Posted on 11/28/2008 4:14:55 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Rickles makes fun of Obama. Crowd did not like it. Libs can't laugh at anything.
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Way to go Don. (My hero.)
“Drop and give me 20, you hockey pucks.”
not only do libs not have a sense of humor most are either too young or were stoned during rickles’ early years. i’ve watched some of the roasts and he is a riot, as long as you can laugh at yourself. all the old stars could.
there was one roast, i think for govenor reagan, and rich little got up, looked down the table and said “ all the people i impersonate are up here tonight.”
Been LMAO at both video clips ... great stuff!
Well that just proves it.
Rickles is racist!
Truthfully, I didn’t find it funny either. But then I’ve never enjoyed Rickles’s sense of humor. I just applaud him for daring to make fun of St. Obama.
That Obama joke fell flat because it was stupid. Rickles acts like Obama was a former NBA player or something. Obama was a mere bench player (a 3-point specialist, apparently) for the Punahou High School basketball team. He did not even play basketball on any official team at Occidental College or Columbia University— just pickup games and intramural squads. His set up wasn’t bad— some WH crisis and how Obama would react— but the punchline was garbage.
Still, it is amazing that he looks as healthy as he does at 82.
That crowd is so uptight and politically correct. Shows how far we have fallen as a nation. Years ago the crowd would be rolling in laughter. Today everyone is so afraid of insulting this group or that group. Rickles is an equal opportunity offender and a national treasure.
About the only one left of the great ones....?
Our posts are seconds apart, but I agree. The joke wasn’t funny. A regular stand up comedian would be heckled in the clubs for such a bad punchline. Jesus, our side needs to work on better material or it will be a long 4-8 years.
“Rickles makes fun of Obama. Crowd did not like it. Libs can’t laugh at anything. “
The late night commedians have commented about ‘who will we talk about now’....they KNOW they won’t criticize Obama. But really, what are they going to do......keep kicking Bush for four more years?
What a mess.
“Don is one of the best!”
Saw Rickles in Vegas in the late 90’s. Still doing the old jokes he did when Martin and Sinatra were alive. He mentioned how he missed them.
Anyway, one of his first jokes...
He’s talking,
colored guy walks on the stage(wearing a white vest like a porter)...
Rickles says “What? is there something wrong with the luggage?”
Jay Leno is still telling Sarah Palin jokes. Of Obama, he never tells one specifically. Only about things related, like biden or his cabinet picks. Sickening.
Brilliant comedian..
“Jew jokes, mafia jokes, black jokes, drinking jokes...pretty much covers life in “the pack”.”
Exactly.
Rickles is, from what I understand, an intensely shy, gentle and exceptionally kind man when not performing.
“Jay Leno is still telling Sarah Palin jokes. Of Obama, he never tells one specifically. Only about things related, like biden or his cabinet picks. Sickening.”
Yes, and more than scary.
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