S9, Ep8 How to Fail: James Acaster
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Is There Any Joke Too Offensive to Make?
Comedians are constantly asked, is there any joke too offensive to make? And you're very interesting on that. I think it's such an interesting failure to have chosen because it highlights the capacity of comedy to be cruel. You've spoken in the past about how there's a responsibility both to acknowledge your privilege, but also to realise that times change. What kind of joke never thinks of this audience who has experienced domestic violence at home or maybe with their parents? Those jokes aren't going to funny - they'll just make them feel very alone and isolated when everyone around them is laughing at them. So Bill Burr thinks of the person immediately where he's not doing the victim... That's
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