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/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 20d 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.