Update out of Huffington Post (loathe as I am to link there): Tosh apologies for directing a rape joke at a female audience member. It would seem that this was, in fact, the real deal. With regards to the comments excusing rape jokes: that's disgusting. When so many women (and a small percentage of men) have to deal with the Shell Shock resulting from rape and assault, the jokes just rub salt in the still healing wound. Would you make light of the events that gave a soldier a prosthetic leg? A wounded cop his nervous tics? The issue is raw for too many people for it to be considered acceptable comedy, regardless of how absurd or 'designed to provoke' it is.
I don't write diaries very often and I almost never write anything on the subject of rape, sexual assault, feminism or any of that. I might have an opinion on the current strategies employed by the movement but as I'm not, you know, the carrier of a uterus I'm probably missing some(/all) context or experience relevant to those discussions. I'm a Big White Male, playing on easy mode, riding high on the sins of past assholes and all that. I'll make comments from the peanut gallery but that's about where it ends.
This broke through my fear of provoking a Big Serious Discussion/Action/Something though, Daniel Tosh (of Tosh.0) allegedly advocating that all rape jokes were funny and that his lone rightfully angry critic in the audience should be gang raped. Some of his gigs and lines on TV have been funny but I'll never be able to see a picture of the guy again and not seethe.
Notifying the station/channel managers, boycotting the show Tosh.0, and notifying the advertisers would seem to be the logical next steps here, though there are better people than me at figuring out what to say to whom and when.