Cowardly humor bad for society

Lets not forget Walter, the cranky old WHITE guy, or bubba J the WHITE Redneck. Heavens forbid State news mentions all his characters, it might show their slant.

Jeff Dunham makes fun of everyone. Get over it.

I don’t listen to him, because I don’t find him funny. I’d much rather listen to Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, or Ron White.

his jokes are not new, but his setup is unique, as ventriliquism is all but dead. And give up the ‘jokes MUST be PC to be funny’ bull. Stereotypes are funny. Most people in ‘post racial america’ can laugh at themselves. If a puppet insults you so, grow a pair.

I’m with Brian on this one. I didn’t even know this guy but it took me 5 seconds on youtube to see he makes fun of everyone.
Dan, go cry somewhere else.

Seriously Dan, how about you do a little research. I don’t even find Jeff Dunham remotely funny but like the previous post I found his redneck and other white characters on youtube after one search. The world isn’t, nor should it be, completely PC. How many times did you laugh at Chappelle making fun of white people or Mexicans? Grow up and find some real issues to write about.

I think part of living in a post-racial America involves laughing at ourselves. I agree, I don’t think the guy is funny either, but sometimes ‘espousing’ stereotypes is one of the best ways to shed light on actual prejudice. I can’t really tell if that’s what Dunham is doing or not, though. Also, I feel like a column clearly interested in professing liberal values should heed freedom of speech ethics a little more.

Oh boy, here come the torches and pitchforks. Whatever your opinion of Mr. Faas, you have to admire his versatility. Last week he was accused of being a victim-blaming misogynist, this week a PC gospel-touting liberal. Nobody considers it’s Faas who sees straight while the rest of us are cross-eyed.

Dan are you serious. In the 70’s comedies like All In The Family and The Jeffersons were very non-PC. They pointed out the stupidity of stereotypes. This helped bring in PC era we see today.

Don’t you see, your opinion is exactly the intended response.

Dan Faas? Wow what a p*ssy.

Ventriloquist are offensive to comedy. Period. This column should focus on that instead of the guy’s material.

By the way, anti-terrorism humor is funny.

Dan, Dan, Dan
Ever heard of Lisa Lampanelli? How about Bobby Slayton? Don Rickles? Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor and on and on…
Some of the most stereotypical, borderline uncomfortable yet brilliant comedic material ever uttered from a stage has come from the mouths of these people. Why no outcry about these comics? Maybe because they don’t fall into the “ok to pile-on” category. They are female, Jewish or black so they get a pass and we all call it “cutting edge” or “observational” or “biting”.
To single out Dunham because he because the vehicles he uses to channel his material are based characature-like blocks of wood and are other races or cultures is absurd. To conveniently leave out two of Dunham’s most popular characters that are based on white male stereotypes is even more absurd and reveal a lot about Mr. Fass and his agenda. Talk about lazy.
Mr. Fass says “Just a few of Dunham’s signature characters include Jose Jalapeño, a sombrero-wearing pepper who is the butt of jokes consisting of Latino stereotypes; Sweet Daddy D, a black puppet who refers to himself as a “pimp” and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a skeleton puppet who is the basis for many anti-Muslim jokes.”
So, we’re now really supposed to be outraged that a PEPPER, a PEPPER is the butt of jokes and those jokes play into Latino stereotypes. My God, call the ACLU! How about we replace Jose with an ear of corn, put overalls on it and he can say his name is Merle from Nebraska. Does that calm everyone down?
Sweet Daddy D calls himself a pimp. Gee, I’ve never heard a black man call himself a pimp before. That “pimp” also plays the part of Jeff’s manager. I guess that would make Jeff his bitch.
And Achmed….Achmed, the one that Mr. Fass says is the basis for many anti-Muslim jokes. Go to the tape Fass. There is not one reference in Dunham’s act to any religion. Not one.
So who is playing into an anti-Muslim stereotype here? Seems odd that Mr. Fass thinks he hears Dunham putting down Muslims when in fact that has never occurred. Looks like someone has some of his own negative racial stereotypes he needs to work through.
Comedy often points out the absurdities in of people and in life by being absurd. That’s first day, first class stuff.
Lighten up. They’re Dummies. They’re jokes.

Dan Faas….you got pwnd

We get it, Dan.
It’s not funny because a white guy did it.

That’s all you needed to say.

What Faas should’ve focused on is that Dunham can’t keep it up forever. One hour for each of the stereotypes should do it. I don’t know how you can milk an entire show out of it.

I can see him having a lot of casual fans, but his devout followers have to be pretty dumb to not get bored, and there are plenty of dumb people in the world.

Holy hell, is this guy butthurt.

Dunham’s humor is an interesting spin on the goofy stereotypes we live with every day.

I have not seen him make a joke about how “all Muslims are terrorists”, but I guess that shows your total lack of research on the subject. Achmed is a stereotype based upon our current predicaments in Modern Warfare.

21st century folks. These jokes are largely attacking stereotypes/the ones doing the stereotyping.

We students are fortunate enough to grow up in an era where race doesn’t play nearly as large as a role as it did only 2-3 generations ago. You’re not going to tear down those barriers by pretending they don’t exist: The only way it’s going to happen is if you attack them.

Best defense is a good offense.