The Dark Jokes of Anthony Jeselnik

 

     Last night, while looking for a movie to watch on Netflix, I discovered this American stand-up comedian, Anthony Jeselnik. He had a new show on Netflix entitled Bones and All. I watched it, it was 51 minutes long… and I didn’t find it funny. Some jokes were funny but not the type that would make you really laugh. Still, I watched his other show on Netflix, Thoughts and Prayers, and this time, he was funny.

     Anthony Jeselnik, who rarely smiles and who appears arrogant while performing, is a dark comic, meaning, he spews out dark and morbid jokes. And people are saying that he’s the darkest comic out there. He jokes about Hitler, the Holocaust, about deaths in his family, about him being a child molester. He cracks dead baby jokes (his revulsion for kids is a recurring theme in his shows; he is unmarried), he jokes about him killing babies and women, he even jokes about Eric Clapton’s son’s death (*gasp!) and the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy (*gasp!). His jokes are so offensive he says he gets death threats for uttering them, his jokes are so morbid I feel horrible when the audience laughs at them. In fairness, some appear nervous while laughing at his jokes.

     I laughed several times while watching Thoughts and Prayers, so, yeah, I am probably a horrible person. Lol. My favorite joke on the show? The one about his grandmother who “died peacefully in her sleep.”

    That joke is hilarious—and pure evil.