Jeselnik has no qualms about any of those subjects, but his persistent jokes about dead babies did have the audience wincing. Nowadays those boundaries are almost non-existent as audiences young and old baulk at jokes about rape, the Holocaust, racism, child abuse, and serial killers.
And that's a relief, back in the seventies it was tasteless jokes about Irish people being thick, women being bad drivers, and mother-in-law jokes that tickled a mostly male audience. For my sins I've laughed at a host of subjects that I'm not proud of, but the likes of Chappelle and Frankie Boyle have tried to explain that these aren't their views on a particular subject, and that it's a joke to test our broadmindedness. Normally the more offensive, the funnier I find them, but everyone has that subject matter that turns laughs to repulsion. I've always liked comedians who push the envelope. I was strangely not quite up to speed with Anthony Jeselnik, having only seen snippets of his full potential on those Comedy Central Roasts, but after watching Fire in the Maternity Ward and enjoying it, when I saw he had another special on Netflix from 2015, I thought I'd check out some more from the Pittsburgh born comedian. Walsky championed this comedian when I watched his most recent stand-up special a couple of weeks ago.
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