Our friend Paula (no not that Paula, another Paula) told Sarah about this show. And they were able to watch an episode together at a conference. When Sarah came home, we TiVo’d a bunch of episode and we have probably not stopped laughing since.
The premise of Tosh.0 is very simple: Tosh, the host, shows clips that were posted on YouTube and then he makes fun of them. The clips are certainly lowest common denominator (dumb people doing dumb things), and frankly, it’s not really much of a step above America’s Funniest Home Videos. However, Tosh (real name Daniel Tosh) is a snappy, witty and brutal humorist. He says things that you only think of about the clips, and then goes one step further to say things that you can’t believe he would say out loud.
In fact, Sarah and I have often wondered if the show isn’t racist. Of course, it is. And it’s also completely sexist. Tosh makes many jokes about women’s inability to do things, but they are such patently ridiculous stereotypes that Sarah for one has never been offended by them. So, we assume that people of the mocked races (which includes whites, lest we forget) are not offended either (or at least they have a good enough sense of humor to be in the audience). (more…)
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