Comedian jokes about Flight MH370

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So this Comedian thinks she is funny and is unrepentant in joking about a missing flight which has caused untold grief in the families and friends of the passengers and crew. Thinks the reaction to her comic view is 'overblown'. She said words to the effect that 'enough time has passed'.
No, wrong, grief has no time limit, it goes on and on when you have lost those you love.

To me some subjects ought never ever to be joked about. Not when people are dead and loved ones will never even know where the bodies are or what happened.

I find it tragic that this comedian can do this and that some even apparently find it funny.
 

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Rose65 said:
So this Comedian thinks she is funny and is unrepentant in joking about a missing flight which has caused untold grief in the families and friends of the passengers and crew. Thinks the reaction to her comic view is 'overblown'.

To me some subjects ought never ever to be joked about. Not when people are dead and loved ones will never even know where the bodies are or what happened.

I find it tragic that this comedian can do this and that some even apparently find it funny.
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Care to provide a link to this comedy act ? JimB.
 
CallMeKate said:
I assume this is the one she's talking about, @jimintoronto . My personal opinion is that this "comedy act" is disgusting and I hope this person feels the brunt of the error she made. (It's not just the plane thing I mean either... it's the rest of it.)

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I watched it and wasn't too offended. Of course I am not Malaysian. I talked to a few Kazakhstanis after the Borat movie, they were highly offended by it, and by it's popularity in the US and Europe. I can see their point.

We have freedom of speech so anybody can say almost anything. We also have freedom of action, so we can choose not to listen.
 
CallMeKate said:
This is interesting.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asi...l-police-reports-comedian-mh370-jokes-3561096
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Thanks, this is interesting. I guess there is not freedom of speech in Malaysia. However as she was quoted saying in the article:

"Honestly, if Interpol does do something about this request and things escalate, can you imagine how famous it is going to make me?”

I think she is right, all this will do is bring her more attention. Censorship often works that way.
 
Have you noticed that people from that part of the world hate syllables. I have a Vietnamese friend who never finishes his English words and I can only understand what he might have said from the context of the conversation. He told me that his native language has very few syllables.
 
OldFeller said:
When comedians can't be funny, they rely very heavily upon shock to elicit nervous laughter from the (drunk) audience.
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This is true. When I was younger, I found some comedians so funny and they didn't talk about sex, race, or curse. When Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live one time, he must have been cursing up a storm. You kept hearing bleep sounds. What's the sense of listening to someone like that? You don't know what they are talking about. Jack Benny & Rodney Dangerfield could leave me in stitches, and they never cursed or talked about sex or race. If you are naturally funny, you know how to make people laugh. Just like the great comedians of the 50's & 60's.
 
She has good stage presence and good contact with her audience. Her material is just in bad taste. To make jokes about a plane that went down where there were no survivors is cruel. There’s nothing funny about that whatsoever. It’s too bad she picks such lame controversial topics.

I’ve gone to see a few stand up comedians and I honestly can’t say I’ve really enjoyed it. There’s always someone, a group of people getting unfairly roasted and I see nothing funny about it. In fact, it leaves me with a sour feeling.
 
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CallMeKate said:
Check the link I posted, Rose... she's been reported to Interpol. @Rose65
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Does interpol not have far more serious matters to attend to?

In my opinion, making a big deal out of a supposedly tasteless joke is just another example of 'woke' thinking. The joke was mainly intended for consumption by those in the audience, not for Brits etc whose hobby is to find everything offensive if it doesn't meet with their narrow suburban values.. :rolleyes:
 
Since my family isn't from Singapore or Malaysia, and am not up to the political situations in either country, it's hard for me to say whether or not Jocelyn Chia is "funny."

It's probably no different from a European comedian making fun of some of the Brexit problems. Would be considered tasteless by some in GB, but funny to EU audiences.

British comedians come here and poke fun at the US on a regular basis. Some Americans laugh about it, others take offense. Surely, those who went to Chia's act were probably familiar with her style of material.

Malaysia calling for Interpol's help for a joke told in NY by an American comic (who is also a lawyer) and was born in the US.? Yeah, good luck with that. Talk about overreach...

Chia told CNN that her routine has been performed “more than a hundred times” for a year and a half without an issue, but when this particular segment was taken out and condensed into a short clip for social media, some of the necessary context went missing.


“I do stand by my joke but with some caveat – I stand by it in its entirety, when viewed in a comedy club. Upon reflection I do see that having this as a clip that gets viewed out of a comedy club context was risky,” she said.


She added Singaporeans have long had a friendly rivalry with Malaysia and it was what the joke was based on, adding that she bears no grudge against Malaysia. It was also a common culture for comedians to “roast” their live audience, she added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/11/...joke-singapore-apologizes-intl-hnk/index.html
 
I was thinking the problem was with joking about the missing flight and the 200+ people who died on it, not the Malaysia put-downs. Do you guys think it wasn't the plane joke that created the problem? Wouldn't be the first time I had a different reading on current events than others have. :unsure:
 
CallMeKate said:
I was thinking the problem was with joking about the missing flight and the 200+ people who died on it, not the Malaysia put-downs. Do you guys think it wasn't the plane joke that created the problem? Wouldn't be the first time I had a different reading on current events than others have. :unsure:
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I’ve watched Chris Rock so am accustomed to swearing . In fact, I’d be disappointed if there wasn’t any. Poking fun of different races is common for most comedians. Making fun of a plane that went down where everyone was killed seems insensitive to me but I didn’t see the show in its entirety. Perhaps if I did I would think differently. I wouldn’t find a comedian poking fun of the holocaust funny either. Delivery of the joke and how it’s done makes a substantial difference, for me personally.
 
There is something eerie about dying at sea. The sea has mystique and there are a lot of sea stories out there to fill volumes of books. It didn't take the government long to find JFK, Jr's plane with the Bessette sisters inside and I have heard many people, including some at the Pentagon complain about the two planes with one being located very quickly while MH370 is still missing.

I was very glad when we found JFK Jr's plane. Even though he used some very poor judgment and wasn't even a good pilot, no one should have to make the sea their burial ground.
 
Jokes about 9-11 started up just a few weeks after that terrible day. Gilbert Gottfried was first among comedians to use the tragedy in his material. Yeah, they were tasteless, but hardly worthy of more than a dismissive shrug. Certainly not police response.
 

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