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Originally Posted by Seph
I mean it doesn't bother me personally that he said it. But in today's world? Sheeeeit that was about as dumb as it gets. We give Trump shit all the time for the stupid shit he said but not even he has gone this low. Don't act like we all don't know that holocaust jokes are considered the very bottom of the barrel and about the worst thing you can say in public. They have been damn near automatic cancellation for a long time now. Dave being Jewish is why I find his comment to be particularly egregious in that sense; if anyone should know better than to make light of it then it's him.
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Thing is, while it wasn't knee-slapping funny, it was one of those jokes that a room full of comedians would have said amongst themselves - not one many would have tried to make on stage unless it is one of your very blue comedy folk who are known for and made a career saying that kind of shit (like the recently departed Bob Saget). Meltzer is none of those.
And we get the
implications about lining up genocide, the unfortunately named PPV match, and the nation of Saudi Arabia, but unless Doug Stanhope was making that comparison in a dive bar show in Nova Scotia, nobody was going to come out of saying that unscathed. Especially not when just uttered publicly on Twitter. Intentionally.