[SeekAndFind]

Enter The Simpsons, riffing on that reality, which introduced the character of Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu Nahassapeemapetilon three years before the New York Times observed that reality more formally in 1992.

America's longest running television show came under fire last year when Hari Kondabolu, "a comedian of South Asian descent," made a documentary titled The Problem with Apu.  The documentary asserts that Apu perpetuates a negative and racist stereotype, and as such, his portrayal in the show is offensive and should be addressed.

The show addressed Kondabolu's criticism last week by dismissing it.  Lisa, the progressive voice of the show, sitting in bed with her mother, Marge, discusses how to make a book inoffensive for 2018, quipping, "Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect[.] ... What can you do?"

[gunnyg]

Many of us are now.....Srangers In A Strange World!
Re Ken Wapnick
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TRUMP.45 IF? We Can Keep Him?????
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[DUMBGRUNT]

‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it”

The Producers

‘Springtime for Hitler’ ...

[raccoonradio]

20 years ago this week—WAAF Worcester/Boston hosts Opie and Anthony, who later went national, fired for hoax saying mayor of Boston killed in car crash

This week—a couple weeks after a would-be talk host on a San Diego station posted a tweet saying “Jump...to a new morning show” with a pic of a bridge that has had many suicides, the station winds up dismissing him even before his first show, and changing format...station is flagship of S.D. Padres

I recall an article in National Lampoon, something like “Prof Kenilworth Dissects The Joke” which IIRC it wondered if it was wrong to do tasteless jokes.Included were some abour the Challenger explosion (what did Christa McAullife tell her husband before the flight? ‘You feed the dogs and I’ll feed the fish’ etc?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Blazing Saddles is legendary for so many reasons. It has become the Wyatt’s Torch of comedy. A big beautiful blaze burning high and bright in the encroaching darkness.

IIRC, Richard Pryor wrote most of the Mungo material. Including when Mungo punches the horse.

[OttawaFreeper]

[DUMBGRUNT]

“I was so careful,” he laments. “I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast... where did I go right?”

[robroys woman]

When a feminist gets in my face and I say, “Feminists are so cute when you’re mad.”, yes, I think comedy can still exist. :)

[Tallguy]

What you'd be left with is a generally unfunny piece of propaganda defending the ideas of the status quo, hardly "the little elves whispering in the king's ear, always telling the truth about human behavior."

Neatly describes the comedy styling of Mahr, Colbert & Kimmel.

[CodeToad]

Standup comedians are no longer funny. They are angry and bitter liberals that do nothing but rant about Trump and conservatives. No thanks. I stopped going to comedy clubs because of this.

[Oatka]