Eugene Mirman and a joke about Autism

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Okay, Eugene Mirman is one of my favorite stand-up comics of all time. Recently, he told a joke that really hit home for me and I thought was one of the funniest things I have ever heard about Asperger's EVER. But a friend of mine who also has Aspergers thought it was really offensive. Now I'm curious; what do you guys think?

Link posted below.

http://comedians.jokes.com/eugene-mirma ... s-your-god

I've seen this clip so many times and it never stops being amusing. xD I don't see anything that could be offensive in this.

I love it

He's a cute comic... I like his use of tone of voice or the way he talks or something...

Of course... I believe that comics are the people who are there to say the offensive things to make us laugh because they can say it with or without meaning it, purely to make people laugh be it because they feel uncomfortable or because they agree... and no one else knows why each person is laughing or which of those motivations more specifically. They just get to laugh...

I found it neither especially funny or offensive. I feel neutral about it.

I guess we could add the episode of South Park to that too. I refer to the season 15 ep titled "Assburgers".

To be honest if I couldn't humour my condition and wallowed in self pity my life would be over.

It's hard enough as it is feeling the ways that I do, but to let it win and accept defeat would be even worse.

I laugh at humour that rips on Christians. I laugh at humour that rips on Muslims and other ethnic groups. I laugh at pretty much everything I can as I appreciate laughter. So it would be terribly hypocritical of me to find that funny and then throw my toys out of a pram because some one makes light of a mental condition.

I laugh at things I shouldn't. I laugh at inappropriate things. So it's not my right to throw a strop when the humour is aimed at me.

A part of the way I am makes me very insulting and outspoken. So I guess if I expect people to tolerate me I should do the same. Same goes for prejudice. I was going to post in that other thread but now I don't need to. No, I am not prejudice of NTs. If they don't understand they can't help that, and you can't expect them to be able to level with you and look at things through your eyes, to see the world as you do.

To sum up.

I am not prejudice. I hate every one equally

Won't let me watch it. This content is unavailable from your location. Suppose I could use a proxy.

I will just answer both:-

Not going on about 1 subject all the time = totally ok.
Going on about the same subject (But its about the topic, for playful communication) = totally ok
When it becomes not ok, is when the stand up only uses jokes from that subject all the time.

The description of what happened at the reading was funny. I don't get the joke. It doesn't offend me, but... I don't understand it.

Second that. I don't understand why the traits of Asperger's would make someone more likely to come up with stupid random ideas like do not eat pigs, wear a hat only on a small part of your head and drown everyone except two of each species. If anything we tend to be rather obsessive and analytical which could go well with a god-joke but I do not understand the way he presented it. Maybe I just do not get it. The kid sounded hilarious though.

I didn't choose any of the options, because I don't find stand-up comedy to be funny, but this clip was also not offensive.

Not funny, but ... Clever.

Offensive? No way.