Boston is sort of a city of contradictions. Well educated and well off, but there's a still a big white underclass and a lot of the "luxury" housing stock is just housing designed for poor people that's been remodeled and resold to people with money. People who are politically liberal, but culturally conservative, etc.
We know that, dude. I even made a note of it in the OP. I also don't think firing him over this was crazy out of line or anything.
Compound is a dead end. Ronnie B's appearance w/Ant and that idiot racist showed us this.
I think you'd have to equate it to the Kathy Griffin "beheading", which is to say, the philosophy should be the same, phucked up, but if you don't try a "joke" you don't know if it will succeed or not. There's bound to be the odd epic fail here and there if you're trying in the least to be edgy.Here's the Tweet that got comic Nick Di Paolo fired from his show on Sirius XM last week:
"Dear future school shooters, please confine yourself to coll. campuses, specifically faculty lounges at Berkeley, Fresno State etc."
So this one got deleted fairly quickly, and Nick just up and disappeared from Sirius XM over last weekend. Nick is verging on openly racist and obsessed with pushing right wing politics. He's also a very talented comic whose voice is underrepresented on stage.
This was a tough one for me because that's a really fucked up thing to say, and it does border on being an actual call for violence. In the end though, it was a joke. A failed, shitty, inappropriate (even among the inappropriate) joke. I see the joke in there (faculty lounges), but you have to look pretty hard to find it. I understand how it might seem like a hateful call to violence to a lot of people.
Patrice O'Neal had a semi-famous old interview where he argued that comics should get the benefit of the doubt. Funny and unfunny come from the same place, he said. And it's the audience who lets you know if it succeeded. We should defend the attempt to be funny. Which, in Nick's case, would mean that we fuck him up for making a shit joke that was both unfunny and over the top offensive, which is the worst way to fail- but we don't ostracize him.
We don't need to waste any time on the "they can hire/fire who they want" stuff. We know that. We all know that. Should we defend Di Paolo's attempt at the joke, or should we punish him up for it, or do you disagree that it even qualifies as a joke?
Did you react the same way to Kathy Griffin's stunt?
The joke is that faculty rather than students deserve to be shot. Before you say it, yes lol, that is not a good joke. You could put the right twist on that and have it come off like a joke. Still a shitty joke, but it would be more recognizable as a joke (this is probably why Nick says it was poorly worded).
It's so despicable to make accusations like that without even bothering to reference anything. Are you fucking kidding me? I've seen you post and I know you're not this way. Please correct this, thank you.
Did'nt Colbert do that at some university speech? I was just in character!
You're fucking kidding, right? LOL.
