But. That's a lot of layers of irony/ self-awareness that aren't evident elsewhere in that sketch; more than one layer anyway, which is as deep as the other jokes go at best. Specifically that RL line about the U.S.'s international reputation being a shambles after two years of a Democratic congress, cough cough. I almost think that the intent of the AC punchline was nothing more than "tweaking the left again with that great un-pc line about invading others people's countries,"without the understanding of what they were actually suggesting. Could be wrong, but she says "invade your countries" instead of "invade your country," so it kinda looks like the latter case.
― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Very strange with this book -- Slate and the NY Times attack it for being too conservative and go on about how it's indicative of this and that and Hannity and so forth. But the conservatives who are attacking it seem to have a better point: the guy is not a conservative thinker, he's a bleedin' Confederate thinker. Total wack job. Didn't Slate of the Times read the book? There's your lead right there.
― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
link to the RL/AC bit
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
That's right. A lot of conservative humor is based on the idea of offending liberal pc sensibilities, "throwing down the gauntlet."
"I just raped a bunch of baby seals""Har. Har. That'll really get 'em going."
All they need is like one disproving review, and it's "OMG, the liberal MSM went batshit crazy! Har har!"
That is, like, 80% of conservative humor.
― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
To be fair, this distinction has been deliberately blurred for decades, from the segregation folks to the southern strategy to the "red state" thing.
Dude does tip his hand a bit much w/ the johnny reb officer on the cover.
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
They released "Female Chauvinist Pigs" with a different cover in America, then.
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren’t necessary. Pop culture told us that career—not family—came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet are we happier than our mothers or grandmothers, who grew up before women were “liberated” by the sexual revolution? For many women, the answer is no. In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Women, Sex, and Feminism, Carrie Lukas, a young career woman and new mother, sets the record straight: correcting the lies women have been told and slamming the door on the screaming harpies of NOW, feminist professors, and the rest of the bra-burners who have done so much to wreck women’s lives.
Bet your feminist teacher never told you:
* Women’s lib has “liberated” men from having to commit, “freed” women from marriage, and often “unshackled” women from having a family. * More than ever, women in their twenties and thirties live alone, are discarded by boyfriends after “living together,” and are watching their biological clocks tick past the point of no return. * Women still prefer men who are breadwinners and can protect them physically.
TICK TICK TICK.
Silly 21st-Century feminists, burning their expensive bras & all that.
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
See what LUGs and vibrators hath wrought?
― milo (milo), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
In that case that's gotta be the most OMGWTF-cosmically-insane thing ever, that Coulter and writers didn't get that she inadvertantly threatened to invade the U.S., kill U.S. leaders, convert U.S. citizens to Christianity, and so on. Mind blown, etc..
― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Uh, wtf, Dom, that book is nothing like what Ariel Levy is arguing.
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
But rightwingers on TV have a higher calling, you see, rather just really lazy and half-assed swipes at funnier people. They should get "get another shot at entertaining our own troops via TV and demonstrating that conservatives do, after all, possess a sense of humor."
Unfortunately, his tips for improving the show don't actually include "TAKE OUT THE RETARDED LAFFTRACK".
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
She admited it in Life in October 15, 2004 -- the free Life magazine that is stuck into most Sunday newspapers.
She isn't a leftist wacko. Maybe she is now. But back then she wasn't. Guess she is more an Indepedent.posted by: on 10.17.04 at 07:22 PM [permalink]
And, uh, this...
what's up with the scar...if Tina is so gosh darn funny why doesn't she write a skit about that ax wound on her left cheek?posted by: chris on 04.25.04 at 11:20 PM [permalink]
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Tina Fey is waiting for her Barbara Walter's special to tell us about her rape scar. This will cement a reverential and protective attitude towards her to the american public, allowing her to bombard us with further mediocrity for years to come.
In her crazy biz, even a knife rape is used for marketing leverage.
Tina, why are you in a business like that? Look what you've turned into.
Pimping your own rape scar!posted by: Caterwall on 06.04.04 at 06:35 PM [permalink]
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
This mentality always reminded me of the stuff internet trolls say to convince themselves that they're funny.
― 31g (31g), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, I'm pasting this here, since it fits in with the rest of what we've been talking about:
It takes a lot more integrity, character, and courage to be a conservative than it does to be a liberal. That's because at its most basic level, liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues...
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
JEd Babbin, who hasn't actually seen anything yet:
But the best part is that Ann Coulter -- yes, our Ann, HUMAN EVENTS legislative correspondent -- is in it. Is it funny? One gent e-mailed me to say that, "Critics are already calling it 'the funniest show ever produced by the FOX News Channel, not counting Geraldo.'"
Pop the corn, pour the wine, sit back and watch. Step aside, libs. It’s our turn.
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Sunday, 18 February 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link
she is?
guys this has been obvious for YEARS
which is why some people always talk about wanting to fuck her
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
And then what does that audience get? A few laughs, a few telling jabs, a few comments that hit the mark so well that you'll want to repeat them to your friends. For instance, in the "newscast" segment that dominates the shows, there's a segment about that little rascal, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying (and I paraphrase from memory here): "And in other news, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about the recent Holocaust Denial Conference in Teheran -- and denied that it ever happened. And if it did take place, he said that the number of participants had been greatly exaggerated."
HAR HAR HAR!
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh good, because you know there ain't shit on TV Sunday night at that time.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IrzwxbL7iU&mode=related&search=
― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rick Gibralter (grady), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
But I do think there was a laugh-tracked O'Reilly clip before. Maybe even this one.
― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't understand. What do you mean? What are "comments"?
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
that joke could be on the daily show easy.
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 19 February 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Monday, 19 February 2007 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link