When will Comedy End?

Well on Boards the IMHO American obsessed anti "woke" obsessed whingers killed comedy on this site a few years ago now.

nah, that was the mods, a while before.

Wasn't a Scottish comedian arrested for teaching his dog to salute when he said " gas the jews". My first instinct was to say he had it coming.

But the context behind it was that he had a very acrimonious breakup with his partner and that she was going to take the dog, a pug, the stocky ones with the flat noses.

So being the bitter and juvenile chap he thought it would be good to corrupt the dog before she took it. He did so by getting it to do something absolutely shocking upon hearing an even more shocking prompt.

There is something darkly amusing about someone coming up with such an outlandish and ridiculous plan just to piss off his ex. Also, the picture in my head of the poor pug doing a nazi salute, when prompted by an unbelievably offensive line is given is kinda funny.

I don't think he was a nazi sympathizer nor was he having a laugh at the holocaust, which was used only for shock factor.

It certainly not everyones idea of humour. However I think an arrest for this is way over the top and is not a good road to go down.

Ha, I thought the article I read described him as one. Anyway, I can't see him selling out the Royal Albert Hall anytime soon.

Calling Mark Meechan a "comedian" is really stretching the limits of term TBH. However, his prosecution over the "Nazi pug" was absolutely ridiculous, and considered so by a large number of actual comedians too, including Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais and David Baddiel. In any case, all he ended up with was only an 800 quid fine and a ton of exposure for his YouTube channel. So, it kinda benefited him in a bizarre way.

It was his later activities involving UKIP and hanging around with the likes of Tommy Robinson that probably ended up being a worse look for him.

Its comedy.

There's your context.

I hope so!

This is all very confusing. Some guy with Irish traveller heritage is claiming that a joke about gypsies dying in the Holocaust was a joke about 'his people'. Does he know that 'his people' didn't immigrate from India like the actual gypsies? And that he doesn't share their language or culture, nor is he genetically close to Roma gypsies. His only connection is the loose use of the term 'gypsy' by British people and the fact that both groups are nomadic. Maybe I'm missing something here?

You're not the first to assume I'm talking about comedy that punches up. There's literally so much comedy that doesn't punch anyone. Good comedy does not have to be at someone else's expense and there's plenty of good comedy that isn't. This idea that comedy is dying because people might get offended is not only completely wrong but it's also (at its heart) just mean.