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Glad he's gone to be honest


Those who joke about child abuse either do it or normalize it.

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I could understand saying something like this if he was a proven pedophile / rapist. Otherwise, it's a cruel and disgusting thing to say. Shame on you.

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If you normalise talking about kids being raped you will see an uptick in child rape. He wasn't saving lives, he wasn't even a good comedian. His death is for society's gain due to what he normalised.

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He never joked about it. Others joked about it....at his roast

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https://youtu.be/BHeZS3mGDKY

Sorry to burst your bubble. He was a bad man.

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That's a traditional dirty joke among comedians. It's an exercise in improv. You are a fat moron....look at Gilbert Gottfrieds version

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OP is an idiotic statement. It's completely possible to joke about something you've never done, never intend to do, and find abhorrent. You know nothing about humor.

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This was his memorable appearance in Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza’s 2005 documentary ''The Aristocrats''.
The film featured dozens of standup comics telling and retelling the same joke: a family goes to a casting agent, does all sorts of stomach-churning, immoral things to each other, and when the agent asks, “What’s the name of your act?” the reply is always “The Aristocrats.” Throughout the film, knowing the punchline never ruins the joke because it’s the setup that makes it so funny. Some of the bold-faced names featured in the film include George Carlin, Susie Essman, Sarah Silverman, Don Rickles, Chris Rock, and Robin Williams ...
On the surface, it seemed like a stretch to include Saget in the cast since his wholesomeness had made him famous. This did not matter to Bob Saget.
Over the course of seven unbelievably filthy minutes, Saget bests the competition with a sordid tableau even he can’t believe. The story involves diarrhea, pedophilia, fisting, and rounds upon round of singing “Make ‘Em Laugh” while running up walls “like Fred Astaire.” Transcribing all Saget’s turns of phrase simply does not do his telling of the joke justice. By the time he’s done, he can’t even tell the punchline, which makes it all even funnier.

“ ''Aristocrats'' couldn’t be done now,” SAGET REFLECTED in 2018, adding that when he did the performance he had only heard the joke twice. “Maybe it would come out right now as an anti-, freedom of speech. … The point was censorship. Different ways can do an artform, all tell the same thing. ‘Everybody paint the same painting and see what happens.’ But it really was about freedom of speech. I mean, Lenny Bruce went to jail for saying things that were said overtly in that film.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bob-saget-aristocrats-1281861/

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You need to stop your daily visits to idiot classes..
You are judging people without knowing what is true context behind the story! Only Morons do such BS!

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This just in: Anthony Hopkins doesn't endorse cannibalism.

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I know he had a very dirty sense of humour, but what exactly did he say regarding what you are referring to ?

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i'm not going to post it here, but if you go about 3/5s into this article, you'll find an incredibly dark joke he told when his daughter was born.

it's super dark.

personally, i can laugh at it. some people will not.

https://observer.com/2005/05/bob-sagets-full-mouth/

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Think of all the things Mel Brooks has normalized over the years. The Holocaust, the Inquisition, monarchs raping their subjects, the list goes on and on.

You'll really be celebrating when he passes, I would think.

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So making a joke in poor taste is bad but being glad someone is dead for telling said joke is okay? Does your brain work???

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So he can no longer normalize pedophiles.

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It’s a tasteless joke and you’re the asshole.

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