Posted on 11/30/2005 7:41:51 AM PST by Pyro7480
Tonight [November 29], Comedy Central will air a special by Denis Leary, “Merry F#%$in’ Christmas” (it first aired two nights ago and is scheduled to air again on Dec. 17). The show consists of several skits, a cartoon and musical performances.
There is a skit about lesbian nuns, and a song by “Our Lady of Perpetual Suffering Church Choir” about a hooker. But by far the most offensive part of the show is the monologue by Denis Leary on the origins of Christmas. Here is part of what he says:
“Merry Christmas. Tonight we celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus, whose mom, Mary, just happens to be a virgin—even after she apparently gave birth to Jesus. At least that is what the Catholic Church would have you believe.
“Tom Cruise is taking a lot of s--- for belonging to a religion, Scientology, that believes aliens came to this planet 75 million years ago. That is nothing. I was raised Catholic. We believe Mary was a virgin and Jesus ended up walking on water, creating a bottomless jug of wine and rising from the dead. Oh, yeah, and Tom Cruise is crazy.
“Listen, Christmas is built on a line of bulls---. Do I believe there was a baby Jesus? You bet your ass I do. But I believe that nine months before he was born someone sure as s--- banged the hell out of his mom.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“I am asking Catholic League members, and friends of the Catholic League, to e-mail Doug Herzog, the president of Comedy Central, requesting that he nix the Dec. 17th showing of this vile special, and any future showings that might be planned. He can be contacted at Doug.Herzog@comedycentral.com.
“Hate speech dressed in humorous garb is still hate speech. Leary is obviously bedeviled by some disorder, but nothing excuses this crap.”
Catholic ping!
I watched part of it last night. It was mostly the kind of humor that Leary is known for. The Tits for Tots thing with Carmen Electra was kind of funny though.
Ping!
If you don't like it, turn the channel. The remote is not broken.
Most Christians and for that matter Moslems believe Jesus was born of a virgin.
It's not just a Catholic thing.
I won't be watching this crap. Why don't they trash the muslims on a comedy show? I forgot, it's okay to attack Chrisitanity in this country but you cannot do that to any other religion.
Oh, that old argument. If this was attacking any other faith, the hammer would be dropped.
Denis, Do the same skit only about Muhammed. I'll send flowers to your funeral.
I'm quite aware of that. It was just that the Catholic League was the organization pointing it out.
Get over it, it's comedy. At least he said "Merry Christmas". Also, Leary is constantly doing charity events. And for the Jesus remarks, all religion is based on faith of things that cannot be understood. I wouldn't want a steady diet of this kind of humor but the Catholic League is a little too sensitive.
See my post #8.
Yet another reason I don't watch Comedy Central. That channel is full of juvenile humor, conservative/religion bashing, and overall unfunny comedians. The channel itself is a joke.
Humor! It may not be your kind but as others have said... change the channel.
This just in... Jon Stewart is not a real journalist.
Everything Dennis Leary does, he stole from Bill Hicks. Hicks died from cancer a decade ago.
Hicks was once asked what he thought of Leary. He replied, "There's no cure for cancer. There's no cure for Leary."
I tried to give Leary props for doing a show about firemen, but it turns out according to him, all firemen are male sluts and drunks and suffer from involutary spurts of verbal flatulence.
Exactly.
It's already been shown once. It's not like people are preventing it from being shown in the first place.
Par for the course for liberals. But if you're offended, you're a whacko who can't take a joke. And if you write a serious commentary criticizing them or do any kind of comedy making fun of them, then you're over the top, engaging in hate speech, dumping on their 1st Amendment rights, and you are an evangelist whacko that wants to go out burning books and conducting witch trials. Gotta love the liberal double-standard!
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