Orange is the New Black actor, Jason Biggs, caused quite the stir with his recent joke on twitter in relation to the Malaysian Airlines Crash in the Ukraine.
Biggs tweeted, “Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?” and his followers did not find it particularly funny. In fact, the comedian has received a large amount of backlash for it.
The comedian has since deleted the comments and apologized for his insensitive remarks. “I am deleting my previous tweets” he wrote. “People were offended and that was not my intent. Sorry to those of you that were.” He continued by saying that he apologized that his tweets came off as ill-timed and insensitive. Biggs also made it clear that no one sent him to apologize, but that he simply understood how it came off and made some people feel.
So how exactly did people respond to Biggs’ joke? Here’s a top 10 list of reactions on Twitter before they were deleted.
10.Natural Bandaid
@JasonBiggs keep the funny coming. It in no way was an attack at the people killed in the tragedy. Laughter is lifes natural band aid.
— mark bancroft (@poolhalljunke1) July 17, 2014
9.Humor trumps tragedy
@JasonBiggs I cracked jokes the day my dad died, humor trumps tragedy. Ur recent tweets made me wanna follow u. Well done!
— Aaron Bird (@aaronbird2005) July 17, 2014
8.Are you funny?
@JasonBiggs are you funny? No, you're not
— Seun Oyeleye (@SeunOyeleye) July 17, 2014
7.Life Hacks
@JasonBiggs life hacks: make fun of the ruined lives of hundreds of people right after a tragedy happens and people will think ur #edgy
— yoink!!!! (@Clarbini) July 17, 2014
6.Karma
@JasonBiggs I assume you neither fly nor believe in the potential of Karma.
— Peter Giles (@kidlightnin71) July 17, 2014
5.Bad timing
Good comedians understand timing, the others, not so much.... RT @JasonBiggs Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?
— Chesya Burke (@ChesyaBurke) July 17, 2014
4.Where is the issue?
@JasonBiggs you didn't joke about the deaths , you joked about not wanting to fly on that airline. Where is the issue ?
— RolandBishop (@_ThaJuice_) July 17, 2014
3.I’ll be sure to laugh
“@Bobby_Blight: @JasonBiggs I'll be sure to laugh when u suffer a family tragedy.” Please do! I hope I can laugh during my family tragedy 2!
— Jason Biggs (@JasonBiggs) July 17, 2014
2.You’re a joke
@JasonBiggs <--- Yes, it's a joke, alright.
— Saved By The Blood (@vonzion) July 17, 2014
1. Use them all up
@JasonBiggs I think you should take this time to use them all up .....
— TRACY (@_BVBBITCH) July 17, 2014
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