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The father of aParkland, Florida, school shootingvictim has created a poignant and heartbreaking video retort to comic actorLouis C.K.’s reported mocking of student survivorsworking tochange gun lawsafter the murders last year of 17 people atMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
In the two-minute video, Manny Oliver, whose sonJoaquin Oliverdied in the attack, adopts the familiar pose of a stand-up comic, standing alone at a microphone in the spotlight on a bare stage before an unseen audience. Prior to his brief “performance,” he is shown posting bills that promote the show as “The Murder of Innocent Children Comedy Night.”
“Shooting in a city near you,” the poster says. “It will be a gun barrel of laughs.”
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Oliver’s solemn response in the video: “Recently I heard these great lines from a comedian. He said, ‘If you want people to forget that you were [masturbating], just make a joke about kids getting shot.’ ”
He adds, “And I thought, jokes about kids getting shot? I can do that.”
A rep for Louis C.K. did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
“And that’s not a joke,” he says, before walking in silence off the stage.
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“Louis C.K, although taking jello shots & eating mushrooms might have been ideal for you when you were 18, that is not the luxury that we have after having to see our friends and classmates in caskets because of preventable gun violence,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyra Parrow wrote on Twitter.
In an audio recording of his Dec. 16 set, Louis C.K. said, “Testify in front of Congress, these kids, what the f—? What are you doing?,” according toCNN. “‘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 didn’t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta listen to you talking?”
A YouTube clip of the set has since been deleted.
source: people.com
