Should comedians have boundaries?

[the-pi-guy]

shavenferret said:

Comedy vs dramas.

Why is it that comedy is so offensive in the first place? Comedians get a bad rap but you have drama movies featuring things like rape/murder/etc etc etc. But you people have panties in a viscous twist of over some jokes that are being made. see, I can't respect that. People are completely missing the idea of what is a big wrong vs a small one.

Dramas do get criticized. 

13 Reasons Why got criticized about how it was depicting suicide. 

But I think in general, dramas tend to show the consequences of something. Which is the biggest concern. 

Rape doesn't tend to be glorified in a drama, it tends to be a heavy experience that makes people feel bad about it. 

Whereas the comedy people are concerned about belittles that trauma. As I've said multiple times in this thread, you can absolutely joke about anything, what matters is how. 

Does your holocaust joke make fun of Nazis or does it make fun of people who think Nazis are bad? 

Does your drama convince people that rape is good or that rape is a bad traumatic thing? 

What is the message you're giving people? 

The thing that gets me about all of this is that plenty of people who understand that the message matters, suddenly don't think it does when it's hypothetical. Lots of conservatives are concerned about the messages that Hollywood, the gaming industry, news media is putting out. 

Ben Shapiro, on multiple occasions, has made a big deal about how the tv show Will & Grace has brainwashed people into accepting gay people in society. 

Yet somehow, when you ask the hypothetical question about comedians, it is now unthinkable that comedy could potentially have any kind of impact on people's behaviors and beliefs. I would say that most people don't actually believe that, when you really got down to it. I think that they're just concerned that these things will start to negatively impact them. 

Last edited by the-pi-guy - on 14 May 2025