Natasha Leggero Refuses to Apologize for SpaghettiO Joke

Comedienne Natasha Leggero says she will not offer yet another “insincere apology” (and heaven knows there have been quite a rash of those in recent times) for her SpaghettiO’s joke made on “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly.” The petite 31 year-old was besieged by “the offended” after joking about a SpaghettiOs tweet posted on Pearl Harbor Day, which read, “Take a moment to remember #PearlHarbor with us.”

Jane Lynch said she was offended because they referred to SpaghettiOs as “pasta.” Leggero joke was; “I mean, it sucks that the only survivors of Pearl Harbor are being mocked by the only food they can still chew.”

After slogging through the social media onslaught, Leggero responded in a blog post on Friday, January 3rd:

“It’s been a busy few days but rest assured, I have received all of your messages and have been busy sifting through the different creatively misspelled death threats, rape fantasies and most of all repeated use of the C word. In the past few days I have been called a c–t so much I felt like I was in a British pub rooting for the wrong soccer team,” she wrote.

She said she was not sorry and did not feel her joke “about dentures” did anything to diminish the “amazing courage of American veterans and specifically those who survived Pearl Harbor,” and continued with: “Do we really believe that the people who fought and defended our freedom against Nazis and the Axis powers will find a joke about Spaghetti O’s too much to bear? Sorry, I have more respect for Veterans than to think their honor can be impugned by a glamorous, charming comedian in a fur hat.”

Leggero made a collage of her “favorite” tweets. Take a look if you care to verify that Leggero really was the recipient of some very ugly and downright abusive insults — all over a remark that really is just a dumb joke aimed at dentures, of which there are a great many floating around the internet. Oh, but they are not specifically connected to Pearl Harbor survivors? Well, maybe not, and it may even be that some of the survivors don’t even wear dentures, but there’s a saying “if the shoe don’t fit, don’t wear it.” Apparently, any remark people can take offense at these days, whether it applies to them personally or not, is an opportunity to go online and pour out heaping helpings of vile abuse.

Speaking out against offensive behavior is a good thing when it is done in a rational manner, but the responses on this were out of control in a very bad way!