Julio Bonilla’s Reviews > You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together―Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics > Status Update

In 2017—does anyone remember those pre-pandemic years? —I took the side of comedian Kathy Griffin, who got effectively cancelled, put on the no-fly and Interpol lists, and was subject to a two-month-long federal investigation after....

It's the best way to look at it: Always apologize when you feel bad and want to make it right but never apologize when you don't feel bad so much as feel like that is what you are supposed to do calm pissed-off people down.

Chrissy Teigan was once widely celebrated as a woke, progressive darling, largely for her sassy, Twitter-clapback opposition to Mean Bully President Donald Trump and anyone who supported him—even demanding a boycott (some might say, a....

Honestly, when it comes to The Slap, I see discussions about the future physical safety of stand-up comedians during their sets as just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we should talk about.
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Not only was it a hack, but alopecia is also devastating. As you may recall, I myself was diagnosed with it in my twenties after experiencing what my doctors called "severe" hair loss. I remember noticing that it wasn't growing how it used to;....

Which makes sense! When we delete something, it robs us of the chance to see the controversy for ourselves, and to be able to have a well-informed discussion or debate about what happened and what it means.

Tragedies, especially weird ones, can be so isolating. For that reason, the friends I found myself wanting to spend the most time around during my ostomy experience were not the ones with the most conscientiously chosen words.

Dee uses brownface for her Martinez impression and yellowface (think big, fake buck teeth) for Taiwan Tammy. The over-the-top, blatant racism of the impressions, though, was clearly intended to demonstrate that such a lazy excuse for comedy was....

Rivers faced massive backlash, including from the Anti-Defamation League.

It is vulgar and offensive for anybody to use the death of six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust to make a joke, but this is especially true for someone....

Then, during the final weeks of the internship, after my housing stipend ran out, I would live with my college boyfriend of three years, who had gotten a job in Los Angeles in his studio apartment. Then we would break up, and I would move to New York City alone and go to Columbia.