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04 Sep 2011, 10:47 am

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I don't have any problem with people telling "special needs" jokes but what he said wasn't a joke, it was comparing leftist haters to special needs children. Not funny.


yeah. the joke wasn't even funny. it was more like a two way insult.



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04 Sep 2011, 11:20 am

Wait, this guy said that liberals have an I-Want-I-Need attitude, but conservatives also have that attitude as well. That's the reason nothing gets passed in congress these days! Nobody on either side wants to work together and make compromises. There are many adults who need to examine their own I-Want-I-Need attitude before making generalizations about special-needs kids.



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04 Sep 2011, 11:37 am

I didn't find it funny either. I wasn't offended nor even insulted because I don't even care. I just didn't find it funny.



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05 Sep 2011, 4:19 am

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Also because American comedians are really not funny, like most of ours except for Eddie Izzard.

Eddie Izzard is English and funny, so I'm not sure what you mean :?


I mean most of our so called great comedians are still a throwback from the BBC compere acts of the 1950s when everything was light entertainment so they weren't allowed to say anything riskier than a joke about a duck going into a bar and having the drinks put on his bill.

At least with Eddie he has this completely rambling style and you never quite knowwhere the hell he is going with it, Ronnie Corbett] has not changed his style in 50 years...and even back then it was painfully scripted and boring.

You do not need to be offensive to be funny which is what a lot of the newer comedians seem to think... ;)

Oh, okay, I just misread what you said. :oops:

I agree, Eddie Izzard is very funny - I like the fact he goes off on long rambling tangents. :D



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05 Sep 2011, 12:01 pm

Who would imagine that my thread of a joke that was not funny and down righ offensive would evolve into a rave column for one of the best and brightest comedians (and actor! if you haven't seen "The Riches" please do) today on the Planet?

excellent!