Just one question, though. Shouldn't the people who laugh at such humor be castigated for laughing at it?
I mean, his audience, for instance.
I've watched his show. I think it's funnier than Jon Stewart's or any of the late night talk shows.
I watch already knowing his darts are aimed at people like me.
But, the weird thing is, his audience laughs uproariously at these kinds of bits.
Am I to assume someone on his production staff roams the streets of New York and purposely finds people like myself to fill the seats?
If not, are we to believe that the people in his audience are laughing at the idea that people like me find this kind of humor funny or do they find the bit funny themselves?
Hmmmmm. I wonder.
Stick with the rule book.
You can only make fun of white, Christian, heterosexual males...
He’s what liberals believe we are...............
Given how few people watch or are even aware of his niche show, he shouldn’t assume that people would see that he was attempting satire.
His audience = Purposefully ignorant
I have to ask...who are the “outraged”? I’m betting it’s not the Asians.
They’re all at work, building a life, providing for their families.
They ain’t got time for this childishness.
Sure. Let the hypocritical outrage begin.
Not a fan, but am getting sick and tired of this business about someone finding any stereotypical humor sooooo offensive that the person responsible must be fired, pilloried, flayed alive, and fed to the dogs. People should lighten up. This idea of racism has truly jumped the shark. Don’t like what the guy says? Change the channel. People pretending to be outraged by this crap remind me of the line: “Methinks he doth protest too much.”.
I’m surprised how many Freepers actually watch this self righteous turd
Jon Stewarts mud baby.
It is considered poor manners to make fun of a group that you are not a part of. Jeff Foxworthy and his compatriots make fun of themselves, so it is okay, we can laugh at ourselves. What is not okay is for someone who is an admitted liberal in real life to make fun of conservatives. This is tantamount to a white person putting on blackface to make fun of blacks. Plus, he gets us all wrong.
Am I the only one who thinks Steven Colbert is The Governor of Connecticut ? :)
Uh oh! Making fun of orientals is a slippery slope. He might just receive a visit from a chink in armor. He will probably claim it was an Occidental mistake.
The cool thing is the people who are upset with Colbert are MAD at WHITE LIBERAL ELITES.
That’s great. It works for us.
It’s the same bunch of haters - white liberal elites - who attack conservatives, southern whites, the middle class, conservative Jews, Asians, and conservative blacks and anyone else with traditional values - nice to see an elite get a little blowback...
“But this isn’t about white liberals wanting to change the name, or their devotion to destroying settler-colonialism: It’s about their feeling entitled to make jokes about “The Other” in the name of “progress.”
The above from link:
http://time.com/42174/we-want-to-cancelcolbert/
White liberals... earlier it said ‘white liberal elites’... guess someone ‘toned’ it down.