Could You Do This Today?

[ideologyhunter]

He also played Rickles in The Irishman, I think. Inspired casting.

 

[Toni]

My take: I am totally on board with humor that assaults. Patton Oswalt, Jim Norton, National Lampoon in its prime, and Jane You Ignorant Slut. It's HUMOR. It's supposed to distort reality and point up absurdity. Anyone who has a cow over it, well, get yourself some Bob Newhart LPs or dig up your copy of The Arrow Book of Jokes and Riddles, from grade school. (I do like Newhart, but when I feel like comedy that bristles, that's when more modern stuff is needed.)

Try substituting the N word for slut and....Maya Rudolph or Leslie Jones or Eddie Murphy or Chris Rock Or Michael Che or another black SNL cast member and see how it plays.

Or Dan, you ignorant faggot.

Is slut as loaded ? No but to me, it felt like a slap in the face.

 

[ZiprHead]

Remember when Fox News tried to do a comedy show?

Which one are you talking about? The one FOX is desperately trying to flog now, or the one that only lasted 13 episodes (or 1.3 Scaramuccis)?

The second one.

 

[untermensche]

He also played Rickles in The Irishman, I think. Inspired casting.

No. That is where it was at.

I was wrong.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

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If this one was done decades ago, it may not have been a homerun and could run the risk of offending too many white men.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Remember when Fox News tried to do a comedy show?

Which one are you talking about? The one FOX is desperately trying to flog now, or the one that only lasted 13 episodes (or 1.3 Scaramuccis)?

The second one.

To be fair, lasting only 13 episodes isn’t necessarily a comment on a show’s quality. Cough, Firefly, cough.