During the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, Amy Schumer addressed Steve-O in the following joke:
I truly am — no joke — sorry for the loss of your friend Ryan Dunn. I know you must have been thinking, “It could’ve been me.” And I know we were all thinking, “Why wasn’t it?”
There are any number of variations on the “shoulda been you” joke — that same night, Jeffrey Ross told essentially the same joke about Anthony Jeselnik, with Greg Giraldo as the deceased subject. Hell, I told a “shoulda been Steve-O” joke the morning after Dunn’s death. But because people are idiots and because “Jackass” fans get butt-hurt any time someone says “Ryan Dunn” without crying, Schumer’s come under fire for mentioning Dunn’s name in a joke directed at Steve-O. Schumer, amazingly, responded to the criticism without calling anyone a moron.
“I don’t feel the need to apologize,” Schumer says. “I respect people’s opinion as long as they understand what the joke is. It wasn’t a Ryan Dunn joke. It was a Steve-O joke. It was a typical roast joke. It had the formula of any roast joke. That wasn’t even one of the jokes I had where I was thinking, ‘here it comes, I’m going to drop the hammer now.” [Laughspin]
Good for her. Something like this happens at every roast. People who never watch stand-up tune in hoping to see lots of mean jokes, then they inevitably decide that someone crossed an arbitrary line that doesn’t actually exist. It’s like they get off on being offended. And really, THOSE are the people who deserve to die in fiery car wrecks.
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‘And really, THOSE are the people who deserve to die in fiery car wrecks.’
/starts slow clap
The only time a comic should apologize is if they think they told an unfunny joke. Not for offending someone/anyone.
She shouldn’t have to apologize. It was a funny joke and it was a roast where that kind of thing encouraged.
“People who never watch stand-up tune in hoping to see lots of mean jokes, then they inevitably decide that someone crossed an arbitrary line that doesn’t actually exist.”
See, the people who came out of the woodwork to decry Tracy Morgan’s jokes about the mentally challenged AFTER he went on his infamous gay tirade.
she’s awesome, the sight of her has made my pants tight for the past few years, and she’s one of the few female comedians that have made me laugh hard… (was there a pun intended, I’m not sure)
fuck ‘em if they cant take a joke.
I don’t find the joke particularly funny. More accurate than funny.
She does have a certain… thickness about her that I find… appealing.
I’m infinitely more offended by people flippantly using “gay” when they mean stupid than I am by a comedian making a joke like this. It’s a joke. Maybe it hits your particular sensitive spot, but that doesn’t mean it did that to everybody.
That joke being offensive is just par the course for a Roast joke. If it’s to be hated, it should be for being lazy, generic, and impersonal. The “should have been you” could be any one of the Jackass cast (Bam was most popular after Dunn’s death), so my disappointment was in Schumer making such a poor quality joke a part of her act (which is overrated aside from 2 or 3 decent jokes she had).
Wearing a dress with tire track pattern makes the joke that much better.
It’s a roast. The jokes are supposed to be offensive.
This is like showing up at a McDonald’s and complaining that the food is too greasy.
Her joke about Patrice O’Neal’s grandmother was one of the best of the night.
How brave was it for poor Steveo that despite being so hurt he could still find the courage to jump head first into Tyson’s fist…
Shoulda been you people who are upset that joke.
@Matt
I thought the grandmother joke was something that Lisa Lampanelli would have said as filler. The bit about the roast also being a going-away party for one of Patrice’s feet was much better since it’s possibility and personal compared to the standard (and unreal) “your Grandma/Mom/Sister is a whore” bit.
Before the roast everyone is given the off limit topics and clearly SteveO didn’t feel the need to make Ryan Dunn an off limit topic so what’s the problem. I’m more disappointed at all of the Rape jokes they weren’t allowed to make at Tyson.
Really, about Ryan Dunn? It’s not like the guy died saving kids from a burning orphanage; he was a tool who got wasted and basically commit suicide by driving 130 mph in the same place we flipped his car a decade ago. If he had hit a family minivan, we’d all be talking about what a monster he was, but since he was lucky enough to kill just himself, he’s a great guy.
Amy Schumer, regarding the rape joke ban:
“You can do it, but you can’t say it.”
@Fistful — the grandmother being a whore wasn’t the good joke. The part that was awesome was “I’m just assuming she raised you.”
@Matt
I agree.
I thought the only jokes that were even close to being in bad taste or over the line were the jokes about Sheen’s kids. I also found it hilarious that none of them would come close to going hard on Tyson.
Matt, Fist, you’re both wrong. Schumer’s best joke of the night was the Bruce Willis Reference.
@AG…of course they didn’t go hard on Tyson…would you?
All the comics were told rape jokes were off-limits for Tyson, which is why everyone just gave him shit for his speech impediment and face tattoo.
If he had hit a family minivan, we’d all be talking about what a monster he was, but since he was lucky enough to kill just himself, he’s a great guy.
Actually, I believe he killed a passenger riding with him, too.
But yeah, he was a guy who made money getting tased in the nuts who died after driving drunkenly and dangerously on public streets. I’m sorry for his family and friends, but this isn’t a Medal of Honor winner we’re talking about.
And yeah, the Bruce Willis joke was awesome.
I felt the best joke was Steve-O’s entire act. In fact, when he was done I said to myself “what a joke”.
McFarland had a nice one liner after Steve-O ran into Tyson’s fist “That must be what it looks like when an asshole gets fisted”.
she’s hot funny and don’t give a f*ck just the kind of girl mommy want you to bring home! the dumbass was driveing drunk at high speeds there was only one out-come. no one forced him to drive that night so ice ur buns down if ur all butt hurt because of a joke. lol
Firstly, rest in peace patrice o neal, legend,amy schumer is a fat slut cunt and a crap comedian, the ryan dunn joke was not funny neither was the patrice diabetes one,amy i spit in your face