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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Freedom of Whose Speech Bitches

So in the wake of Kramers meltdown, the club where he did his set now has a banning of the N word. That is right no comic is allowed to say it. We are sliding down a slippery slope if you ask me.

Being a comic that has said the N word on stage and in my opinion used it in the right context, I believe this policy is wrong. Where does it end?

Also being a comic that has said and done material that audiences are offended at ..where does that line now start and end for me. I rarely have done material for shock value alone and believe that all of my jokes are justified. I don't do the bit saying Nigger anymore because I just ain't that comfortable with the it. I think sometimes others don't get it and just see a white guy saying it.

"Oh look at the white comic trying to get away with saying something he should not"

I am someone who has never used the word outside of that bit and never felt comfortable even when black comics said it to each other. On the other hand I don't think it should be taken away from others. That is the whole point of comedy..sometimes we have to be uncomfortable to reach a new point to then become comfortable. Just look at paul mooney for tons of examples of using that word that might be uncomfortable but funny...very funny.

What is next..I can't call a woman a cunt. I can't call a person a motherfucker cause moms around the world object. The only person who should object to motherfucker is jesus cause at least he could say "hey ..not sure if you read my story but my mom was never fucked..immaculate ...ahh nevermind"

The comedy club is going to far cause they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar by letting kramer go back on the next night before they knew there was footage on the net and it looked very bad for them. So they go to far the other way to deflect their own prejudices.

You cannot have it both ways ..there is no bi in freedom of speech. I might not like all of which that umbrella covers but I still believe they have the right to it.

Most of my new material would not be allowed at this club anyways cause jokes about cancer..or misfortune are not allowed. People laugh at misfortune every day they just don't like it when the light is on their misfortune.

That is why I changed my slogan from

Pissing off one small minded person at a time

to

At the end of every joke someone gets hurt

Cause that is real comedy just like any other form of comedy ..tragedy plus time baby

If I ever play that club I will say

At the end of every joke some motherfucker gonna get hurt real bad and pay my fine to the club and russell peters.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the club is just banning the "N" word to avoid being sued by the people who were at the event that night. They will claim they did whatever possible to ensure it wouldn't happen again and wash their hands of any liabilty.

I just bought a Tshirt online for myself for Christmas:

http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c181845p16411672.2.html

I figure its the best $10USD I've spent... ok my beef is... why is this tshirt company in Toronto charging Canadians in USD! Arghhh ok now I'm on a tagent.

The one bonus of being a Canadian celeb is that people won't be going on and on and on about your blunders for the next 10 years! See there are perks to being famous in Canada!

11:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just noticed your "tour change"...
When we saw "fuck all of you" for your New Year's Eve schedule, we made other plans...assuming you'd be home, asleep before midnight... So, as fate would have it, we bought tickets to see Blue Rodeo in Hamilton on the 31st...and now you've got a gig, with another one of our fav's, Terry Clement!!!! We totally would have made the drive to London, stayed the night, and had a blast!!!

You're killin' us !!!!!
Oh well...just wanted to let you know that you crushed our hearts...
LOL!!! Kidding, we'll get over it...

Hope you have a great "holiday season", I guess thats the most proper way of saying "Merry F-ing Xmas" these days eh?!

Cheers....

8:25 PM  

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