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rwilymz

(4 posts)
8. I take it you haven't really watched tosh.0
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:27 AM
Jul 2012
His show is all sexism, all the time

That's just about as incorrect as you can get.

It's all un-PC all the time.

He rags on women, EVERY minority there is and then some, southern hillbillies, Lebron James, and he spends an inordinate amount of time playing himself up as gay.

If the only thing you can see is him ragging on women, then I'd go to an eye doctor, cuz you can't see very well. If your eye doctor gives you a clean bill of health, then go see a neurologist, because you don't seem to be processing the other gratuitous broad-brush offenses very well.

...unless, of course, you don't think it's a broad-brush offense when he gets shots of his [small] audience split up into hispanics on one side and "anglos" on the other, then he says something unkind about hispanics and gets a quick shot of his audience with the "anglos" all cheering and stomping, and the hispanics sitting there stone-faced, that is. In which case I'd ask you why you're anti-hispanic.



I don't understand why it's still on the air.

This may be your lucky day. Viacom - parent company of Comedy Central as well as a handful of other cable channels - has gotten into a micturation contest with DirecTV over the fees for carrying its package, and hence one of the largest outlets for Comedy Central is now blank.


But seriously ... you watch South Park, which satirizes [what would appear to be] your brand of feminism on a fairly consistent basis, and you run screaming from Tosh? Seriously?

Is mockery rendered harmless when dispensed by poorly animated grade-schoolers with foul mouths? About the only real difference [beyond the animation] is that Tosh is generally more blunt about it.

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I'm sorry but anyone who take anything Daniel Tosh says as serious is a fool Drale Jul 2012 #1
I think in order to qualify as satire LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #3
I love comedy. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #4
Who or what is he "satirizing?" thucythucy Jul 2012 #5
Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #7
He is a shock comedian Fearless Jul 2012 #9
And like most "shock comedians" thucythucy Jul 2012 #11
Rush Limbaugh is a conservative Fearless Jul 2012 #15
Inciting your audience to attack someone who heckled you? n/t LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #17
Clearly no one there took the statement seriously. Fearless Jul 2012 #19
And that of course makes it OK LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #21
It answers your question Fearless Jul 2012 #22
Please point me to a link showing George Carlin thucythucy Jul 2012 #18
Here... Fearless Jul 2012 #20
Carlin is responding in anger to a random heckler, thucythucy Jul 2012 #23
I'm saying that there is a difference Fearless Jul 2012 #24
It doesn't matter in the least to me thucythucy Jul 2012 #25
To me langauge is shades of grey not black and white. Fearless Jul 2012 #26
Do you think Bill O'Reilly actually wanted someone to shoot LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #27
This -- obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #31
When are gay bashing jokes funny? obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #30
IF a gay man or gay friendly man was making gay jokes? Fearless Jul 2012 #34
There are no such things as rape jokes obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #29
I wrote a long screed on Tumblr. liberalmuse Jul 2012 #2
Spam deleted by Warren DeMontague (MIR Team) dumbaboutoberapedbro Jul 2012 #6
I take it you haven't really watched tosh.0 rwilymz Jul 2012 #8
Aww, you registered just to tell me to see an eye doctor? LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #12
I've honestly never heard of him before this. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #13
You might remeber the one-trick pony show... Dr. Strange Jul 2012 #14
Or Dane Cook. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #16
Bingo! obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #32
Whiskey ta- aw fuck it, what a fuckwad (Tosh, not the woman) Taverner Jul 2012 #10
Guy seems like a serious ass. It is possible to be edgy and shocking w/o being mean and hurtful Warren DeMontague Jul 2012 #28
That's a good point obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #33
I'm locking this thread because it has veered away from a safe haven discussion Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #35
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