FrivoList: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Introduces The New "Don Imus" Line of Flavors
Cherry Picker Garcia
Mook Chocolate
Chunky Porch Monkey
Fudge Packer
Squawberry Cheesecake
Carmel Jockey
Vanilla Beanie-Wearing Jew
Chocolate Moosefucker
Did you notice in the title how I passively shifted the blame for the horrible things I was about to say? It's not me presenting these awful, racist slurs, it is what Don Imus would do.
Nerdy Squirrel, Esq. did not want me to post this because she thought it was beneath me. While certainly not hilarious, I thought it was kind of amusing. But is does bring up a few questions.
Is it possible for humor to be dark and edgy without being generally and essentially offensive? I don't consider myself a rude or mean person, but I love anything that is dark and/or shocking.
If not, is being "edgy" simply a way to be mean and ugly under the cowardly guise of being funny?
I don't have any answers. It's Monday, I'm on the road and a giant, pulsating zit is growing on my forehead. I can't do everything.
Comments
Let me help out with some good old ethnic white slurs.
Chocolate Mick Chip
Cherry Gerry Garcia
Dago Delight
Vanilla WASP (because any more flavor would amount to a sin)
Fruity Frog Fantastic
Being a Gerry Son of the Revolution I love to respond to those that complain about all the Mexicans with a "yeah it all went down hill when they let those damn micks in". Nothing stops people in their tracks more than reminding them we're all hated immigrant groups. Just ask the black hairs, they'll tell ya.
Posted by: DaMonkeyCode | April 23, 2007 10:56 PM
Don't forget Ex-Lax Eruption.
Posted by: tfg | April 24, 2007 04:34 AM
I think you can crack wise about someone else's idiocy, even while using the same language that they might have used, because it's so over the top it's clear you're making fun of them, and not the groups implied.
It's the South Park theory of humor.
Posted by: anonymouscoworker | April 24, 2007 09:38 AM
DMC: Nice. I hate white people.
TFG: Of course. In my rush to be racists, I forgot the fart joke.
ACW: I agree as long as you're not simply using the person as a tool to puppet your own evil shit.
Posted by: CBC | April 25, 2007 07:08 AM
"If not, is being "edgy" simply a way to be mean and ugly under the cowardly guise of being funny?"
Doesn't that depend on whose mouth the edgy material is coming from? And the intentions of that individual? And what the definition of "edgy" is? (Dear God - I sound like a certain former POTUS.)
Frankly, I love the edgy, darker stuff, too, (I think our definitions probably match pretty closely) but in the brain and mouth of a person who doesn't know where edgy ends and meanness begins, it goes from amusing to depressing pretty quickly.
Posted by: buckkel | April 25, 2007 04:42 PM