Comedy before cancel culture
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Comic legend Norm Macdonald being tasteless and unpleasant for 6 minutes. Notice David Spade kept his distance. And class.OJ's a good guy
Reminds me of one of those get togethers with Jim Norton and friends. "that's what I admire about you. Most comedians are going for the laugh. But not you. "
Spade is an antiseptic pop culture blandwich like Huey Lewis et al. Spade has only half a testicle.
You have the luxury of perspective... to know what comedy was and could be because you lived through it. But there's an entire generation or two of people on the planet that have only ever known the burden of political correctness. Like a man born into slavery has no experience of freedom.
Like Don Rickles, Andrew Dice Clay also knew how to temper his nastiness. For an avowed mysoginist, he set the table for Cate Blanchett to win her second Oscar in Blue Jasmine. If the Academy had any gumption he would have been nominated as well. Then when Howard Stern wasn't a boring piece of crap, he had Clay in the studio. Richard Simmons called in and Diceman said he loved him - from the tone of his voice, he was sincere.
Of course the extremely unfunny Benji had to shtick on what he said.
I can't stand Huey Lewis and the news, perfectly spoofed in American Psycho.
Jim and Sam had Ron Bennington in the studio, it was hysterical. Talk turned to Trading Places where Jamie Lee Curtis shows off her magnificent McGuffies (or is it MacGuffies). She doesn't get enough credit for her comic timing. While Michele Yeoh got most of the screen time in Everything, Everywhere all at Once, JLC had to play three different characters. She killed, Yaoh will get most of the silverware this awards season but Curtis's work should be feted.
Love bomb anyone? lol
Love bomb anyone? lol
Don't know about that but he thrived before cancel culture.....I never heard his audience reacted other than laugh when he says something offensive in today's PC climate.. his jokes were sometimes predictable but his delivery was good...."little boy blew...he needed the money"
Andrew Dice Clay's reputation stymied his acting career. The Hollywood elite didn't care much for his nursery rhymes "hickory, dickory, dock", he lost out on some plum roles. Over time he could have developed into a very good actor...certainly better than Marky Mark who has two of the worst films of 2022.
Blue Jasmine is a chick flick, with Diceman starring alongside Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)...they are not B-list actresses.
Blue Jasmine is a chick flick, with Diceman starring alongside Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)...they are not B-list actresses.
No offense, but that isn't much of a stretch. Still pretty much the Dice man.
I think it was Kramer that killed stand-up. After his meltdown onstage, stand-up was never the same.
With that said, lets get Paul Mooney's response.
With that said, lets get Paul Mooney's response.
Yes there was enough of the Diceman to make the role convincing, you don't get to work with actors of the caliber of Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins if you're a hack.
SJWs found this opening monologue on SNL abhorrent.
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SJWs are offended by laughter, because when they see people laughing, they naturally assume that those people are laughing at them. It's a tough job, being the center of the universe.
There are funny jokes about pedophilia, like "Billy, would you like to speak to grandma on the little pink phone?
The perfect comeback to a radical Feminist in her mid-30's: For womb, the bell tolls, or I don't kowtow to cameltoe.
