Penn Jillette's (intentional?)comedy

Reason, December 2004 | November 2004 | Nick Gillespie, Penn Jillette

[clyde asbury]

Penn Jillette apparently has a show entitled B*llsh*t on Showtime. This is excerpted from a Reason interview by Nick Gillespie from the December issue. [emphasis mine]

Jillette: You know, we have the solution on how to do all the [airline] security: Have a man and woman at each gate leading to the airplane strip. They're stripped from the waist down, and every passenger has to lean over and lightly kiss the genitals of the person of the same sex and then have a piece of bacon. And all hijacking just goes away.
... Just enough [contact] so that anybody that has the sexual phobias of the Abrahamic religions {Judaism, Christianity, and Islam} has to violate that deeply.
... There's no searching your luggage. No nothing. We're all set.

reason: B*llsh*t! is a show about calling b*llsh*t on people's beliefs about everything from the Bible to bottled water to yoga...

[Xenalyte]

That's oddly funny.

[Teslas Pigeon]

I am a man and not the type to dress in women's clothing, but if this law went into effect, maybe I would when I was flying.

[ibbryn]

Penn's on our side (though he's a bit ignorant about the ACLU).
Check out this story of his air flight woes.
http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html

[IStillBelieve]

What sort of potential hijacker would pass the genital-kissing test, but fail the bacon-eating test?!

[Abcdefg]

Good name for this show. Perfectly describes it.

[Gumption]

{Judaism, Christianity, and Islam}

I'm none of those things and I would elect to not get on that plane. I'll bet he really wanted to just use the bacon test but wanted to offend everyone so as not to seem intolerant of the actual target of the joke.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I don't know if he's on our side on most issues. But the BS show on PETA and the animal rights wackos was EXCELLENT!

[clyde asbury]

What sort of potential hijacker would pass the genital-kissing test, but fail the bacon-eating test?!

:) Dunno.

I haven't seen P&T in years but I used to like them well enough. I don't know exactly where they are on the political spectrum these days.

[Poser]

"What sort of potential hijacker would pass the genital-kissing test, but fail the bacon-eating test?!"

Gay Jew?

[clyde asbury]

Gay Jew?

Cartman, is that you?

[clyde asbury]

Thanks for the link. This looks like the rest of the story.

[JohnBovenmyer]

What sort of potential hijacker would pass the genital-kissing test, but fail the bacon-eating test?!

PETA

[skikvt]

Penn Jillette is a very outspoken critic of Michael Moore and may even be a Bush supporter.

[clyde asbury]

Penn Jillette is a very outspoken critic of Michael Moore

I like this about anyone, of course. Here he is in the same interview, probably thinking about Moore:

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along. I can walk up to a Christian and say, "I'm an atheist. I don't believe this. State your point." They state their point. That's what respect is. Respect can be calling someone "you stupid f*ck*ng *ssh*le."

[Malleus Dei]

Penn Jillette is a very outspoken critic of Michael Moore and may even be a Bush supporter.

Penn hates Michael Moron because Penn knows BS when he sees it.

[Electrowoman]

http://www.askmen.com/toys/interview_100/130b_penn_jillette_interview.html

Penn Jillette is not a Bush supporter.

[ibbryn]

I'd mark Penn down as a full time, hard core Libertarian.

[RichInOC]

[LOL!]

That's just wrong...

[stacytec]

hard core libertarians