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High on my list of things to be avoided at all costs are stand-up comedians that begin a routine with the words, "have you ever noticed," as in: "Have you ever noticed how crazy modern slang is? Like when you're down with something it means you're up for it." Come to think of it, most stand-up comedy is to be avoided at all costs. And while I'm totally sympathetic to every possible minority group, I'm always just a little uncomfortable when their jokes focus on themselves to the exclusion of all else. Fat guys making jokes about fat guys, gays making jokes about gayness, ugly chicks making jokes about how hard it is to score a date, Arabs making jokes about getting through security at the airport. And then there was the Chinese comic who told about his uncle, an inspector in a shirt factory. "His name is 21." No wait, that one was pretty funny.
posted by John M Crowther @ 8:28 AM
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What we need right now is a fat ugly gay Arab woman making jokes about Jews. Then there would be world peace!
Some stand-up routines are definitely cringe material; while I do not fall into a faint if one cusses on occasion, the routines that use foul language as a substitute for humor leave me unsmiling.
I haven't been paying much attention to stand-up comics but I really liked Bob Newhart's routines. lol Roger
Is that a talking uhmmmm.... male reproductive organ?
Oh no! That's a planaria, (sp?)!And a funny one at that! (Didn't you take middle school biology anonymous?) We used to split these guys halfway and watch them grow new heads...now THAT might make for an interesting stand-up comedy!
You have a dirty mind, Anon. It's a single cell life form. Thanks, Mary, for helping me on that one. (I didn't have room for a gag about going to jail and asking for a cell mate.)
>>I'm always just a little uncomfortable when their jokes focus on themselves to the exclusion of all else. Fat guys making jokes about fat guys, gays making jokes about gayness, ugly chicks making jokes about how hard it is to score a date, Arabs making jokes about getting through security at the airport<<
Beginning writers are told to write what they know... maybe standup comics do the same (Or maybe they've just got a chip on the shoulder or an axe to grind or any one of a number of some such similar metaphor) LOL
I always get Planarian and male reproductive organs confused.
You are naming all of the reasons I don't care for stand up comics and their TV shows. Don't like to see them use their friends, husbands or wives as their target either. So many of them end up with TV shows so someone must like them.
Katherine
"I always get Planarian and male reproductive organs confused."
You are SO funny!!! I love it!
Anonymous, if you can not distinguish between a planarian and a male reproductive organ my advice to you is to ask first. You’ll find that there are a number of organisms that are as equally hermaphroditic in that, as the occasion occurs, they can be either choose to be male or female. This phenomena rare as it is in nature is frequently found in the theater and the fine arts.
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