Even if he was joking, do you crack jokes using the N-word??? Is that acceptable because after all, it is just a joke right?
Actually, yes, if it is a joke.
I do. All the time. So this Newfie calls up for life insurance so drunk that he asks the guy whose last name is Tucker, if he was a Tucker or a Fucker. [Ok actually that is a true story, sadly most of my Newfie Jokes are actually true stories involving friends and relatives. ]
I will also tell nigger jokes in the right situation as well as all sorts of other racist jokes. One can enjoy a good racist or sexist joke without being a racist or a sexist. I do however take some care in the audience selection of course. "Hey grandma, how many dirty cum dumpsters does it take..." is usually something that won't end well.
I enjoyed the comedic stylings of Andrew Dice Clay [who went after everyone but the blacks because he was a pussy] in my 20's as sadly I discovered him late.
I enjoy Sarah Silverman and her jokes about how being a jew raped by a doctor is bittersweet because on one hand rape, on the other, a doctor and one of her gags actually ends with "I hope they find sperm in my dead grandmother's vagina".
Then there is Jon Lajoie, who tells jokes about kicking terminally ill children in the face, but at least he doesn't enjoy Maroon 5, that would be sick.
That being said, I suspect that GG went beyond trying to be funny to trying to piss people off. Just the vibe there.
But yeah, if it is a joke, and
easily understood to be such, pretty much anything goes with very limited exceptions. At least in my opinion.