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Old 03-31-2015, 10:27 AM   #160
Arles
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ by way of Belleville, IL
This is pretty ridiculous, IMO:

The internet is turning on Trevor Noah, the guy who's replacing Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show,' after discovering some of his old tweets - Yahoo Finance

I honestly didn't know a thing about him before the Daily Show announcement, but applying outrage to a stand-up comic for jokes on twitter about "fat chicks", "jewish chicks" and "women's hockey players looking like lesbians" seems pretty petty to me. Nothing in the cherry-picked excerpts looks overly mean or offensive to me. I'm pretty sure every comic with a twitter feed is going to have a handful of "pushing the line" jokes over a 3-year period.

I worry about the future of good comedy if people get attacked for saying "A hot white woman with ass is like a unicorn. Even if you do see one, you'll probably never get to ride it." Sheesh, get over yourself people
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