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***
I suggest these snowflakes go into a closet and suck eggs.
“Movies by Steve Martin;”
Don’t forget ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’.
One of my favorite scenes is the bus scene in which the entire bus starts singing the theme from the Flintstones.
Good one!
Back in the day, Knopfler recorded separate US and UK versions of the song (the original version used the word "queenie"), so that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic would understand the lyrics with no cultural question marks. I wonder if the UK radio stations still play that tune, uncensored?
Can you imagine their outrage if they watched Blazing Saddles? Unedited?
THE HORROR!
I point out that if anything the story, which is about a little boy who manages to bribe the tigers not to eat him and then cleverly gets his bribes back, is only not racist but should be praised as not being "Eurocentic".
If it came out now it would be required reading in all schools. Since it is over a hundred years old it must be "bad".
I get triggered by their being considered students.
Bowfinger.
His skits show up on XM comedy greats some. I’ll listen to those.
Guns and Roses....
“Immigrants and fagots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they’ll do as they please
Like start some mini-Iran
Or spread some f*cking disease
And they talk so many God damn ways
It’s all Greek to me”
Herb Tarlek’s wife?
Please don't tell them about that movie. It would be just something else for them to throw on the fire.
And Mel Brooks is still alive. I wonder if a Social Justice Warrior would hunt Brooks down, then pummel him with a bike lock. The Social Justice Warriors are good at that sort of thing.
I remember as a kid earning some extra money so I could go out and buy this album. It was hilarious. I believe I still have it, it’s buried somewhere in storage.
Sucks for these snowflakes to not be able to understand what a great comedy album it is. Political correctness has diseased their minds.
CGato
Surprisingly, no mention of the song ‘Short People’ or ‘I’m Turning Japanese’ in the comments yet.
I think that was her as well, I always loved her, she was also great in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as Rooney’s Secretary.
Obviously Steve isn’t a religious guy, but I thought this song of his was pretty funny......
You know, religious people have such beautiful music and art;
And athiests really have nothing...
Until now!
A little tune called “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs”
[Lyrics]
(Christians have)
Christians have their hymns and pages.
(Hymns and pages)
Hava Nagila’s for the Jews.
(For the Jews)
Baptists have the rock of ages.
(Rock of ages)
Atheists just sing the blues.
(Romantics play)
Romantics play Claire de Lune.
(Claire de Lune)
Born agains sing He is risen.
But no one ever wrote a tune.
(Wrote a tune)
For godless existentialism.
(For godless existentialism)
For Atheists,
There’s no good news.
They’ll never sing,
A song of faith.
In their songs,
They have a rule.
The “he” is always lowercase.
The “he” is always lowercase.
(Some folks sing)
Some folks sing a Bach cantata.
(Bach cantata)
Lutherans get Christmas trees.
Atheist songs add up to nada.
(Up to nada)
But they do have Sundays free.
(Have Sundays free)
(Pentecostals sing)
Pentecostals sing, sing to heaven,
(Sing to heaven)
Gothics had the books of scrolls,
(Numerologists count)
Numerologists count, count to seven,
(Count to seven)
Atheists have rock and roll.
For Atheists,
There’s no good news.
They’ll never sing,
A song of faith.
In their songs,
They have a rule.
The “he” is always lowercase.
The “he” is always lowercase.
Atheists
... Atheists
... Atheists
Don’t Have No songs!
(Christians have)
Christians have their hymns and pages.
(Hymns and pages)
Hava Nagila’s for the Jews.
(For the Jews)
Baptists have the rock of ages.
(Rock of ages)
Atheists just sing the blues.
Catholics,
Dress up for Mass.
And listen to,
Gregorian chants.
Atheists,
Just take a pass.
Watch football in their underpants.
Watch football in their underpants.
Atheists
... Atheists
... Atheists
Don’t Have No songs!
(Don’t Have No Songs)
Strangely enough, I can spot satirical humor from performers of my parents and grandparents’ generations. I may not always find the material as funny as they did, but I know what it is. These kids are being conditioned to see offenses where none were intended. The social media “hive mind” is part of it too, discouraging any independent thought and evaluation. Are the “Likes” or the “Dislikes” trending?
How about Steve Martin in “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” and “The Man With Two Brains”?
Seems like the South Park episode where Allah was removed started a lot of the madness.
I remember watching it live.
I never laughed so hard in my life!
Most people now wouldn’t understand it, but this was after months and months and months of television commercials, newspapers, magazine ads for the Tutster!!
Alot of people made alot of money on that deal...
Got a dvd of Song of the South from England
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