Robin Williams on HBO

[Chuck52]

Wingnut,

That's also a big part of my problem with whatever used to be called "rap" music. My wife especially gets offended by too much Fing this and Fing that. I didn't catch the performance, and I really do like Robin Williams, so I'd probably been more or less OK with it, but she would have left the room. Another trend I think I see in the humor younger folks seem to like now is the prevalence of various excretions as objects of humor. PC should mean Polite Company.

Chuck

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

While not in movies like Williams, I enjoy the humor of Galliger (sp) and Foxworthy. They can pull off a comic routine without f-ing all over the place. Like Foxworthy's line: When the box of diapers says "for up to 8lbs." etc......

Funny stuff...... Tom

 

[Wingnut]

Which Gallagher? (I recently watched a biography episode detailing the war between Gallagher and his brother. Weird .... vbut I agree wholeheartedly ... Gallagher and Foxworthy and some others prove it's easy to do comedy without profanity. Unfortunately, as Chuck pointed out, it seems that the younger generations much prefer profanity and toilet humour (witness the success of South Park) to "thinking" comedy.
Or else they've (comedians) polarized so much politically that they don't know what funny is anymore. I used to enjoy Dennis Miller, Whoopie Goldberg and others .... but they've turned me off with their rabid liberalism .... going from "humour" to "attack". A joke is one thing, foaming at the mouth is another. Makes it much easier to decide if television is worth watching though (usually "not")

 

[fishman]

Robin Williams has got to be one of the top five funniest people on the planet. That HBO routine was to die for./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

As far as MF this and F that, they're just words. Heck, if it bothers me I just turn on my mental auto-censor. Again, they're just words made up of sounds (or letters) like "puppy", "lucky", well you get the picture.

Most comedians offend most of the people that watch them. Another good example is Jim Carrey. Some might remember the talking b--- cheeks in "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective". Personally, I find the man to be a riot, but many don't. Rent "Me, Myself, and Irene" if you want a good laugh. <font color=blue> Warning, much, much profanity.</font color=blue>

Well, that's what I think.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

It can be distracting. The one and only comedian I've ever seen use it and get away with it in my mind was Richard Pryor. I can't explain it, but, somehow, with him, it seemed natural. Maybe it's just me.

 

[k8ny]

Robin Williams is funny but his left wing, politically correct stance is the reason I won't listen to him or 99% of the other Hollywood crowd out there. When they unfairly inject their politics into the act they are out of bounds.

 

[dmccarty]

Gary,

I was thinking about Pryor when I read this thread yesterday.
He can use every cuss word in the English language but it is
not offensive to me at all. I think its because of how and why
he uses the words. The Eddie Murphys of the world use
the cuss words to shock. Pryor was trying to make people
laugh. I remember watching some of Murphys shows back in
the 80s when he was trying to be like Richard. Eddie tain't
even close.

These guys think if you just throw in some cuss words
its funny. I think it was Bill Cosby's "Himself" where he
manages to use one cuss word in the entire routine but
somehow was able to create a really funny show.

One of our local columists wrote about a comedy show
that had just come into town. There where a few different
comedians in the show but he was complaining about the
bad language, the unfunny the routines, and nine dollar beers.
/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Not sure which is worse! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

But Richard Pryor could still cuss and be funny. Maybe the
new generation needs to review Richard's shows.....

Later,
Dan