(male, from what I hear), who seems to be shouting out shit just for the hell of it, just to grab attention. And yes, Carlin responds by saying he wants to see the guy raped. How disappointing. Not one of his better moments.
All I heard Pryor say was, "I'm gonna slap you in the mouth with my dick"--after someone (also male) heckled him about his mother. Crude, also disappointing, but hardly in the same league as "Wouldn't it be funny if someone gang raped her right here in front of me?" Tosh. And neither of them started the confrontation by stating how "rape jokes are always funny."
But it doesn't matter. Even if Carlin and Pryor said exactly the same thing as Tosh, in exactly the same circumstances, I'd still think it was gross. To me what matters most is what is being said, not the name of the particular person saying it.
I think it's interesting how male comedians use rape for comic effect, as opposed to, say, lynching. One apparently is acceptable, even to "liberals," while the other evidently is not. Just ask Michael Richards.
And you seem to think it matters that Tosh is "a liberal" and therefore should get a pass for saying things we'd be outraged about if said by a conservative. Or that if someone we otherwise admire does it, then "it" must be all right, no matter how ugly it might seem coming from another person.
To me that's just plain hypocrisy.
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