Argumentative Essay: Does Comedy Have Limit?

The idea that comedy, or even entertainment as a whole, should have limits have been around for a while now. Angry parents and social justice warriors have gone out of their way to stop, or limit, the comedians who use offensive humor. Some comedians see the uproar of the people to stop making offensive jokes while others see it as a challenge to upset the most people. Now, most comedians don’t want to lose their jobs so they still don’t push the limits too far; that is, unless that's how they keep their job. South Park , Daniel Tosh, or Sarah Silverman are comedians and TV shows that keep on pushing the limits to make comedy have no limits. Comedy shouldn’t have limits because if they can make something that is as awful as something like …show more content…
One of those jokes was a rape joke so it got all the attention. Tosh was in the middle of his show telling some rape jokes when someone took it seriously: ”a female audience member informed him that ‘rape jokes are never funny,’ in retribution Tosh said it would be hilarious if she were gang-raped right there in the club”(West). That joke got so popular for how bad it was out of context. Everyone just heard the one joke from his performance and thought he was just talking about how rape is ok. He got into a subject and the girl interrupted him and he responded with something he thought was funny and the crowd responded with laughter. He later did make a public apology to her trying to smooth things out. Now people have the right to criticize comedians, but they shouldn’t be forcing people to give an apology because people took his joke literally. He was using satirical comedy to over exaggerate the idea of rape. Satirical comedy can appear like they are agreeing with the thing they are joking about, when they aren’t, because satire and parody are literally just copying what the person or thing they are making fun with a little more