For some reason, once it’s coming from someone old, fat, and loud enough, racism crosses the line from appalling to sort of funny. Especially in the context of a phony mattress ad. Targeted advertising has never been so, well, targeted:

The fat bigot is comic Eddie Pepitone. Gary’s Mattress is from the tolerant minds at the Independent Comedy Network.

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