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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Just wait until they find out about Ray Stevens’ “Ahab the Arab.”
Oh, Susanna Hoffs triggers me, alright.
It’d be a hoot to see them react to R. Crumbs work.
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Those cartoons are deeply entertaining, partly because they have become so ‘verboten’ these days.They were very well done too. Every still shot , every line of heavily accented dialog, would be worth a week of SJW mad marches to nowhere.
I have some good David Allan Coe songs for them...
Born in Arizona, moved to Bab-a-lon-yah
got a condo made-a-stone-a!
Notice how Bugs mocks the “hands up don’t shoot” meme!
...Boss Tut...
He gave his life for tourism.
Ditto that.
They would have a stroke.
Precisely the character I was thinking of.
Seeing Moochelle Obama brought back fond memories of Crumb
Don’t think they’ll like “Little Egypt” by the Coasters either.
Or maybe some by Johnny Rebel...
Maybe “Mecca” by Gene Pitney will trigger them too!
I saw them a couple years ago in a small venue. They’re still pretty darn good. They were a “girl band” of the era who really were good musicians, not some girls fronting for studio musicians. And Suzanna Hoffs is still hot.
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