The Laugh Factory seems to be a dangerous place for a lot of comedians that have a tendency to stomp past the line of decency.
Back in 2006, Seinfeld‘s Michael Richardson went on an infamous racist rant at the club while responding to a heckler. More recently, Dane Cook received backlash from fans and comedians alike after a “vicious, misogynistic, cruel, and arrogant” set, but now it’s Comedy Central star Daniel Tosh‘s turn to feel the heat.
The comedian apparently made some VERY insensitive comments about rape jokes always being funny last Friday and one woman spoke up by saying, “Actually, rape jokes are never funny!”
A Tumblr account, which details the offended woman’s experience at the El Lay comedy club, explained:
“After I called out to him, Tosh paused for a moment. Then, he says, ‘Wouldn├óΓé¼Γäót it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her├óΓé¼┬ª’ and I, completely stunned and finding it hard to process what was happening but knowing i needed to get out of there, immediately nudged my friend, who was also completely stunned, and we high-tailed it out of there. It was humiliating, of course, especially as the audience guffawed in response to Tosh, their eyes following us as we made our way out of there. I didn├óΓé¼Γäót hear the rest of what he said about me.”
Yikes! If that account is accurate, those comments are pretty awful!
The Tumblr spread like wildfire throughout the web and has since prompted the Tosh.0 star to issue some sort of an apology on Monday, when he tweeted:
all the out of context misquotes aside, i’d like to sincerely apologize j.mp/PJ8bNs
— daniel tosh (@danieltosh) July 10, 2012
He also clarified his intentions behind the “joke” by adding:
the point i was making before i was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them. #deadbabies
— daniel tosh (@danieltosh) July 10, 2012
We think it’s safe to say that some awful things in the world just shouldn’t be made fun of.
[Image via WENN.]
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