13 Times Comedians Flat-Out Regretted Their Old Jokes
![13 Times Comedians Flat-Out Regretted Their Old Jokes](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/797909_320x180.jpg)
Sure, Eddie Murphy owes a lot of his fame to 1987’s Raw, but today he’s not a fan of it at all.
We’ve all discovered those regrettable posts on social media from the early 2000’s that make us cringe to read again. We have no idea what we were contemplating. We’ve all thought "that's just a phrase, that's just a little joke" only to look back a decade later and wonder what we were thinking. Still, we ARE ashamed of you.
Don’t feel too bad though, because what these celebrities did was arguably way worse than anything you could have dreamed up. Plus they have massive platforms are under near constant scrutiny. So at least you have that (not) going for you. Also, c’mon Gilbert Gottfried, no one is buying it! As for Sarah Silverman, we’re not sure an apology still counts seven years later.
Here’s something we guarantee you won’t cringe at: the rest of this article.
![COMEDY DEL NERD Conan O'Brien publicly regretted making an offhand joke about Anne Frank. At one point in a documentary about him, when they tell him his tour will be over soon, he says That's what they said to Anne Frank. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/2/797922.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Tiffany Haddish she'd rewrite some of her old jokes from when she was 20. Maybe 0 would rewrite them a little bit to grow it up. I had some immature stupid shit. I was dumb; I was 20, is what she said about that material. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/0/797920.jpg)
![COMEDY DEL NERD Seth MacFarlane says Family Guy wouldn't do the JFK Pez Dispenser joke today. Here's the joke: A kid gets the head of his new John F. Kennedy pez Dispenser blown off, then says Good thing I still have my Bobby Kennedy pez Dispenser. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/1/797921.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Jamie Foxx regretted telling Miley cyrus, then 16, to go do some drugs. I so apologize and this is sincere, he said about telling Cyrus to get like Britney Spears and do some heroin, among other things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/797918.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Amy Schumer apologized to Hilaria Baldwin for using a picture of her as a joke. She took one of Baldwin's pictures and reposted it on her own Instagram as a holiday card, but the joke apparently didn't go over too well. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/797919.jpg)
![COMEDY DEL NERD Gilbert Gottfried made some tasteless jokes about Japan, then apologized. He made them after an earthquake and tsunami in Japan- and his apology came too late to prevent Aflac from dropping him as spokesman. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/797917.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Samantha Bee regretted calling Ivanka Trump a feckless c t on air. But the only reason is that everybody focused on her choice of words, not on the actual point she was trying to make with those words. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/2/803022.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Sarah Silverman apologized to Paris Hilton for a joke 14 years after the fact. It was a joke about Paris going to prison she'd made at the 2007 VMAs, and she apologized in 2021 at length on her podcast. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/797915.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD David Letterman publicly said he felt bad about making fun of Monica Lewinsky. It happened in 2014, after he'd read an essay in Vanity Fair in which she wrote about how humiliated she'd been by the whole scandal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/797912.jpg)
![COMEDY DEL NERD Sabrina Jalees used embarrassing material about race as a teenager. She'd make jokes like I'm like a coconut: Brown on the outside, white on the inside! Now, she finds that sad and weird and self-hating. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/797911.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Trevor Noah thinks the old tweets that got him in trouble were... stupid. The way he put it is that the slightly younger Noah who'd written those Twitter jokes way back when was actually just being idiotic. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/797910.jpg)
![COMEDY DEL NERD Louis CK used to do absurdist comedy, but he can't stand those LL jokes now. I used to hear my act and go 'This is shit and 0 hate it.' I'd been doing the same hour of comedy for 15 years and it was shit, I promise you, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/797914.jpg)
![COMEDY DE NERD Eddie Murphy says that his old jokes, from 1987's Raw, make him cringe. I was a young guy processing a broken heart, you know, kind of an asshole, he said, even though Raw basically made him a star. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/797913.jpg)