The Larger Point The Tosh Incident Raises

Content aside, a lot of what happened with Daniel Tosh at the Laugh Factory stems from an audience member yelling out a comment during his act. If you don't know the details, here's an article.

What is amazing to me is that this woman decided to interrupt the performance and include herself into the show, then was insulted after essentially attacking Tosh and his art. Yes, it's a sensitive topic with people. Not everyone is going to laugh at jokes about it, but the correct response isn't to start attacking the individual.

Standup Comedy is as much an art as anything else. With any art, if you don't like something, just stop paying attention to it. My mom doesn't like comedians that swear too much. What does she do? She doesn't watch comedians that curse. If she's watching TV and sees something she doesn't like, she changes the channel or turns it off. If I watch a movie or I read a book, and I don't like it? I stop. I don't finish it. If it offends me, I don't finish it and I walk away. I don't recommend it to people in the future. Maybe I'll fire a tweet off about it. But I don't go up to the writer and start telling them I don't like their work.

If you don't like something, just walk away from it. If you're at a performance and you don't like something, just walk out. Tell people later on that you don't like it and don't recommend it. But don't attack the artist or performer. If we all started directly attacking artists that we didn't like, then artists would get scared and stop creating. What kind of world would that be?