I've Been in Your Bathroom Often
I'm all about humor that packs a punch. Caught Borat this weekend and laughed uproariously at just about every scene. Why are people so up in arms? Of course, I looked over at my mother several times and wondered what possessed me to drag her along.
Damn near a nun, she's the last of the ladies, and doesn't quite get testicles-on-moustache hijinks. Nonetheless, she was a trooper and squeaked out at least one giggle before choking a little on her own vomit.
Recently, a *former* funny man pushed the limits of good taste by attacking a few hecklers in the crowd. One of my oldest friends dabbled in the comedic arts and used to have fun with such clowns.
Comic: Where'd you come from tonight?
Heckler: We just got back from f*cking your mother!
Comic: Oh yeah? How long did it take to dig her up?
The good old days.
Yeah. Kramer isn't so funny anymore.
However, this take on his career-killing move is worth a laugh or two. Trust me. As you can clearly tell, I know from funny.
posted by kate @ 2:58 AM
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The first minute or thereabouts was meh. Then out came the monkey talk, and it was ROFLMAO funny. Bravo.
Holy smokes, it's snowin' like crazy out here! You're missin' all the fun!
(Fun as in: The City of Denver Doesn't Actually Plow or Sand the Streets! ... Someone shoulda told me)
A pic at http://dirtyrunningthoughts.blogspot.com from my balcony!
Ha, Kramer ... remember when everyone thought Andy Kaufman was just nutty? and it turned out he had a brain tumor .. maybe that's where Kramer's at. Only thing I can think of ...
"If you're laughing, it's not art" is a phrase i have heard to justify comedies not getting academy award nominations...
Yet I've heard people describe the film (this is in an artistic sense of comedy and film making -- I don't expect most of you to grasp this) as just like "listening to Sgt. Pepper for the first time." It's not a new genre even though Rolling Stone painted it as such in an interview with Baron Sacha Cohen, but it does more than just goof around -- it makes you think if you take the time to think about what you just saw at all.
I think Borat may just push the "If you're laughing, it's not art" saying out the window if the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and the voters look at this movie for what it has captured.
"I don't expect most of you to grasp this"
I love your attempt at pomposity and, in the next breath, your complete disqualification of any credibility by comparing a classic that will stand the test of many times, with this fleeting piece of celluloid whose name will be soon be less memorable than that of most losing vice presidential candidates.
On the contrary, this isn't high brow, original comedy. It is Tom Green with an accent. Just what is it that I must "grasp"? It is a joke whose shelf life should be relegated to the length of a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Whatever the intellectual message it is I am to "grasp", I am certain I can do it from a seated position.
I don't find that parodying an entire, rather unfortunate, country and possibly making them the butt of jokes for years to come, to be all that entertaining. It was done with the Polish for years before Lech Walesa came along and showed that they were tougher than those who laughed at them for their own amusement.
What I find most interesting is that those who would look back and condemn minstrel shows, don't see their obvious comparison with this film.
Further, while there are examples in the film where individuals aren't seen in a favorable light, there are also instances where ordinary good and decent people are showing kindness to someone whom they are made to believe is something they are not and, because of that kindness, they are laughed at and are the object of ridicule. Why is that funny?
Here's hoping that, years from now, "Borat", joins its predecessors such as "Song of the South" and "Amos and Andy" on the scrap heap of what some considered "artistic" entertainment.
Comparing "Borat" to the album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", is like saying, "Fine art is my passion. I am most proud of my Franklin Mint Dale Earnhardt commemorative plate - only 60 firing days on that one."
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