Posted on 11/19/2017 2:34:48 PM PST by PJ-Comix
There are some situations in the news just begging to be mocked. One such example was the report that snowflake social justice warrior students at Reed College in Oregon objected to one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits ever performed: Steve Martin singing "King Tut" in 1978. The song even became a hit single that sold a million copies and hit the Top 40 on the radio.
Four decades ago, Egypt sent its Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit to America. The traveling exhibit was so wildly popular with the public that it was inevitable there would be some commercialization in the form of King Tut T-shirts and other items.
As a result, comedian Steve Martin appeared on SNL to claim that he thought it was a "national disgrace the way we have commercialized it with trinkets and toys, T-shirts and posters. And about three months ago I was up in the woods and I wrote a song. I tried to use the ancient modalities and melodies and I would like to do it for you right now. Maybe we can all learn something from this." Martin then went into one of the most hilarious skits of all times using "ancient modalities and melodies" that sounded suspiciously like jazzy rock music:
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Very nice!
SjWs are offended if you ask them why they are offended.
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