Posted on 01/16/2018 9:38:19 AM PST by C19fan
In the three-plus decades that I have been a professional stand-up comic, the one thing I never worried about was an existential threat to comedy itself.
Sure the humorless always have been and always will be among us, but they have usually been on the fringes of society, especially in a free speech-loving republic like the United States of America.
Right?
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How on this green earth is one offended by friends? The gay jokes or STD jokes? Millenials are pathetic, but I also blame those that taught them to be this way.
I watched very little of it myself. Friends, like so much American comedy at the time, was based on a British series, watered down suitably for American pearl clutchers. Like Shameless, Three’s Company, and Sanford and Son, the Brit version is better.
Make them watch Fawlty Towers they will melt.
ditto
Don’t forget “All in the Family” (Till Death Do Us Part) and even Top Gear (although Grand Tour is the original Brit cast in an American version).
TV shows tell us how to think.
Commentary after-the-fact is like the Political Officer who shows up to “correct” the errors that have been discovered in last year’s indoctrination.
People don’t even see how thoroughly they are manipulated. Anyone who actively consumes modern culture (TV, Movies, Magazines) is manipulated into finding certain things “cool” and certain things “unacceptable”. These things change over time, as needed.
We live in a false society and most people don’t know it.
Ditto here. I’ve never been a sit-com person.
I thought about All in the Family, but don’t remember ever seeing Til Death do us Part. Another candidate I could mention is The Office. The US version was good, but the Rick Gervais original was superb.
A viewing of Blazing Saddles would fatal for most snowflakes.
Blazing Saddles is usually butchered to pieces for a sanitized viewing in the US now. So is Slapshot. If you never saw the unexpurgated versions, you could be forgiven for wondering why these shows became popular. We treat ourselves like easily bruised fruit.
I recently watched Eddie Murphy Raw. Surprised that didn’t cause a riot on an embassy somewhere.
I watched “Friends” when it first aired and liked it, but one thing that did bug me was the occasional PC preachiness, like having a lesbian wedding presided over by Newt Gingrich’s sister, I believe, to rub our noses in what homophobes conservatives were. In other words, it was too damn PC.
Now, I have the reruns on in the background when I’m working at night, and I’ve been noticing all the jokes about the guys recoiling at suggestions that something they’re doing might be perceived as gay, which probably triggers the SJWs no end. In one generation, it’s gone from too annoyingly PC to so un-PC, it’s “offensive.” Shows you how effective the left has been in pushing its insidious agenda.
Luckily these are Millenials from England which is a very weak country full of Euroweanies. I haven’t heard of Americans being this pathetic at least when it comes to “Friends”.
I've tried to watch it, and it's pretty stupid most of the time, but there are some moments. Guess that's why I now find most sitcoms boring, not to mention dumbing down PCness.
The best moments were with Aniston’s party darts.
Oh I’ve been offended by Friends from day 1. Offended by the fact that it wasn’t funny and took over a good chunk of culture.
I get so tired of Freepers cutting the throats of Americans by insisting other countries cater to American tastes and mores better than Americans do.
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