AIBU to find this " Best Gag of the Edinburgh Festival in poor taste?

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49389208

I have seen and read this "joke " repeated several times on TV in the past few days and find it in very poor taste. Newsreaders on TV have been chuckling. Tourette's can be a serious and debilatating condition and sufferers have huge challenges in everyday life. Surely we are a bit more grown up these days than to poke fun at people with a neurological condition?
Is is just me being stuffy?

DH told me this joke today and I laughed out loud. Until your thread I hadn’t thought anything of it. I’m aware of Tourette’s and have empathy for those that have it. Doesn’t stop the play on words being funny .

It’s only offensive in that it’s not funny.

You're being a bit precious. It's funny

I don’t think it’s offensive. I do think that if you have a choice between a joke involving a distressing neurological condition and one that doesn’t, you choose the one that doesn’t.

Why is it offensive?

Because it sums up Tourettes as people being unable to blurt things out. There is a lot more to the condition than that - and possibly people who suffer from it and have to put up with the limits and pressures it puts on them day in day out may not find it a laughing matter?

Just a guess.

I don’t think it’s the best joke in the shortlist, and I thought it was insensitive. If someone made a joke eg about being fascinated by cars where the punchline was “I think I’ve got auto-ism” I’d similarly think it was a bit rubbish. It’s not a great joke and it’s mocking a neurological condition. So I don’t think you’re unreasonable.

It’s just one of those daft play on words jokes that make you groan more than anything. I don’t think it’s having a dig at anyone - it’s a gentle sort of quip imho.

Sometimes its almost like people look for things to be offended by

For all those who say they are not offended, or can’t believe people are offended Tourettes is not a nice thing to have, and it’s not nice to joke about any disability. Roll on the day you are all suffering from a disability and ‘jokes’ are made about it

I bet someone with Tourette’s would find it amusing.

It’s not making fun of tourette’s so how is it offensive?

It's about as funny as jokes which reference ocd. So not at all.

I don't think it's funny but that's only because a close family member has tourettes and he could do without it. Realistically though, it's such a rare illness that it's a minority who will be upset.

It must be exhausting to have to look that hard for things to be offended by...

Lol, close family member who could do without his condition being publically laughed at, is what I meant to say!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/19/tourettes-charity-demands-apology-top-prize-fringe-joke/amp/

My brother has Tourette’s and he found it funny , not offensive.

Do you have Tourette's, OP? If not, don't you think it's rather narcissistic to claim the moral right to indignation on their behalf?

If people with Tourette's Syndrome are offended, let them say so. How patronising of you to speak for them.

If that is the funniest thing to come out of this year's festival, I'm glad I didn't bother going. I don't like one liners though, I think they are all shit.

Seems others did not find it funny either,

UK Tourette's Charity is seeking an apology

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49395718

Its funny and not demeaning to anyone

Yawn

I met a lovely young man a few years back who had severe Tourette’s (interviewed him for the local paper I wrote for) and it was humour that was getting him through it. He and his family sometimes just had to laugh at the things he came out with. I’d be surprised if he was offended by this joke tbh.

YABU, it's not remotely offensive, sorry but you sound ridiculous

Jesus, people are so precious these days. Everyone is offended about something.