• @Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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    1510 months ago

    George Carlin was first.

    Joan Rivers got there just after.

    We’ve been laughing at jokes about 911 for ages. Being edgy isn’t new, even boomers do it

    • @ggBarabajagal@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      I remember Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar’s Club roast. Can’t remember what the actual joke was, but I remember he lost the whole audience, and then won them back with a spontaneous telling of “The Aristocrats”

      Kudos for Carlin, who made fun of government propaganda. Maybe not so much for Joan Rivers for making fun of FDNY widows.

      (I’m not a boomer, though. Or a millennial. Or really that edgy anymore, if I ever was…)

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      010 months ago

      Oh I know. And there’s some lessening of the emotions, I’m not enraged by the jokes this time. Just…sad.