Posted on 04/23/2015 9:39:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Did they complain about Johnny Depp wearing a pigeon as a hat?
I dunno, some of the comedy examples are really funny, some of it unnecessarily low brow, outright disgusting, but our decadent culture makes many not know the difference. I wondered which of the examples grew the Indian ire. We don’t read from the excerpt that they objected to all of the humor.
I agree with you that considering real comedy, Blazing Saddles is really funny and also that being offended is becoming a full time job, no thanks to Obama for balkanizing every group, issue and opinion he can lay his hands on.
Sicilian Iron Eyes Cody (or Coti) wore a dead buzzard on his head in A MAN CALLED HORSE.
Sounds like a disgusting loser flick. “Beaver Breath”? “No Bra”?
Uproariously funny...no.
I just watched “The Awful Truth” with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Now THAT is funny (and it was made 14 years before I was born). Where are the writers who could write like that?
>> an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe
An indignity not necessarily exclusive to old Mexico.
Where are the writers who could write like that ?
They’re dead.
Actually, when I saw that description, it immediately reminded me of Sen. Squaw Spreading Bull messing the Constitution.
That’s definitely not funny...
Urinating while holding the peace pipe is about as funny as the crucifix in urine “art” or Bill Ayers standing on a US flag.
Not to mention it’s gross.
Now the Halleluja Trail was a very funny movie without being disgusting.
If you want funny see “Comrade X” 1940 with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr.
The whole thing is a comic send-up of the Russian Communist state, a real hoot!
Some clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmFKMsPOwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWdphkYk080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6IVOjWYPuI
Fantastic dialog in the last scene of The Awful Truth. It was acted in the most casual and droll manner with Ms Dunne just cooing her lines in the sweetest voice imaginable...had me in stitches:
Jerry Warriner: In a half an hour, we’ll no longer be Mr. and Mrs. Funny, isn’t it.
Lucy Warriner: Yes, it’s funny that everything’s the way it is on account of the way you feel.
Jerry Warriner: Huh?
Lucy Warriner: Well, I mean, if you didn’t feel that way you do, things wouldn’t be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.
Jerry Warriner: But things are the way you made them.
Lucy Warriner: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn’t make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you’re the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.
So the Navajo's were offended that the Apache's culture was misrepresented?
That's like me (of German and Russian descent) getting offended when French people are characterized as wimps.
Technically they ended up in North St Louis given that ramp they took on the bridge...:-)
Thanks. Haven’t heard of that one. Definitely on my list now.
Agree. I think folks unfamillar with Adam should watch “Zohan” to understand the nature of his humor.
Note the word “primarily” ... probably included an Apache.
I bet ya sandler didn’t ridicule jews, did he?
During his travels down the Mississippi River in 1673, Father Jacques Marquette documented the universal respect that the ceremonial “peace pipe” was shown among all native peoples he encountered, even those at war with each other. He claimed that presenting the pipe during battle would halt the fighting. The Illinois people gave Marquette such a pipe as a gift to ensure his safe travel through the interior of the land.[10]
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet gives an account of the calumet ceremony done by the Cheyenne people: “First they give the Great Spirit to smoke, holding the pipe toward the heavens, then toward the sun, the earth and the water, the calumet goes the rounds of the lodge three times; it passes from hand to hand, and every one takes half a dozen puffs.” [11]
In ceremonial usage, the smoke is believed to carry prayers to the attention of the Creator or other powerful spirits. Lakota tradition tells that White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the Chanunpa to the people, and instructed them in its symbolism and ceremonies.
—Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_(pipe)
If you sign onto an Adam Sandler movie and expect cultural sensitivity, I feel sorry for you.
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