[djsFlames]

A lot of it comes down to who you are and your delivery as to what you can get away with now.

Gervais crossed every line imaginable and does so routinely on his comedy tours. His entire ####ing joke book is out of the no-no list. And people eat it up.

Guys like him and Galifinakis get away with the weight jokes because they've embodied it themselves, and you could argue their self-depricating fat humour it even helped springboard their careers.

I think when the jokes come from someone who's extraordinarily comfortable with directing the same offensive jokes at themselves and has the delivery/timing down to a science the audience will overlook the ill-natured jokes every day of the week.

Comedians who are self-made, self-respecting guys on stage who try to straddle that same line get much more backlash for it.

Generally it seems, if you can take a punch, the audience is more lenient to let you dish one.

It's an interesting topic/issue to dissect.