A good job like Dara O'Briain!

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I never really though Dara was all that funny till I saw this special and him interacting with the audience. It was one of the most enjoyable comedy specials I've ever seen.

We can help you recover your old account. Is it username @ChaosEngine?

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Ok, that's fucking annoying, first I have to create a new account because I can't login to my old one and now, I can't embed vids or edit my posts. grrr

anyway, since the above won't make much sense, here's the last bit again with links:

Oh and why don't most comedians make jokes about muslims?

1 some do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F53KqJS_TkU

and 2... well I'll let Dara handle that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WPkuWf6IDZY

>> ^kulpims:

dead


Fixed, thanks for the house keeping

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That would be scary...Dara is a big dude.

>> ^chilaxe:

Yeah, but aren't liberals arguing Muslims should get special treatment, and then denying that's what they're arguing?


The only people I know who want to give Muslims special treatment are the conservatives who want to bomb them and steal their oil.

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@Payback

If the argument is that comedians can't tell Muslism jokes the way they tell Christian or Jewish jokes because liberals are too sensitive about Islam, then that is an argument against Dara Brian's thesis, not for it.

Brian's thesis is that he doesn't tell jokes about Islam not because it gets special treatment (we're too sensitive) but because that would require the audience understands Islam at something like an introductory academic level. That's a claim that shouldn't be accepted at face value.

It's like arguing non-Jews can't tell jokes about Jews because 'We don't even know what halakhot and Birkat Ha-Mizvot are!' However, Jews are commonly featured in jokes, because most jokes don't actually require an academic understanding of the subject.


@Porksandwich, a joke about Mohammad marrying a 9 year old is a joke related to Islam, but perhaps it can't normally be told because we give Islam special treatment (which is an argument against Brian's thesis).

Brian's joke is just a joke, not an argument to be defended.

>> ^chilaxe:

at Payback
Since the following videos are in the top sifts at the same time as this video, it's curious to see which un-self-reflective people will fall for the idea that professional comedians are literally incapable of thinking of anything funny to say about a huge part of global news and culture. Under normal circumstances, nobody would agree with that idea.


Yea, as my joke was only slightly funnier than yours, I can see why you totally missed the point...

...that and the fact that if Dara used that joke you link, he'd probably be labeled racist or at least a misogynist. Case in point, 90% of Chris Rock's material is over-the-top in-your-face hilarious, but a white man would be run through on a pike if he said the same thing.