[News] Daniel Tosh is an ass.

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GasBandit

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I agree, if she didn't find the performance to her liking, she should have left. However, I also think he should have pointed that out to her instead of saying, literally, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if she got, like, raped by 5 guys right now?"

Er, yeah, what dave said.
 
Silent Bob

Silent Bob

GasBandit said:
I agree, if she didn't find the performance to her liking, she should have left. However, I also think he should have pointed that out to her instead of saying, literally, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if she got, like, raped by 5 guys right now?"

Er, yeah, what dave said.
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Actually, from what I read, she made that up. He said something along the lines of "Whoa, it looks like someone got raped by like 5 guys at once..."

Doesn't really excuse it, but it's not quite as harsh.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/daniel-tosh-rape-joke-laugh-factory_n_1662882.html
 
Tiger Tsang

Tiger Tsang

Is there any audio/video of this? If it went down that way, yeah he definitely slid towards Michael Richards Territory *more from overdoing it, than slipping into the psycho*, but that whole opening paragraph just seemed a bit fishy

“So, on Friday night my friend and I were at her house and wanted to get out and do something for the evening. We brainstormed ideas and she brought up the idea of seeing a show at the Laugh Factory. I’d never been, I thought it sounded fun, so we went. We saw that Dane Cook, along some other names we didn’t recognize we’re playing, and while we both agree that Cook’s style is not really our taste we were opened-minded about what the others had to offer. And we figured even good ol’ Dane can be funny sometimes, even if it’s not really our thing. Anyhoo, his act was actually fine, but then when his was done, some other guy I didn’t recognize took the stage. Of course, I would find out later this was Daniel Tosh, but at the time I thought he was just some yahoo who somehow got a gig going on after Cook. I honestly thought he was an amateur because he didn’t seem that comfortable on stage and seemed to have a really awkward presence. "
 
GasBandit

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Silent Bob said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/daniel-tosh-rape-joke-laugh-factory_n_1662882.html
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Ok, so the heckler's side is:

"After I called out to him, Tosh paused for a moment. Then, he says, 'Wouldn’t 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…' 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’t hear the rest of what he said about me."

And the rebuttal is the club owner saying:
"Daniel came in, and he said, 'Well it sounds like she’s been raped by five guys' — something like that. I really didn’t hear properly."

... that's not very ironclad. "something like that, I really didn't hear properly." It sounds more like a club owner trying to do damage control.
 
GasBandit

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On a completely unrelated note, just look at this douchenozzle.




Doesn't that face just SCREAM "hit me in the face with a tire iron?"
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

GasBandit said:
And the rebuttal is the club owner saying:
"Daniel came in, and he said, 'Well it sounds like she’s been raped by five guys' — something like that. I really didn’t hear properly."

... that's not very ironclad. "something like that, I really didn't hear properly." It sounds more like a club owner trying to do damage control.
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It might not be ironclad, but it's paraphrased close enough to the truth, by the sounds of it.
 
Jay

Jay

Dave said:
There are literally hundreds of videos where comics go after hecklers. There's even a documentary about hecklers, called (imaginatively enough) Heckler. As someone who has BEEN heckled, you don't always know what to say right away. Oh, you have some shots and know what you'll say in some situations, but not all. In Tosh's case, he was doing misogynistic jokes and was heckled by a woman, so he went way, way, WAY over the top to humiliate her.

So here's my take - as a stand-up - about the whole thing.

Was she in the wrong? Yes. She should have known Tosh's brand of humor before going to the show. She had to buy a ticket and it's not like he's a road comedian nobody has ever heard of. She knew what she was getting into before she went. Also, when you go to a comedy show, SHUT THE FUCK UP! You don't like what you are hearing? Get up and leave. You want to heckle? Fuck you. You are a selfish and immature pissant who deserves to be stepped on, sometimes cruelly and with great malice.

Was Tosh in the wrong? Damn skippy. Like Michael Richards, he tried to take something negative and turn it into a positive, only to go too far around the bend and loop back into "WTF am I listening to" territory. But instead of owning up to it and stopping himself, he doubled down and went for it, which was a bad fucking idea. Tosh's problem is that his humor is ALL centered around shock and racism/sexism and when heckled he doesn't have much room to wiggle out of it because he's already on the edge of bad taste.

So I agree with everyone here for different reasons. I wouldn't have handled it the way he did but I can see why he did. Of course, I don't make rape jokes in the first place so I wouldn't go there even if prodded.

tl;dr: Tosh is an ass. The heckler is an ass. Nobody is surprised at any of it.
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Pretty much this.

I'm huge into the local comedy clubs and go at least once a month to their improv night on Fridays. Every once of a while, the skit bombs.... it happens.... comedians use smaller venues to test out new jokes for their bigger gigs. This is how I knew of some comedians before they hit it big like Russell Peters and Sugar Sammy.

What pisses me off is when pissants start to go "booo" "this sucks!!!" "this subject isn't funny"... it actually angers me and there has been more than once where I went to go see them after the skit and told them a piece of my mind. You don't like it? You and you 10$ can go fuck off. Who the fuck are you to judge someone else. If you don't like it, shut up. Wait for the next skit.

FFS

Hecklers deserves everything they get and more from comedians, they are scum that hide in a crowd of people and ruin it for others because "it's all about them"
 
Zappit

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Really - if you ever watched Tosh's stand-up, you knew it was only a matter of time until this exact thing happened. This whole thing comes as a surprise?
 
Jay

Jay

GasBandit said:
Ok, so the heckler's side is:

"After I called out to him, Tosh paused for a moment. Then, he says, 'Wouldn’t 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…' 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’t hear the rest of what he said about me."
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:awesome:
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

I had the misfortune of catching the rants of one of Tosh's "fans" as retweets by someone else I follow. This particular mouth-breather might actually have done it. Dude was just vile.
 
Jay

Jay

Personally, I don't like his comedy and here's a newsflash... I don't find most CK Louis acts as funny as other people do. Sure, I might chuckle once in awhile or pop a smile... but it's nothing compared to some other comedians. Different tastes for different people.

On a given impro night I may be entertained by upwards to a dozen comedians, most of whom aren't that great... but I never... despite what you think about me.... ever heckled someone.

So, not only is that woman rude for heckling this guy... but dumb as fuck for doing just that.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Jay said:
Pretty much this.

I'm huge into the local comedy clubs and go at least once a month to their improv night on Fridays. Every once of a while, the skit bombs.... it happens.... comedians use smaller venues to test out new jokes for their bigger gigs. This is how I knew of some comedians before they hit it big like Russell Peters and Sugar Sammy.

What pisses me off is when pissants start to go "booo" "this sucks!!!" "this subject isn't funny"... it actually angers me and there has been more than once where I went to go see them after the skit and told them a piece of my mind. You don't like it? You and you 10$ can go fuck off. Who the fuck are you to judge someone else. If you don't like it, shut up. Wait for the next skit.

FFS

Hecklers deserves everything they get and more from comedians, they are scum that hide in a crowd of people and ruin it for others because "it's all about them"
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I dunno, I haven't seen too many stand up comedians, but I loved when they went at hecklers. I thought that was when they tended to be at their funniest.
 
Jay

Jay

I've seen my share of hecklers get torn to shreds... but it usually is tongue in cheek.... sometimes the comedians aren't vets and it screws them up and they have a hard time performing and you can sense a lot of frustration by people in the room who were mutually annoyed by hecklers.

One time a heckler didn't like being torn a new one and started answering back in threats... when 2 300 pound bouncers walked up to him and escorted him by the ruff of his neck he wasn't so brave.

Hecklers could burn in hell for all I care.

From what I read, she didn't like to be the center of attention... if she didn't want to, she shouldn't have been heckling. Or maybe she did, probably an attention whore, she just was too stupid to realize that the comedian was going to tear her a new one, his style.
 
Dave

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Worst heckler I ever had? My wife. She was just yelling things from the crowd and I couldn't really fire back so I introduced her and worked it into my act. It actually went really well and was a good set. People thought we'd planned it but we hadn't. After it was over she and I had a chat. She doesn't do that any more.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Dave said:
Worst heckler I ever had? My wife. She was just yelling things from the crowd and I couldn't really fire back so I introduced her and worked it into my act. It actually went really well and was a good set. People thought we'd planned it but we hadn't. After it was over she and I had a chat. She doesn't do that any more.
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Wow...
 
Frank

Frank

He had every right to make the jokes he did. She had every right to feel the way she did. She had every right to react to his jokes as she did. He had every right to respond to her the way he did. Everyone has every right to feel the way they currently do about the situation.

Freeze Zpeech.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Frank said:
He had every right to make the jokes he did. She had every right to feel the way she did. She had every right to react to his jokes as she did. He had every right to respond to her the way he did. Everyone has every right to feel the way they currently do about the situation.

Freeze Zpeech.
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Damn hippy.
 
strawman

strawman

You know, guys, comedians would have a much easier job if you simply made a list of what they could and couldn't make fun of.
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

I, for one, do not want to live in a world where comedians have to second-guess everything they say in case they might offend someone. Tosh is an ass for sure -- but that's his job. Like many professional comedians, he's paid a lot of money and has built a career around telling off-color jokes, and when he's on stage society's normal rules about what you can and cannot say don't necessarily apply.

If you're dumb (not to mention rude) enough to heckle during a comedian's -- especially a shock comedian like Tosh's -- performance, sorry, but it's open season on you. Like a few others have said, if she didn't like his material, she should have left; people leaving the club/theater in droves and a bunch of empty seats would send a stronger message anyway. I personally don't find what Tosh said to her funny, but I also don't feel a bit sorry for her for getting her shit slapped down.
 
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