Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

I think you just enjoy this 'one righteous guy against the world' schtick regardless of reality.

From a baseball thread three months ago:

i mean really man, you get a kick out of the lone-clemenza-crying-in-the-wilderness thing--and that's ok! but drop the defensive ish.

Deja vu all over again!

who are you having this argument with?? nobody is calling you overly sensitive, just poorly sensitive.

Gonna go watch some videos of the tsunami and laugh at the destruction, cool?

I dunno the fact that you are saying this kind of make me feel like you don't really understand what the issue is here

i just had a terrible vision of gg apologising for getting carried away.

Jon, including myself, have been trying to make you feel better by explaining why ppl got on your case. If you can't see that then I don't really know what to say and the fact that you haven't dropped it and continue to post like this means that at least on some level you must enjoy feeling persecuted.

that should have said - people not "Jon" at the start there

jon, was that thread you started out of the blue a couple of weeks ago that was all "sorry for jumping all over everyone for no reason" that confused the hell out of everyone an elaborate setup for this? because if so, I can only applaud the dedication to craft

if not... I am very concerned about you

so who are they going to get to replace him? they're "casting" for a new duck but can you really replace that voice? i mean if his voice was easy to imitate is there any way he'd get the kind of work he did? he only has one voice!

WTF. I'm so glad I seem to be universally hated at this point.

GG shoulda stuck to local 7th-grade gallows humor, like Chinatown-bus passenger decapitation jokes

x-post - NOBODY SAID THEY HATED YOU

Jon can speak for himself, but I don't think he's enjoying this. I understand the distinction that everyone is making here--between the normal reaction of being personally offended by GG, and the certainty that everyone else should therefore be offended--and it's a valid one. But, just as I wasn't enjoying the baseball argument referred to above, I understand where jon's coming from: you're trying to make a point that seems as obvious as can be, and you're amazed and perplexed to find that everyone in the room sees it differently. So, issue aside, I don't think he's enjoying this.

um if that's a reference to me morbs I was not making any joke in that thread, people were literally decapitated and I found it horrifying

Iatee I don't think it was

omg everyone is so sensitive

It's OK we're all awesome and nobody's an asshole, OK?

Or maybe that should be that we're all assholes sometimes and that's OK too.

(hey Whiney, THIS is why your amateur anthropology meta-analysis shit is a bad idea, esp. in the middle of a heated argument that you have little to no previous involvement in)

You can watch this with the sound turned off and it's still funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoq6ZdRxJc

Yeah but it's good that Jon got offended because that is really the point of these jokes. He's not an offensive comedian in the common way of "wow that's so dirty and wrong but I'm still laughing", but rather he's trying to be truly offensive, and there really SHOULD be people who detest him for this. That's the point

guys this is an inane argument but basically i think it's a) absolutely ok to be offended by GG's jokes because, you know, we are still watching an unmitigated disaster unfold that involves actual, suffering human beings and b) possible to admit that it's a completely human and basically OK thing to tell jokes in the face of that tragedy because that is literally a part of every single culture on the planet. i've been pretty stricken by some of the stories and images coming out of japan these past few days, and thought most of those GG jokes were both bad, as jokes, and as things-to-even-say---but at least one gave me rueful lols.

whoever said that those jokes were like an unedited late-night comic riff sesh was otm---they really did not ever need to see the light of day, but they did. i don't think GG is a monster, i think he's a thoughtless d-bag who lost his job and probably deserved it. i also don't think tam tam's parents should drown to death---they should die in a fire imo

Finally, our first Holocaust joke.

say what now

lol

btw I didn't even read the fucking jokes and at this point I really don't even think that's what anyone is up arms about anyway.

ENBB for someone that keeps sticking their nose into a discussion, you sure don't bother reading much of the thread that the discussion is about.

no iatee, i didnt even check any bus threads since it happened.

i'll be taking the aisle seat next time i go to DC or Philly tho.

Um actually I read the first couple and decided not to read the rest because I got bored and I've read every other single post on the thread.

I don't hate you at all have liked you as a poster. I have been trying to be helpful throughout and explain why posters seem to gang up on you when you behave/react in a certain way. If you can't see that then the problem is clearly yours and not mine.

Also, why to be a total clueless dick.

err way to be, not way

when a man walks into a lamp-post we're not laughing at his pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdbElWMnkyY

it's really hard not to turn this into a zing fest after all the shit jon was talkin bout me during my ban

let the jury know, i'm trying to take the high road. or at the very least a higher road than i would usually take

I don't hate you at all have liked you as a poster.

Also, why to be a total clueless dick.

Lol, yeah, remind me again why I shouldn't be taking some of this personally?

bc rite now u r not only a client of the butt hurt club for men u r also the president

whoah that stern clip is o_O

Oh no, that was totally personal because on this thread you are, in fact, being a dick and needlessly singled me out.

Jesus

I mean seriously this thread is worse than the gottfriedgate thing itself. Everyone go find a corner to sit in for 15 minutes.

i wonder if whiney is really sitting on a fest's worth of zings.

xpost no one puts ENBB in a corner

hey asshole i live in a yurt, my house doesn't even HAVE a corner

x-post u got that right

Oh no, that was totally personal because on this thread you are, in fact, being a dick and needlessly singled me out.

I called you out for not even reading the thread you were commenting on, which seemed a pretty fair call to make. But feel free to keep calling me a dick.

FUN FUN FUN FUN

bergson said that comedy is ultimately about recognizing "something mechanical encrusted on the living"

the man's body failing to avoid the lamp-post reminds us that his body is a machine, and that it has failed; jokes guide us towards mental lamp-posts and when we smack into them we laugh.

the entire grand repertoire of "tasteless" jokes (challenger jokes, dead baby jokes) is no different, but provides another meta-level of smack - we know we're reading a joke, we're prepared to laugh but then our laughter runs into the lamp-post of the fact that laughing at something so grim is really not the done thing - but this very recognition of the inappropriateness of laughter itself completes the essential operation of comedy, which is that we recognize how mechanically we've been following the structure of comedy, how we are laughing at the wrong thing

if that makes any sense

kinda

man this thread

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/managainsttheworld.gif

• What is happening in Japan is really, really and awful
• Making jokes abt it is a) sometimes a coping mechanism b) sometimes someone being a total asshole c) sometimes both
• I bet if you argue enough abt this you will actually change ppl's minds, so keep doing it, ok?
• I guess I'm a pathetic spineless mushy cuddleking for finding it kinda gross to laugh at this sort of thing, but I can on some level at least *appreciate* the idea of a really fucked up joke, and these really aren't even funny. I mean, they could've been funny with more effort but when 95% of the lulz come from it being taboo w/o any real semblance of wit, it kinda falls flat.

Um actually I read the first couple and decided not to read the rest because I got bored and I've read every other single post on the thread.

It seems to me like you're the one not doing the reading.

i actually like TH's post a lot, so i say we sally forth

like stevie d's post a lot.

I actually once thought ENBB was a pretty cool poster, but now I'm starting to think she's kind of a bitch.

wtf man