• cpw
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    27 days ago

    Good comedy can punch up, but very rarely works when punching down. Punching down is generally just bullying in disguise.

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      26 days ago

      When punching up it’s funny, punching down is called bullying

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        25 days ago

        Jeselnik is a class act. What’s interesting to me is that the guy in the op, essentially has the same Roast style as Jeselnik. But the way they execute it is key.

        I saw some of the ops bits from a comedy central roast, and they were really funny… But when you put him in the context of being at a trump rally wave saying stuff like this it’s like “ohhh, you’re not making subvertive jokes, you’re just a bigot hiding behind ‘comedy’”