Certainly
Posted on 03/03/2015 4:13:03 AM PST by Biggirl
Last weekend Saturday Night Live presented a skit that mocked terrorists – no, not Tea Partiers, the usual butt of Hollywood’s jokes and DHS surveillance, but ISIS itself. The bit got mixed reactions – some found it in offensively bad taste, some appreciated the dark humor. This raises a serious question about comedy: is it ever acceptable to joke about terrorism?
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Certainly
Saw it on a replay on FOX news. IMO it was their way of helping Obama message that people are overreacting about isis and terrorism in general. Just my 2 cent.
As for is it ever acceptable to joke about terrorism? Anything is fair game as long s your a liberal, a Conservative would never get away with it. SNL has sucked for a loooong time anyway.
Too bad what has happened to comedy. Pushing the discrete edge is funny? No longer is the content funny. Compare Stephen Wright’s humor content with this. This isn’t funny, unless you have a sick mind. Wake up in the morning with ISIS in your bedroom holding a knife and then test the depth of humor.
Aced the dead terrorist springs to my mind.
The skit was actually making fun of idiot girls who go off to ISIS, not ISIS
Soytantly!
Mel Brooks created Get Smart’ if I’m not mistaken, also ‘the Producers’,
Then there’s Daffy Duck, the stooges he Marx bros, ‘Hogans Heroes’, Lucy and Ethel ad lobbed a hitler joke once cracked them both up
MASH made fun of war
Onto python made fun of chopping people up ‘it’s just a flesh wound’ is funny too our high schoolers here and that joke is 40 years old
And this SNL skit is among ten years of non humorous SNL skits
I have no reason to watch it to find out if it’s funny. I know it’s a waste of time from here
Gee I wonder. What’s the difference?
Duh
Autocorrect yikes
The difference is -
I saw it, 1 thumbs up.
I thought that was Coitanly.
Got to remember folks that with humor like, reveals A LOT of TRUTH.
In that last example, the movie opens with what turns out to be a stage play, though you don't know it at first; the give-away is when Hitler is supposedly entering the Gestapo office--everyone snaps to and shouts "Heil Hitler!" Frederick Bronski, playing Hitler, replies, "Heil myself," and the director bursts into the scene, screaming about the improvised line.
Decades later, The Producers used the line as the basis for one of the scenes in the inside-the-play play "Springtime for Hitler."
Omnivores spell it "Soitanly," while vegans spell it "Soytanly." (Vegan feminists probably spell it "soytynly," but I digress.)
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