Why Was Rape Considered So Hilarious in the 70s?

hunh.

mind=blown

Ohhh, some people don't like you to talk like that. Ohh, some people like to shut you up for saying those things.
You know that. Lots of people. Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk.
Tell you what you can't talk about. Well, sometimes they'll say, well you can talk about something but you can't joke about it.
Say you can't joke about something because it's not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time.
Like rape. They'll say, "you can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny."
I say, "fuck you, I think it's hilarious. How do you like that?"
I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd.
See, hey why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say.
"Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky.
Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard- on, he got horney, he lost control, he went out of his mind."
A lot of men talk like that. A lot of men think that way. They think it's the woman's fault.
They like to blame the rape on the woman. Say, "she had it coming, she was wearing a short skirt."
These guys think women ought to go to prison for being cock teasers. Don't seem fair to me.
Don't seem right, but you can joke about it. I believe you can joke about anything.
It all depends on how you construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. What the exaggeration is.
Because every joke needs one exaggeration. Every joke needs one thing to be way out of proportion.
Give you an example. Did you ever see a news story like this in the paper?
Every now and then you run into a story, says, "some guy broke into a house, stole a lot of things, and while he was in there, he raped an 81 year old woman."
And I'm thinking to myself, "WHY??? What the fuck kind of a social life does this guy have?"
I want to say, "why did you do that?" "Well she was coming on to me. We were dancing and I got horney.
Hey, she was asking for it, she had on a tight bathrobe." I'll say, "Jesus Christ, be a little fucking selective next time will you?"

Now, speaking of rape, do you know what I wonder? I wonder is there more rape at the equator or the north pole.
These are the kind of things I think about when I'm sitting home alone and the power goes out.
I wonder is there more rape at the equator or the north pole. I mean per capita, I know the populations are different.
Most people think it's the equator, I think it's the north pole.
People think it's the equator because it's hot down there, they don't wear a lot of clothing, guys can see women's tits, they get horney and there's a lot of fucking going on.
That's exactly why there's less rape at the equator. Because there's a lot of fucking going on.
You can tell there's a lot of fucking at the equator, take a look at the population figures.
Billions of people live near the equator. How many Eskimos do we have?
Thirty? Thirty five? No one's getting laid at the north pole, it's too fucking cold.
Guys say to their wives, "hey tonight honey, huh, tonight, huh?"
"Are you crazy? The wind chill factor is three hundred below."
These guys are deprived. Their horney. Their pent up. Every now and then...p-pmm...they bust out, they got to rape somebody.

Now, the biggest problem an Eskimo rapist has, trying to get wet leather leggings off a woman who is kicking.
Did you ever try to get leather pants off of someone who doesn't want to take them off?
You would lose your hard-on in the process.
Up at the north pole you dick would shrivel up like a stack of dimes.
That's another thing I wonder.
I wonder, does a rapist have a hard-on when he leaves the house in the morning,
or does he develop it during the day while he's walking around looking for somebody.
These are the kind of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.

That's from 1990, though.

yes, that's a bit off, but this is one of the greatest things ever!

On November 24, 1976, his weather spot came up just after a report of a violent rape of a five year old girl. Tex thereupon quipped: With rape so predominant in the news lately, it is well to remember the words of Confucius: 'If rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.'" Roger Grimsby led the 11 p.m. newscast that night with the official apology from WABC. His joke got Tex Antoine suspended, then fired.

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"I remember David laughing so hard, at that scene, laughing so hard. I remember stopping the scene once, and I said, 'David, what is there to laugh? This is a rape. What is there to laugh?', and he said, 'I don't know, it just makes me laugh.' And then years later, maybe 15 years after, the film was on television. And I looked at the film, and just remembering David laughing made me laugh, belly laugh like David, cause I still don't understand what made him laugh."
-Isabella Rossellini

I dunno, the part that makes me laugh is right before it: "It's daddy, you shithead. Where's my bourbon?"

This is why I consider Kubrick's film shit.

Sort of. It's actually an interesting question as to whether offensive comics like Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson were the main targets of Alternative Comedy, or whether the list should include non-racist but still unfunny borscht belt stuff like Rodney Dangerfield or Jackie Mason (Or Jimmy Tarbuck for an English version).

It doesn't really change anything, but it's probably worth pointing out that there isn't actually anything funny in any of the five minutes of the first clip.

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I dont understand why "alternative comedy" whatever the fuck that means, would be trying to take down Dangerfield a huge supporter of Andy Kaufman, Roseanne, Seinfeld and anybody with any kind of act you can imagine.

Also I just don't think he's funny. Do you see what I mean, Americans, that there's a significant difference between him and say the SNL people, a matter of speed, of obviousness?

I'd have done better with an English version (thanks, Dom), except they were already poison by the time I started watching telly: I would have had some serious questions to answer if I'd mentioned casually that I'd seem last night's Bob Monkhouse show.

I've yet to see "Back To School" and "Caddyshack".

no it was that scene with the nipple being sucked, for me.

Didn't you see the Catherine Zeta-Jones skit about the Broadway dancer party?

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

(just shit-stirring here:) So his angle was Jewish comedy for WASPs?

No, it's the popular blonde prom-queen type who gets raped by a nerd for laffs.

Dude, what do you think my experience of him is based on (well, that and the parody in Cerebus)?

-- am0n (vvvv...), October 9th, 2006.

no, that was the audience

No, it's the popular blonde prom-queen type who gets raped by a nerd for laffs.

Which one of you was it that was going on about the ethical ramifications of the costumed nerd fucking the soroity girl (who thought she was getting fucked by her frat boyfriend) in Revenge of the Nerds?

I'm pretty sure I haven't done that on ILX, but I have gone on about those ethical remifications live and in person.

Dave Sim parodies are usually pretty accurate, no? His Groucho is great, the Wilde is passable at least, Mick & Keff fucking genius.

Also, weird that a discussion of Dangerfield on this thread would go this far without anyone mentioning his own 70s-era rape joke(s). "The only reason I get laid these days is cuz of who I am... a rapist"

Dangerfield was Jewish.

Somebody being completley insane doesn't mean they're always wrong, is all I'm sayin'.

When does this happen? I'm not denying it but I don't remember it. The only thing I remember is the jock guy saying something to the effect of "[cheerleader gf] is passed out upstairs. I could take advantage of her six different ways right now if I wanted."

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Why is rape considered so hilarious by online 'funny slogan' t-shirt manufacturers? "You can add your own blood splatter after you get the tee, for that unique look!", the site jokes.

1960s but

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LOL?

i believe the director's "trouble with women" is well-documented.