@@MrKelso85 there were a few moments. I first felt pained when he spoke of punching the masc lesbian in the face, and nearly all his trans material made me weep. I am not the only queer person who felt this way… hundreds spoke out about it. I was watching the special with my trans ex-girlfriend [we were both fans of his until that point].. she was angry, but I was actually crying. Trans women face so much violence as it is, hearing the crowd laugh at some of that material felt like a justification for that violence so it cut deep. It’s been years since I watched it, and it caused me so much pain that I won’t watch it agsinn[anx I cancelled my Netflix membership over it anyway], but I will say that I watched his SNL monologue the other week and it was brilliant BECAUSE HE WAS NOT PUNCHING DOWN.

Thank you for this video and response, I’m currently doing a masters thesis taking on the insanely tough challenge of justifying punching down, I don’t disagree with anything you say and actually I think it’s a well measured articulate response which is what we need more of if we are to “find and adhere to a line” , I am not queer I’m white hetro but recently extremely disabled so I find myself reconsidering some of my “darker” jokes in an effort to discover if punching down if done properly can even be an effective tool to highlight inequality and subconscious bias. Deep down I love everyone and I want too believe there is a method too explore sometimes dark offensive comedy without people feeling punched

@ this is so interesting! I have a comedy writing student who has CP and is a stand-up in LA and I adore him but was really upset by the fact that had a lot of hate speech towards women and gay men in his Feature script and his argument was that it was not possible for him to punch down as a disabled man. I said that may be true - maybe - but why kill the chances of selling your script? Are studios really going to invest millions into a script that offends to that degree [also, only he found it funny, but he was the only substantially disabled person in the class]. I can introduce you if you email me at mondocinema at gmail if it will help your thesis [if he agrees to the intro]

@MrKelso85 My student said he would LOVE to talk to you for your thesis. He's in LA.. stand-up comic .. well, "sit-down comic".. with CP

HI Jessica: Because of the way my course hosting platform works, you need to actually go to the link and type in WRAPGIFT where it says "Have a Coupon Code?" at checkout..it will ask you for a PayPal email address or a credit card but then it will zero out with the coupon code. Here's the link: comedywriting.samcart.com/products/wrapminicourse

@@masteractor thank you! I greatly enjoy guest lecturing at film schools.

::D In my defence, I was on set, working too many hours making other TV shows at the time!

By the way: I meant to say that you have four entries in the KZbin Giveaway contest!! We are at 863 public watch hours, and when we get to 1K, I'll do the draw live (and you'll be eligible for the next three draws as well). Thank you so much for entering the contest!!

@schticktoscript Cool. Thank you! :)

I notice that, in the summertime at least, most of the tourists speak English and German there :)

@@schticktoscript yeah english kind of works now, at least it seems to get more common for italians to be able to speak it. it always feels bad if you arent able to speak a language as a tourist. at least for me.

Thanks, Lainie! You have four entries in the KZbin Watch Time Giveaway... good luck!

Yay!!!! it would be my pleasure.