Audio: Dallas Radio Hosts, Benn, Seguin mock Sedins in radio interview

[swiftwin]

Also, how is anyone getting incest out of those comments?

The only comment was "Who knows what else they do together"

Then a few sentences later implies that they shave the same way or together.

 

[BonMorrison]

I consider myself a decent human being and I make jokes 100000 x worse than this all the time, as do my friends. Do you just tell knock-knock jokes to your friends?

Amazingly I have a lot of funny friends who are able to dish out jokes that aren't solely at the expense of others. It's crazy how that's possible. Pushing the envelope =/= humor every single time.

 

[McOvechking]

Not funny, bullying, unprofessional. Yeah, not a fan of this conduct by two "leaders" in the league.

 

[mrmyheadhurts]

Sedins are easy targets, it's not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last. They've been mocked since the moment they came into the league. People constantly discredit their accomplishments too, even when Henrik & Daniel were dominating the league people said it was because they were in an easy division and that other star players weren't healthy. Like I said, this is all old hat for these two and rolls right off their back. Doesn't make it right, but Benn and Seguin have been raised in this xenophobic "Don Cherry" hockey culture, where anything different should be mocked into conformity.

It's ironic because I have never heard them say anything disparaging about any player in the league. Even after the Finals, all they did was give credit to the Bruins and point out the great individual performances on that team. No matter how much the media baits them, even after comments like these pop up, they are never anything but first class.

 

[684]

It wasn't funny.

Exactly. So how can it be taken as a goofy/comical comment?

The insinuation is pretty blatant here.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

When people have to explain why a joke/comment is funny, then how funny is it really?

So basically you are anointing anyone who asks whether something is funny as some sort of authoritative figure whom people who make jokes have to answer to.

Some people find it funny. Others offensive. Jokes have missed the mark before with me or just gone completely over my head, but me asking "why is it funny?" doesn't make it not funny. It just makes it not up my alley.

What you asked is a cliche question that really means nothing.

 

[PM]

You would think that a captain and gold medalist would have some more class and respectability to avoid something like his. Especially considering the Sedins have donated over a million dollars to charities in his home province.

 

[hototogisu]

I agree, it wasn't the brightest thing to say as "fringe celebrities" over a radio station.

But, guess what, anyone (including the Sedin twins) with even a slight sense of humor laughs at this. I just hate how people complain that all they ever hear from pro athletes are the staged, monotonous interview answers and then when a couple go on the radio and act goofy, it's horribly offensive.

I consider myself a decent human being and I make jokes 100000 x worse than this all the time, as do my friends. Do you just tell knock-knock jokes to your friends?

This is the lamest defense ever, talk about a false correlation. No one is condemning Seguin and Benn for "acting goofy" (solid spin), they're condemning them for some pretty stupid and thoughtless remarks.

Just because people want hockey players to be less robotic doesn't mean those same people think they should have carte blanche to say whatever dumb thing comes into their head. Geez.

 

[Steamwhistle]

For everyone offended by this, I pray you never wander upon a video of a Doug Stanhope stand-up show.

 

[Muminek]

This is how I see it as well. The negative connotation isn't about being gay, it's about being incestuous. You could say the exact same thing about a brother/sister duo with the exact same connotations and the exact same impact in terms of being insulting and inappropriate.

When I listened to the part I also thought Benn implied only that, and today I'm reading it was actually homophobic. It honestly didn't enter my mind while listening. It was a very stupid thing to say on the radio (and everywhere else tbh.) but it was a logical follow up to a conversation about Benn and HIS brother not rooming together. Just because something concerns two males it doesn't necessarily make it either gay or homophobic. It was clearly about incest (still )

 

[tarheelhockey]

Exactly. So how can it be taken as a goofy/comical comment?

The insinuation is pretty blatant here.

It was clearly intended to be funny, in a dimwitted frat-boy sort of way.

Even in the most charitable possible viewpoint, it wasn't a good enough joke to justify the fact that they were mocking their colleagues in the media.

 

[Baby Punisher]

I'm sure the PC police will be out in full force on this one just because they can. The reality is that there wasn't anything said or done that was wrong. A couple of guys busting balls. It's not like it was said seriously and both guys knew they were on air. I'm sure some out there will try to make this another Donald Sterling or Sean Avery incident and those people will be grasping at straws.

 

[684]

So basically you are anointing anyone who asks whether something is funny as some sort of authoritative figure whom people who make jokes have to answer to.

Some people find it funny. Others offensive. Jokes have missed the mark before with me or just gone completely over my head, but me asking "why is it funny?" doesn't make it not funny. It just makes it not up my alley.

What you asked is a cliche question that really means nothing.

Most people have agreed this wasn't funny and borderline bullying, yet there you are explaining how its funny as if you're trying to convince others who found it offensive that it truly was funny.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Amazingly I have a lot of funny friends who are able to dish out jokes that aren't solely at the expense of others. It's crazy how that's possible. Pushing the envelope =/= humor every single time.

Considering that I am someone who will poke fun at myself pretty regularly just to get a laugh, I don't exactly take "offense" at your "solely at the expense of others" comment.

I'm pretty open to anything when it comes to humor. Much of my humor is satirical. I will play a far right political pundit during some jokes, but in truth, I am on the left side of the political spectrum. This confuses the **** out of some people.

Humor isn't meant to be taken seriously. At least not from me, and not from the majority of people I know. That's why it's humor. It's about creating situations that are based on reality but push it to a funny level that isn't really true. As I said, maybe it wasn't the best idea for these guys to be so loose over the radio, but the judgment some people are laying on them is totally out of line. More so than anything they said out of humor.

 

[Siludin]

The interview is homophobic, but so is the hyperbolic reaction by fans on this board. There's such a thing as going overboard with how you react to social-justice issues. This thread degrades social issues and turns the debate into white noise. I would recommend concerning yourselves with serious hate and sex crimes over this.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Most people have agreed this wasn't funny and borderline bullying, yet there you are explaining how its funny as if you're trying to convince others who found it offensive that it truly was funny.

If you don't find it funny, you don't find it funny. That's fine. I'm sorry that it has to be something that's taken so seriously for you and that you find offensive. I find being offended by things an inconvenience, and avoid it unless I really feel I am justified. Don't know if you feel the same way.

 

[swiftwin]

Most people have agreed this wasn't funny and borderline bullying, yet there you are explaining how its funny as if you're trying to convince others who found it offensive that it truly was funny.

Most people have agreed that you're wrong.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

For everyone offended by this, I pray you never wander upon a video of a Doug Stanhope stand-up show.

Benn and Seguin are not comedians posting a comedy act on YouTube where people have to sign in to prove their age before they can watch it.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

This is the lamest defense ever, talk about a false correlation. No one is condemning Seguin and Benn for "acting goofy" (solid spin), they're condemning them for some pretty stupid and thoughtless remarks.

Just because people want hockey players to be less robotic doesn't mean those same people think they should have carte blanche to say whatever dumb thing comes into their head. Geez.

I guess it didn't go "far enough" in my book to warrant offense, at least with me.

That's just my opinion and if you, and others, feel differently then so be it. But, I wanted to at least state my reasoning for how I felt and I'm sorry if my example wasn't perfect.

 

[Pohlow]

Holy cow, are you guys ever sensitive.

It is possibly the most ironic part of this sport. It's one of the toughest sports in the entire world, yet the fans of the sport are the most sensitive. So odd, almost comical.

Thank god we don't get that much audio from the ice/locker room. I could only imagine the amount of tears, and the amount of threads per night.

 

[Baby Punisher]

Most people have agreed this wasn't funny and borderline bullying, yet there you are explaining how its funny as if you're trying to convince others who found it offensive that it truly was funny.

The term bullying is a term that is thrown around today far to much. People need to grow up and fight their own battles and not rely on other's to do so. It makes me sick to see what this world has come to. The last two generations are whiny cry baby's that have had everything handed to them and have worked for nothing and have contributed even less. The day some genius decided to hand out trophy's for second to last place out this Country on the path we have have found ourselves today.

 

[hototogisu]

I'm sure the PC police will be out in full force on this one just because they can. The reality is that there wasn't anything said or done that was wrong. A couple of guys busting balls. It's not like it was said seriously and both guys knew they were on air. I'm sure some out there will try to make this another Donald Sterling or Sean Avery incident and those people will be grasping at straws.

Maybe using 2 people who were punished pretty severely for their non-P.C. actions as examples of the "P.C. crowd overreacting" isn't your best course of defense here.

Maybe the problem isn't, you know, everyone else.

 

[BonMorrison]

The term bullying is a term that is thrown around today far to much. People need to grow up and fight their own battles and not rely on other's to do so. It makes me sick to see what this world has come to. The last two generations are whiny cry baby's that have had everything handed to them and have worked for nothing and have contributed even less. The day some genius decided to hand out trophy's for second to last place out this Country on the path we have have found ourselves today.

There it is.

 

[swiftwin]

Benn and Seguin are not comedians posting a comedy act on YouTube where people have to sign in to prove their age before they can watch it.

So implying that they shave together is considered mature humor/content?

 

[tarheelhockey]

The term bullying is a term that is thrown around today far to much. People need to grow up and fight their own battles and not rely on other's to do so. It makes me sick to see what this world has come to. The last two generations are whiny cry baby's that have had everything handed to them and have worked for nothing and have contributed even less. The day some genius decided to hand out trophy's for second to last place out this Country on the path we have have found ourselves today.

You realize you're talking largely to a forum of Canadians and Europeans, right?