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Bad Comedians
What is a bad comedian? The answer from me would be a person who makes light of a subject that re-enforces stereotypes on particular members of the community. This could be racial, social, cultural, or religious or a combination of them all. Everyone makes jokes in one form or another. How they are told and in what context has an effect how the joke or funny story is received.
Comedians that use a racial basis for there jokes are often seen as highly offensive, and it is this type of comedian that has received the most criticism over recent years. Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson, and Roy Chubby Brown are at the forefront in this type of stand up comedy.
As a person who is deemed an ethnic minority, I personally find many of their jokes extremely offensive. What I find most offensive about racist comedians, is their willingness to re-enforce stereo types that are inflamortary and not true.
Bad comedians use the stage to voice their own racial and social ideologies. The effect of this is to spread a belief that once killed millions of Jews and Polish people in the second world war.
About eight years ago I was stood out side a chip shop in my home town of Walsall. I over heard a small part of a conversation. One of the men speaking said to his friend "If Germany had won the war; we wouldn't have a problem with black people". I did nothing but pay for my chips and walk home. http://www.funny.co.uk/stand-up-comedy/
One thing I know for sure with out any "ifs" and "buts" speculation is that nothing like the holocaust will ever happen on that scale again. Mans fear to understand one another will be short lived in scale of time and history. Social integration is a part of evolution, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.
http://sheridanbeingbad.blogspot.com/2006/05/nasty-comedians.html
To you what defines a nasty comedian?
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