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

[speakout]

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?

The jokes are on about the right level for my 9 year old.

Is it funnier when you’re there?

You do understand what comedy is don't you OP?

@camelfinger
The cow one is my favourite too!

YANBU

I didn't think it was funny, or original, I've heard it before (and didn't laugh then either).

And Tourette's is an easy and overdone target, which is a sad thing.

Good grief Happysummer2020 have a

Tourette's is an easy and overdone target

Is it? This is the first Tourettes bassed joke I've heard, possibly ever.

Only the most ridiculous professionally offended person reads that as an offensive joke.

Even the Tourettes society aren’t truly offended, they’ve just been opportunistic and piggybacked some press coverage off the back of the joke, as they should do. Everybody wins, well Olaf and the Tourette’s society do, and who cares about the professionally offended.

If you watch Tourette’s Hero on this clip, she says: “If I say something funny, it absolutely is ok to laugh.”
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2015/10/31/biscuits-this-woman-explains-living-with-tourettes-in-hilarious-and-heart-warming-interview-on-russell-howards-good-news-5473598/amp/

The pun is the funny bit, not the condition.
We all need a bit less pearl clutch so truly offensive things don't get overlooked. Crying wolf. Stop it.

It's CLEARLY not supposed to be taken seriously. Most vaguely intelligent people can tell the difference between a joke and the serious matter of having Tourettes.

It’s not offensive. It’s a bit tasteless and could be upsetting. So why? Why make a joke that might upset someone? There are loads of possible jokes in the world. The capacity of the English language to create puns is infinite.

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

I saw a band play live once, and they played the same song 6 times.
They were called OC/DC.

Shouldn’t the funniest joke of the festival be actually funny?

Going against the flow a bit here, but it is a wee bit offensive?

It relies on a stereotype of a condition that isn't actually that correct - as others have said most people with tourettes don't shout out random words.

I think jokes that rely on stereotypes tend to be a bit tasteless.

It works like this. It’s absolutely ok to be concerned that a joke is offensive even if you don’t have that disability - it’s called being aware and sensitive.

Secondly, lots of people with disabilities use humour about their disability in different ways. That is completely different to a person without that disability using a lazy trope in order to get a cheap laugh.

Some people with disabilities may find jokes using lazy tropes about their disability funny. That’s their prerogative. It doesn’t mean that everyone needs to find the joke funny or that the jokes are ok.

Not in the least offensive and if it was there is room for all sorts of jokes, you don't have to listen or laugh, get over yourself.

Is it? This is the first Tourettes bassed joke I've heard, possibly ever.

Apart from all of Jess Thom’s, I think it’s the first one I’ve heard of too.

Why do able people always assume that disabled people have no sense of humour? It's very othering.

My DS has type one diabetes. He doesn’t find jokes that trot out a lazy stereotype about weight/eating or amputations etc and diabetes funny. They are lazy, stigmatising and unfunny in his view. How much time he wants to spend feeling angry is his choice. We spend a lot of time laughing about various aspects of his condition or situations that have arisen, but that is not the same.

I'm obsessed with living upstairs in a castle.

I've got turret syndrome.

So if Jess Thoms says ‘biscuits’ it’s ok to laugh at her, but if the Swedish comic says ‘broccoli’ or ‘cauliflower,’ it’s not ok because he hasn’t actually got Tourette’s?

Why make a joke that might upset someone? There are loads of possible jokes in the world. The capacity of the English language to create puns is infinite.

Because there isn't a joke in the world that hasn't got the capacity to upset someone, somewhere.

One of the popular ones...a farmer asked me to help him round up 18 cows, so I said "that's 20 cows"

Do you know how many cows are slaughtered in this country? We shouldn't be farming cows, we should all be living meet and dairy free, and the thought of it is upsetting. Also, as a maths teacher, it's insulting to suggest someone who was good at maths would then be so stupid as to not understand what the farmer meant. It buys into the whole "speccy geek" thing, that if you're good at maths you struggle to interact with society. That's very upsetting.

Shall I go on?

“Shall I go on?”
No thank you. Because you’re being a teeny weeny bit silly, aren’t you?

And/or disingenuous.