"
He could be funny anywhere. We were such close friends," Billy Crystal said of
Robin Williams in a special tribute to the comedian aired midway through the
Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night (25 August)."
He made us laugh. Hard. Every time you saw him - on television, movies, nightclubs, arenas, hospitals, homeless shelters for our troops overseas. And even in a dying girl's living room for her last wish, he made us laugh. Big time.
And for the most part, the audience at home and in the Nokia Theatre crowd appeared visibly moved by the segment.
In particular, it included a short snippet of a stand-up performance during which Williams borrows a pink scarf from an audience member in the front row and wraps its round his head to simulate a Hijab, or Islamic headscarf. (read more)
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Amusing, coming on the heels of the announcement that British authorities looked the other way while Pakistani taxi drivers raped and kidnapped young white girls.
When this video was made it was still perfectly acceptable to point out the oppression of women in Islamist states. It still is albeit ONLY SO LONG AS the criticism is framed to equate the radical Islamists with their American extremist equivalents:
1. People who attend a Christian church occasionally,
2. People who think abortion is not necessarily a good thing,
3. People with more than one child,
4. People with more (current) sex partners than children,
5. People with intact marriages,
6. People who home-school
7. Catchall: People who question the progressive authoritay
Otherwise, it's racism, straight up.
It was pretty funny in Arrested Development when Michael Bluth is leaving the MotherBoy dinner dance and some desperate little kid tries to escape by latching onto his leg: "Take me with you!"
It's not quite accurate to say that Jonathan Winters is to Robin Williams as Bob Newhart is to Jason Bateman but it's close enough for the internet.
This idea of what is "racist" has gone a bit far. If a Xhosa made an ethnic joke about a Zulu, or vice versa, would that be racist?
I guess the reasoning goes: If you are criticizing someone of a different race, then you're being racist.
Not too hard to figure out, but in all candor, I did have to ponder the matter for a little bit.
The most delicate "religion" on the planet.
Next to the bogus tribal religions of racism in North America.
No, it's much simpler than that - only whites can be racist, and all whites are always racist, all the time.
So shut up and have another cracker.
I once caught some of Marsha Warfield's standup routine.
"How come you never see a Chinese driving instructor?"
Racist? Probably but who gives a rat's ass?
Not me, that's fo' shizzle my nizzle.
Not giving a rat's ass sounds kind of speciesist.
I denounce myself.
crackers eating crackers? that's racist!
I denounce you daily, Eric.
Why won't you stay denounced?
I saw Marsha Warfield in concert. She was hilarious. WTF happened to her?
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
I guess the reasoning goes: If you are criticizing someone of a different race, then you're being racist.
Yeah, I get it. Not. Since when are a Persian and whatever Robin William was, or me, or what-the-fuck-white-ever are "different races?"
Bullshit...y'all are forgetting the race teaching of the 40's and 50's (when I was in school) where there were five (5)...5 goddamnit! ..."races" and we tested for them by pouring beans into skulls.
We've turned "race" in to a frigging parlor game...you have slight pink tint to your cheek, why you must be a different race than me who has tan cheeks. I shoveled better stuff out our horses stalls daily for 40 years.
Spinner - either she hasn't worked since '99 or she is Moochie's body double.
Was the Kennewick man a Jōmon? If so, which of the 5 races do they fall into?
I am serious - not snarkin', for once - like you I went to school a long time ago and edumacation was different then.
Who was the guy over at TOP who always ragged on Nixon's lawyers for inventing "Hispanics"?
Yeah, that was fun.
How dast he?
"Bullshit...y'all are forgetting the race teaching of the 40's and 50's (when I was in school) where there were five (5)...5 goddamnit! ..."races" and we tested for them by pouring beans into skulls."
Ten years later we were down to four.
But more importantly - you had skulls in high school? Way cool.
Here's something more better --
Bitch slap.
Allen A - That is perfect.
Our media could learn from that. Now, ground zero is HelloKitty/Katie Couric/Tina Fey land.
Robin Williams - still not funny.
Thanks for posting Allen. During WWII, while Germany was producing gargoyles like Goring and Eichmann, America's Germans were producing men like Eisenhower and Vonnegut. Our Germans were better than Germany's Germans........I don't get that sense about our Muslims. They're willing to speak out against Gitmo or discriminatory airport pat downs, but they're strangely reticent when it comes to criticizing the excesses of their religious brethren.
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