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The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.

“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”

  • @chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    511 months ago

    Stewart Lee did it too, but I think it only works when the audience is ‘in’ on the joke – that is, they are expected to realise that the insult to the audience is itself a joke, rather than the comic actually meaning it.