>The Freedom Tower bit was funny and the marathon bit could
>have been funny if he cut the wait time on the punchline. All
>of the folks saying "oh he shouldn't mention the marathon the
>day before...", why? Do you think someone is going to say "hey
>I think I'm gonna bomb the NYC marathon since that Chris Rock
>monologue was so damn good. He had a point!"

No. More like, it makes you start thinking, "damn I hadn't thought about it but is it possible someone may try to bomb or attack the marathon tomorrow?" which isn't what you want people thinking while they are suppose to be laughing.

>
>We gotta do better as a society. You can feel outrage if you
>want but that doesn't make something not funny it just means
>YOU can't laugh at it.

It's not outrage, it just doesn't work as a joke contextually (or like you said isn't funny).



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