Posted on 09/01/2009 10:06:51 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
When I was a young teenager, I would like to pick up Reader’s Digest and steal a joke from the digest to share with others. I imagined myself a Johnny Carson. Of course that was long time ago, and now I am excited about Jay Leno’s new show and have marked down the date so that I can record the show for a keepsake to share with others.
Lately I heard that Reader’s Digest is going bankrupt. Not sure of all the details, but it this came to mind when I noticed a Reader’s Digest for sale at the check stand of my local grocery store.
Thinking, if I can do my part by purchasing a copy, why not? Reader’s Digest brought me some good laughs from its joke department.
Sure enough, I open it up at home and this edition has “The World’s Funniest Joke’s” contest, different countries represented with a joke from each as selected by the famous comedian Sid Caesar.
Brazil was funny, so was India. But HANDS DOWN, the winner was the good ol’ USA (of course – because we always have the best jokes and the best comedians … like Bob Hope for example!).
I mean the opening line itself makes me laugh without even getting to the punch line, it’s such American genre classic in it’s setting and delivery - and I got to share it with you:
“A priest, a minister, and a rabbi” (I’m already laughing, sorry, I got to start over) …
“A priest, a minister, and a rabbit want to see who’s best at the job. So they each go into the woods, find a bear …” (I’m sorry… really, I am laughing again… start over) …
… “so they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together.”
“The priest begins: ‘When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion.’”
“’I found the bear by the stream,’ says the minister, ‘and preached God’s Holy Word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him.’”
“They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a gurney in a body cast …”
… sorry, I’m laughing again …
“’Looking back’, he says, ‘maybe I shouldn’t have started with the circumcision’”.
Bill Clinton went to the local Ford dealer during the “cash for clunkers” for a trade in.
When he got to the dealership, they told him Hillary was not considered a clunker.
Exactly, it is funny.
That magazine’s circulation dept. is the biggest joke. We let our subscription lapse 2-3 years ago, yet we still get it in the mail every month for free.
I always call it ‘Reader’s Disgust’ but my mom loves it
“Not when you remove the third, fifth and sixth letters. Than it becomes Red’s Digest, comrade.” - Colonel Flagg
*snrk*
It’s astonishing to me that the publishers are blind to the real reason that RD has fallen on hard times.
Leftism. Pure and simple.
Just look at their choices of celebrites for the cover photo and feature articles. I let my subscription expire long ago but still have some copies lying around: Barbra Streisand. Peter Jennings. Katy Couric. Ted Danson. Tom Brokaw. And so on.
Relentlessly over the years, RD became a font of hero-worship for leftists. I tired of it and let my subscription expire. The thing is, this parallels the decline of so many other media organs, including the network news shows and even CNN. You’d think the success of the comparatively right-ish Fox News would have made the point loud and clear, but the MSM persists in its leftism-pushing groove. It’s positively Darwinian.
“The Aristocrats”
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