Actually here’s a transcript from the fail podcast but it matches the clip now I’ve watched it.
“ Bill Burr has a routine where he says about there's a waitress at a cafe and she wrote on the chalkboard outside of that pub and she wroteon the side, We like our beer, like we like our violence domestic.
And that's the joke she puts on the chalkboardoutside and he tells his story and says that shethen got lost her job over it because everyoneon social media kicked off about this joke. Now,why do you think she should lose her job or not?
Is a different discussion. But the main thing hedefends is the joke. His point is it's a good,solid joke. You take any word out of that jokeand the joke doesn't work anymore and noone's going to see that joke and then go, oh,that's a good idea. And then go home and beattheir wife up. And that's his whole point aboutit. And the weird stance people tend to take onit is that no one is saying that, no one is sayingthat if you're in the audience and you hear ajoke about domestic violence, you're then goingto start doing domestic violence when younever did it before.
That's not the case. What it does do that kindof joke. And the comic never thinks of this.There might be someone in the audience whohas experienced domestic violence, whothemselves have been on the receiving end ofthat at home or who have witnessed it maybewith their parents. And those jokes are going to be funny to that person if they're going to bequite the opposite, a disturbing and quitehorrible and make them feel very alone andisolated when everyone around them islaughing at that joke and your failure to acknowledge that that person exists.
And it means immediately just thinking about people who aren't that person. So immediately Bill Burr thinks of the person doing the violence and not the victim of it. Yeah, that's where his mind goes to immediately. And so the disregard for the person who is the victim highlights theproblem as well. We don't see those people asmaturin or as individuals, hence why you'remaking that joke. Also, it's not just the peopledoing the violence who are completelyresponsible for it as a society harms us, notgiven those things, the weight that theydeserve and us not acknowledging that they'rebad and just being flippant about them and justtreating them like they don't matter.”
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