Here's one absolutely hilarious sketch on the Carol Burnett Show. Comedy has become so coarse and vulgar these days but this skit is proof that it's possible to make people laugh without resorting to that!
Funny! I found things far more hilarious growing up. The performers just had my gut hurting and tears in my eyes. The comedy would stick with me for hours or days and just thinking about it would make me laugh again. I do like some modern shows, some a lot, but it doesn't resonate quite like it used too.
The current lowest common denominator show in US (IMO) is "Two Broke Girls" - non-stop vulgar humor, a horrendous laughtrack and just plain not funny-unless you're an 8th grade boy.
Octoberman, I too loved all of those Red Skelton characters that you mentioned. I'd add to your list his Gertrude and Heathcliff skits.
I owe you an apology, Joan. My comment was in reference to a series of very tactless and inappropriate comments Regie made in the Joan Rivers RIP thread and, in error, I used the "smilie" instead of the "winkie". Therefore the ironic aspect of my remark was misinterpreted. So, I'm sorry to you for that.
Octoberman, I too loved all of those Red Skelton characters that you mentioned. I'd add to your list his Gertrude and Heathcliff skits.
I owe you an apology, Joan. My comment was in reference to a series of very tactless and inappropriate comments Regie made in the Joan Rivers RIP thread and, in error, I used the "smilie" instead of the "winkie". Therefore the ironic aspect of my remark was misinterpreted. So, I'm sorry to you for that.
As Joan Rivers has been dead for some time now I presume it's safe to say she had a trench mouth. And she wasn't funny, just coarse and vulgar. She was just playing to an audience which completely lacked sophistication, and she knew it.
As Joan Rivers has been dead for some time now I presume it's safe to say she had a trench mouth. And she wasn't funny, just coarse and vulgar. She was just playing to an audience which completely lacked sophistication, and she knew it.
It's too bad that you didn't display such a sensitive insight on that thread when you had the opportunity. I don't think you would know anything about the sophistication level of any audience from that era. Your verbiage style would indicate that you were born long after that. In fact, it's safer to say that the way you Pearl-Harbored that RIP thread demonstrates your level of sophistication pretty efficiently.
As Joan Rivers has been dead for some time now I presume it's safe to say she had a trench mouth. And she wasn't funny, just coarse and vulgar. She was just playing to an audience which completely lacked sophistication, and she knew it.
It's too bad that you didn't display such a sensitive insight on that thread when you had the opportunity. I don't think you would know anything about the sophistication level of any audience from that era. Your verbiage style would indicate that you were born long after that. In fact, it's safer to say that the way you Pearl-Harbored that RIP thread demonstrates your level of sophistication pretty efficiently.
I see I hit a nerve!! Well, as they say, "the best defense is offense".
Here's one absolutely hilarious sketch on the Carol Burnett Show. Comedy has become so coarse and vulgar these days but this skit is proof that it's possible to make people laugh without resorting to that!
As Joan Rivers has been dead for some time now I presume it's safe to say she had a trench mouth. And she wasn't funny, just coarse and vulgar. She was just playing to an audience which completely lacked sophistication, and she knew it.
It's too bad that you didn't display such a sensitive insight on that thread when you had the opportunity. I don't think you would know anything about the sophistication level of any audience from that era. Your verbiage style would indicate that you were born long after that. In fact, it's safer to say that the way you Pearl-Harbored that RIP thread demonstrates your level of sophistication pretty efficiently.
Joan Rivers didn't have a trench mouth, she had a mouth that looked like the front end of a Buick Roadmaster!
