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BS: Where are we Comedically ?

10 Sep 18 - 03:39 PM (#3949507)
Subject: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Donuel

arguments on joke threads, hecklers of comedians and boycotts of comedians at Universities, Don Rickles is evil ? Mel Brooks censored, What's happening?

Meanwhile TV comedies animated or not are ubiquitous.

Sasha Baron Cohen has shown us how primitive enemies of the enlightened truly are. It ain't pretty but it is funny.


10 Sep 18 - 06:35 PM (#3949540)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Stanron

When I saw your 'Where are we Cosmically' thread I immediately thought that if we removed the 's' we could have a laugh at some of the more serious threads on the BS section. You've gone and done it for me.

Cheers.


11 Sep 18 - 03:08 AM (#3949586)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: BobL

Are normal and alternative therapies co-medical?


11 Sep 18 - 05:40 AM (#3949608)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Jim Carroll

"Where are we Comedically ?"
In a rather funny position
Jim Carroll


11 Sep 18 - 05:40 AM (#3949609)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Jim Carroll

"Where are we Comedically ?"
In a rather funny position
Jim Carroll


11 Sep 18 - 05:52 AM (#3949614)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Donuel

Who needs comedy when you have enemas like Trump


11 Sep 18 - 05:06 PM (#3949747)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Bill D

The CNN series on "The History of Comedy" has some interesting explanations of where we are and how we got there. I'm still working my way thru my recordings. I am fascinated by the sadness and trauma behind the lives of many comedians.

One of my complaints now is the claim that comedy is always 'pushing the boundaries'... and yet the boundaries of taste seem to be near tolerable limits.

   I miss Ernie Kovacs....


11 Sep 18 - 05:14 PM (#3949750)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Donuel

Even Steve Allen as a airline pilot who says to the co pilot 'Watch this' and grabs the microphone and shouts "Ladies and gentleman-BRACE YOURSELF THERE IS NO REASON TO BE ALARMED !!!"


11 Sep 18 - 06:45 PM (#3949769)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Steve Shaw

Just watch all the Pink Panther films, then all the Naked Gun films, then Airplane! then Blazing Saddles then all twelve Fawlty Towers episodes. Then any Billy Connolly Youtube. That'll get you to stop bloody analysing and get you to start belly-laughing. Now that's what I call comedy!


11 Sep 18 - 06:53 PM (#3949771)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Senoufou

Youtube - Mrs Brown waxing
       - Mrs Brown calls Rory back
       - Billy Connolly incontinence trousers
       - Fat Les 'Vindaloo'
       - Spamalot ('I am not yet dead')

No need to analyse these. Just watch, giggle and feel marvellous afterwards.


11 Sep 18 - 07:12 PM (#3949773)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Steve Shaw

Correct!


11 Sep 18 - 08:54 PM (#3949791)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Bill D

Blazing Saddles was one of the funniest, most creative films I have ever seen.
The amazing thing about Airplane was that it was a direct, almost line-by-line parody of a 'serious' black & white movie from about 1940.
   They simply tweaked the details a bit and it was hilarious.


11 Sep 18 - 09:18 PM (#3949793)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Steve Shaw

You bet yo' ASS, Bill!


12 Sep 18 - 05:29 PM (#3950026)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Donuel

I'm still seeing new things in Airplane, Of course TVs got better


13 Sep 18 - 03:44 AM (#3950072)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: frogprince

Howz about Cat Ballou,Young Frankenstein, and M.P. and the Holy Grail ?


13 Sep 18 - 02:43 PM (#3950220)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: keberoxu

That depends on which generation of comics you ask the question of.

Tim Allen, whose network-television show credits now cross rival-network boundaries (ABC let him go),
spoke up publicly in defense of Roseanne [Barr/Arnold],
wanting to know whose idea it was
to say what is permissible and what isn't --
Allen allows that Roseanne's network "did what they had to do,"
and also warns that it's a danger sign
when comics get censored.


13 Sep 18 - 03:14 PM (#3950229)
Subject: RE: BS: Where are we Comedically ?
From: Donuel

Good comedy is truth sensitive and people today are being influenced by crazytown on both sides and are in chaos as to how to react to TRUTH.
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