Comedy Roasts: Finding the Line Between Funny and Hurtful

especially younger comics when they go to roasts and stuff. And they just think the name of the game is being mean. And then the name of the game is punchlines and funny, but like, they’re just like, this is the way it is, man. I showed a David Tell once my friend, Dina Hashem, who opens me on the roads. And that was really funny. She did a roast battle. And it’s one of the most vicious jokes I’ve ever heard in my life. It was this comic Dave Kinney, who is a funny guy too. And he, his mom just passed away and Dina goes, Dave’s mom died the way he lives in unrecognizable road feature. It killed obviously. And I showed it to Dave and he goes, Jesus, keep it surface. Dave is like in old school. So, you know, he’s like, basically like in my day, we just were like, you’re weird looking, you’re looking at your nose. I get when you do the roast though, you’re signing up to be bullied. So I feel like it’s a little different. I feel like it used to just be like, this guy looks like blank. And now it’s like, he was raped in second grade. And you’re like, Oh yeah, that was a bad moment. When you see people that are going to be roasting people, they’re like, what is their trauma? Because that’s what I want to trigger.