad 'comedy' punching down. 

I dont really get the punching down bit. So are you saying Dave Chappelle is above trans people, so he shouldnt make jokes about them? or is it that he is famous and trans people are not, so he can only joke about people who are more or just as famous as him? 

Never really understood the punching down thing.