http://www.laughspin.com/2012/07/10/daniel-tosh-apologizes-for-gang-rape-joke/
Incidents of this nature occur in comedy clubs all the time so for this to make news is absurd. If you are at a comedy club and know Daniel Tosh is playing, what do you expect? It's perfectly fine for him to joke anout that topic, this is 2012.
He wasn't condoning rape.
Dane Cook does rape jokes.
Louis CK is one of the best comedians of all time and he jokes about rape all the time.
The absolute greatest comedian ever George Carlin did a whole long routine on rape that's as funny as hell just to prove to people that context is what matters.
There are no taboo topics. We have first amendment rights, for a heckler to show her ignorance--to be prudish to come on like that and small mindedly heckle Tosh was pretty lame. She embarrassed herself. And the audience was laughing, so obviously the bit was funny. Most people act offended because they think they have to.
It's important to realize Tosh is somewhat of a social satirist and irony is a staple of his act. Sarcasm too.
Daniel was just covering his own ass by apologizing on twitter. His agent or manager probably told him to, in order to avoid boycotts, lawsuits, or some other money costing incident.
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Plus South Park makes tons of rape jokes and Family Guy has done bits on rape ON NETWORK TELEVISION that are laugh-out-loud funny. Even Seinfeld (the sitcom) had pokes at date-rape.
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