alt title(s): Acceptable Target
Like you haven't thought the same thing.
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch." — Nigel Powers,
Austin Powers: Goldmember
Political correctness is usually stringently observed on television; crossing the wrong minority group can result in anything up to cancellation. But while a show will be very cautious not to offend women, (non-effeminate) homosexuals, blacks, Jews and the disabled, there are some groups which have no such standards of protection.
It's also worth noting that in general, most countries have a particular part or nearby country that they mock. For instance, the French usually mock the Belgians, US Americans love to mock the French, the Yankees (Americans who live North of the Mason-Dixon line) mock those of the Deep South, and the Australians and New Zealanders each persist in claiming that the other country has a tradition of sodomizing sheep. There's no particular reason for this, other than thousands of years of wars. And, of course, the fact that the sheep are apparently sluts. (The sheep thing shows up between the Scottish, Welsh, and northern English and in Italy between continental Italians and Sardinians, too.)
Suggestions that this article is written by angry members of the groups listed below will be met with all the respect they deserve.
Due to the ever-increasing size of this article, the many different kinds of acceptable targets have been organized for your viewing convenience:
Of course if you are a member of one of these groups, your only recourse is
Dude Not Funny. If you're a member of more than one of these groups, then you might as well not even bother with
that. If you're a Canadian, chances are nobody's looking at you while they're telling the joke unless you're
actually a mountie and in uniform.
Note that the
Dead Baby Comedy doesn't limit itself to
Acceptable Targets, but will probably include any and all of these in its repertoire.
