GLAAD Blog, USA


Comedy Central’s Daniel Tosh Crosses the Line with Transphobic Jokes on Tosh.0

February 17, 2010 by Lauren Mattia, GLAAD's Entertainment/Advertising
Media Fellow


Bil Browning from The Bilerico Project
<http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/being_a_dick_20_more_seconds_of_transphobia.php\
>
recently alerted GLAAD to a problematic episode of Comedy Central’s
Tosh.0 <http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/> , a program that
features comedian Daniel Tosh’s opinions about online media, pop
culture, and celebrity news. Tosh crossed the line late last month
with a severely transphobic segment in which he continuously made
degrading remarks about a video featuring “The World’s Tallest Model,”
articulating crude insinuations about her gender identity and her
anatomy.

The segment
<http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=262457&title=worlds-tal\
lest-model>
can be viewed below:

[Video]

In the clip, Tosh shoots out rapid fire offensive jokes such as, “the
worst thing about being so tall is that it makes your d*ck look
small,” and “like most models, I assume they photoshop her d*ck out.”

Although GLAAD recognizes that there is a time and place for
appropriate humor and satire, this kind of blatantly offensive
material cannot be tolerated in a climate that remains extremely
transphobic. It contributes to putting transgender people in harm’s
way.

GLAAD will be monitoring Tosh.0 for anti-LGBT content and urges you to
do the same. If you see offensive material, fill out an incident
report at www.glaad.org/reportdefamation
<http://www.glaad.org/reportdefamation> or e-mail incident@....
Should offensive material continue to air, GLAAD will be working with
Bil Browning and others to call out Comedy Central for giving a
platform to anti-transgender humor.


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