Planes, Trains and Automobiles, he dropped some F-bombs.
Posted on 11/19/2017 9:22:01 AM PST by Morgana
Good thing Steve Martin came along before it was a thought crime to have a sense of humor:
Comedian Steve Martin’s rendition of “King Tut” is triggering social justice warriors at Reed College because they see it as a form of cultural appropriation.
For moonbattery at its most Jacobinic, there is no better place to look than a college located in Portland, Oregon.
The song, originally performed on “Saturday Night Live,” actually criticizes the commercialization and trivialization of Egyptian history and presents a caricature of the Treasures of Tutankhamun traveling exhibit that toured seven United States cities from 1976 to 1979.
Subtleties like that are lost on snowflake fascists, as they frenziedly demand bans on every conceivable aspect of our culture on grounds of political incorrectness. They regard the harmless song as equivalent to blackface, which is the ultimate historical pop culture sin from the liberal point of view, and even to uttering the forbidden N-word.
Steve Martin’s generation-old infringement upon their delicate sensibilities has inspired the brownshirts of Reedies Against Racism to issue a long list of demands, including “mandatory conferences for building race sensitivity for staff and faculty” as well as a yearly “anti-oppression workshop for all students, faculty, staff, and administration.”
As noted at Downtrend,
that a bunch of thin-skinned, intolerant twits in 2017 would be bleating like stuck pigs over a song that is four decades old is a testament to the failure of our educational system which is dominated by cultural Marxist professors who have poisoned the minds of impressionable young people.
Let’s have another look at King Tut, before it goes down the Memory Hole lest ancient Egyptians be offended. This originally aired back in 1978, when Saturday Night Live was funny on a regular basis — which would never be allowed today:
***VIDEO ON LINK***
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, he dropped some F-bombs.
Especially the episode where June says, "Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."
>>>Reminds me a bit of controversy, over a song by Dire Straits, in which the word “faggot” is mentioned. As I recall, radio stations nowadays were censoring the offending word, if they even played that song at all<<<
They take out the entire verse:
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire
Remember when Ted Turner started to “colorize” old Black and White Movies? The screaming from the Artistic License crowd was deafening.
Edie McClurg made that scene great.
Lord loves a workin’ man.
Don’t trust whitey.
See a doctor and get rid of it.
18 of them in less than two minutes.
Oops...
My bad..
Never seen it.
S’pose we are both correct?
I gotta go. It’s time to read Little Black Sambo
Dr Hfuhruhurr....
Nancy Reagan had it right to begin with: “Just say “No”!
If the snowflakes have a problem with this then they must be sent into epileptic seizures over Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein.
The topic was something along the lines of:
Resolved: people think Yale undergrads are insipid and boring because we are insipid and boring.
Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?
His Favourite meal;
Tuna fish with Mayo on white bread,
Wrapped in Saran wrap.
Two Twinkies and a TAB!
HILARIOUS!
He heard the Refs’ were blowing fowls.
Little petite Miss Hoffs is prettiest rock pop girl ever for me...sorry Corrs and Imbruglia
Those doe eyes and shapely legs
And still smoking at fiddysumthin
My wife is Hoffsish
Small wonder given my taste
miss Hoffs gyrating like an Egyptian in underwear
Recent pic age late 50s dayum
For an example of how times have changed, see this panel from a Mad Magazine "Star Wars" parody in 1977. This joke would never be made today.
They don't teach "Steve Martin 101". Lack of knowledge about SNL forty years ago isn't really an education problem.
They don't teach "Steve Martin 101". Lack of knowledge about SNL forty years ago isn't really an education problem.
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