Sunda Croonquist: Mother-in-Law Ruth Zafrin Sues Comedian

August 26, 2009     How sad that a mother-in-law is suing her own daughter-in-law in Federal Court because of the daughter-in-law's standup comedy routine.  I thought that Americans realized that standup comedy was not meant to be taken seriously.  The jokes above sound silly and funny to me but hardly racist or nasty.  I think that if I were a mother-in-law and my daughter-in-law said those things about me, I would just think that my daughter-in-law was being silly in a funny way.  If the mother-in-law is truly hurt, I can't understand why she can't simply ask her daughter-in-law to remove the "offensive" jokes without literally making a federal case out of this.  If the daughter-in-law is willing to remove the "offensive" content, apologize to her mother-in-law, and stop the jokes, I don't see why the mother-in-law can't forgive her own son's wife.  I'm surprised the mother-in-law can't realize that her daughter-in-law was probably just trying to be funny, and, even   if she was somewhat insensitive, that didn't necessarily mean that the daughter-in-law was really trying to ruin her mother-in-law's character or business.  This mother-in-law seems to me to be taking a lot of offense when little or none is meant and could very well alienate some of her family members for a long time.  Then I wonder how much her possibly lonely pride would be worth to her.  I wish that the mother-in-law would reconsider her lawsuit and try to mend this family's problem or problems  in a less drastic way.  That is just my opinion, and if I have offended anyone, then I am sorry.