Nasty Comedians

What is a bad comedian? Personally, the answer would be a person who makes light of a subject that re-enforces stereotypes on particular members of the community. This could be racial, social, cultural, or religious or a combination of them all. Everyone makes jokes in one form or another. How they are told and in what context has an effect how the joke or funny story is received.

I believe that Jimmy Carr could be classed bad comedian because some of his stand-up is very sexist towards women. Meaning that his jokes are mainly aimed at men because he describes women as sex objects and just there to run around after the males. A lot of women like his work, but I just don't find it funny, I find it quite off putting and disgusting. However, when Carr is a T.V programme host, he is really funny because his sense of humour matches mine, plus he isn't sexist (probably because it is all scripted on the shows)

Comedians that use racial basis for their jokes are often seen as highly offensive, and it is this type of comedian that has received the most criticism over recent years. Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson, and Roy Chubby Brown are at the forefront in this type of stand up comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIHN1UkcSGo