Posted on 09/12/2009 3:43:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
I can understand the Joan Rivers roast being ugly, Joan Rivers herself is ugly, her comedy is ugly and no plastic surgeon in the world can change that.
This isnt a condemnation of cable TV , it is a condemnation of what people call funny these days. The real comedians are dead, and in thir place we get shock comedy or vulgar comedy.
These so-called comedians are not funny at all. Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, were funny and enjoyable to watch and listen to
Life is so much better without TV. We got rid of it three years ago and no one, including the kids, has any desire to bring it back.
It’s porn masquerading as comedy.
I have all the Dean Martin Roasts...now them was some great TV! :-)
Here are 2 clips I put up on YouTube....very funny stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEtDidm0pRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrE83eKGtk
Here are a few more clips put up by others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYusPRre07k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ALHiadIsKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOhNHYcfZI
If parents are concerned about their unsupervised children watching these channels, the cable and satellite systems I’m familiar with have parental controls - they can lock out unwanted channels.
I agree that there’s a lot of garbage on TV, even the broadcast network sitcoms. I find myself watching the Military Channel, History Channels, Science and ID channels - even Disney and Nickelodeon.
I’d occasionally feel embarrassed about the last two until I found out I wasn’t the only older adult watching them. The subject came up when the bartender was channel surfing. I asked her to leave it on “Suite Life” and most of the people at the bar agreed. We were all tired of the gratuitous sex and violence found on most of the regular programs.
Yeah, they were funny
That’s about it
agreed. I cancelled my a few months ago, mostly due to economic reasons. What I have found is that I don’t miss anything except fox news. I make up for that loss on the net.
Comcast had a guy, just last night, going door to door in my neighborhood offering cable for half the price it was when I cancelled it (I was paying 57 per month for BASIC and they now offer over 120 channels plus free HBO for a year for 30 per month). I still told him no thanks. He looked despondent by the time he got to my door. I will no longer pay for programming that I had to endure commercials and the lame shows bordering on pornography when I can get programming for free and endure the commercials. I find myself not changing the commericals on my local stations anymore. They annoy me less because I am not paying for programming now, they are........
I got up early one morning and turn on the TV. As I was going from channel to channel I found a show where two women were selling sex toys for women.
Are we better off today then we were when we had standards?
All they want to do with their low offer is to lurk people to sign up. Six month later they raise the rates again. No thank you
Wow, even Freddie Prinz in there - that’s goin’ way back.
Seriously, when I was in college, working for the campus radio station, there was an unspoken rule of thumb - you always tried be creative and to entertain cleanly. If you didn’t, and had to resort to using cheap fallbacks like sex, it meant it was because you had run out of ideas, and was looked down on as a sort of failure to do the job.
So, judging by today’s proliference of porno-culture, it’s pretty obvious that the days of creative writers have passed. But why are people proud of it?
exactly. Empires are coming crashing down. This economy does have a silver lining. Customer service going up, prices coming down, uneccessary products and services are dying out, new, innovative programs coming up. It was long overdue IMHO.
Who in their right mind would even consider letting their children have access to any of those shows?
This was one the best of last season's shows. Either Brent Bozell is playing the shock game himself or his just has a bunch of sand somewhere there probably shouldn't be sand. Plus, V-Chip, it's standard on all TV sets and set-top boxes. Most of the shows are rated TV-14 or in the case of the FX shows, all TV-MA. No point in complaining, just block them if you don't want your kids watching it.
Don
t like Comedy Central block it.
Don’t like something block it.
Really its just not hard..
Thank you Bill Clinton. A huge contributer to the dumbing down of morals in this country.
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