The writer and director, Jeff Wadlow, can't obscure the movie's misogyny, and he also has a tough time staging a scene and selling a joke.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tosh was on stage telling a joke about a device to measure Mariah Carey's cleavage.
It's the sensation of standing on a stage, telling a joke, and having a room full of people roar with laughter.
The candidacy of the businessman Herman Cain, who led the field at one stage, was a joke; former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was too angry and too narrow, and a former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, never held consistent conservative convictions.
An elderly man named Igor, who had just been performing comic dances on the sidewalk, climbed on stage at a joke competition and said this: "They knocked on the door and said, 'Is this the home of the widow of Rabinovich?' She said, 'What do you mean, widow?
When they tell you there's no stage, make a joke about Ryan Seacrest and throw to commercial.
As offensive or unfunny as Tosh's joke may have seemed, some comedians defended him for the simple reason that he is a comedian who was on a stage telling a joke.
Christie himself takes the stage, cracking a joke about the guys outside to break the tension before running his spiel about needing New Hampshire's vote.
He's also not above a dumb joke: he once staged a Whitney Houston karaoke night at the Whitney Museum.
Travesty editors stage a 'joke' student government campaign each year, but this was the first time the pub's chosen candidates were actually elected to office.
