Some comedians push the boundaries in the name of entertainment. That means taking risks," he said. "But I think it's important that if we overstep the mark and cause upset that we apologise. I would like to say sorry to those people who I have upset by my recent comments. I assure them that was not my intention." Spiky Mike, who runs the comedy promoter Funhouse, says, "the comedians at the lower end of the scale follow what is in vogue at the top end. They see Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle doing extremely offensive material, try to copy it and do it badly, which is even more offensive". Earlier this month, when Ain participated in a Facebook live discussion without a headscarf with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim about the incident, some commentators condemned her for not covering her head and drawing attention to an issue that they claimed “wasn’t pressing”. Rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism did not differ as a function of the gender of the joke teller.

The missionary, having been a devout Christian his entire life, asked to see the child. Upon viewing the baby, it became clear that this baby was an albino. So what does this all mean? Well, it seems that whether or not you find rape jokes funny is related to your underlying attitudes towards women and sexual violence. If you have sexist attitudes, then you’re more likely to find rape jokes funny. But if you don’t have sexist attitudes, then you might still find them funny without condoning sexual violence. Well, I haven't been able to find out. A woman who, on a whim, went with a friend to see Dane Cook (no comment) at the Laugh Factory last Friday (July 6, 2012) also saw Tosh's set. She wrote on her blog that Tosh made They cost a great deal of money to maintain considering the time you spend inside. 23. How is virginity like a soap bubble? In a statement, the agency told Metro.co.uk: " Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him. TW has terminated all professional ties to Brand." And a spokesman for Channel 4 told The Telegraph: "We’ve taken down all content featuring Russell Brand while we look into the matter. This includes episodes of the Great British Bake Off and the Big Brother box sets that he appeared on."

10. Did you hear about the blind prostitute?

None. It should be opened by the time she brings it. 20. What do you call an IT teacher who touches up his students? Isaac also explained that he invited his students to produce posters on sexual harassment that he then shared on social media. But comedian Adam Christing, who runs a firm called Clean Comedians (“Laughter you can trust”), points out that to succeed, you have to know your audience. After all, the First Amendment doesn’t just give you the right of free speech; it also gives your audience – or your client – the right to react to your speech. I ask him whether he thought it odd that the prime minister's office got involved. "I think it is, but I don't know who fuels that fire," he says. "The great thing about comedy is it's not accountable. Is there a prefect of comedy that decides what can and can't be said? It wasn't broadcast. People came to the gig, and two people out of 9,000 that weekend – and I've told it to 100,000 people so far on the tour – said, 'I didn't pay to hear this kind of rubbish.' But they did pay to hear that: they paid to be in that room with that group of people. They found one joke offensive because it applied to them [he thinks they had a friend or family member who had been wounded], but everything else in the show that was horribly offensive they laughed at." In the 2004 Bollywood film Hum Tum, the protagonist played by Saif Ali Khan, forcefully kisses his love interest Rani Mukherjee because they get into an argument and he wants her to stop talking. This reinforces gender power dynamics by normalising that he is allowed to do anything without waiting for consent.

My sense is that one issue is that men are feeling disempowered, and there are probably fewer venues for getting together and talking that way and getting away with it,” says David Reiss, a San Diego-based psychiatrist who studies personality dynamics. “A lot of what used to be acceptable isn’t, and men are feeling they’re being hemmed in.” Our society has become so comfortable with the idea and subject of rape, that songs on the Top 100 list glorify it and Oscar-Award winners include sexual assault scenes just to add a ‘plot-twist’ or get more views. Her mom replied, “Honey, you should have asked me last night—it was on the tip of my tongue.” 13. What did the cannibal do after he dumped his girlfriend? Amy Schumer’s show on Comedy Central has featured a Cosby skit or two – one in which she’s his defense attorney trying to convince the jurors they love “America’s dad” and pudding and the rest of it more than they love truth and justice. It ends with a twist: an offstage Cosby sends Schumer a drink in thanks and she looks at it in consternation – and then tosses it over her shoulder.Of course, not everyone feels the same way about rape jokes. Some people find them to be incredibly offensive, and they may trigger difficult emotions. It’s important to be considerate of other people’s experiences and feelings. There is a special irony in a major stand-up comic becoming the butt of jokes based on allegations of misogynist behavior. It marks the rise of feminist comedy in the mainstream and the weakening of rape culture. There is no more clear changing of the guard than this.

Sure, a rape joke is a far cry from an actual incident of sexual violence, but think of the rape jokes as the foundation of the pyramid of rape culture. If you take away the foundation — if you create a situation where rape jokes are unacceptable, instead of a situation where victims feel forced to bite their tongues and bear it — then everything else will be a little bit less likely to take root and flourish. He added "Oh I’ve raped someone once" and "killed her after," after the audience burst into laughter. During the same event, he made jokes about ancient Greeks having sex with children while they created mathematics, telling the audience: "They didn't mind it did they? They were clever weren't they."

20. What do you call an IT teacher who touches up his students?

And the response is, of course no one can imagine that,” he says. “Because that’s what privilege looks like.” Perhaps for that reason, standup tends to draw more men. (Improv and sketch troupes, which have a group dynamic, attract far more women, says Susswein.) In fact, observes Wheeler, occasionally there will be “some old dinosaur” who’ll ask if women are even funny. When he hears that trope expounded by comics, Wheeler immediately asks his friends if they can imagine someone suggesting that men aren’t funny. Rape jokes, for a lot of newer comedians, tend to be an easier joke,” says Mainard. “You can tell the newer dudes by their talking about rape or homosexuality as a punch line. I think our culture is a little desensitized to it.” Bas Javid, a deputy assistant commissioner with the Met, said he was “angry and disappointed”, felt “disgust and shame” and added “It’s clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.