P.S. Did you know that Red hair is the most recent human evolutionary change?

Secondly, some of the “negative” posts in here read as if they were written by people who do get the joke, but are trying to be funny by pretending to be offended. This is kinda Kaufmanesque, and not in a good way. The next paragraph is not about the people who are pretending to be offended.

Thirdly, those who honestly don’t get the joke, or do get the joke but are offended by it, are unhappy because THEY are the butt of said joke. They honestly believe in protesting. Perhaps some of them are a minority that has been or is currently suffering from oppression. To see a group of people who are not oppressed making fun of how they fight oppression, IS offensive from their perspective.

Of course, that is why it’s so funny. In every joke - and I mean EVERY joke - someone or something is the stooge. This is a cornerstone of comedy. If you go back and study every previous IE, someone or something is being made fun of. Humor is always at the expense of someone or something. This project called IE takes the preconceptions and assumptions made by every day people and confronts them. Oftentimes the innocent bystanders of the event find themselves the brunt of the humor. This is as it should be.

So take the bad with the good. Some will be offended. They have the right to be. A banana peel was thrown in their path and they didn’t see it for what it was. As someone smarter than me once said: comedy ain’t pretty.

This doesn’t mean you guys should stop. By all means: if someone is offended, it means you’re making people think outside their comfy box: it means you are doing comedy right.