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Thread #139853   Message #3211110
Posted By: gnu
22-Aug-11 - 06:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Racial specificity in jokes
Subject: RE: BS: Racial specificity in jokes
If a joke is good, EVEN if it is "ethnic", it is good and it doesn't matter WHO tells it as long as the person it is told to has a sense of humour.

I live by "Fuck em if they can't take a joke." Life is too hard not to have a laugh... as long as it's a good joke. Sometimes, a joke sucks... might even be abusive to some... but I overlook that, voice my negative opinion and move on. But I seldom deride someone for attempting to make a joke unless it is truely offensive and that has to be pretty far out for me to do so.

One of the hottest comics these days is Russel Peters. A Canuck of Indian heritage. His humour is substantially ethnic and people eat it up... because he is making fun of the stereotypes, the imperception between cultures. He is making fun of humans and their inadequacies at UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER.

Google that ethnic humour by Russel Peters and if you don't laugh, well... I think you know vahtyoucandobuddy.