This Christmas I was given season 5 and 6 of
Family Guy. The show is offensive, inappropriate, and one of the greatest shows I have ever seen. The show is absolutely hilarious, but it left me wondering where is the line between funny and too far. I can only guess that it is all in the delivery.
If you are inappropriate as a joke, is it ok?
Do you have to be animated for it to be ok?
Help my understand the line so I can write the next big hit TV show of inappropriate humor. People think I'm inappropriate but would never believe that I hold back a lot..
2 comments:
I knew you would love it. lol
And yes, animaton does help to soften the blow of all the incredibly offensive jokes. It makes you cringe and laugh your butt off... what could be better?
I don't think there is really a line when it comes to the joke itself, I think the line only exists in the context of where the joke exists. For example, Family Guy is often offensive, but it's a comedy show that runs barely under the FCC threshold of what is acceptable. Those of us that watch that show, expect it to be offensive and therefore it clears itself of crossing any so-called line.
However, imagine if, during a State of the Union address, Obama turned to the camera and decided to use a Family Guy line to describe to America why our young Americans should join the Army, such as "The Army's great! You get to save money for college, there's free food and all the brown people you can rape."
People would go apeshit! See, it's all in the context.
For the record, I would still think that's funny, but I would be a little concerned about the fact that we probably just started World War III.
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