New Comedy Show

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:21 am

schuette wrote:we dont hate you...we just think your all a bunch of gung ho, arrogant (our country is the best and always will be) crazy people

you should see us when we get MEAN.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:25 am

That would be a re-run, Cyg

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:40 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:That would be a re-run, Cyg

Oh...D'OH

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:37 am

In the spirit of fun, here's another gem. It's called "That's My Bush." All episodes from season 1 are here to watch:
http://www.alluc.org/alluc/tv-shows.htm ... ry_uid=801

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:41 pm

schuette wrote:we dont hate you...we just think your all a bunch of gung ho, arrogant (our country is the best and always will be) crazy people

I thought that is what you all thought about the English

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:55 pm

You mean they AREN'T like that?!?!?

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:35 am

Soup4Rush wrote:
schuette wrote:we dont hate you...we just think your all a bunch of gung ho, arrogant (our country is the best and always will be) crazy people
I thought that is what you all thought about the English

nah..we hate them

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:59 am

I watched that clip again. It's funny because the jokes are actually truisms, but it somehow seems unnatural.

It has to do with the nature of comedy. Comedy at its best is the powerless speaking to the powerful. It is pointing out the absurdity of the system. It is revealing the man behind the curtain. All of these things are progressive in nature. Conservative typically is the power. It is wealth and entitlement. It is all the things humor pokes fun at.

When, someone like, say, Limbaugh tries humor from the conservative angle it typically amounts to joking about another's plight. Haha, he can't fend for himself for reasons beyond his control. It's not that funny.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:30 am

Big Blue Owl wrote: Conservative typically is the power. It is wealth and entitlement.

That seems completely backwards to me. A true conservative (don't read that as "republican", I'm talking about something along the lines of Reagan conservatives) wants to take power from the government and give it back to the people. And I see way more wealth behind the big liberals in power these days (Kerry, Hillary, Kennedy, etc.). If you point to Cheney as wealth, don't forget to remind us that he gives something like 80% of his income to charity.

Not that stirring up class envy helps anyone anyway...

And the entitlement thing... who gave us the welfare state we currently live under? Who has been trying to make everyone in this country think that they're entitled to free health care? I could go on about this one for paragraph after paragraph.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:58 am

Please, please do

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:12 pm

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:38 pm

Don't ged me started about the healthcare fantasy (that's just what is it, a fantasy).

Ask someone in Canada . . . it takes an average of 4 weeks to ged a simply MRI, and 9 weeks to ged a CAT scan. As it is now, almost anyone in the States can ged one if a couple hours.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:46 pm

Big Blue Owl wrote:Please, please do

Nah, I'd rather be happy right now than think about that.