Comedy routine controversy involving Daniel Tosh and alleged rape joke

doing the raping? Oh, okay, sorry about that. | didn’ t know, | had to ask. | have to tell you, though, as far as campaign slogans go: Donald Trump 2016--Who’ s Doing the Raping?” Hey, it sounds familiar already. kok * Although Daniel Tosh is a consistently unapologetic performer for the sardonic material he exudes on his Comedy Central series--which features a running theme of rape jokes, even including one about his sister-- for this occasion he decided to go the Twitter route: “All the out of context misquotes aside, |’ d like to sincerely apologize.” He also tweeted, “The point | was making before | was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them.” According to Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory, Tosh asked the audience, “What you guys wanna talk about?” Someone called out “Rape,” and a woman in the audience started screaming, “No, rape is painful, don’ t talk about it.”. Then, says Masada, “Daniel came in, and he said, ‘Well, it sounds like she’ s been raped by five guys’ —something like that. | didn’ t hear properly. It was a comment—it wasn’ t a joke at the expense of this girl.” Masada claims that she sat through the rest of Tosh’ s performance, which received a standing ovation, before she complained to the manager. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019096