Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tosh.Awesome

Earlier this evening Daniel Tosh, most well known for Tosh.0, aired his new television show Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts on Comedy Central.  Tosh is well known for his extremely crude humor hitting on topics such as the child who was beheaded at Six Flags and of course his many jokes directed toward women, African Americans, and the Latino populations.

Happy Thoughts pushed the line between funny and just plain going to far, but for those who are not easily offended like myself Tosh proved that he was one of the funniest comedians out there.  Tosh quickly switched from one joke to the next, never pushing the limit of your attention span keeping his listeners entertained throughout.

Some of Tosh's better material were the jokes about the national anthem in America, the Mormon Church, and how he hates his girlfriend.  The national anthem is a one hit wonder that nobody wants to listen to Tosh pointed out, and if "his" country were to have a national anthem it would be thirty-nine minutes long just so if they ever won a gold medal the bronze and silver winners would have to sit there.  Tosh's Mormon Church joke pointed out that they spent thousands of dollars on adds so that gay marriage would not pass in California and it only worked because parents in California did not wanna actually talk to there kids.  And my personal favorite, the many jokes where Tosh pointed out his dislike for his girlfriend and joked about cheating on her because he believes that "you can't appreciate an eight unless you've been with a four."

I personally enjoyed the crude humor and national points of political argument that Tosh brought forth in his new show.  I'm looking forward to watching Tosh's new show every week and hope that it continues to keep its quality of humor, crude humor.



"My show's about bringing the troops home. That's the message. It's not obvious, but it's there. Bring the troops home tomorrow, and continue the war here. Because we owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds with their families, wake up in the morning, have delicious breakfast, and drive to war. They can do it in Nebraska; we don't need that horrible state. That can be our field. Some of you are like, "Oh, that's not nice! Then, we wouldn't have any corn!" My SUV doesn't run on corn. Ethanol's a dream, and a dumb one." -Daniel Tosh

1 comment:

  1. Jordan,

    Good summary of key parts. But I want more response. What value does shock jock humor have? How can you turn this into inquiry?

    (Is this even for this class?)

    -F

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