I just came from a PJ Media site that is not sympathetic. And commenters there even less so.
But they were never fans to begin with.
I have a confession. I like her. I like her whole sick bit. She does have her supporters. Say what you like in comments, what you think, what you feel. I sense she'll pull out of this just fine. She takes as good as she dishes.
And I respect that.
A few of the commenters called her carrot top. They don't like her looks. They say that she's ugly. They showed a photo of her sagging butt. While other commenters say the real Carrot Top was actually funny and he made his own props.
I forgot how amusing he was at his start.
Fine. Let's go back to the past and look at Carrot Top back then instead.
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I saw a pic of her in nothing but a bikini bottom.
Flat, plain, Lefty, and scrawny and, as Chip notes, her sagging butt
That's why Alfranken can't give up his Senate seat. His comedy routine is all over.
I think comedy can be a lot like porn; it's not whether I enjoy watching it or not, it is when and where I'm watching it. Kathy Griffin had some fun bits that I enjoyed watching at certain times and locations.
But I never thought Kathy Griffin's behavior on CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast was appropriate. Then and there, she was neither funny or entertaining. I can go lots of places, especially on New Year's Eve, and find a woman, even an incredible attractive woman, making a drunk ass of herself. I didn't need to see that on TV from the comfort of my own home.
Yet Kathy sees us as hypocrites for this reason. We're ok with her jokes in some places and not others. She doesn't get it. She thinks she is funny everywhere. Well, another thing that is appropriate at a certain time and place is pulling down your pants, exposing your butt, and taking a dump. It's fine to do it in a restroom over a toilet, but people get offended when you just do it anywhere you please.
As for pay, when you bill yourself as a D-lister, you get paid as one.
Carrot top = funny.
My $.02 is that her main attraction was spilling insider info on people more famous than she is, telling stories out of school about entitled showbiz nitwits antics. She was kind of a disruptor of the Hollywood status quo, which was entertaining. When she went full SJW she became part of the status quo and ceased to be entertaining.
She was never funny.
Remember that seinfeld episode the was in? That was really her. Total nightmare.
I somehow never got hooked on Seinfeld. No good reason, just wasn't ever in front of the tv when it was on. She's not famous for her looks so I can't fault her there. She's supposed to be entertaining for other reasons. That being said, she's not hideous. She's better than many her age.
You missed Seinfeld? wow. I never watched the show until after a few seasons went by, but then I was hooked.
I think she's annoying first, funny last. Odd looking - but nice hair.
I found myself surprised enough by the disparity between Carrot Top's face and his adolescent dress and stage hijinks to search for his age and find he's fifty two, while I was holding him in mind as someone who hadn't quite grown up yet but was approaching thirty.
I also learned he currently performs 300 shows a year at the Luxor in Las Vegas, which I regard as a feat of sorts, a job that wears down my spirit just thinking about it. Maybe the returned laughter provides the balance he needs to survive. That, and the creative outlet of making his own props.
“Nobody can steal my act,” says Carrot Top. “I’ve challenged comics to write me a prop and they can’t. All comedians can use plays on words or puns but writing a visual joke is something else. A rubber chicken isn’t enough. I have to write my own material and make my own props because no one sells what I do better than me. I’m happy not only that I have my own style but that I’ve been an original from the very start.”
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