I Never Linked A Tweet Before, But...

[Stonepounder]

5. Part of comedy is pushing limits. When you push a limit, sometimes the limit pushes back.

Yes, we have an OFF button. I remember, years and years ago, tuning into some Don Rickles late-night special on some cable channel. I watched about 10 minutes and turned it OFF. I found his vulgarity way over my line.

(Of course I grew up in a family where you just didn't swear (my father was a minister) and particularly didn't swear in front of my mother. You didn't even swear in the locker room if there was any chance that the gym teacher could hear you. I kinda miss that, since today swear words have lost their punch.)

But I didn't write to the paper, or the cable network about Mr. Rickles, I just turned him OFF.

Keep your eye on the ball, folks. Our main concern is the orange shitgibbon, not whether this commedian or that commedian went over the line. I would much rather hear Bill Mahr say the n* word than hear the cop on the beat say 'Papers please'.