Thursday, June 30, 2011

Don't Ban Tracy Morgan From TV. Ban America From Comedy Clubs.

Hey, Offended America.. do you have a moment?

I deny neither your right to be offended by Mr. Morgan's use of the "R" word, nor your admirable desire to see that word disappear from common discourse.

But you walk a very dangerous line by calling for the head of a comic whose utterances were confined to a club stage. Comedy is not always about safely providing chuckles to the masses. Sometimes it's about walking the razor's edge between the safety of what is publicly said and rawness of what is privately thought, however wince-inducing those thoughts might be. Sometimes it's about rooting out absurdity via shock tactics.

Should rape jokes have no home on stage? What about the "N" word? Pedophilia? If so, then, by all means, let's also send brilliant comics like Louis CK, Chris Rock and Lewis Black into therapy as well.

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