Fellow comedians defended Tosh with their own tweets. Dane Cook
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Fellow comedians defended Tosh with their own tweets. Dane Cook:
“If you journey through this life easily offended by other peoples words |
think it’ s best for everyone if you just kill yourself.” Doug Stanhope:
“You’ re hilarious. If you ever apologize to a heckler again | will rape
you.” Louis C.K.: “Your show makes me laugh every time | watch it. And
you have pretty eyes” --except that he wrote it after watching Tosh on TV,
but before he learned about the Laugh Factory incident. Nevertheless, he
was excoriated and accused of being a “rape apologist.”
But C.K. himself is no stranger to sexual-assault jokes. Onstage, he
has said that he’ s against rape-- “unless you have a reason, like you
wanna fuck someone and they won’ t let you, in which case what other
option do you have?"
Conversely, in an episode of his TV series, Lou/e he reversed such
roles. After leaving a bar with an especially aggressive woman, Laurie
(played by Melissa Leo), that he had inadvertently met earlier, she
performs fellatio on him in her pickup truck, then insists that he in turn
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