History CrossesTheLineTwice / Comedy

* Creator/DianeSpencer (not [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor that one]]) appears to be making a career of this. One standout is her fantasy about sleeping with Prince Harry [[HeroesWantRedheads (to perpetuate the ginger race)]], in spite of, [[NamesTheSame well]]...

* For similar reasons, Creator/FrankieBoyle. Creator/DaraOBrien to Frankie on ''Series/MockTheWeek'':

* Creator/DianeSpencer (not [[UseFulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor that one]]) appears to be making a career of this. One standout is her fantasy about sleeping with Prince Harry [[HeroesWantRedheads (to perpetuate the ginger race)]], in spite of, [[NamesTheSame well]]...

* A choice line from Rodney Dangerfield:

* Creator/LewisBlack, which is an absolute given seeing as how he's an angry foul-mouthed comedian.

* Diane Spencer (not [[UseFulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor that one]]) appears to be making a career of this. One standout is her fantasy about sleeping with Prince Harry [[HeroesWantRedheads (to perpetuate the ginger race)]], in spite of, [[NamesTheSame well]]...

* Creator/ChrisRock, fairly often.

* Creator/ChrisRock, fairly often.

-->I just attract bad luck. How many people do ''you'' know who've been sexually assaulted on a Jack the Ripper-walk? I thought it was part of the experience!

* [[Creator/LewisBlack Lewis Black's]] immortal lines on his ''[[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]]'' [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-16-2012/back-in-black---lance-armstrong--butt-chugging---farm-animal-sex segment.]]

** This is pretty much Gottfried's whole act. He once famously joked about 9/11 only three weeks after the event at the Friar's Club roast of Hugh Hefner. The audience booed Gottfried, feeling it was much TooSoon for such jokes. How did he defuse the situation? By [[RefugeInAudacity launching into]] a recital of TheAristocrats...it was hilarious. NASA scientists are still trying to calculate just how many times he crossed the line that night.
** He also [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-10-worst-gilbert-gottfried-tsunami-jokes tweeted about the 2011 Tokyo earthquake and tsunami]] immediately after it happened, which ended up costing him his job at Aflac. TooSoon indeed.

* Creator/JimJefferies and how!

* Creator/RichardPryor, made especially funny by the fact many of the things he describes ''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer actually happened to him]]''.

-->I tried marijuana once. Just once. I didn't know what I was doing...I was on cocaine at the time!

-->'''Ross:''' If that was the line there, then up until now I've just been... (leans over the imaginary line) ...and now I've just gone "Woohoo!" (runs to the other side of the line waving his arms in the air)

* From about the same time as Andy Kaufman, we have Michael O'Donoghue, who was an editor for the ''Franchise/NationalLampoon'' and its radio show, head writer for ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' when it first started, and co-writer of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}.'' This is the man who had an office full of nude amputee pin ups, spray painted the word "DANGER" on the NBC studio wall after asking what the show lacked, and almost got a skit to air portraying the head of NBC as Hitler in the bunker. Needless to say, they fired him over [[ExecutiveMeddling his outrageous attempt to create his own show]] that spoofed {{Mondo}} movies.

* Creator/RossNoble's reliance on improvised comedy and following bizarre tangents can sometimes lead to this, such as during one of the shows on his ''Unrealtime'' DVD when a joke which begins with him smearing cold mud on himself to his from The Film/{{Predator}} ends with him discussing [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the mating call of a herd of retarded Jesuses]]. Ross himself acknowledges this:

* Anthony Jeselnik regularly crosses as many lines as possible in his standup comedy. In 2013 he did a sketch called "Shark Party", making light of a man who had recently been killed in a shark attack in New Zealand. The episode was banned from being rerun, and Jeselnik received death threats online from offended New Zealanders.

* Anthony Jeselnik

* On the British panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks comedians Phil Jupitus and Simon Amstell had this exchange during the Christmas episode when Simon Amstell (who is Jewish) pulled out a menorah.

* Jimmy Carr has based his entire stand-up career on crossing the line twice, thrice, quarce, whilst using as many rude words as possible. Needless to say, you either love love him or hate him. A radio host once asked him if there are any lines he's unwilling to cross. Jimmy said he leaves that up to the audience: if he tries out a new joke and [[DudeNotFunny nobody laughs]], then evidently that one is going too far. If the audience does laugh, however, then obviously the joke must be funny, so he'll keep using it.

* Ralphie May
* Creator/BillHicks

* For similar reasons, Frankie Boyle. Dara O' Briain to Frankie on ''Series/MockTheWeek'':

* Bill Maher, of course, especially in ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''. Although applying this to political jokes is what gets him in the most trouble, he arguably goes even further outside political jokes.

* '''Creator/FrankieBoyle'''

* Jimmy Carr has based his entire stand-up career on crossing the line twice, thrice, quarce, whilst using as many rude words as possible. Needless to say, you either love [[LoveItOrHateIt love him or hate him]]. A radio host once asked him if there are any lines he's unwilling to cross. Jimmy said he leaves that up to the audience: if he tries out a new joke and [[DudeNotFunny nobody laughs]], then evidently that one is going too far. If the audience does laugh, however, then obviously the joke must be funny, so he'll keep using it.

-->"There's a line in the sand, right, and you can't even see the line in the sand. You are actually out of sand, into, like, into tropical tundra regions."

** This is pretty much Gottfried's whole act. He once famously joked about 9/11 only three weeks after the event at the Friar's Club roast of Hugh Hefner. The audience booed Gottfried, feeling it was much TooSoon for such jokes. How did he defuse the situation? By launching into a recital of TheAristocrats...it was hilarious. NASA scientists are still trying to calculate just how many times he crossed the line that night.

* Creator/RossNoble's reliance on improvised comedy and following bizarre tangents can sometimes lead to this, such as during one of the shows on his ''Unrealtime'' DVD when a joke which begins with him smearing cold mud on himself to his from The Film/{Predator}} ends with him discussing the mating call of a herd of retarded Jesuses. Ross himself acknowledges this:

* Creator/JeffDunham. This is pretty much the point of Achmed the Dead Terrorist.