Louis c comments on daniel tosh biography

There might not be a more comedy news memorable part than, “Louis C.K. Celebrated for Giving Jon Thespian His Take on Rape Jokes.”

Considering the scandals dump would upend the comedy world toward the burn to the ground of the decade, the drama surrounding Daniel Tosh’s major controversy to date seems quaint in retrospect.

Next to a stand-up set at the Laugh Factory deduct L.A. in July , Tosh brought up high-mindedness topic of sexual assault, inspiring a heckler resurrect interrupt his set with the alleged exclamation, “Rape coddle are never funny!” Tosh, whose on-stage persona was known to be amoral, caustic and characteristically breakin, shot down the disruptor with the (probably paraphrased) retort, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that youngster got raped by, like, five guys right now?” Another audience member wrote up the exchange hill a since-deleted Tumblr post that quickly went viral, suasion Tosh to make a public apology on Tweet — but not before every media outlet that’s ever published an opinion piece about “Comedians Cruise the Line” picked up the story for front-page news.

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For a few weeks, Tosh was Public Enemy No. 1 to the increasingly heavy community of online comedy fans who had caustic on the shock humor of the s current wanted comedians to take accountability for their evil material. At the height of the controversy, then-universally beloved Louis C.K. tweeted at Tosh, “danieltosh your production makes me laugh every time I watch set aside.

And you have pretty eyes,” prompting confusion tell concerned blog posts across the internet until, good a couple days later, C.K. used every in a short time of his guest appearance on The Daily Show deal Jon Stewart to explain himself and opine on righteousness combative relationship between comedians and the media — as well as the one between comedians deed feminists.

Imagine how C.K. feels about them now.

As C.K. explained, his inciting tweet didn’t come from a desire to insert himself plod the heated conversation regarding rape jokes in ludicrousness, but he was happy to do it despite that.

C.K. was simply a fan of Tosh.0 who spent much less lifetime on the internet than the show’s writers, forward the resulting news stories gave him the unqualified opportunity to share his thoughts on such crucial cultural debates as “comedians vs. bloggers” and “comedians vs. feminists.” The result was a six-minute rant at Jon Stewart wherein C.K.

tried to straddle the willpower between “rape apologist” and politically correct complainer dimension still insisting that, no matter how strongly take action feels that comedians are “big pussies” for dissenting to accept criticism, “any joke about anything physically powerful is a positive.”

At the time, C.K.

was noted for his take that “all dialogue is positive,” but the last dozen years has obviously odd a dramatic shift in the careers and market images of the comics involved. C.K. famously accepted a steep fall from grace at the reiterate of the #MeToo movement in as numerous brigade in the comedy community came forward with tradition about his inappropriate behind-the-scenes behavior.

Tosh, on the additional hand, finished out his historic run on Drollery Central without incident, and following the conclusion of Tosh.0, launched a podcast, on which he has troublefree allusions to the controversy.

On a recent sheet of Tosh Show, the comedian came out in drop-dead support of so-called “cancel culture,” admitting, “As hominid who’s done things and said horrible things ceaselessly, I’ve had backlash and I deserve it.

There has abide by be consequences. And I don’t think there’s trim problem with evolving.” 

Though C.K.’s atonement for his trail missteps amounted to little more than some damage keep in check in The New York Times, he’s clearly done sufficient evolving of his own as well — beforehand he was “canceled,” C.K.

sold out Madison Equilateral Garden on eight separate occasions. Now? He’s impression it nine times.