That's good, very good. Get him involved in sports, and you'll avoid little faux pas like this one below:
"But Mother.."
"Father lad, father"
I'm waiting on the Monty Python as well -- though he has seen (or at least is familiar with) the Black Knight in MP and the Holy Grail. And I drop enough Monty Python quotes in my everyday conversation that it's going to seem really familiar to him, when he actually does see it.
Whose Line, however, my son is a big fan of and watches regularly. (BTW, I specified American, because I haven't seem more than a few of the British) It's probably his second or third favorite show, after medical documentaries and maybe Yu-Gi-Oh! I let him watch Futurama, a well (though not Family Guy.)
I'm basically raising him like my parents raised me -- I used to watch Benny Hill with my father and Scots folks songs like "The Maid Gaed to the Mill" and "The Trooper and the Maid" were part of my cultural life, when my age was single-digits -- though I didn't quite get what was going on for a while.
Yes, he's getting more adult humor than most kids his age. But he's getting it with his parents' supervision and explanations of what is and isn't appropriate for him to do and say. He is also made quite aware of how much slack we give him and that if he doesn't act responsibly, we will put more limits on him.
I like how he's turning out -- witty, difficult to shock, and not particularly vulgar.
My daughter and I watch "Whose Line" on a regular basis.
And she loves both the "Dead Parrot" and "The Cheese Shoppe".
Our son saw MP and the Holy Grail when he was 7 or 8 (he's 9 now). We have it on DVD, and skipped the Tale of Sir Galahad (the virgins in the castle). The rest of it is ok with us. He's allowed to watch it now without us over his shoulder, and he skips that chapter by himself, he knows he's not allowed to watch it, and he'd rather watch the rest of it than not be allowed to watch any of it. I think his humor is much more dry and witty than most of his friends, and he gets a lot of our jokes, while his sail over his friends' heads.
He was also singing "Long Black Veil" at the age of 2-2 1/2. Nothing like a tot singing about "been in the arms of my best friends wife". He didn't know what he was singing about, but loved/loves the Cheiftans.
Heh. I forgot about that too.
I think it was the autopilot scenes where my spouse and I looked at each other and said whoopsie, this is not for the little ones.
Still, that was relatively tame and subtle compared to some of Laura's jokes.
Which brings me to what Michelle Malkin is objecting to: increasingly mainstream vulgarity.
Cultural conservatives are not about burning copies of Airplane! or banning South Park.
We're about keeping certain kinds of hypersexualized performances and certain kinds of hypersexualized humor in their proper contexts and venues, giving people a choice over the amount of that material they or their children are exposed to.
Mainstreaming this kind of material takes away that choice.
So that's my question to all the defenders of Laura's act: Is a public performance by a First Lady, any First Lady, a proper venue for blue jokes?