Recently on Saturday Night Live there was a skit during their Weekend Update section that has raised a lot of controversy. The skit, consisting of Seth Meyers and Fred Armisen, mainly joked about New York’s Governor David Patterson and his being blind. While many found the skit entertaining, there are also quite a few people, including the Governor himself, seriously offended by it. Unfortunately in our society today everyone has to be politically correct, and I find that to be quite ridiculous, especially when it comes to comedy. From the beginning, comedy has always sought out the most uncomfortable of situations and made them funny. And comedians have always made fun of people, no matter who they were. No one gets upset when a comedian makes fun of someone who we as a society agree has some sort of crazy issue going on, but the minute a comedian makes fun of someone for either their inability to see, or maybe hear, everyone gets defensive. So this makes me wonder, what really makes these people upset? The fact that the said comedian is actually in the wrong, or the fact that they actually found it funny, but think that morally that is wrong?
Personally I think that political correctness is a bunch of bullshit. We shouldn’t have to walk on egg shells and watch what we say just because it might insult someone. Sometimes things just need to be said. Yeah, it might hurt, but you get over it. Doesn’t anyone remember the saying their parents taught them when they were younger, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” Yeah let’s start living by that. With all of the stress that we as a society are facing right now, we need a little laughter. Everyone is fair game to a comedian. Take what a comedian says or does with a grain of salt. Life is way too short to take anything too seriously anyway.
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