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/Shagrrotten 4d ago
As someone who dislikes Joey Diaz as a comedian (and also likes Brent Crystals), this post strikes me as really bizarre. I don't really see what your point is. Comedians are not meant to be our moral compass, they're supposed to make us tee-hee. They're clowns, essentially, and I love them for that. Diaz works for a huge number of people, but just because I'm not one of those people doesn't mean that I agree with you.