You are cracking my ass up! As I prepare for a pretty painful surgery on Thursday and long recovery after, I appreciate the good laughs.
because the punchline was an exaggeration about the oldest daughter's proclivity to get pregnant, and an athlete's proclivity to date in the public eye. One can get the joke, but not think it was funny. It only has to do with understanding what's being talked about, and humor in general. I don't believe racism or sexism is acceptable. I also don't believe political correctness is acceptable.
Surgery is always serious. I know you are not religious, but I am so I will pray that all goes well for you and the associated pain is mild with a short duration. I hope this gives you an opportunity for reflection, reading and writing a new play.
comedy is walking a fine line in PC though. I think it is almost acceptable for stand up comedians that are not mainstream to use racist material (unless they used to be on Seinfield) if it is funny (Oh wait that's why Kramer got burned) but a mainstream guy should not really do that. This is a really hard to understand time. Many times the calls of racism or sexism confuse many of us. I tend to agree with you on PC and how it sucks but unfortunetly we have to basically bow down to "feelings" and how it made people "feel". It totally blows but that is the world for at least a while to come.
That list of 10 jokes forgot some good ones..... Everybody is trying to find out more about Sarah Palin. Someone was able to hack into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account because she hadn't taken the proper security measures. Yeah. So, folks, it's official. No one in the Palin family uses protection. (Conan O'Brien) This is true. In Alaska, a political activist is trying to get Sarah Palin to release over 1,000 e-mails that she's withholding from public records. She won't release them. Yeah. Apparently, several of the e-mails went unanswered and have the subject line 'Mom, I need to talk to you about birth control.' (Conan O'Brien) All the Republicans are heaping praise on Governor Palin. Fred Thompson said, as an actor, he could see them making a movie about Sarah Palin and her family. Didn't they already make that movie? I think it was called 'Knocked Up.' (Jay Leno) We're learning more and more about Governor Palin. Apparently her daughter's name is Juno. (Jay Leno) (Personal Favorite!) Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has many views. She says she's opposed to same-sex marriage. Did you know that? Yeah, Palin says everyone knows marriage isn't for gay people; it's for pregnant teenagers. (Conan O'Brien) "Experts say -- this is interesting -- that since Sarah Palin became the vice presidential nominee, there's been an actual spike in the sales of her style of eyeglasses. Gone way up. Yeah. Yeah, with Palin's glasses, you'll be able to see everything, except what the hell your teenage daughter's up to." --Conan O'Brien "Saturday night, Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box." --Conan O'Brien If anyone deserves to be attacked by uptight people with no sense of humor and an undying love to a woman with no brains......it's Conan and Jay right?
it was funny and good for publicity while you're campaigning/running for election.. but one you lose and get embarassed, it's not funny anymore..
Palin sees Newt and Dick making the news for policy commentary, so she has to keep her name in the news somehow.
can't believe there's no outrage towards on leno and conan for making sexist jokes on Palin's 14 yr old daughter..
It's funny that this joke didn't get Sarah Palin outraged when it's almost the same joke as the one Letterman told.
Yeah we all thought she was dumb, but now we see how smart she is to go support an organization in New York knowing she would be invited to a Yankee game which would then lead to Letterman making crude jokes about her familiy. Mastermind at work.
