Maybe the comedians, no matter which country they coming from, are frustrated pedophiles themselves, thus the jokes.
What I think happens is that the comedian wants to make a joke on a topic that is
taboo, because they want to be nasty/debase. He cannot joke about pedophile so he veils the topic by including Michael, as though he is making a joke about Michael. What he is actually doing is making a joke about pedophile
in a socially accepted way. Micheal is the convenient scapegoat here, because it is a known fact that you can say anything about Michael.
They do the same thing with jokes on rape and incest. They want to bring in a nasty/debase topic, so they encase it in a joke about a person, so everyone could laugh and
pretend they are laughing at the person. Both the comedian and audience get a "High" from these types of jokes.
It is like the people who know you are a Michael fan, and the first thing they tell you about Michael is they believe he is a pedo and look at you expectantly--almost like vultures--waiting for your comment. They want you to defend him so they can go more into the story. They get a "high" from these things because they like nasty stories, but pretend they are disgusted. I met one of those months ago, and you should see how the woman moved to the end of her chair after her comment, waiting for me to say something.
My work takes me into people homes daily and I cannot tell you how many times I watch people's faces and the way they move their bodies forward on the couch, when they hear the bad/horrific/off stories that are presented on the news. I look at the way they rush to turn the news on. They say that they want to know what is happening in the world. It is not knowledge of what is going on in the world that makes them rush to the news, but the idea that something creepy/dreadful/nasty will be reported so they can get their daily does of debasement. When a nice story about someone rescuing a sick person, or the business report comes on their facial expressions lose its intensity and excitement. That is why not all people who comment about Michael I respond to. I look at them carefully to see where they are coming from, because we have to realize, that some people, no matter how much facts you tell them, they will not change their opinion. They want to keep their opinion, so they have something dirty to bring up.
Basically for comedians like Brand and the audience who loves him, dirtiness makes them more euphoric than pleasantness does. It is just like the people who tell me the comedy of Bill Cosby, e.g., does not make them laugh, but Chris Rock does. To them Rock keeps it "real." Now notice that Rock's comedy includes lots of swearing, laughing at people (like Michael), but Cosby's comedy is not like that. The more the mind focuses on one type of pleasure, then it is difficult to get the mind to accept something else, and for these people the mind thinks that cussing, making fun of others is
pleasurable.
Amen
