32 ‘Jokes’ That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time

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32 ‘Jokes’ That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time

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.

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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