Posted on 01/26/2002 9:02:00 PM PST by montag813
Did anyone see the disturbing (and quite unfunny) "TV Funhouse" segment on SNL this evening?
They were attempting (one supposes) to insult Pat Robertson, but succeeded only in ridiculing Christians and those who value life and the unborn.
They portrayed a fictional Robertson-sponsored cartoon, in which "embyonic cell" and "Ted Trimester" (1st-trimester fetus) characters were placed in a work environment, as if they were high-powered workers. The characters were unintelligable, yet the other adult characters responded as if those two were geniuses. Also interspersed were a "Mr Parkinson" man seeking to kill the fetuses for their stem cells, who, upon being shown Jesus' image by the the "cell" character, ripped up a homosexual porno magazine (the "Robertson" scharacter asserts that if someone has a disease like Parkinsons it must be because Jesus is punishing them for being gay) and gives up his gun.
The message was clear: it is absurd to suppose that life begins at conception, because it is absurd to suppose that fetuses could function in the workplace. Also the piece asserts that one would have to be an extremist, homophobic Christian to value the unborn or have a problem with harvesting fetuses for stem cells.
Christianity is mocked and absurdly portrayed throughout the piece, which received very few laughs from the audience (do they really expect it to be funny?)
My wife and I were shocked by this, and the more we thought about it, the more disturbed we became.
montag
Tonight's SNL show was mild compared to some of the things they did when Reagan was in office. But Reagan never responded to them and when someone would bring it up he just laughed it off as petty behavior from liberals.
That's all we have to do now is just consider the source, if we were to make a big deal of it by mass emails and protesting SNL it will just bring us down to their level.
IMHO The best thing to do is ignore the liberals, they are not worth trouble and by ignoring them makes them squirm just alittle more :-)
I do not believe Smigel had as much to do with this one, given the additional credit screen with two new names, and the cartoon style being significantly different. Perhaps animators on loan from NARAL.
I have found MadTV over on FOX to be much, much funnier than SNL in recent weeks. Any hope of convincing ol' Rupert to enlist a liberal-ridiculing cartoon to his show?
That would be King of the Hill.
I watched when it was Belushi, Aykroyd, Chase, Radner, Tomlin. i.e. when it was good. This show hasn't been good, ooooooh, for more than a decade. The fact that people still watch that crap is astonishing. Nothing personal, but if having no taste were illegal, you'd be looking at a life sentence (you have to watch game shows to get the chair). I'd be embarassed to admit that I still watch that crap.
"We're the media. We don't care because we don't have to."
He probably watches it so he will have something to get upset about.
I thought the cartoon was funny. I didnt see it as an attack on Christians. It just poked fun at the pompous fool, Robinson. Robinson brought that joke on himself. In the cartoon Robinson appears to say that people with some thing seriously wrong with them like Parkinson most likely brought it on themselves, for example by being homosexuals. This is similar to the idiodic statement that Robinson made following 9/11 where he blamed the attack on homosexuals and others with whom he disagreed.
So how would you accomplish this?
While the moral-liberal producers like to rant about their supposed 1st Amendment rights to ridicule and slam religion, given an organized campaign to contact their sponsors and complain, these oh-so-principled free-speech-at-whatever-cost ideologues would turn around their sleazy content really fast. You and I are eventually paying for this outrage by the products we purchase. If they want to manufacture toothpaste and deodorant and cars, fine. If they want to slam religion and asault our senibilities in doing so, then let them sit on their products and find a better avenue for salesmanship.
Even a handful of letters written to the sponsors of degrading television shows would have a huge effect. Business hates controversy. It gives them a headache, which they want to avoid. Besides, if we were to allow these degenerates to rule the society as they have the culture, there'd be no one of any productive worth out there to buy their products. So really it's all in their own best self-interests, too, to heed our kind message.
Chevy CHASE? HE'S funny?
Eddie Murphy isn't funny? Or, more accurately, Eddie Murphy was NEVER funny?
Martin Short wasn't funny?
Phil Hartman wasn't funny? The sketch in which Reagan orchestrated every last detail of Iran-Contra, even speaking fluent Arabic and Swedish, was the best political sketch of all time, and probably accurate. Second best was the sketch of Ross Perot dropping his VP candidate (whose name escapes me) off in the woods like an unwanted dog... "GRIDLOCK!!!" THIRD best was the most brutal bitch-slap of liberalism ever, "Dukakis After Dark," in which Willie Horton "dirty danced" with Donna Rice.
Julia Louise-Dreyfuss wasn't funny? I think she's probably the funniest woman alive.
Jan Hooks wasn't funny? Watch the Alamo sequence from Pee Wee's Big Adventure again - that was one of the best parodies ever filmed.
"Funny" is a subjective term, but I personally see a lot of exceptions to your statement.
"Not allowing" them to broadcast what you find offensive suggests a government prohibition of free speech, which we both know is a no-no.
So did I.
Some people, however, are totally incapable of seeing the humor in anything that doesnt fall within certain narrowly prescribed limits. Laugh at cigar jokes about x42 but if anyone pokes fun at Robinson they have a fit. If Robinson doesnt want to be the brunt of an occasional joke, he shouldnt say stupid things.
I guess that means you want them limited to airing shows like Little House on the Prairie and Touched by an Angel (and maybe not that one since it seems to suggest that Jews go to Heaven).
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