Posted on 04/30/2019 6:55:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
“Weird Al” Yankovic is in his fourth decade poking fun at the biggest pop songs around.
Does he have to start apologizing for a few of them now? If so, he’s not alone.
Comedians are revisiting their past material given our overly sensitive times. Often, the decision is made for them. Just ask would-be Oscar host Kevin Hart, felled by old homophobic jokes.
Others are taking pre-emptive measures to avoid those “Apology Tours.” It’s why Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen apologized for their comedy hit “Superbad.” It might explain why Judd Apatow, the king of “white dude bro” humor, went woke.
So far, “Weird Al” has mostly avoided the PC Police.
Mostly.
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Soviet humor was the BEST! GOLD, Jerry.
“Did you hear about the guy who yelled “Breszhnev is an idiot” in Red Square? He got 30 years of hard labor. 5 for insulting the Premier, and 25 for exposing a state secret.”
No. Weird Al is still extremely funny. I’m crazy about him and you can’t say anything bad about him or I will beat you up.
An American and a Russian got into an argument over which country is better.
The American said, “In my country, I can say that I don’t like the American President.”
The Russian responded, “It’s the same in my country, I too, can say that I don’t like the American President.”
I’m jealous
I used that one myself, like two days ago. It’s one of my favorites.
I seriously think the Brits, us, and the Russians have the best humor on the planet.
My friend is a singer so naturally she would recognize Many in that industry as she did Yankovic .....but I had no clue at all. I can see from your posts you really like the guy so no offense that I wasn’t impressed with him.... my friend never let me live it down of course, she would have preferred they stay and chat awhile.
He does a similar thing in the outro song of Milo Murphy. The background singers sing, “Go, Milo, go, Milo, go!” Al responds, “Oh, thanks, everybody! That is so motivational!”
LaWanda Page had a funny stupid joke about Winchester Cathedral. I’ll try to clean it up:
A dead body comes into the morgue in the middle of the night and the mortician’s assistant notices a cork in the posterior. He removes it and Winchester Cathedral starts playing. He replaces the cork, takes it back out, and Winchester Cathedral starts playing again. He calls the mortician and says, “You have to come down here. It’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen!” So, the mortician gets out of bed and heads to the mortuary to see what all the fuss is about. When he gets there, the assistant shows him the cork, pulls it out, and the song starts playing. Furious, the mortician turns to his assistant and yells, “You called me down here at 4 in the morning just to hear some old ***hole singing Winchester Cathedral?!”
Everyone who ever laughed even lightly at his songs must apologize, resign from their job, and give their entire life savings as reparations to all those offended
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Jerry Clower was good.
Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, George Carlin
lotsa of luck getting these guys to apologize-
While not a fan of Robin Thicke, I loved “Word Crimes”.
Just Added
“The Complete Al.”
Come and Take it!
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