Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

a) Lamp otm about humor as a reaction to tragedy

b) Jon it's fine if you're not okay with laughing at it but telling other people they deserve to die for thinking it's funny is taking it a bit too far. I don't think finding this stuff funny or not funny means anything in terms of your morals or what kind of a human being you are.

Agreed.

c) Jon - you often come across as really angry and quick to resort to name calling and stuff and that's never going to go over well, you know? In fact it probably works against you because ppl tend to concentrate on that rather than on whatever point you're trying to make.

d) woah hold the phone is that true about gandhi

― goole, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

LOL

I thought everyone knew the duck was GG

TBH everybody often seems to know stuff I don't know.

Okay, you guys are right I was 100% serious about wishing death on a troll's parents. Yep. Funny how the "lol jokes bro" applies to everyone else but me.

it's kind of difficult to claim "lol jokes bro" and "I AM FUCKING SERIOUS" at the same time

believe me, I've tried

but i thought you were REALLY OUTRAGED

Now you're just trying to play it off. Everyone saw what you said, and it clearly wasn't intended to be humorous. And if it actually was, how can you make a joke like that while chewing me out - not for making classless jokes, but for simply enjoying someone else's - with zero self-examination?

guys lets just hope this thread drops off SNA as quickly as possible, thnx

Fine guys, I'm the bad guy. You all win. Have fun with your nigger and dead baby jokes, assholes.

i think its just sad cuz until now i had no reason to be offended watching my aladdin & the king of thieves dvd

forget it, jon. it's chinatown.

to mitigate the dogpile because, given the subject matter I think it's totally understandable and unsurprising that emotions might boil over here, I think that if Gottfried's jokes had been less (for lack of a better word) lazy, I wouldn't have found them repellent

his ass still would have gotten fired tho

xp: I always find it interesting how ppl use arguments like this to take the opportunity to type the word "nigger" like they just got a hall pass or something

im more of a return of jafar guy

jon blanchard

Obviously I shouldn't have said what I did about wishing death on TamTam's family, but I was outraged that he would be defending those tasteless jokes. But, yeah, it wasn't cool of me to do so. I just don't get the idea that we all need to protect people's right to be tasteless assholes, but pile on anyone that might not like that. I mean, I know we live in an era of "lol this is the internet we say what we want get a helmet" etc etc, but goddamn I think its okay to be offended by stuff now and then.

in re: DJP's xpost I was gonna say what is it w/ppl super stoked that they "get" to drop the n-bomb when shit gets heated?

I pretty much felt awful as soon as I typed it, but it was in direct reference to that needless Gandhi ref.

Those jokes are the sorts comedy writers spit out when they're all sitting together at a table together, late at night, spitballing. With no one listening. GG's biggest mistake was not coming up with 25 more until he found a funny one, and then just tweeting that one winner.

Someone let me know when it's okay again to make fun of Whiney's Zooey Deschanel fetish again.

Let's see exactly how many posters we can call assholes either indirectly or directly on this thread. It think that should be really helpful, huh?

Can't say as I WANT anyone's parents to drown, but man, when they do, just sit back and wait for the lulz to roll in.

okay that was funnier than any of GG's tweets

gilbert gottfired

hey, TamTam is your mom Katy Perry perchance?

okay thread saved

I'm just going to go work on my new posting style where all I do is zing about the Holocaust and how crazy Muslims are so I can fit in, k guys?

Holocaust jokes! Now we're cooking!

I don't want to be called out for being cuddly, a few oven jokes should take care of that, righ?

I think it's an indication of odd priorities to bother getting outraged at ilxors when giant swaths of coastal Japan are simply gone and people are being evacuated and quarantined for radiation. I mean, OUTRAGED isn't very useful, is it?

in other words, relax, guy. Go find someone to send some money to.

Another soul lost...don't do it, jon--I'm 92% on your side.

So glad I'm the one still getting piled on here. Let the guy roll out his tasteless jokes, but fuck you for daring to be offended. God, this place.

I'm literally the only person on this thread who defended GG's jokes - at best a few other people had ambivalent 'eh they should've known what they were getting into w/Gottfried' responses. I think you just enjoy this 'one righteous guy against the world' schtick regardless of reality.

chill out watch a wheat thins vid of a little kid dressed up as iago eating crackers or something (xp)

"Chill out, relax, laugh at some dead people, be a bro."

Jon this is like the whole markers img posts thing all over again. I think being so defensive just makes ppl more likely to jump all over you. I think there are probably a lot of people on your side and some have said as much here! You're sort of asking for the pile on by keeping this up, you know?

literally one person defended gottfried

One person defended gottfried, but a whole bunch of posters itt have jumped on me for being offended about it.

no they jumped on you for being kinda a dick

jumping on you for being offended about it doesn't make any sense cause they were also offended about it

you are literally getting mad at everyone else for not being mad in 100% exactly the same manner as you and inventing positions for them so that you can yell a lot and feel sorry for yourself

it isn't really making any sense

No, I'm taking it personally because the whole vibe I seem to be getting is "chill bro, its okay to make fun of dead people".

not really gonna defend gottfried but at least i prefer his "jokes" to that family guy death toll stuff

hey jon I wrote a joke for you

what's the difference between a tsunami and gilbert gottfried?
one's a wall of water, and the other's a total asshole

jon not even GG has "made fun of dead people"

my co-worker is a friend of GG's, thinks he went too far. SO THAT'S SETTLED

Got it guys, I'm an over-senstive asshole. Point taken. YOU WIN.

Gonna go watch some videos of the tsunami and laugh at the destruction, cool?

Haha look at that mom crying over her dead daughter, that's HILARIOUS!