Will Smith and Chris Rock

Also,

some things aren't funny.

 

Like a million other things, that's a situation where the Constitution was written well prior to today's reality. There are so many other instances where Constitutional law doesn't keep up with the new world order.

You may correctly surmise that I don't accept Constitutional law as infallible.

 

The quote is from a case in 1942.

And the point isn't whether the Constitution allows or disallows or defends a kind of speech.

But rather that Chadwick vs New Hampshire recognized as common sense that words can be materially inflammatory.

So it's possible to go too far.

And again, some things are only insulting, not funny.

Not everyone is thin-skinned.

 

Part of the art of being an insult comic is choosing the right subject. If your shtick is going to cause a shitstorm, you likely chose poorly.

 

Why would you assume that I was a public figure if I was at a comedy show? Why would you assume I'm a guy? I'm a woman with alopecia and if someone made fun of me in public for it, I don't know if I'd ever be able to leave my house again. That is not hyperbole.

 

I think we agree that roasts are the only setting these days in which an insult comic might work freely.

Triumph did it for years of course, but the bits were taped and edited and mostly done with public figures. It's not as if Smigel was calling out civilians in the front row at the Chuckle Hut.

 

I'm not sure it's total agreement, but I do acknowledge that the landscape has shifted. (Not necessarily for the better.)

 

Women be shoppin’, baby!

 

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/...apping-chris-rock/O3J5CI6C6ZARJHDORJY3TJTWSQ/

Sykes and Schumer are "traumatized?" I have to say - that Chris Rock is the last person in the world to add their two cents to this, makes me like him even more.

 

Meanwhile, in one of the funniest scenes on local TV here ever, the station I was watching (I assume all the others were too) was set up outside the Ritz-Carlton to get liveshots of Rock getting into the limo to go to his show. There were loads and loads of paparazzi there, too. In the liveshot, Rock does not appear, but the Miami Heat, staying at the same hotel and playing the Celtics tonight, came out to get into the team bus. And they're shunned! All the paparazzi turn away with disgusted looks. The Heat players looked totally baffled. What, no one's making a fuss over us?

 

John Dennis would have slapped Jimmy Butler