US NEWS | Parkland dad fires back at Louis C.K. with his own stand up   Miami Herald
February 02, 2019 08:45 PM
About a month after mocking Parkland shooting survivors during a live show in New York, stand up comedian Louis C.K. is trying to get back in the game — this time in Florida.
C.K., who put a pause on his career following a series of New York Times stories of , including masturbating in in front of them, has  in Tampa next week. Tickets start at  dollar 30.
Testify in front of Congress, these kids, what the f asterisk  asterisk  asterisk ? What are you doing?  C.K. asks. in the audio clip that was leaked in December. Cause you went to a high school where kids got shot, why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didnt get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta listen to you talking?
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After the comedians comments when viral, Parkland students didnt stay quiet.
Comedy is supposed to be offensive. My feelings have no place in it, , a co founder of the March for Our Lives movement, on Twitter. Yes, Louis is an ass for the jokes hes making which sucks cause he used to be really funny and not just a professional jerk.
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was one of the 17 people murdered at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on Feb. 14,
To anyone who knows Louis CK, please deliver this message for me. My daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting. My son ran from the bullets. My wife and I deal with loss everyday. Why dont you come to my house and try out your new pathetic jokes? Guttenberg posted.
C.K. response to the publics outrage: If you ever need people to forget that you jerked off, what you do is you make a joke about kids that got shot, according to CNN.
In a video published earlier this week, Parkland father Manuel Oliver decided to perform a stand up set of his own titled Murdering Innocent Children Comedy Night. Signs at the venue said Coming to a School Near You.
Recently, I heard this great line from a comedian, Oliver says. He said, If you want people to forget that you were jerking off, just make a joke about kids getting shot.
And I thought, Jokes about kids getting shot? I can do that.
You heard the one about the kid who walks into a school on Valentines Day. Skinny kid, wearing headphones. Gets dropped off by his dad.
He says I love you. And gets out of the car and walks into the school, and then gets shot to death a couple of hours later?
Oliver continued.
You guys ever heard dead baby jokes? I got a dead baby.
Silence filled the room.
His name was Joaquin Oliver, he was gonna be 18. But now hes dead.
And thats not a joke.
Monique O. Madan covers breaking news and previously covered local government. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and The Dallas Morning News. She is currently a 2018 2019 Reveal Fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Madan was on the award winning team that earned first place for its 2018 breaking news coverage of the bridge collapse at Florida International University. She graduated from Miami Dade College and Emerson College in Boston.
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