[a fool in paradise]

>>Mesnard dismisses the nuances of Briggs’ writing and frames his comedic rhetoric as “the singular need to punch down, whether it’s at women filmmakers,

It’s been a few decades since I read his review but I though he praised the woman who made Near Dark.

[Mr. Blond]

These fags think every interest is a community, and they are the gatekeepers of every community.

[Zhang Fei]

A blast from the past, involving Briggs’s rendering of We are the World from 1985:

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http://www.angelfire.com/mn/nn/LastDragon.html
[There comes a time
When we need a piece of meat
When the world
Must scrape together some grub
There are Negroes dying
And it’s time to make em eat

(Take it girls:)
We can’t go on
Pretending day by day
That someone else
Will build the cafeterias. . .
We all need chow to stuff our faces wtih
And the truth, you know, goat-meat
is all we need.

(Everbody now, make it wail, sing out:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a goat-head bakin
We’re callin it their food,
If the Meskins can eat it,
They can eat it, too.

(Okay, bring it down, Stevie and Willie only:)
Send ‘em a heart so they’ll know that someone cares
And a lung, and an elbow, and three big toes.
As the Big Guy told us, we should always clean our plate,
Cause them all the Africans’ stomachs won’t look gross.

(Back up singers, chorus, Lionel Richie, groupies, everbody:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a burger bakin
We’re callin it Big Mac
But all it really has inside
Is a roach’s back.

(Down again, Diana, Michael and all sissies:)
When you’re down and out,
And there seems no slop at all,
Cause they took it for the tourists at the Hilton Hotel,
Let us realize that they need it just the same
Cause they don’t know how to eat a beetle shell.

(Big finish, drive it home, Hallelujah!:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a Moon Pie waitin
And a Dr. Pepper, too
And we’ll send out for Shakey’s pizza,
Me and you. ]

[Zhang Fei]

Briggs on his experience at the cable networks:

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https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/06/13/an-oral-history-and-interview-with-joe-bob-briggs/
[I was blessed at both networks because I had very little oversight. Weekend late nights were not a big priority at The Movie Channel or at TNT, so I had no time restrictions and very little censorship. The only time I can remember a reshoot is one of our Christmas shows at The Movie Channel. The idea was that I would bring together all the major religions for a season of peace on Earth—so we had a Baptist preacher, a Catholic priest, a rabbi, and a Unitarian feminist gathered together in a dive bar—and we were supposedly breaking bread together and discussing what we had in common. Then at some point the Baptist preacher says to the rabbi, “We forgive the Jews for killing Jesus,” and he says it very sweetly, and it actually got a big laugh from the crew—and then the four clerics start arguing and it turns into a brawling fistfight. So that was the joke, but the network objected to the one line—“We forgive the Jews for killing Jesus”—and so we had to reshoot a milder version. I would occasionally get called on the carpet for being politically incorrect, but it was a politically incorrect character so that didn’t really make sense, and I would sometimes get flagged for words that were on the Turner Networks forbidden list. If this happened, I would make up a nonsense word to replace it—and then, in some cases, the nonsense word would turn up on the forbidden list! I used to smoke cigars on the Movie Channel show, but all tobacco was forbidden at TNT. But the greatest freedom at both places—I don’t think this exists anywhere on television today—is that I could finish whenever I wanted to, without any set time limit. At TNT we usually had a double feature, and as long as we were done by 6 a.m., they were fine with it. We could finish at 3, 4, 5, or 3:57, they didn’t care. This benign indifference meant the rants could go on forever, the breaks could be as long as we decided they should be, etc. etc. etc. So I was very happy at both places because of a) creative control, and b) minimal oversight.]

[MarvinStinson]

[fella]

The LGBLTs are obviously of superior stock because not one of them has gotten the ChiCom Flu.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Today on another board (non-political) I pointed out that someone's statement was bigoted and wondered if they did it for irony or if they simply lacked the self knowledge to see what they were doing.

I was then subjected to a rant by one of the boards senior members about how dare I say such a thing about someone who was so persecuted and that if it was bigoted then they deserved it.

Liberals are hypocrites of the highest order.

[JennysCool]

Joe Bob’s closing message from his show last Friday night. I think everyone needs to see it, whatever your dream or ambition. He directs it at filmmakers, but it has a lot to say to all of us. I showed it to my daughter over the weekend, and it left her inspired and teary-eyed. Brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trxu_VUIqxc

[The Duke]

I just want to know if the ‘B’ is for “bi” or for “beastiality”??

[Altura Ct.]

Oh noes! Not homophobia and racism!?

Quick, run around in circles!

[Lurker]

Homosexuality used to be the love that dared not speak its name.

Now it’s the love that won’t shut the **** up.

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