We live in a world where someone can end up in jail for a 140-character bomb joke.
In February 2011, the BBC blamed a "strength of feeling" in Japan following its atomic bomb joke broadcast for the cancellation of the filming of part of its Planet Word documentary in Japan, which was due to be presented by Fry.
"Every time somebody burps, I think it's a bomb," joked another clown.
Imagine a ten-bomg Atom Comic in a new Radar City, a ten-bomb movie house, tossing off ten-bomb jokes!
I guess it's not just airports where you're not allowed to make bomb jokes anymore (you're also not allowed to make them in front of total fucking idiots).
Djalili also blames himself for cracking a suicide-bombing joke, which "backfired, and I had 700 people chanting 'USA, USA'".
Here's the thing about making a joke about bombing at the Oscars: For the joke to work, you really need to avoid doing that.
I have a tape of the set somewhere, where all you hear is Dice fuckin' howling in the background while we're bombing doing his jokes.
Don't make a joke about bombing planes, terrorism and such.
The smart ones take the crowd's occasional stony silences to heart, then employ the old Letterman bit of winning them over with jokes about how badly the last joke bombed.
Lily Sarafan Los Gatos, Calif., June 16, 2009 To the Editor: The uprising of the Iranian people against the suspicious re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should serve as a serious rebuke to those who considered, or joked about, bombing that country.
