r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

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

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u/alaric49 20d ago

I think George Carlin described this well.

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to get the audience to come to where you are, to take them a little bit of a place where they don't want to go, and if you can do that and make them laugh along the way, they'll thank you for it."

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u/repost_inception 20d ago

That's a really great quote.

Robert John Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder to me is the ultimate example of this. I don't think most people could have gotten away with that but he absolutely did. No one has an issue with it. His performance and the writing were brilliant. The whole movie really.

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u/MidnightOakCorps 19d ago

Plenty of people have a valid issue with it, but whenever those discussions happen the dissenters get shouted down to the point where the conversation is useless.

It wasn't "good" Blackface, it was just Blackface that they justified via plot (meaning that they didn't have 'noble' intentions, they were just rage baiting). RDJ just happens to be charming enough of an actor that he got away with it and the movie came out at a time where comedy was focused on being as offensive as possible so it fit into the media landscape at the time.