Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart - a Scottish Jewish joke

[Catalogue of ills]

Technically this belongs in Picture Box, but I'm putting it here because really it concerns comedy. This Radio 4 programme tells the story of an old Usenet site, rec.humor.funny, which for a time in the early days of the internet was not only the most visited comedy site, but the most visited site on the internet.

Jon Ronsons' podcast tells of how rec.humor.funny site host Brad Templeton became the first person to be publicly shamed on the internet after his site published a (pretty lame and dubious) Scottish Jewish joke, not realising it was on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Culture wars, and the first Cancelling, ensued.

I thought CaB might be interested - does this have any relevance to now, and if so what does it tell us?

[Ambient Sheep]

I'm afraid there already IS a Picture Box thread, although arguably it should've been in here due to what we believe is the upcoming Glinner episode (ep 6., it's rumoured).

[Catalogue of ills]

I'm afraid there already IS a Picture Box thread, although arguably it should've been in here due to what we believe is the upcoming Glinner episode (ep 6., it's rumoured).

Ah, thanks. No-one seems to be discussing the actual show in that thread though, and this particular episode is directly comedy-related.

[Ambient Sheep]

Ah, thanks. No-one seems to be discussing the actual show in that thread though, and this particular episode is directly comedy-related.

Yeah, no worries, just thought you might like to know.