James Gregory is labeled the funniest man in America. Southern humor at its best. And James is not PC. https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=GTZg10i8iVA
Here is a good read titled “You Are Not Allowed To Be Funny.” It is a stream of consciousness of an overly-serious, hyper-sensitive judgemental typical S.F. Lib.
https://thebolditalic.com/you-are-not-allowed-to-be-funny-203ca4e6a02a#.69xsmweeh
The comedian in the coal mine...
All are lemming lefties playing to their own
I watched War Dogs last nite late with my oldest boy
Jonah Hill was hilarious being himself and that girl Ana de Armas is smoking hot
But still they inserted a few Bush and Cheney shots
I find this girl a solid 9.89...,,Cuban expat
Hollywood screenwriters will be first shot....
I come from a family of comedy writers in Hollywood. They loathe the new normal as do I. Politics, politics, politics, hate, hate and more hate. Comedy always has a basis in anger but it must be channeled into universal - or at least national - humor. That’s all been lost. I assume there are still comedy clubs that produce mainstream comics but I don’t know. Like the author, I used to hang out at the Improv and the Comedy Store on Sunset Strip. My husband recounts Andy Kaufman’s brilliant act in which he led everyone onto the street from the NYC Improv. Where are the geniuses today?
Comedy dead? I think not.
Look up Tim Hawkins. Also try Brad Stine.
Think how many careers he helped launch. Sadly Jay Leno and others never would do this. So real exposure for new talent in the mainstream is not what it was.
Drew Carey was one of the last people that went on Carson to help launch his career. He said in interviews he dreamed and dreamed to be on the show and he finally got his shot. He hoped his routine would be good enough for Johnny to call him over for a brief interview. Evidently Carson did not do this all everyone and if he did you knew you had really arrived. Well Carey achieved that and more.
Today's so called comics are just not that funny. It is either bad political jokes and/or bathroom humor, which I really hate. The political jokes are all venomous and hate filled and not funny.
Thing that kill comedy:
Late night talk show monologues which relate the same setrotyes, even untrue, and are misty liberal.
Donald Trumpshas yuge plan or small have. We will hear that for the next 8 Years. Letterman: Bush is stupid every nigh for 8 years (but Obama saying we have 57 states is not or when he stutters without a teleprompter). Letterman having on political guests and leading with “i don’t know anything about politics and then ranting or pontificating for 5 minutes.
Seh Meyers RE[eating eery night anti conservative fake news.
Lena Dunham supposedly popular comic actress being a radical wannabe feminist fate ass.
All politicians being political especially off stage.
Bill Cosby going from wholesome great storyteller and role model to serial rapist.
A; Franken putting a satellite dish n his head 20 times on SNL and becoming a senator.
SNL repeating the same characterizations every week and slamming the bush cabinet members and staff while continuing on Trump. The overwhelming liberal SNL weekend news which pre-supposes we all agree.
Sit coms which are noting but sexual innuendos which the husband does’t get, but the 13 year olds do.
What happened to Jim carrey?
I could go on, but this is my short list.
I saw a comedian tell a story once about performing at a college. He was supposed to perform at the college a few nights in a row. On the first night, one of his jokes was about going to a Chinese restaurant that only had chopsticks, no forks. After the performance, the guy who’d hired him came up to him and told him he was fired. Apparently some Chinese students had complained. When the comedian asked what he’d said that was so wrong, he was told, “You said forks are better than chopsticks.” For this, some Chinese students made a point to complain about the guy and demand he be fired!
There was a little girl comedian on America’s Got Talent last season who made fun of Trump and expressed her desire that Hillary would win the election. Howie Mandel told her, “I guess Republicans won’t vote for you.” And she did get voted off.
That was a just dumb kid, but I don’t know why comedians of all ages don’t realize that they’re cutting their audience in half. There’s a way to do political humor where both sides will laugh at it. The comedians of the past used to manage it. Today the hatred of Republicans/conservatives/men is just too strong. Celebrities, businesses, etc. seem happy to lose money just for the satisfaction of bashing those they hate.
The last TV show that ever took a comedic risk that I can remember is In Living Color. With skits like Homey the Clown, Men on Film, Handiman, all were very in politically correct. There’s no way that show could be run today.
The one guy who could make me laugh till I cried was Red Skelton.
As far as I am concerned when Red died, comedy died with him.
I now have a large collection of DVDs/Blurays...almost all of them from old TV shows,old documentaries (National Geographic,History Channel,etc) and movies done 20...40...60 years ago.My music collection is somewhere around 5,000 songs....99% of which are 50 to 60 years old.
IOW,I'm done with showbiz.I'll watch my videos and listen to my CDs but it's unlikely that I'll buy more than 10 videos and 10 CDs between this moment and the day I die.
I remember seeing some pretty edgy comedy shows in the late 1980s. Sam Kinison, Stephen Wright and Andrew Dice Clay come to mind. I can’t imagine any of them making it today. The colleges have pretty much shut down free speech among our young people. The young people of today cannot handle anything that offends their sensibilities and they feel they need to be given “safe space” and protection from opposing viewpoints. Even viewpoints from a comedic perspective.
Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares;
Peter Marshall: Why do the Hell’s Angels wear leather?
Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles so easily!
bmfl
love last man standing
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Bialosky (Bialystock?) has a point?