The Offense of Anti-Semitic Comments

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"If it had been funnier, I think it would have been less offensive. Let's just say it doesn't help that she was a nine year old black girl." "I'm deeply offended by them and that's why they're offensive in part," he says of his anti-Semitic comments. 'It kind of is circular to say that it's not offensive when it's funny because I think that a lot of why it's not funny is because it's so fucking offensive'

In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.

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