Best special all the time?

The same year as Raw, Princess Diana went and demonstrated she wasn’t afraid of touching someone with AIDS directly, let alone second hand via your wife. And he must have performed that joke many times on tour, it never came up it was based on bad information?

There are a lot of ignorant people now too. The context of Raw is that Eddie used his celebrity to promote dangerous stereotypes to be rich and famous, while some people at the same time were educating people.

Seems pretty fair to look back and realize, maybe it’s not actually that funny. Maybe there were plenty of people who knew at the time and “practically everybody else” is a poor cover.

And again if you look back and enjoy it from nostalgia that’s subjectively fine. But I think it’s silly to say people today should be okay with Raw because it was at a pivotal time in the American AIDS epidemic and they “didn’t know.”

/r/Standup Thread Parent