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******
I decided to reward myself for getting through the week, so I ordered Robert Clary’s book from Alibris and Victor Klemperer’s from the library. It used to be on the shelf in our church conference room, but it’s not anymore; someone must have taken it home.
Leggero is a prime example why conversion to Judaism is not encouraged. One is either born a Jew or a Gentile.
Ivanka Trump is also a convert to Judaism.
As was Ruth and the family of King Herod. The proof is in the pudding, so to speak.
The Orthodox daughter of a long time family friend fell in love with a man in seminary, ready to become a priest.
The man ditched that idea and became a rabbi instead. They’re married with lots of kids.
“Sgt. Schultz” was Jewish also.
Interesting situation!
I speculate that German actors who left Germany in the relevant time frame were probably disproportionately Jewish.
But illegal would be a good step forward. Every medical textbook on obstetrics/gynecology recognizes and teaches that when a doctor's got a pregnant woman in front of him, he's got two patients.
Should we tolerate doctors who deliberately kill patients?
How about this? First offense, they lose their license on probable cause. Second offense, jury trial. If found guilty, jail time.
On reflection, don't you wish you hadn't said such a thing? It's only provocation. If we blame each other for historic crimes committed 500, 1000, 2000 years ago, we'd all be dead with each other's entrails in our teeth.
Let's make peace.
I was in a street vigil in Manhattan once, against abortion (yes, Manhattan: it was 1988) and there with our tunefully swingin' and singin' Christian prolife rabble, bigger than life, was Rabbi Yehuda Levin. Big, holding a huge Hebrew/English sign and solid as a rock. It was so good to have him there.
Good summary.
They are atheists who are too chickens--t to admit it.
I expect that’s probably true of the subject of the article, but I also think there are people who sincerely believe that, when they die, God will listen to them sing, “I did it my way!” and respond, “That’s all I ever wanted.”
Msgr. Pope at the Archdiocese of Washington had a post this week about “stubborn impenitence.” For some people, nothing is more important that their assertion that, “I don’t have to do what anyone tells me.” Quite a few are teenagers, but not all.
Bless her little heart.
Maybe she will read the Torah one day.
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You’re too generous to ConanDecency would have been to not invite her on the show
Funny how no one focuses on the primary implication of switching from Catholicism to Judaism (or any other non Christian faith); it means you’ve rejected the divinity of Christ.
I wonder if the person who claimed I supported pedophilia has the same reflection?
Her(and others’)ignorance of the Deep Suffering of Post-Abortion Syndrome and the Media blackout/cover-up/brainwashing/ it entails,are astounding and really something to behold. When Jesus at the end of Mark 7 says that “folly”, sometimes translated as “an obtuse spirit”, defiles, He was talking about having a shallow, stupid attitude towards life.
“A stupid, sinful people.”
-writer Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)on America, 2006
Kudos to Conan for offering some resistance to her stupid comments.
That particular Talmud debate...
Anyway, Shalom Natasha Leggero and welcome back. :)
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