Posted on 01/12/2022 1:58:23 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Newsmax commentators on comedian saying red states are the only ones in which people with different viewpoints can still laugh together.
Comedian Bill Maher said he likes performing in red states, TW Shannon and Rogan O'Handley react - Via Newsmax's 'John Bachman Now.'
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I will say this about Robin Williams, he had Biden nailed way back in 2009:
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The vulgarity was his one vice. He had enough talent he didn’t need to curse. But yeah. He had Foe nailed back when he was still just a joke. Now he’s an actual menace, and I don’t feel like laughing at his senile idiocies anymore.
I enjoyed Richard Pryor and Robin Williams — RIP, both — as the funniest club stage shows.
He joked something like that the Koran doesn't promise 72 virgins in heaven, it's a mistranslation and it's really 72 Virginians where people like George Washington will eternally be curb stomping the jihadists. LOL
Robin was alright, in my book, he regularly entertained the troops on USO tours. Yes he was a liberal, but he took shots at them too.
Williams could be very good if he had a strong Director who could rein him in. Jumanji or Death to Smoochy are good examples. If left to himself he became unwatchable. Patch Adams or Bicentennial Man, barf.
The best comedians are willing to take shots at anyone who has it coming, regardless of which side of the aisle.
Liberals use to love Dave Chappelle . Then he started calling them out and skewering them. Now they hate him. “Race traitor” because he absolutely roasted Jussie Smollett.
As Mork, Popeye and Peter Banning, he was immortal.
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy were great.
Maher can go Brandon himself. He’s just as responsble for the woke culture as any leftist.
Yes, they sure were.
What happened to Roseanne got me angry. I will avoid watching any entertainment that features any of the people involved with her being canceled. john goodman was an actor that would attract me to a movie if he were in it now it makes me think twice and likely to watch something else.
Robin and Michael Savage were neighbors, and somewhat friends.
“he didn’t need to curse”
My high school science teacher, who was one of the smartest men I ever knew, used to say that “Profanity is the means by which a weak mind expresses itself forcefully”. I think of that every time I hear one of these foul mouthed entertainers try to wring one more shock out of the F-word.
What is meant by PERFORMING? A circus act?
I don’t think Robin Williams was funny at all. He was a bad imitation of my favorite comedian, Jonathan Winters. On the other hand I thought he was an excellent serious actor.
Goodman didn’t join in on the gang-up. Sara Gilbert and Michael Fischman wanted to outdo each other in condemning her. Goodman stayed out of it. He might have spoken up in her defense.
The idea of Roseanne being racist is ridiculous. She was reflexively liberal, and she supported Trump, for which the usual leftards never forgave her, and jumped on her the moment she tweeted something that they could snatch out of context and run with. But as for race relations, she was the only show in the ‘80s that didn’t have the black actors rhyming, or using a signature walk or phrase (Dynomite!, for example). That was the convention back then, and she was having none of it, and I always respected her for that. Bastards destroyed a great talent.
Wilder always brought out the best in whomever he co-starred with.
More’s the pity with Williams. He was one of the funniest men in the world, and cursing diminished him. His ad libs were unbelievable. “Chlamydia, your father’s here!...where’s your sister Gonorrhea?” Just made up on the spot, without one curse used.
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