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Posted on 04/30/2019 6:55:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
“Weird Al” Yankovic is in his fourth decade poking fun at the biggest pop songs around.
Does he have to start apologizing for a few of them now? If so, he’s not alone.
Comedians are revisiting their past material given our overly sensitive times. Often, the decision is made for them. Just ask would-be Oscar host Kevin Hart, felled by old homophobic jokes.
Others are taking pre-emptive measures to avoid those “Apology Tours.” It’s why Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen apologized for their comedy hit “Superbad.” It might explain why Judd Apatow, the king of “white dude bro” humor, went woke.
So far, “Weird Al” has mostly avoided the PC Police.
Mostly.
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Progressives destroy everything that they set their eyes upon. EVERYTHING.
Just play some Sam Kinison, watch the snowflake heads melt.
Oh screw them.
Weird Al writes his songs with the permission of the artists. It takes quite a snowflake to get offended at that.
Freedom of thought is the lifeblood of comedy; it has always - for centuries or even millennia - been the enemy of “communist” leaders. There is an idea, popular since the age of Sparta or before, that a few intelligent leaders can help everyone else live better. I went to school with these people. Now they’re at The Times, or The Post, or teaching, or what have you. They really do believe they are meant to rule the world. And what they hate, more than anything, is when their peers laugh at them. The only thing that could possibly be worse is when people laugh along. The solution, of course, for the Benefit of Mankind, is to silence certain voices. To engage “muscle.” To shut the “bad people” down.
Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Larry the Cable Guy, Jerry Clower, and Ron White will make the snowflakes explode.
Jerry Clower is my favorite.
I hope he doesn’t.
It’s funny stuff.
Get a sense of humor.
Freedom of thought is the lifeblood of comedy;
Q: What should we do in the event of a nuclear attack?
A: Wrap yourself in a shroud and walk slowly to the cemetery.
Q: Why slowly?
A: To avoid a panic.
Comedy also flows from oppression. The Soviets had some good stuff. There was a humor magazine called Krokidil that had this bit ...
Q: What should we do in the event of a nuclear attack?
A: Wrap yourself in a shroud and walk slowly to the cemetery.
Q: Why slowly?
A: To avoid a panic.
That’s good........;)
I always think of the joke in “The Lives of Others”....
Honecker arrives at his office and opens his window.
He greets the Sun, saying: “Good morning, dear Sun!”
“Good morning, dear Honecker” the sun replies.
Honecker works, and then at noon he heads to the window and says: “Good day, dear Sun!”
“Good day, dear Honecker!” the sun replies.
In the evening, Honecker calls it a day, and heads once more to the window, and says: “Good evening, dear Sun!” There is no response.
Hearing nothing, Honecker says again: “Good evening, dear Sun! What’s the matter?” The sun retorts: “Screw you. I’m in the West now!”
No he should reply with a swift kick to their nuts (or where their nuts should be). “I thought all this was a parody!”
Throw in some Andrew Dice Clay as well.
The Soviets had another joke.
They pretend to pay us.
We pretend to work.
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“Hickory, Dickory Dock.....”
Weird Al’s biggest problem is that for two decades now, the music he’s parodying is awful. That makes the parodies themselves less than enjoyable. The originals he writes are still good, and he succeeds when he ignores then- or now-current music and reaches back to an earlier time (like American Pie for the Star Wars parody or MacArthur Park for Jurassic Park). But, I don’t want to hear Katy Perry’s trash even with funny lyrics.
The last I heard from Al was a parody in the style of the Doors. It was great.
“Remember Mother Goose...”
Why don’t vultures fly commercial?
Carrion is not allowed inside the cabin area.
Little Boy Blue.....He needed the money!
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