As some of you may recently have heard, Daniel Tosh made a not so subtle rape "joke" at a female audience member who was heckling him. So the story goes, he was telling his normal joke about rape (that is a normal staple of his act,) when the female audience member yelled out "Rape jokes are never funny!"
Tosh allegedly responded to the heckler by saying: "Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now?"
Now clearly, this isn't a case of a threat or anything of that matter. It's simply a comedian/performer dealing with a heckling audience member. So that isn't the issue here.
Tosh has faced a tremendous amount of criticism for this joke that he made, and people are calling for his new animated show to be pulled because it allegedly contains jokes similar to the ones he told during his act.
My question is: is this criticism warranted?
In my opinion, absolutely not. This woman brought this on herself. She purchased tickets to a Daniel Tosh show, a comic who is well known for telling horrifying jokes. On top of that, she took it upon herself to heckle him. Did she not expect a man like him to retaliate with his humor?
Discuss.
Tosh allegedly responded to the heckler by saying: "Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now?"
Now clearly, this isn't a case of a threat or anything of that matter. It's simply a comedian/performer dealing with a heckling audience member. So that isn't the issue here.
Tosh has faced a tremendous amount of criticism for this joke that he made, and people are calling for his new animated show to be pulled because it allegedly contains jokes similar to the ones he told during his act.
My question is: is this criticism warranted?
In my opinion, absolutely not. This woman brought this on herself. She purchased tickets to a Daniel Tosh show, a comic who is well known for telling horrifying jokes. On top of that, she took it upon herself to heckle him. Did she not expect a man like him to retaliate with his humor?
Discuss.