Audience Member Calls Police Because Comedian Told Offensive Joke at Comedy Club

“I think [Ahmed] said – I don’t want to misquote the joke – he said, ‘I knew there was at least one of us in here.’ Then he pauses, and then he goes, ‘Comedians of course. Comedians,’” Brien Spina, Off the Hook Comedy Club CEO said. “And so everybody in their mind thinks that he’s going to say something like a terrorist or something, but he says comedians, and that’s the joke. So I think the guy wasn’t even probably paying attention.”

The sad thing here is that we’ve forgotten that dark humor is still humor. The idea that a man of Middle Eastern ethnicity can’t even make a joke about being a terrorist proves just how serious we take everything nowadays. Usually, a person self-denigrating his own race was supposed to be a safe form of comedy.

What caught my attention, however, is when the caller asked if something like that should even be said, almost as if we shouldn’t be allowed to talk that way.

The thing about comedy is that it’s a great disinfectant. Being able to laugh with one another in the face of very serious things helps bring us together as a people. Saying this kind of thing is exactly what needs to be said. We all need to share a laugh with one another instead of taking things so seriously as a society.

Thanks in large part to the political correctness forced on us by the left, humor is now “dangerous.” Sadly, this has infected everyone. People of all stripes have become to say things outside of hushed whispers with trusted friends for fear of upsetting someone. Now, even comedy clubs aren’t safe.

Bring back funny.