Would you be offended if a comedian made a joke about dwarfism?

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Seen a comic in the last few days. Was fairly good although I did notice he made reference to dwarfism? It is acceptable now? Is it even funny?

What’s not to get?

I don’t really know how else to word it.

I’m not disabled but I could still find a joke about a disability offensive.

Fgs

*unacceptable

Ah the ever delightful Frankie Boyle who thinks its OK to mock children with Downs syndrome

Of course it should. It is possible to be funny without being offensive. There may be some differences of subjective opinion but there are things that are obviously offensive and even unlawful. There is no such thing as free speech

People who think they have a dark sense of humour are invariably people who use the word ‘snowflakes’ or ‘woke’.

It depends on context of course but it can actually make people feel included. Often it's more effective than people being too worried of offending someone to mention a characteristic. Including it in a joke can make it easier to talk about and make people who share that characteristic feel more like everyone is treated the same and that wouldn't happen if other characteristics were included in jokes, but theirs was never mentioned at all like it didn't exist at all. That's likely to make someone feel like it's something shameful or something. I'm not sure if I. Getting this across right xxx

Making fun of people for the way they look isn't funny or clever. I wouldn't be "offended" but I wouldn't be impressed either and would be put off seeing someone who took cheap shots at others.

Well dwarfism is a disabillity so yeah i eould be uncomfortable ,
I have a very dark sense of humour myself but there are limits ,i remember watching a comedian a few years ago who was taking the piss out of some one in the audience ,and said she must be special ,as she travelled on one of those special buses to school ,now he didnt know that our table and the one next to us all have disabled kids ,who all go to special schools on those buses ,but you would have thought in this day and age he would have been more aware

I went to a Russell Howard show once. I was taken, really, it was a birthday treat. He spent all night mocking fat people.

Billy Connolly had a story featuring a 'dwarf'. See YouTube.

There was a cartoon years ago that had a clip of a grumpy old man and a dwarf sat silently at the bus stop when the old bastard suddenly snaps out of nowhere 'so wheres the rest of you'.

It was a funny joke and everyone Ive seen see it laughed. Not at the dwarf (there was nothing funny about the dwarf) but the out of line cantankerous old git and the suprise of it because it was so unexpected out of the calm silence.

Its the timing, situation, characters and juxtoposition that made it funny, If I just walked up randomly to a dwarf and said 'where the rest of you' likely no one would find it funny and people would look confused because comedy doesnt translate automatically but that doesnt mean it can never be funny.

And just because a joke uses a difference doesnt mean its at its expense.

I have only ever heard the work woke on films thankfully! Lol x

Some might be, not all.

That is very much at the expense of the dwarf though isn’t it, because saying ‘where’s the rest of you’ to a non-disabled person wouldn’t make sense.

Well yes, again, comedy is subjective

And is it specifically the kids with downs syndrome that makes it funny? Like, would the same joke work with any random kid?

Depends on the joke but it is distinctly possible I would be offended, yes.

1st point- Yes fair enough, I get what you were saying I just meant you’re entitled to feel offended even if you don’t have dwarfism.

2nd - Yes, ignore me.

I wouldn't be offended.

I remember that. The actor has said that it had seriously affected his income, as he got lots of work over the Christmas period usually

I would not find it funny.
I prefer political humour, general situational or behavioural humour. That sort of thing.

I’m the same, I like situational and behavioural humour.
Political humour bores me to tears though.

Depends on whether that random kid had something that made them funny.

Anything can be made part of a joke it’s the way it is told

that doesn’t mean it’s funny to laugh at people it’s funny to laugh at the joke

For all those offended.

Do you have short stature?

My ds is in para sport. Very high level and there are numerous short stature athletes. You should hear them all together taking the piss!! (That's all the athletes with various disabilities taking the piss in general of each other and themselves).

I wouldn't get offended on behalf of someone else but whether the joke appealed to me or not would depend on its content and context.

Such as Down’s syndrome?