32 ‘Jokes’ That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time
A dad taking care of his own baby?! Man, the ‘80s were wild!
![32 ‘Jokes’ That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/5/957775_320x180.jpg)
You’d think that blackface died out a long time ago, but we’ve got an example here from 2012! Yeesh.
Comedy can be like that sometimes. Walking the line — even boldly marching over it — will inevitably cause some pearls to be clutched. Only time will tell if it was a dainty tip-toe over the line, or an unforgivable shit-covered boot stomp.
![AMY SCHUMER realized that she has influence. About her old joke, I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual, she said, I played a dumb white girl onstage. Once I realized I had more eyes and ears on me and had an influence I stopped telling jokes like that. I am evolving as an artist. I am taking responsibility and hope I haven't hurt anyone. I apologize if I did. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/955440.jpg)
![TRACY MORGAN said he would pull out a knife and stab his son if he were gay. I want to apologize to my fans, and the gay and lesbian community, for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. ... While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/955441.jpg)
![TREVOR NOAH apologized for downplaying war. On The Daily Show, he said a war between India and Pakistan would be the most entertaining, then did a Bollywood dance. Не later said, As a comedian, I use comedy to process pain and discomfort in my world but I am sorry that this hurt you and others, that's not what I was trying to do. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/955438.jpg)
![CRACKED SARAH SILVERMAN is horrified that she did blackface. About her show's 2007 episode: I don't stand by the blackface sketch. I'm horrified by it, and I can't erase it. I can only be changed by it and move on. That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism... All I can say is that I'm not that person anymore.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/955439.jpg)
![CRACKED TINA FEY pulled 30 Rock' S blackface episodes from circulation. About the four episodes, she said, I understand now that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for the pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/955437.jpg)
![CRACKED WEIRD AL YANKOVIC regrets using the word midget. These days, | do not say that word. In fact, at one point on tour, I sang the song that had that word in it and I stopped the whole band and just explained to the audience how language has evolved over time, and I wouldn't use the word now. And then we resumed playing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/955436.jpg)
![CRACKED DISCUSSING DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY The gross-out humor is actually really good. They pull off a ton of memorable raunchy bits, but Matt Dillon using the R word, referring to a kid as Mongo, and discussing his cage, and his leash has never sat well with decent viewers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/955435.jpg)
![CRACKED GHOSTLY ORAL GHOSTBUSTERS Because '80s kids were swimming in Ghostbusters merch, it's easy to forget the really off putting moment where Ray (Dan Aykroyd) received fellatio from a ghost. What do you even call an inter-spiritual sex act?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/955434.jpg)
![CRACKED THE PASTRY FILLING SCENE. VAN WILDER Filling pastries with dog semen is the pinnacle of gross college movie pranks. Pleasuring a dog while he looks at female dogs has to be some form of bestiality, and the way those preppy dudes lap it up is just nauseating.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/955433.jpg)
![CRACKED THE FOOD ORGY SAUSAGE PARTY It felt like they were just shoving the adult themes down our throats, like look at how crass we can make a Pixar movie. The unnecessary orgy scene took it way too far. Leave animated sex scenes to Team America: World Police.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/955432.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS already CIT BY - IN E R T ١ الا AUTOCORRECT I S D F FAILS My grandma gave me her collection of old panties. Pennies! Her pennies! Also, anything with duck or ducking has been covered in like 2008, so we get it, you weren't ducking mad. GRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/955431.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS WEED vs. ALCOHOL When I smoke weed, I get the munchies, but when I drink, I get the punchies! - The logline for every weed vs. alcohol bit in existence. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/955430.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS BLACK PEOPLE ARE COOL On top of the countless stand-up jokes, a popular TV and movie trope has been a white friend dancing awkwardly or saying something cool, and a black friend checking them with, Okay, promise me you'll never do that again. WHITE PEOPLE ARE NERDS CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/955429.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS PARENTS TRYING TO BE COOL Middle-aged parents who have no idea what a Tikitty Tokitty is get a massive eye-roll from their teen daughter, who either helps them understand, or just storms off in a huff. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/955428.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS AWKWARD HANDSHAKES It's usually the punchline in most commercials, but countless movies and TV shows feature a spin on it. The missed high-five, or being left hanging, or the are we gonna hug, or fist bump, or shake, or high-five, or 'oh my god, this is so awkward! CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/955427.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS SERIOUSLY? This one word joke comes before or after something wacky. Before, it's usually, You're not seriously thinking about stealing that car, are you? Or after the guy steals the car, he'll pull up to a more straight laced character who just says, Seriously? CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/955426.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS SO, I'M SINGLE. After a comic describes some gross habit involving cheetos or porn, they'll let everyone sit in awkward silence for a beat before, So, I'm single. OR: After a gross/awkward encounter with a partner, it'll be, So, I'm single now. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/955425.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS AWKWARD! In lieu of writing an actual punchline, a character will just say awkward, and the cringe we feel is supposed to be the joke. It's not a joke! It's all set up with a forced awkward chuckle because we're uncomfortable! CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/955424.jpg)
![TIRED COMEDY BITS MEN DRESSING LIKE WOMEN Once some serious shock value, it's basically men being applauded for having the courage to be seen like that. If a man legitimately performs a great female character with great jokes, game on. But the laugh simply for the sight of it should be done with. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/955423.jpg)
![CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T INVOLVE RIGID GENDER NORMS. MR. MOM A laid-off man becomes a stay-at-home dad while his wife returns to work. Jokes about a man changing diapers and ironing shirts couldn't be seen as ridiculous today. Don't worry, in the happy ending, he returns to work and his wife gets back to the homestead.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/955422.jpg)
![CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T BE ONE BIG TRANS JOKE ANYMORE. ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE The Einhorn is Finkle, Finkle is Einhorn plot has one big reveal of Einhorn's bulge tucked between her legs. This would never be played up as a joke today, and we wonder why it was even needed to tell a stolen dolphin story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/955421.jpg)
![CRACKED BLACK FACE CAN'T BE YOUR ENTIRE PLOT ANYMORE. SOUL MAN In the 1986 movie, a spoiled white kid pretends to be black to nab a Harvard scholarship exclusive to black students. It does raise awareness of prejudice and racism, but all the blackface made it wildly offensive, even for 1986 standards.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/955420.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Seth MacFarlane says Family Guy wouldn't do the JFK Pez Dispenser joke today. Here's the joke: A kid gets the head of his new John F. Kennedy Pez Dispenser blown off, then says Good thing I still have my Bobby Kennedy Pez Dispenser. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/955418.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Conan O'Brien publicly regretted making an offhand joke about Anne Frank. At one point in a documentary about him, when they tell him his tour will be over soon, he says That's what they said to Anne Frank. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/955419.jpg)
![Al Franken was touring as a comic with the USO when he posed for an ill- TWE advised funny picture with conservative talk show host Leeann Tweeden. While others also accused Franken of inappropriate behavior, the prank pic was the smoking gun that led to his Senate resignation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/955417.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Gilbert Gottfried made some tasteless jokes about Japan, then apologized. N GAL Не made them after an earthquake and tsunami in Japan - and his apology came too late to prevent Aflac from dropping him as spokesman. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/955415.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Jamie Foxx regretted telling Miley Cyrus, then 16, to go do some drugs. I so apologize and this is sincere, he said about telling Cyrus to get like Britney Spears and do some heroin, among other things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/955416.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Amy Schumer apologized to Hilaria Baldwin for using a picture of her as a joke. She took one of Baldwin's pictures and reposted it on her own Instagram as a holiday card, but the joke apparently didn't go over too well. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/955414.jpg)
![How does a Joan Rivers get in hot water with the Anti-Defamation League? Check out this joke aboutHeidi Klum's Oscar dress in 2013: The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens. Yep, that would do it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/955413.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Sabrina Jalees used embarrassing material about race as a teenager. She'd make jokes like I'm like a coconut: Brown on the outside, white on the inside! Now, she finds that sad and weird and self-hating. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/955411.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD David Letterman publicly said he felt bad about making fun of Monica Lewinsky. It happened in 2014, after he'd read an essay in Vanity Fair in which she wrote about how humiliated she'd been by the whole scandal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/955412.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Eddie Murphy says that his old jokes, from 1987's Raw, make him cringe. I was a young guy processing a broken heart, you know, kind of an asshole, he said, even though Raw basically made him a star. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/955410.jpg)