Everything's fair game for Whoopi

kansas city star ^ | 4/9/05 | MIKE DUFFY Knight Ridder Newspapers

[bitt]

Some comics just want to entertain us with lighthearted, giggly riffs on everyday life.

But others prefer rattling the cultural cage. They bodaciously amuse or appall us with their gleefully indecorous rants on contentious political and social issues and personalities.

It's no secret that Whoopi Goldberg has always been one of those other comics, an unabashedly provocative prankster.

So jump back. Whoopi's getting ready to wail again.

[bitt]

'It's obvious that the rancorous controversy Goldberg stirred last summer with an explicitly raunchy routine on President Bush's last name — unleashed at a New York fund-raiser for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry — hasn't made her more timid. The show begins with a barbecue of the current administration.'

--------------------------------- They left out the part that equated her performance and others as representing the "heart and soul of America"...and America called her AND Kerry on it....

[peyton randolph]

It's no secret that Whoopi Goldberg has always been one of those other comics

News to me. I never considered her to be funny.

[Certified Horticulturist]

She's a unfunny, filthy skank.

[cripplecreek]

Whoopi's a comedian?

[yarddog]

If I see tht a movie (or anything else) has her in it, I make it a point to avoid it.

[onevoter]

The beauty of Whoopi is that her rant helped cost Kerry the election. Her bawdy comments turned people off and helped steer the values crowd in the other direction. As far as I'm concerned, she can keep on talking. It's people like her who remind everyone just what the Democrats stand for.

[Piquaboy]

She has a face that would scare a bulldog off a gut wagon. What in the world did Ted Danson see in her that he married her?

[theDentist]

Like Roseanne, she was funny when she was first arrived. But then she got money and ran out of fresh material. The started preaching liberal dung and acting the partisan fool.

[Right Angler]

Everything's fair game for Whoopi except humor, common sense, taste, decorum, soap, etc....

[BenLurkin]

Something about throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

[jmaroneps37]

"The beauty of Whoopi is that her rant helped cost Kerry the election. Her bawdy comments turned people off and helped steer the values crowd in the other direction. As far as I'm concerned, she can keep on talking. It's people like her who remind everyone just what the Democrats stand for." Great points and think how much worse it would have been for them if they were not able to keep the footage off the air. Next time they won't. Next time the country will see them even clearer. Not good for the evil donkey.

[DoctorMichael]

Smarmy, ignorant, stupid, Lefty Bump.

I thought she died?

[thoughtomator]

Not many comics can claim personal responsibility for a billion-dollar drop in the value of companies that hire them for product pitches.

[bitt]

yeah, where's that footage?

we should create a 'must have list'
here's mine:

1. form 180, signed

2. the 'Heart and Soul' performance in New York

3. video of Kerry's midnight speech, right after Bush's Republican Convention speech, where he appeared suspiciously 'under the influence'...

[ecomcon]

Major Liberal Guilt points.

[basil]

Whoopi is so yesterday.

[speed_addiction]

I thought she died?

She did not die. But her sitcom did. A few years ago several sit-coms (everyone of them forgettable) came on the air and tried to just basically bash the President. Not a single one of them survived. Hard to make it drawing Air America type numbers.

I was at a friends house (he WAS a Whoopie fan) when one of the few episodes of Whoopi's show came on. The small part I saw some guy that looked exactly like President Bush came into Whoopi's little shop and in the Presidents distinctive drawl asks to use the bathroom. She directs him to it and then says to her friend, "He's gonna go in there and do what he is doing to the Constitution." Yeah, it was this level of humor that her show was to put out. No wonder it tanked.

[srotaG adirolF]

That dude whoopie has no talent. She's a bitter liberal who can't get over her hatred of the USA. Ugly woman inside and out.

[laweeks]

This jerk's name is Karin Johnson, not Whoopie Goldberg. She's a former crack addict, a communist sympathizer, nasty anti-American, ugly, nonfunny jerk who admits to having killed one of her unborn children (at taxpayer's expense). How she's made a dime in the "comedy" field is beyond me. After riding on the American public's welfare generosity for years, this former crack addict (did I already say that?) has spent the rest of her years trashing America and everything it stands for.

Just so she didn't forget to trash Christianity, she made a series of nasty, condescending, unfunny films regarding her winding up in a Catholic convent to show us just how stupid the nuns were in that they needed Whoopie's character's filthy street habits and background to help the convent to survive. They couldn't have done it without a prostitute's kind indulgence.

She's another one of these anti-American Hollyweirdos that I'd rather not hear about or from for the rest of my life.

Shame on her for her anti-American tirades. If it wasn't for us taxpayers, she'd be dead in a alley somewhere with needles in her arms.