"I was writing for an awards show once, and I got into some trouble, because I wrote a joke for this awards show that had the word 'midget' in it. And someone from the network came down to our offices and he said to me, "Hey, you can't put the word 'midget' on TV." And I said "I sure would like to." And he said "No. 'Midget' is as bad as the N-word."
First off: no. No it's not. "Do you know how I know it's not?" I said to him. "It's because we're saying the word 'midget' and we're not even saying what the N-word is. If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won't even say one of them, that's the worse word.""
MrDerp182 on July 23rd, 2019 at 08:00 UTC »
The “c word” has already been taken.
misterblue28 on July 23rd, 2019 at 09:57 UTC »
"I was writing for an awards show once, and I got into some trouble, because I wrote a joke for this awards show that had the word 'midget' in it. And someone from the network came down to our offices and he said to me, "Hey, you can't put the word 'midget' on TV." And I said "I sure would like to." And he said "No. 'Midget' is as bad as the N-word."
First off: no. No it's not. "Do you know how I know it's not?" I said to him. "It's because we're saying the word 'midget' and we're not even saying what the N-word is. If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won't even say one of them, that's the worse word.""
-John Mulaney
elfliner on July 23rd, 2019 at 12:19 UTC »
This is straight from a John Mulaney stand up