He wasn't joking, though. Just because he's a comedian doesn't mean everything he says is a joke/bit.
Yeeeeeeah, maybe, but intentions don't matter much when you're perpetuating homophobia in such a way that hundreds of thousands of dads watching your routine just laugh along uncritically and think to themselves "Yeah, damn right, my son better not be gay!"
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Ideally, comedy would work to challenge and subvert those belief systems, not to reinforce them.
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