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The Death of Comedy?
Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2017 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 02/12/2017 6:22:15 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

If we can see “Sanford & Son” why can’t we see “Amos & Andy”?


21 posted on 02/12/2017 6:36:39 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Kaslin

I used to love Jim Gaffigan. Clean, funny, observational humor. I had to part with him when he tweeted out support for the women’s march and took a swip at President Trump, “pretending to believe in God”. Sorry, I draw the line at support of infanticide and questioning what’s in a man’s heart. A lot of his followers tweeted serious disappointment over this and said they too must part ways with him.


22 posted on 02/12/2017 6:36:53 AM PST by AC Beach Patrol
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

I do enjoy The Big Bang Theory although I keep my finger on the button and usually switch it out with something else.


23 posted on 02/12/2017 6:37:38 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Kaslin

Liberals killed ‘funny’. They want to take the fun out of EVERYTHING. Because, you know, you aren’t worth the air you breathe unless you are agitated over some imagined transgression. Funny isn’t much available in our once great country right now, which is struggling to throw off the oppression of Obamaland and to become America again.


24 posted on 02/12/2017 6:38:22 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Gen.Blather

I’m Boston Irish.

I grew up,many years ago,with “Thick Mick” jokes.

We didn’t even care.

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25 posted on 02/12/2017 6:38:27 AM PST by Mears
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To: Gaffer

He lost me at Lisa Lampanelli. I don’t mind offensive one bit but can she at least try to be funny while doing it.


26 posted on 02/12/2017 6:38:39 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Kaslin

I’ve found in my travels that few seem to agree with me, but in the tradition of Joan Rivers, Lisa Lampanelli and Richard Pryor, I think Andrew “Dice” Clay is hilarious for his outrageous irreverence to anything and anyone.


27 posted on 02/12/2017 6:38:54 AM PST by daler
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To: Kaslin

Andrew Dice Clay was the first comedian I remember doing an absolute kowtow to the PC police. I never much cared for his comedy style, but I remember being surprised how quickly he bent over when he started catching heat for his act.


28 posted on 02/12/2017 6:40:49 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Beowulf9

How about the similar show called Fridays? It’s where Krammer from Steinfeld got his start.


29 posted on 02/12/2017 6:41:31 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: Kaslin

Jeff Dunham (Achmed the Terrorist skits) is one of the very few comedians allowed to appear on my family’s TV screen.


30 posted on 02/12/2017 6:41:46 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I missed that one, regrettably. Yep, that would have baked the cake for me. She is a disgusting slut skank, who is too old and ugly to be either.


31 posted on 02/12/2017 6:41:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SkyDancer

The country really needs a saturated dose of Don Rickles or anyone else like him.... uh, .. if there is anyone else like him.


32 posted on 02/12/2017 6:42:21 AM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: Leaning Right

I remember my granddad telling me Polish jokes such as the one where only they could have invented the helicopter. They didn’t know which place the propeller should go and the rest is history.


33 posted on 02/12/2017 6:42:52 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: dfwgator

Let’s hope that PC won’t kill retro TV - lots of funny non-PC stuff there.


34 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:42 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Iron Munro
I’m so old that I remember when the comedy skits on Saturday Night Live were actually funny.

No one is THAT old ...

35 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:43 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Kaslin

Crudeness seems to br the current sctick for comedy. The old slapstick and clean comedy is gone unless you look to Christian comedians.


36 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:47 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Kaslin

Seinfeld was great, but Groucho LOL that guy was a pill!


37 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:53 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: ETL

Actually Friday’s featured Larry David, who co-created Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld.


38 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Yes, comedy is dead. It is at a 10 year olds’ level of “that’s what she said.”

Liberals have taken over comedy and it is nothing more than political statements or pee, caca, and vagina references.

Comedians also think screaming and acting frantically makes any funny...it doesn’t.


39 posted on 02/12/2017 6:44:33 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Kaslin

Buddy Hackett was a hoot


40 posted on 02/12/2017 6:44:45 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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