Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 06/15/2009 2:24:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
JOHNNY CARSON is rolling over in his grave. Even the late Lenny Bruce is having a fit.
While you were watching David Letterman -- a bitter guy who never saw a woman or a Republican he could stand -- trash Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter by "joking" that she was date-raped by Alex Rodriguez and stalked by Eliot Spitzer, you may have missed the memo. Dave's in good company.
His struggling brother up the dial, Conan O'Brien, on Thursday night was having a blast slurring women and Jews -- two groups that may constitute the last permissible sick-comedy staples.
Here's Conan:
"Political experts say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse what he calls a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side but have no contact," he said. Ba-dump.
"Netanyahu said it will be exactly like being married to a Jewish woman." Ba-dump-bump.
In my house, I rolled my eyes with disgusted recognition. But my husband, who happens to be married to a Jewish woman, shouted at the television, and started to change the channel.
Conan seemed to realize he'd blown it. He fumpfered, pointing to the one convenient, identifiable Jew on his staff, the band leader Max Weinberg, and said, "That's the first joke written by Max Weinberg." Conan's drummer/band leader grinned stupidly and put his thumb in the air.
It goes without saying that if you change the races -- make a "joke" about African-American women or Latinas -- you'll be groveling at Al Sharpton's feet before the show ends.
But women, specifically white women, make up the last group that one may freely stereotype to get a cheap laugh.
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GREAT post. Thanks and bump.
I have not watched the nightly talk shows in years. I do not think I have missed one little thing. They are disgusting.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Johnny had class and style and a long run.
I hardly watched Leno (’specially after he let aRnold announce on the show) and don’t even plan on Conan. (Click)
Too many hacks these days.. cheap hacks.
Where oh where did Floyd R. Turbo go?
...and make that Floyd R. Turbo, AMERICAN.
Oh Really? And I thought it was the white men and Christians. Guess I must have missed something. Thank goodness I've got the New York Post to set me straight.
Have not watched any of these late night morons and could care less what they say or do.
They are not a part of my life or my world
Johnny could sometimes be risque, but not tasteless and sexist.
Say what?
Isn’t Conan the source of the expression Red Headed step child? Just a joke, Conan...
Turn off the TV late night. Read a book, pray, wind down with music, make love to the mate or just get some earlier sleep. All positives compared to watching the overpaid, unfunny hacksters on the screen.
Meh, as to CONAN: Jewish comedians make that joke about Jewish wives all the time. It’s baloney, but was Conan ridiculously out of line, or just unoriginal?
As to the Letterman stuff against Palin lately, I totally agree. He’s across so many lines I lost count.
FLOYD R. TURBO
Note that this is the caricature the Left thinks is representative of all conservatives.
Italian Catholics seem to be fair game as well.
Have no doubt—the plans are being laid for Dave’s departure.
There is comedy, an art form. There are great comedians, but they have become replaced by the low level mockery of comedy which is simply the act of engaging in degrading commentary that sounds funny on the surface but is crass and sick. In his heyday Steve Martin was a comedic genius. The average stand-up comic these days, and Letterman is only a glorified stand-up, is a foul mouthed degrader who couldn’t create true humor if his/her life depended on it. Anyone can deal in chops and insults. True comedy is rarer. Letterman and O’Brien don’t qualify.
Oh yeah, nobody gets away with making fun of white male heterosexual Christians.
The fictional show from Idiocracy called “Ow my Balls” would be an improvement over either Conan or Dave.
During Johnny’s era there wasn’t this overly rabid vitriol with politics like we have today. Plus JC was sooo much more talented. Leno did OK too but Letterman is such a has been and Conan is way over his tall head!
Thanks you for getting my comments on faster that I could.
Conan and Letterman?
The final demise of the late night talk show is assured with these two guttersnipes.
“But women, specifically white women, make up the last group that one may freely stereotype to get a cheap laugh.”
Ummm...I think white MEN have the ladies beat as an acceptable target of laughter or rude jokes.
NEWSFLASH: Talk show hosts read jokes written by others off teleprompters!
Ever watch the closing credits of a TV show, Oprah, Letterman, Dr Whoever, etc? Seen the names of “writers”, sometimes a dozen or more? What do you think those writers wrote, the closing credits that list their names? Duh!
Johnny could more laughs with a facial expression than the gap-toothed pervert could ever get with a line.
Who is that blonde, her name just won’t come to me?
I liked Leno. I liked him a whole lot better than Conan O’Brien.
Having said that, Leno’s monologue took a decided anti-GWB slant in the last two years.
I don’t know whether the jokes he was telling were actually coming from Leno himself or whether his writers were the ones who had it out for former Pres Bush - but it was decidedly unfunny.
It was unfunny because of the frequency and level of distaste of the jokes. Now don’t get me wrong. The occasional Bush joke could be funny when done properly.
But either Leno or his writers never quite undestood when enough was enough.
I agree Letterman is a nasty rank amateur at this, Carson did things that people would talk about the next day as clever and not perverted like this loser guy.
Those “jokes” are approved by the host, the director, producer and network brass. BTW, Letterman and O’Brian both still help write much of their own material.
Sorry Peyser, but you must have been living in a closet for the last twenty years, if you think women and Jews are the last folks who can be slandered.
Did you forget about the endangered straight white male, who is relegated to seeing his children two days in fourteen if his wife should get the whim to divorce him?
Surely you jest. The ills of the world are placed squarely on his shoulders, and who gives a damn if he created the greatest nation in world history? He's a pariah anyway.
History is being rewritten right now to make sure the Chinese and "Eastern cultures" were actually the ones responsible for inventing the greatest things ever.
It's an amazing thing to watch unfold.
The white male on this planet, is soon to be left without a nation to have self-rule in.
Wake up. Our son's lives depend on it.
Leno is a moron and so were his writers. So many pee-pee jokes, you’d think they were all two years old. Obsessed with their genitals and bodily functions.
The Bush-bashing became so hateful toward the end...I rejoiced when they bounced the Moron to a spot where he gets little play.
Good Riddance, Jay!
Let’s hope you and Letterman go to TV Oblivion Land...and soon.
Speaking of foul-mouthed stand-up comedy, I was scanning the channels and came across Joans Rivers. I hadnt seen her in years, and remembered her being “clean” so I watched a few minutes. Everything that came out of her mouth was foul, as was the disgusting subject matter of her routine at the moment. Every possible four letter word was used in one quick bit. I have never heard such a filthy mouth on a woman, possible not from a drunken man either.
I used to be a huge Letterman fan until I dumped TV in ‘97. Holy cow that guy aged!!!
I feel like Rip Van Winkle.
Well, the Chinese did invent pasta.
And the Italians took credit for it.
“And I thought it was the white men and Christians.”
Yes. But conservative women are treated extremely badly. In fact, any women who is inconvenient to a popular democrat man is fair game for the media. As Anne Coulter pointed out, we learned during the Lewinski episode that supporters of women’s rights were never really serious about all that equality under the law and workplace intimidation. My very liberal friend saw that when she did some volunteer work for NOW - they had no interest in helping women, just in furthering their own agenda. I’m glad to see NOW finally coming out to condemn what Letterman said, but the fact is that women have been used and abused by groups like this for a very long time.
I agree. I miss Johnny Carson.
Ahhh - if only those segments were available in 3-D...
There you go... ;-)
I didn't think it was anatomically possible.
And the Italians took credit for it.
The Italians skipped adding the melamine. Thank goodness.
Couldn’t agree more. I miss him too. Steve Alan was doing some funny stuff back in the 60s. I thought Sid Caesar was involved, but it seems he was only a guest. Soupy Sales was though.
my wife's words exactly.
When Limbaugh had his television show, syndicated at the same time as Letterman, he beat Letterman in the ratings. The stations kept pushing him back until he was coming on at 3 AM. Does anybody think that MSNBC wouldn't jump immediately to the top of the ratings if Limbaugh took Keith Olberman's job? Of course it would, BUT, Limbaugh wouldn't be running a libfest.
Letterman, O'Brien, Leno, Olberman and Couric are on because they spout the company line, not because of ratings.
conan...another dude that needs to look in the mirror before he leaves his house so he will know not to make a bigger jackass of himself by making fun of others. All of those people are losers. All they can joke about is sex and making fun of people. They are not comedians. They are jerks!!!
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