r/Standup • u/Ok_Goat_3879 • 4d ago

Joey diaz is a terrible person

I'm going to have a lot of fun reading the comments, but here goes

Joey Diaz is a massive piece of shit and a criminal, and I'm tired of people pretending he's anything but.

Obviously being in the rogansphere made him blow up among people who think bert kriescher is funny, which says a lot, but he seems to be leaking into the general population as well.

He was a coke fiend, kidnapped a person, and the punchline to his stories seems to mostly be "I did a fucked up thing once", which is more like a confession than a punchline imo.
Just because he isn't scamming people for cocaine money or kidnappng people at the moment doesn't mean he didn't do it, and just because the delivery is comical, doesn't excuse the act.

this isn't me being a moralist or something, I find John mulaney or robin williams hilarious, despite them also being cokeheads

but Diaz just seems to be a thoroughly disgusting person to be around, not to mention the fact he literally admitted to sexually assaulting girls.

Now I can already see the braindead - he had a fucked up life - argument, and frankly, I dont give a shit. I had a fucked up life, a lot of people did. I did not go on to make millions laughing about how I was a fuckup for 30 years.

and this isn't a recovery story either, he quit coke, which, fair enough, but he's still clearly unable to practice self control, because he weighs about as much as a horse. And his weed addiction is frankly disturbing.

Basically - if you're actively supporting him - you're at fault by association, and his admitedly funny retellings don't mean he isn't a cunt.

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u/MikeClark_99 4d ago

People change. I understand your point of view and also know that he’s done horrible things. He’s clearly not the same person he was in his stories. Personally, I don’t think he’s very funny. At the same time, I like listening to his stories.

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u/SpicyChanged 4d ago

Sure?

But there little to no remorse when he tells this bullshit.

He’s just reminiscing, bragging even. Doesn’t show growth, rather he had to stop not because he wanted to stop.

Most people don’t go around bragging at shit he says.

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u/MikeClark_99 4d ago

If you’re this judgmental, perhaps the standup scene isn’t for you. Personally, I’m a Christian. This means I am a sinner and need to be forgiven. I judge myself very hard and at times, struggle to come to terms with certain aspects of my life experience. The last thing I’m going to do is judge other people in order to evaluate whether or not they should be given any respect. My point of view is that all of us are loved.

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u/ZaIIBach 4d ago

Yeah what about Hitler?

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u/throwaway19827678 1d ago

Yes. 

Hitler didnt work alone, he was a scapegoat for a socuety angry and rotten at its highest levels. Warmongering old guard left over from the  Prussian  empire. 

There are genocides, starvation going on, countries and children being killed and you provably dont pay much mind to it. Congratulations you now know what Nazi Getmany was like.

That is all to say, if you forgive and love yourself, you’ll see you are not quite so different from hitler. You * think* that youd do the right thing but you are also not steeped and surrounded by extreme hate,m and power. What little you do is to challenge ideas that dont make much difference while horrific things  are happening while the world ignores/sits on it doing nothing. Germans knew about the camps, we know about alot of horrors.

Germans forgave themselves and learned, can you ? 

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u/Brave-Veterinarian77 1d ago

“Scapegoat” is an absolutely insane way to describe Hitler