Jeff Foxworthy roasted for his Netflix "participation trophy" joke
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The Netflix is a Joke account tweeted out a joke about younger people getting participation trophies from The Good Old Days, Foxworthy's first solo standup special in 24 years, and it didn't go over well." As Miles Klee notes, the "participation joke" is ancient. "Sure hasn’t lost his edge! I suppose we should be thankful he stuck to a generational critique instead of leaning into the transphobia of another established comic with a Netflix contract," says Klee. "But let’s break it down. Foxworthy is implying, I guess, that kids today get trophies even if they don’t win — a complaint we’ve been hearing for decades without any evidence to back it up. Have you ever seen one of these fabled 'participation trophies'? I haven’t. It’s like something a guy made up for a chain email in 1996 that Republican voters immediately accepted as fact."
TOPICS: Jeff Foxworthy, Netflix, Jeff Foxworthy: The Good Old Days, Standup Comedy
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