{"id":131803,"date":"2023-10-08T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=131803"},"modified":"2023-10-08T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:35:14","slug":"no-joke-should-be-off-limits-says-comedian-lee-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/no-joke-should-be-off-limits-says-comedian-lee-mack\/","title":{"rendered":"No joke should be off limits, says Comedian Lee Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>No joke should be off limits, says Comedian Lee Mack &#8211; but the star says the golden rule should be that the punchline needs to be more funny than shocking<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Comedian admits jokes need to be even funnier when subject matter is shocking<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comedian Lee Mack says no joke on any subject should be off limits &#8211; as long as it is funny enough.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing cancel culture, the Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke must be more funny than shocking.<\/p>\n<p>But he said although that means in principle anything is fair game, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.<\/p>\n<p>Mack &#8211; who still writes long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out, but now rarely does stand-up &#8211; also said too often now jokes have become judged without looking at the intention behind them.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;In principle, there isn&#8217;t anything that you can&#8217;t do a joke about, nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/08\/00\/76290617-0-image-a-99_1696723194017.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Comedian Lee Mack said that nothing is in principle off limits for a joke, and that gags are too often judged without considering the intentions behind them<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But for me, the joke has to be funnier than it is shocking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So the more shocking the subject matter the better the joke has to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And there are some subject matters that are so shocking no one is good enough to think of a joke that is funnier than it is shocking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So in principle you can do a joke about anything, but in practice you can&#8217;t because no one&#8217;s that good.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;You could go &#8216;what about this horrific event, would you be able to do a joke?&#8217;. In principle, yes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But I could spend two years trying to write a magic joke about it that was more funny than shocking, and I&#8217;d never achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And that&#8217;s the problem. Sometimes comedians are doing jokes that just aren&#8217;t funny enough, because they have to be even funnier when it&#8217;s that shocking.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/08\/01\/76290787-12606513-image-a-103_1696723540116.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mack posing with his award at the National Television Awards. He admitted that a joke needs to be funnier when its subject matter is more sensitive or shocking<\/p>\n<p>However, Mack said live stand-up is less of a minefield than television, because venues attract a more understanding audience.<\/p>\n<p>He told Gabby Logan&#8217;s podcast: &#8216;There&#8217;s a lot of freedom with stand-up. Anything that is &#8216;mmm, is that going to be seen in the wrong context now when it&#8217;s put on television&#8217;, you don&#8217;t have that in stand-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stand up they get it, so if you say something which is pushing something, then they go &#8216;yeah, we know what his intention (was)&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Intention seems to have gone out the window now. It doesn&#8217;t matter what someone&#8217;s intention was, it&#8217;s what you did that matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think that&#8217;s a shame. 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