Josh Homme on jokes about Eagles of Death Metal Tragedy

Neal Brennan & Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) discuss comedy about personal tragedy, and Neal's Three Mics joke that references the attack on the Bataclan in Paris when Eagles of Death Metal were performing. From The Blocks #podcast with Neal Brennan
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Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).

[@garrettpeck4437]

Very glad to see a new Queens of the Stone Age album (In Times New Roman), but what I really want is a new Them Crooked Vultures album. That and a new Oysterhead album. Two great supergroups that have graced us with only one album. I want more!

[@archieboy7858]

listened to both TCV and Oysterhead yesterday!

[@garrettpeck4437]

@@archieboy7858 You had a good music day!

[@cochisenahuh7939]

You've got good taste in music. I approve.

[@deadgirlrides]

agreed

[@julianosoarespagin9787]

Yeah! Some Oysterhead love!

[@AGoodJoe]

Josh is extremely articulate and brilliantly talented, in music, humor, and the rest.

[@calumvaughan8690]

True, it's just a shame he can't be this respectful normally. Guy is an extremeley talented dickhead

[@rodrisoulalalia6278]

"Humor"

[@kylekasper6342]

Neal, I cannot find the words to describe how much I enjoy your podcast and look forward to them each week. I was lucky to stumble across the podcast week one and have been absolutely blown away by the guests you've had. It's educational, inspirational, hilarious, dark, and (maybe most importantly) enlightening. Thank you sir.

[@geoffwidmier3714]

I just stumbled upon his podcast right now. This is a great clip, so I’ll be listening now.

[@westcoasthighway379]

It's usually the people who have nothing to do with the situation, who become the most offended

[@westcoasthighway379]

@@david_yordanov Absolutely

[@jakebaldwin7172]

​@@david_yordanoveveryone has different tastes, you're not some arbitrator.

[@rodrisoulalalia6278]

Making fun of someone's hand being blown off is offensive. And on top of that he was not present that night.

[@hotstankygarbage788]

​@@rodrisoulalalia6278doesn't matter. A joke is a joke. No one can police jokes. No matter how offensive.

[@slayerBO2EPC]

​@@rodrisoulalalia6278what if the person who got the hand blown off actually finds it funny?

[@protoneuronium]

Great perspectives 🤘😎 Love their takes 🤗

[@worldwarchamp1959]

Yup. I tell some pretty rough jokes to my kids but also let them know everything’s funny until it happens to you.

[@ChimasRegal72]

Same, it drives my wife up the wall tho :D

[@thecowwarrior3]

I largely agree with the point the interviewer is trying to make. The only thing I'd add is that tact and empathy are real things, and a healthy human being knows how to use them. One isn't legally restrained from being an asshole, but others aren't required to continue associating with you if you choose to be one.

[@Jesusbcappin]

Great timing. If u dont wanna be around someone or something, Just dont.

[@paparinga]

Interesting convo, if nothing I can say I rarely see Joshua talk to someone with that much respect, I might be wrong idk

[@bradr3541]

When I heard about the oceangate submersible my first thought was wondering if they put on David Bowie and Freddy Mercury for their last song.

[@domenicgalata1470]

Or worse, the Céline Dion song from the soundtrack on loop during the descent. Egads!

[@danielvaldivia6171]

Yellow submarine

[@cecilkeith1951]

I appreciate this. It's a shame the other comments let it fly right over.

[@bradr3541]

@@domenicgalata1470 that’s the definition of hell ffs

[@lenonel3286]

Octopus' Garden

[@ThatKidSmokey]

What happened to EODM??

[@dgguitars4091]

They were involved in an awful terrorist attack in France, there’s tons of content about it, horrible stuff, nightmarish

[@Viper-dz2kw]

They’re still around they did a covers album in 2019 and their next proper album should be coming up after qotsa is done touring, there’s an interview from 2022 where Jesse said they’re currently recording a new album

[@Lilrumbles]

I ask people what happened for the same reason Homme does. I’ve had one negative reaction from a guy with leg removed above knee down. I was asking on behalf of my 3-4 year old son.

[@alexmajax]

My uncle is an amputee, he lost his leg in a road accident when he was 5 years old, he hates talking about it, he has a prosthetic leg and he limps a little, if people ask him why he's limping, he'll say that he had a little incident while playing tennis, his wife forced him to get a handicapped card so he can park, but he refused, he told me that he hated how people looked at him.

[@Lilrumbles]

@@alexmajax everyone handles it how they do. I think I’d be fine answering a child curiosity but what do I know. I’m sorry your uncle experienced such a horrible experience. He may hate talking about it because of the way he’s been either teased as he young kid or the people around him handle it or also the reason it happened. I know that when young kids go through stuff like that typically, they adapt way better than an adult that’s had their leg the whole time. Having said that I think a lot of bad experiences come down to how you’re treated by the people around you afterwards that makes the difference

[@alexmajax]

@@Lilrumbles That's also my opinion, it's a childhood trauma.

[@user-gc1jo2nc9x]

Josh Homme is slowly morphing into Colonel Sanders.

[@josemiguelcastiblancogomez7723]

😂😂😂😂

[@mcdevitt815]

Josh looking like Steve Bannon in the thumbnail.

[@TabethaAurochs]

DAMN YOU! I'll never unmember that 😂

[@doctordentistesquire]

Two very smart dudes. #deepthoughts

[@jt-ff3yx]

Is there a question here?

[@mrpockets]

"nothings off limits unless its something bad that happened to me"

[@Octavian2]

A bit simplistic. Anything can and should be a joke. Doesn't mean everyone will find it funny, and that's okay. It's the people that get incredibly upset and go, 'you shouldn't joke about that,' which is incredibly dumb.

[@kevinpluck_Warlord]

​@Octavian2 it's all a matter of taste. Tragedy to me could be humor to others and vise verse. It can hurt but it's not wrong.

[@aj_rod]

​@@kevinpluck_WarlordI think it's something like a coping mechanism. 9/11 for example has been joked about and meme'd for quite some time, perhaps it's healthy to remove the horrific context of these things and replace it with something new. Perhaps it's my privilege to even suggest that because I wasn't implicated in the tragedy... I guess free speech exists within a fine margin

[@scootaymildo1070]

Not what he said in the slightest. Quite the opposite actually.

[@LtHavoc]

@@scootaymildo1070legitimately. Mans hears first 10 seconds and tries to pull out his dick

[@effigyguy]

You guys are so right. No one should be allowed to lead others. I certainly don’t need a leader. Let’s ban righteousness! It’s evil.

[@BoglimJFS]

I suppose the irony of your statement is lost on you eh?

[@marklar53]

We should follow your advice

[@lowlink534]

ANARCHY!

[@praetentious2925]

No gods, no masters

[@Fender420]

KFC confessions

[@gravyblue]

Didn't realise Josh was at the Bataclan?

[@jflesh8673]

He weren’t..

[@damotheman4196]

It was where they were playing that night, right?

[@schillinger7814]

He wasn't. Rest of the EODM were though.

[@damotheman4196]

@@schillinger7814 Ah thats right man, i knew there was a connection. It changed jesse hughes a bit too if i remember right? How would it not i guess.

[@Evanisovich_]

While he was the founding drummer for EODM, he was not there at the night of the shooting, but he was there for their make up show.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

you know how crazy it is the first mass shooting at a show wasn't in america.

[@kcvids5455]

7 shot in Columbus Ohio when Dimebag was murdered 2004. Sure he would have went further if he wasn't stopped.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@kcvids5455 i couldn't remember how many people were actually shot there.

[@wilhelmvg9978]

@@anthonyrowland90724 people were killed altogether and it would have been much more if not for a single policeman responding and killing the shooter within 3 minutes of the the first shots. 2 of the victims (chief of security for the band and an employee for the venue) were killed while trying to disarm the shooter and 1 (a fan) was killed while trying to resuscitate Dimebag and the others.

[@illegitimatefilm]

At a place where people are not allowed to defend themselves with guns? Whoda thunk it?

[@brmbkl]

@@illegitimatefilm been to a lot of gigs where patrons have guns? Yeah, no

[@pier35bng]

I didn't get the joke

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

I don’t think they played the actual joke

[@cecilkeith1951]

What's the joke? Tell us the joke.

[@TabethaAurochs]

Clip at 1:34 Neal: So I just mention it in the setup -

[@e999kx99]

I've survived Bataclan, couldn't care less

[@illegitimatefilm]

What’s your story?

[@EricJh21690]

Bullshit

[@RabidRavenTV]

I learned very young that the lower people's IQ gets the more easily offended they are. But it's gotten much worse this past decade with those low IQ people thinking they're so important they can try to silence anyone they don't want to hear.

[@alanagottalottasay997]

you giving the "high" IQ people who presently deem themselves judge and jury of all things funny a pass? In the digital age they seem to be more of an obstruction w their molesting of all things data...

[@RabidRavenTV]

@@alanagottalottasay997 I'm not "giving" anyone anything, people already have a "pass" called freedom. People have freedom to have opinions and make jokes, and people have freedom to get offended by opinions and jokes, and they also have freedom to not listen to these things and move on with their day. But people DON'T have the right to try to stop someone else's freedom because they don't like what they said. And dumb narcissistic people are the ones who are more likely to do this. There's no argument against this that doesn't involve putting one person's freedom above another's, and the only reason why someone would try to argue that is because they're also a dumb narcissist who tries to silence others.

[@lowlink534]

Well, I would say that if you get offended by people with low IQ getting offended, then you aren't that high IQ yourself, right? lmao By the end of the day it's about not giving a fuck. But of course if people are trying to get on your nerves all the time, eventually you get offended, and if they do that more frequently to you than to other people, you gonna get offended more. Hence the people fighting for less "offending". So I personally think your comment is mostly just tasteless and without much rationale behind it

[@RabidRavenTV]

@@lowlink534 You obviously don't understand anything. There's a huge difference between getting offended at something and moving on than getting offended and trying to silence someone's freedom of opinion/speech because of it. The latter is fascism. It's not getting offended at people getting offended, people can get all butthurt all they want, who cares, it's speaking out against others trying to take away human rights and freedoms. What you said is like saying, "Oh you're getting offended at people being enslaved" idiot lmao

[@JenkinsOwen]

The idea that political repression is worse now than in the past is ironically far more “low IQ” than being offended by a joke.

[@martyc2637]

Why even discuss to joke about Bataclan?

[@samhill618]

As a guy much older than you, it’s also old people saying „my joke is so important and I refuse to learn anything new about why my pov could be more informed“ or worse, “I’m old and want to only tell my old jokes and am pissed that they fall flat with college kids, and it’s their fault” Sorry that was inc9herent, I’ve been drinking vodka and speaking German with Russians…. Not

[@nancymoody910]

He's cute and really pink

[@sincontrol5460]

wtf soyjak and chad LIVE ACTION?

[@mowler8042]

If I survived a horrible life altering Massacre I sure as hell wouldn't want to be talking about jokes about it unless it was maybe Louis C.K.

[@gorgejung307]

What a retarded statement.

[@absentstars474]

Neal deleted the comment with 45 likes calling out the pretentiousness. 😂

[@JasonWindsor88]

Where’s the pretentiousness?

[@TabethaAurochs]

You're saying NEAL is a precious motherfucker???

[@btmilner]

​@@JasonWindsor88he needs to let Josh speak and stop butting in with his own bs

[@brmbkl]

@@btmilner podcast, not an interview. Let it go.

[@kicrip3000]

WTF...

[@ratedjosh]

You know, in Annecy, France, babies were knife attacked recently, and some folks on TV, like days after, were joking about that... 🙄

[@ashleonard012]

So fucking alpha

[@spaghettieastern88]

Wow, they talk all that time and manage to say nothing. I don't think it's unreasonable for people to wish for jokes about tragedies to not be made, especially by victims of said tragedy. Comedy should be more than just being offensive for offensives sake, which is why so many comedians get shit for their bad jokes and then cry foul because people call them out for their shitty joke. And the answer of "just leave" is such a weak defence, what's the point in a society if you're only to tell people to leave when they don't like something. "Oh you don't like how racist this country is? Well leave!" levels of arrogance

[@gabrielh634]

how do you so thoroughly misunderstand something

[@rockguitarfun]

Arrogance is thinking that a person who gets offended has priority over someone that offended them. Both have the equal right to express themselves, and it's absolutely fine for someone to get offended and speak their mind about it. But what is absolutely NOT fine is trying to stop people from freely expressing themselves because you don't agree or think it's in bad taste.

[@scootaymildo1070]

Nice straw man at the end there.

[@spaghettieastern88]

I don't think its too much to ask for a comedian to actually be funny rather than be shocking for shocking sake. And at the very least stand by their statements without crying wolf about the evils of censorship via cancel culture.

[@rockguitarfun]

@@spaghettieastern88 What's funny is all a matter of opinion and yours is no more right than any comedian's. Saying censorship is bad is not crying wolf, it's just speaking out against fascism and people who can't handle their emotions.

[@ohioagainsttheworld676]

I absolutely love Homme, but I never knew he talked so..... funny... ? he just sounds odd.

[@ashleonard012]

👎

[@bobsbigboy_]

#meatismurder

[@WarlikePeace]

Abortion is murder.

[@rodrisoulalalia6278]

I love Josh with all my being but in this one I don't support him and neither does the interviewer of this show. There is NOTHING funny in an event like the one that happened in Bataclan. It's disrespectful and inappropriate for someone to laugh at something like that. I can understand that it's some kind of coping mechanism to traumatic events or whatever, but please don't do it. Say it in your head. I don't have to put up with your stupidity, I don't have to leave MY place because of YOUR stupidity. YOU get out of my place. In addition, there may even be situations in which you cannot leave a place where someone is saying offensive things that question you. So there is no excuse.