Why care about Tracy Morgan's jokes?
(CBS/AP) Tracy Morgan apparently isn't done offending people. On the heels of his public apologies and visit to Nashville, Tenn., to make amends for a homophobic rant during a June stand-up show, Morgan made some jokes last weekend in New York at the expense of the disabled.
He comically cautioned against dating women with "retarded kids" and joked about once romancing "a cripple" with a prosthetic arm.
Read more: Tracy Morgan apologizes in Nashville for anti-gay remarks
Those zingers would likely have gone unappreciated by anyone other than the crowd at Manhattan's Caroline's comedy club. But a New York Times article shared his performance with the civilized world. An advocacy group for the disabled swiftly blasted his remarks as "far too offensive to be excused as comedy" and called for his immediate apology.
This time, Morgan has not responded. But stay tuned. By now, he likely has a target on his back.
Are other social-advocacy groups already lying in wait, positioned to insert Morgan's next round of offending remarks in a statement demanding from him yet another display of contrition, should that group's chosen cause be next on his hit list? And will special-interest groups begin monitoring his concerts, to make sure no insensitive remarks made in the confines of a comedy club before consenting adults go unheard, and uncondemned, by the outside world?
Should a commission be formed, maybe on the model of the once-indomitable Motion Picture Production Code, to make sure comedians heed a proper standard of conduct and avoid the risk of hurting anybody's feelings?
Is Tracy Morgan the new poster child of comedy oppression?
The goal of comedians is tricky and elusive to achieve: to be funny, reliably funny, in a world where disagreement reigns not only about what's funny and what isn't, but about what should and shouldn't be off-limits to humorists.
And comedians, by their very nature, offend. For every squeaky-clean Bill Cosby or Jerry Seinfeld, many more from Redd Foxx, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin to Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock and Louis C.K. have stepped on people's toes, unapologetically.
Morgan crossed the line - somebody's line, anyway - in Nashville when he joked that he would "pull out a knife and stab" his son if the kid confessed to being gay. At least one of the willing ticketholders didn't like the joke and said so on his Facebook page.
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