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******
Translation, being a slut is cool. At least in her view.
That was "Marya," played by the talented Nita Talbot.
But I don't care if she looks like the "Officer Mathews" character in Highway Patrol!
Regards,
The sound of a female voice more and more resembles a rattlesnake’s rattle these days.
There are real Christians ( of varying denominations) and then there are the “cultural christians” who are mostly really atheists but like to say they’re still “Christian”. Same problem with non-believing Catholics, Protestants, Jews
Another examples of a truth: Liberalism is a mental disorder, whether the liberals call themselves Jewish or Christians or Buddhists, or atheists, etc, Liberal values are not religious values, no matter how many times groups like the Jewish Reform Movement or the Jewish Conservative Judaism or Jewish Reconstructionist Movements claim they are.
Poor Catholic Natasha, flaunting her sexual life in front of the world, has been given a bum steer. She has yet to find another religion; she’s found a group of “progressives” who are telling her a bunch of lies with which they themselves have been hoodwinked into believing are Jewish. If what she was looking for was a group that loved abortion, she would have been much better off with Friday nights with the board of Planned Parenthood.
I know at least a couple of traumatized Catholics myself. Sad to see how long-term the damage can be for some.
Good thing Natasha’s mother didn’t feel the same way.
Thanks for making clear that you are an anti-Catholic bigot. Saves time.
I’m not an anti-Catholic, but to claim that respect for liberty and life, unless it has a million points of don’ts and exceptions, is the same as support for pedophilia and rape is worse than anything i said.
Cute, but not that cute.
You argued that the law should permit people to murder other people, on the ground that the law should not limit people’s freedom. I simply applied your principle to rape rather than murder.
You revealed your anti-Catholic bigotry when you said that Catholics kill people with whom they disagree.
Strange ideas. Are they your own? Or do you have scriptural backup for them? Both Old and New Testament?
I’ve been watching Hogan’s Heroes lately. Old shows. Many
of the actors who played Nazis were actually Jews in real
life. The little Frenchman is now in his 90’s & he lost
several family members to the Nazi camps in WWII. Hogan was
murdered in his hotel room while working in a play shortly
after HH went off the air. Col. Klink’s family were Jews.
Prayers for a deeply disordered and misguided soul.
No, it isn’t true. An Orthodox rabbi, if helping a woman or a couple stressed about an unwanted pregnancy, will counsel them to choose life. Choosing life is the most important thing in Judaism. Even if someone has a terminal disease and is in pain we are ALWAYS to pray for a healing. Which I just couldn’t do any longer at the end for my dad. So I just prayed he would be comfortable and that Gd would always be there for him.
Judaism doesn’t worry about abortion being legal but it is against killing the unborn. Reform Judaism is liberalism with some Jewish flavor, I’m sure they are ok with abortion.
Exactly.
Let me guess: this creature’s “rabbi” has nothing between her legs.
She is a self-absorbed, immoral idiot...and that is being overly generous. Oh, and she is wrong - Judaism views life as holy, but permits abortions in those rare circumstances where there is no alternative. It isn’t permitted to fix forgetting about your birth control so that your life can continue to be convenient.
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