• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Millennials in NY were cracking dark jokes about 9/11 in high school. “Too soon” never existed for some of us.

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      9 months ago

      George Carlin was first.

      Joan Rivers got there just after.

      We’ve been laughing at jokes about 911 for ages. Being edgy isn’t new, even boomers do it

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        9 months ago

        I remember Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar’s Club roast. Can’t remember what the actual joke was, but I remember he lost the whole audience, and then won them back with a spontaneous telling of “The Aristocrats”

        Kudos for Carlin, who made fun of government propaganda. Maybe not so much for Joan Rivers for making fun of FDNY widows.

        (I’m not a boomer, though. Or a millennial. Or really that edgy anymore, if I ever was…)