Let's talk meat.

To kick off today's discussion, here are two exceptionally great, fairly recent comments for you to examine:

In recent articles on commenting we've discussed freshness and originality, and now, having tackled those, we're prepared to move on to the slightly weightier topic of race relations in Western culture. Well, not quite. But we are going to talk about racist jokes.

Let's talk about originality. When a joke makes you laugh, who exactly gets to claim credit for being a funny comedian?