I do.
I just posted on that very topic last week.
Jimmy Kimmel used 'N-word' in imitation Snoop song in 1996, impersonated comic George Wallace in 2013: audio
Posted on 06/29/2020 11:01:16 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
In the last several days it has come out that "30 Rock" creator and star Tina Fey has decided that four episodes of the show "30 Rock", will be pulled from viewing because there were incidents of Blackface in them.
I find this all absurd as the very concept of comedy has been turned on it's ear by Political Correctness. The concept of Satire and Sarcasm just no longer has a place in the venue of comedy. I suppose all sorts of past entertainment will now be erased from history.
Anyone old enough to remember Dean Martin and Sammy Davis doing a routine where Dean picks up Sammy and says I want to thank the NAACP for this award?
Anyway the other night I finally decided I was burned out on the riots and everything else so I was looking on Amazon Prime to watch something funny and saw "30 Rock", and started binge watching. Say what you will the show is funny and makes me laugh. I love all the characters, especially Kenneth the Page.
Well last night on season 1 episode 16 I find that it deals with character Liz Lemon dating a black man. It was full of subtle and overt racism. I had to laugh because I wonder when Tina is going to pull this episode also. What Hypocrisy.
Liberals talk a good game but in reality are really Mendacious Hypocrites.
I do.
I just posted on that very topic last week.
Why did they make those episodes in the first place? This was just a few years ago, not ancient history.
By the way, remember that Black comedian who did a parody of Obama? He was asked to leave the stage because his shtick was "racist".
What I want to know is how can 30 Rock get away with Tracy Morgan playing a racist stereotype of an ignorant black man?
He's funny as hell, but seriously. He's a modern day version of Stepin Fetchit, Buckwheat and Mammy.
Certainly no flames from me. The show is damn funny. And besides, I would certainly hope freepers are opened minded enough to let people watch what they want without become scolds. I can dream after all....
30 Rock is one of my go to comedies, funny and quick. That being said, In one episode, Tina Frey’s character shoots a black man in the ass, I guess white on black comedic violence is ok, blackface not so much. And Jack is a great character.
Actual blackface of the Minstrel Show variety is rude. It’s a mockery. Great big red lips. Staring white eyes. It’s a caricature and I think it would simply be seen to be in bad taste. Not illegal. Not cause for violence or outrage. Just not funny.
But a white actor simply wearing makeup is not, to my mind, necessarily blackface. Lots of room to be amusing if they do it right. I’ve got no problem with a skit like that and I say screw the people who can’t take a joke.
And don’t forget the character “twofer”. Because he’s black AND went to Harvard....
I will never again watch anything that Alec Baldwin is in. Why is he still here? How many times he will move out of America if the wrong person elected to the WH? Plus, his foul mouth and giving shit to his daughter makes him a prick in my book.
You have people here that dont even understand that imitating Snookie from Jersey Shore is NOT BLACKFACE
Eventually every episode of all comedy shows will be pulled.
This is the new goal of the media powers to end streaming. All episodes will be pulled due to one group or another objecting to it.
Look up Chris Rock I hate nijjers. Funniest skit you ever heard and a completely black crowd.
Double standards.
Tina Fey and associates should never work again.
“You have people here that dont even understand that imitating Snookie from Jersey Shore is NOT BLACKFACE”
Why would you think context matters in cultural revolution hysteria?
You can’t have comedy under marxism.
It requires looking at things in a different way and then sharing the observation. Connecting things in manners not normally done, and making pithy conclusions based on the connections.
Comedy that comments on normal things, people, issues, will not be tolerated because there’s always one person who will object. Marxism can’t handle humor and comedy.
If you dont think thats true, lets go over the list of famous and long-time comedians from the soviet union and china and cuba. Here we go:
Oh silly me i forgot east german comedians:
.....
Yeah, where is the cancel culture?
ALL 30 Rock should be erased.
Absurd, yes. But go full Alinsky on them and hold them to their own standards.
Or Richard Pryor’s “Thank God We Got Penitentiaries!”
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