Now before we get any further, let’s take a brief moment and talk about what might happen as you peruse this stuff. We certainly hope you enjoy as much of it as possible. And of course, while some things may make you laugh, others may make you shrug with indifference. Fair enough. But there also may be some thing (or things) that actually offend you. This post is about that stuff.
For starters, we apologize. That’s not the reason we write comedy. We write stuff because it strikes us as funny. And we accept the fact that people – in fact, lots of people – won’t and don’t share our sense of humor. That’s perfectly normal.
The reality is that no matter what the subject, if you’re going to make fun of something or someone (a.k.a. ‘what comedians do’), you’re probably going to offend someone, somewhere. It’s a big world.
And needless to say, if a comedy writer were to simply avoid any topic that might offend someone, somewhere – there’d be virtually nothing left to write about.
Not only would that create the world’s blandest planet but it would also mean that Richard Pryor would never have been able to exist at all. Or George Carlin. Or Chris Rock. Or Jeff Dunham…wait, ummm…well, you get my point.
The only people that we ever consciously offend are people that, in our opinion, have done more than enough to earn it. Racists. Bigots. Mean and cruel douchebags. People like that. Those are the only kind of people we don’t feel bad about offending.
For everyone else, if we crossed your line – once more, we’re sincerely sorry. It wasn’t intentional. But it might happen again… -NL