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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That joke is mocking the fat girls for imagining that they could be seen as attractive -- it's awful.
And Adele is large, so that joke turned on it being over when the fat lady sings -- hardly better, but not quite as cruel.
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These jokes don't bother me. He's a fucking comedian. Comedians make jokes about fat people.
The Jew jokes (and the willingness to go back to that well) are troubling.
The uppercut joke is just stupid.
The point of the joke has to be the stereotype. Using stereotypes to make jokes is a different animal. It is very difficult to do in a one-off situation like Twitter.
His stand-up special started off really promising. He had a unique perspective on the world and the US given his upbringing in South Africa and his mixed-race status. But he ran out of material pretty quickly and ended up just doing stereotypical impressions of American blacks (no one specific).
He has talent, and I imagine Stewart's writers are all being paid huge amounts to stay on and write for this guy. But if Stewart's production company hands the show off to him (and why would it?), it ain't gonna be pretty.
Here's his response:
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/31/trev..._my_character/
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