Comedian David Fane Defends Hitler and Wants People With HIV ‘Roasted.’ Oh, He’s Sorry
People say they’re sorry for offending people all the time! Shia LaBeouf said sorry for using the word “faggot.” Nigel Lythgoe apologized (or admitted “regret”) for his comments about two male dancers. Puerto Rican show SuperXClusivo was sorry for calling Ricky Martin a pato. And even New Hampshire State. Rep Nancy Elliot apologized for her remarks about grade schoolers learning about anal sex (but didn’t apologize to the gays). But what’s a television show creator to do when he goes way off the deep-end, and starts defending Hitler?
Comedian David Fane, creator of New Zealand’s bro’Town (the country’s first primetime animated show!), stopped by the inaugural Radio Roast to tell the audience “Hitler had a right,” HIV sufferers deserved to be “roasted,” and “Jews were expendable.” It’s unclear from the report, but was he trying to be funny in his speech? Or speaking seriously? That matters a little bit.
He later apologized for the remarks, saying, “I really am so very sorry for any offence I’ve caused you. They were dumb words, said by a dumb man.” And he’ll be sending letters to the New Zealand Jewish Council and the New Zealand Aids Foundation; the Jewish Council’s president Stephen Goodman, acknowledging how anti-Semitic the comments were, has already accepted it. And The Radio Network has suspended Fane … until mid-July.
So, I guess that’s it. You say the most terrible things about stigmatized groups of people, say you’re sorry, and your career continues. What else would we have him do?
Wow, guess by his understanding, violence against minorities is a great and funny thing…so all praise to the KKK hanging blacks from trees! I’ve always thought the KKK were a bunch of assholes, guess I was wrong….ha ha ha, oh the hilarity!
At least this idiot was hopefully hit in the checkbook and had his money/salary suspended along with his program thru mid-July.
You can’t easily make any idiot more intelligent, so financial pain is one way to teach these morons to keep their mouth shut. How about a boycott of his work until he writes some fat checks to LGBT and Jewish charities?
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It’s interesting that he said these things, whether in jest or not, because a few years ago while I was in college we actually learned quite a bit about bro’Town and how it’s somewhat been used a vehicle for trying to bring an end to discrimination against the “Kiwi,” or indigenous people of New Zealand, as it’s (I think) the first (and possibly only?) show featuring an all “Kiwi” cast of characters.
Rather ironic to think that the creator of show that can be seen as progressive by so many (including my senior seminar professor) can actually be quite the contrary.
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I think the word you’re looking for is Maori, “Kiwi” refers to any New Zealander regardless of race.
BroTown has characters of several different races and as mentioned above David Fane is of Samoan decent not Maori. BroTown is actually pretty racist as in all the characters are racial stereotypes, the only thing that’s really different with it is the main characters are minority stereotypes too.
TV shows/ movies made here with all or majority Maori cast aren’t anything new, admittedly there aren’t that many shows with Maori main characters, but our casting is generally more diverse than American media. So I don’t know what you’ve been told but it sounds pretty wrong.
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@Chitown Kev: Yeah. I pretty much knew this would bring out the racists and the stupids. The article states the events took place in NZ so the person a Pacific Islander. But racists got to get their hate on!
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Whew–for a minute I thought we were going to talk abou the person who made the actual offensive claims about Jews and people with AIDS. But seeing as its uncomfortable to attack a non-white minority, Im glad we found a side-issue (misidentifying a dark-skinned Maori as black) to focus on.
In other words, fuck him in his Maori ass!
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so apparently its more homophobic to make jokes about someone who has HIV than it is to imply that HIV is a disease of the gay??? WTF I dont understand how the media and people on the internet can acually think that this is a slur against homosexuals when all they are doing by saying his comment was homophobic is making the ignorant MORE homophobic. FFS
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Wow, not many of you have ever heard of him before, nor heard exactly what he said, just these little jewels od quotes, and here’s that gay brigade ready to roast him… Anyone who’s ever watched BroTown know it’s like a brown South Park, and offensive humour from it’s cast-members a common thing. He’s even played gay characters before (google “Sione’s Wedding”, awesome pac island comedy)…
Until we know the exact words, and how they were phrased (link to the audio anyone?), we should reserver judgement… Also, there are some really ignorant gay/bi/queer people reading these blogs, and it hurts to find out that the straights aren’t the only people who’ll make retarded judgements of you…
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That fat breeder son of a bitch is not sorry for what he said. He’s just sorry he got caught and called out for it. Like all those homophobic breeders who run their mouths.
Well I’ve got news for you: only children and idiots believe saying “sorry” is a magic word that automatically makes the emotional pain you’ve inflicted on people go away.
Fuck you breeder.
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That’s too bad I really like bro”Town. It has a gay character on it.