Posted on 06/02/2016 7:05:08 PM PDT by Morgana
Even jokes have their limits.
During his show May 26, Conan O’Brien invited actress and recent Judiaism convert Natasha Leggero onto his show. Leggero praised her new religion for treating abortion as “cool” enough to have on “every Jewish holiday.” After all, she reasoned, it’s good to have a back-up to fall on, just like AAA for cars.
Besides performing as a stand-up comedian, the 42-year-old created and stars in Comedy Central’s Another Period and has acted in films including Let’s Be Cops, Neighbors and He’s Just Not That Into You.
After discussing her recent marriage, Leggero informed Conan that she had recently converted to Judaism by taking 19 four-hour courses.
Raised Catholic, Leggero slammed her former Catholic school run by “mean” nuns.
“[M]aybe they hate women, because nuns were so mean to me,” she said before slyly inserting, “and of course, the priests are like so nice to the boys.”
She found Judaism, on the other hand, a “beautiful religion.”
“You get to have a weekly Shabbat,” she gushed, “which is just like a party every Friday.”
In the middle of her appearance, Leggero revealed just why she was such a fan of Judaism: abortion.
“You’re part of this beautiful religion seeped in culture,” she gushed about her new religion, before adding, “Abortions are cool.”
As the audience laughed, Conan disagreed.
“I don’t think they go around saying ‘abortions are cool,’” he said. “Not like the Fonz” (a famously “cool” character from Happy Days).
His sidekick, Andy Richter, prompted even more laughter by commenting, “That’s on the PSA, ‘Judaism: Abortion is cool.’”
Trying to regain control of the abortion conversation, Conan again started to say no one called abortion “cool,” when Leggero interrupted, “No, they do!”
“I mean, you could get an abortion on every Jewish holiday and it would be okay,” she hyped.
But when Leggero likened abortion to a contract with a towing company, the audience changed its tune towards her.
“I’m not saying I am going to get an abortion but, you know, it’s just nice to – it’s like AAA. Like, you’re not going to use all those tows, but – no, it’s just nice to know –” she stumbled as some in the audience booed. Video below.
The cheers and applause returned when Conan said, “I just was given a signal; the Jews don’t want you anymore.”
“Don’t clap that,” she retorted. “My rabbi would be very upset by that. No, I love Judaism.”
She switched back to her bashing of Catholicism, the religion where “they believe that even if you are raped, you should not get an abortion.”
“Right?” she checked. “This is my comedy act.”
Changing topics (somewhat), Leggero told Conan that she confessed to a priest in Rome that she was converting. He was “cool” about it, she said, and asked her to still attend to church once a year.
Conan concluded, “I don’t know what religion you’re going to be in a year, but it will not be either Jewish or Catholic.”
Leggero has long made abortion a topic of her career. In 2013, she asked in a Facebook post, “What are the most popular abortion names?” while in 2014 she tweeted that she would “no longer perform in states where abortion isn’t legal.”
During Comedy Central’s 2015 Roast of Justin Bieber Leggero laughed about Bieber’s (non-existent) close call with abortion as he sat next to her.
“Justin was born to a teenage single mom. No wonder he’s got moves. He was in the womb dodging a coat hanger,” she said.
*****VIDEO ON LINK******
God will not be mocked.
Not true. Chassidic authority says no to abortions.
Yes, it is, encouraged by their "chief priest: SATAN."
Technically speaking one RAISES animals and food and REARS children. So, perhaps she was RAISED and knows no better. Possible. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
Poor soul. She needs prayers.
Judaism does not not not consider abortion “cool”. Not at all. Jews are taught to “choose life” - And traditional Judaism majority view is against abortion except in those rare cases to save mother’s life ( because if a choice has to be made between two lives , there are other people already relying on the mother). Some Jewish opinion permits few additional exceptions (in some rabbinic opinion _ extreme debilitating birth defects maybe, also there’s some authority drawing the line at the quickening of about day 40 but that reflects mostly the lack of medical knowledge 3000 years ago imho) —but in general Judaism is pro- life and against abortion. the Church is a bit more consistently pro- life ( or if you please, a bit less nuanced) but it did inherit its pro- life position , as it inherited so very much, from its Jewish origin. For this lady to claim that Judaism teaches that abortion is “cool” is like Obama preaching that the Golden Rule teaches that letting dirty old men into the little girls’ room is cool. Neither this woman nor Obama are in harmony with Biblical teaching. This woman may just be ignorant -
” Great Thing About Judaism is “Abortions are Cool”
So... this is what, the ‘final solution’ self-inflicted?
So, according to you, priests should be allowed go rape little boys. You don’t want to limit human freedom, right? People should be allowed to make mistakes, right?
Soumds as though Conan and the audience displayed a little bit of human decency. Pig is just the word for this slut.
Cultural Jews loves to wear their “Judaism” as an in-your-face way of saying “I’m not a Christian”...It’s a way of saying they really are an atheist, without saying it.
I’ve been to Synagogues more times than these people have.
Or you could give a reasonable question to answer.
Judaism is largely a libertarian society and sanctifies life and teaches people to treat life as sanctified. Unlike Roman Catholics, they don’t kill people for disagreeing with them on religious matters.
There’s no comedy in hell.
A Jewish friend of mine is a big pro abortion fanatic. She has traveled to rally’s here and the U.K. I don’t get it.
Don’t kid yourself, she’s an atheist.
This is a sick demented woman. However in the post Christian neo pagan era of epicurean decadence, she does not walk alone, nor is she shunned. O’Brien had no problem keeping her on his show and shaking her hand at the end of her rant.
She is married and has no children, of course. She spends winters in Israel.
Many Jews are JINO’s.
Were her and Sarah Silverman separated at birth?
Translation, being a slut is cool. At least in her view.
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