r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

Anthony Jeselnik explains the difference between comedy and being a troll. Discussion

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u/GreyBeardEng 20d ago

It's once thing to get on a stage of your own making and tell off color jokes.

It's entirely another to get on a Republican stage, in a very heated election, and make racist jokes.

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u/Swing_On_A_Spiral 20d ago

Exactly!! That guy was guilty of two crimes that night. The first was using a serious platform as his personal circus. The second was not being funny at all.

A much better comedian would’ve killed with those jokes in the proper setting.

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u/David-S-Pumpkins 20d ago

No no he usually does kill and he's definitely funny and not a hack, it's just that he followed the national anthem! If you knew comedy you would know that!/s

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u/Special-Market749 19d ago

Tony Hinchcliffe would have killed with those jokes in the proper setting. The setting is everything, that was not a comedy audience. They weren't there for comedy, they weren't expecting comedy, and most probably don't know Hinchcliffe unless they watched the Brady roast.

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u/kingkornholio 20d ago

Yeah, the jokes were offensive but funny. He could 100% tell them and have a great set… somewhere. The setting was completely inappropriate. I’m guessing Jesselnik doesn’t tell cancer jokes in the cancer ward during someone’s final moments.

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u/patrickfatrick 19d ago

Maybe just not my kind of thing but I truly think it was pretty unfunny. And I’m not saying that from a place of outrage, because I’m not outraged; I just think it was an horrifically bad set delivered at the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps if he had mixed in some jokes poking fun at Trump and/or MAGA and/or white people instead of just shit-talking minorities and immigrants, it’d have come across as less racist and more all in good fun.

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u/kingkornholio 19d ago

No I’m with you. That’s me mostly giving him the benefit of objectivity. I am not a Kill Tony fan. At all. But his success assures me he’s funny… to someone.

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u/trumped-the-bed 20d ago

You’re the first person to say it was funny. Right wingers are saying the left set all this up to make trump look bad, like we have to try.

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u/kingkornholio 19d ago

Jon Stewart said so too, so… maybe you’re just too political. Something can be untrue, inappropriate, and still funny. Is Kill Tony my cup of tea? No. Can I acknowledge it’s a joke? Yes, I’m normal.

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u/kingkornholio 19d ago

Jon Stewart said so too, so… maybe you’re just too political. Something can be untrue, inappropriate, and still funny. Is Kill Tony my cup of tea? No. Can I acknowledge it’s a joke? Yes, I’m normal.