'F--- Sister Jean'

Let's remember this when your boy Avisail goes on a 22-game hitting streak.

 

Yes, but I think we've seen a proliferation in the ways which some rely on that subjectivity for stuff that's just profane and not particularly funny.

 

It was a stupid curse. A general, stupid curse.

 

It was funny in the way that the final scene of "Ghostbusters" was funny. Dan Akroyd tried to think of the most harmless thing he could think of, in order to spare themselves. And out comes the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, wreaking havoc.

Sister Jean is America's sweetheart. So, you know, fuck her. It's funny because no one would really ever think that. He was play-acting a fanboi overreaction.

 

Another example:

 

I’ve been told a time or two, “jokes aren’t funny if you have to explain them.”

I think that nine or so pages is proof enough.

 

I don't agree with this. I think some people lack a certain kind of sense of humor. It's why broad comedy is so popular. Everyone gets it. But it sucks.

 

If "Fuck Sister Jean" isn't the broadest possible comedy short of fart sounds, I'm not sure what is.

 

There are layers to it!

 

No, it's pretty much a single entendre buddy.

 

The Ghostbusters scene is funny because it's ironic. (And visually ridiculous.)

The tweet requires a whole lot of context that's...not on the page...to be funny. Authorial intent only informs the art so much. If you paint a green square, and then say, well, look, it's a commentary on how conformity breeds envy, don't you see that, most people are just gonna see the green square. And that's not on them. That's on the person who painted the green square.

Eff Sister Jean - everyone isn't enough. That's why he got shit on. Even "Man, eff Sister Jean" gives you a little more.

It was offensive, but it was more just a bad joke.

But, again, I love the protestation of the Internet being "soft." Man, the Internet's gone soft. You have a veritable insane asylum of white supremacists bouncing around the ol WWW, and it's soft.

 

True. But again, everyone's taste is different. And as you know, tastes change with the times. Eddie Murphy's "Raw" and "Delirious" were huge and, I would argue, important at the time. Try watching them today.

So not only is the definition of what's profane and what's funny subjective, but the cultural line between them is also constantly changing.

No wonder lots of jokes miss.