Should comedians have boundaries?

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OneTime said:

While I 100% agree with Freedom of Speech, over the years I have come to think that good comedians are family friendly.

If you are funny, you are funny. If you need to put swear words in, or use "shock tactics"... well... that's usually because you're not very good.

That's the same with a lot of stuff actually: in films you get excessive violence, excessive action scenes, something that gets called "gritty and realistic", excessive romance, jump scares, and so on. They do it because they aren't good at writing a plot, so they put a 10 minute car chase in.

So, Jimmy Carr, Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais are all terrible comedians; and the Goodfellas, Godfather, and Perfect Blue writers aren't any good at plot.

On a side note of gritty realism, my favourite pornography films all use the word "fuck", contain excessive romance, and jump scares.