Give me a break already....

[jonks]

IMO, humor has no bounds as long as the joke is funny. The holocaust, rape, dead babies, whatever. It's all good, just know your audience. I appreciate that some people don't have as broad a view of humor, and that's fine, they can watch CSPAN or something.

Tragedy + Time = Comedy

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Anyone remember SNL making fun of Pres. Ford when he tripped and fell down??
That became a running gag about him for a long time. They ignored the fact that Ford had been a star athlete and his tripping was NOT a sign of him being accident prone.

BTW was any of it funny? I don't imagine many people would laugh at jokes making fun of a blind person.

Didn't you find a guy getting kidnapped funny earlier today? Lets see..I guess funny is in the eye of the beholder...

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: jyates
The same people would probably find a lot of humor with a person who was born with a speech defect

oh man, you can't tell me you don't laugh when you hear Barney Frank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d80y1TNAopo[/L]

 

[L00PY]

Dave Paterson -- funny guy.
SNL skit -- for the most part, not funny.
Fred Armisen impression -- physically, quite good.


If anything, I suspect Paterson was offended as much by the fact that they portrayed him as an unfunny guy. His wit and self-deprecating humor are great.

Making him out to be bumbling and incompetent is something no politician would want. Using bad stereotypes of blind people just makes it worse. How funny would a skit of Obama be if the only humor they used was bad stereotypes of black people to make him incompetent because all black people are incompetent? Or a Palin skit that only made fun of the fact that she's a woman, using bad stereotypes showing that all women are incompetent?

One judge of competence is approval ratings. For comparison, Spitzer in Jan 07 started out with around a 60% approval rating and in Feb 08 (before his scandal), it had nose-dived to around 35%. When Paterson stepped in, his approval ratings started out around 35% with just as many not knowing him well enough to form an opinion one way or another. It's been steadily improving and is around 60% now (with around 10% still not knowing him well enough to have an opinion).

 

[brandonbull]

I thought he still had sight. Didn't people make fun of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Helen Keller?

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Anyone remember SNL making fun of Pres. Ford when he tripped and fell down??
That became a running gag about him for a long time. They ignored the fact that Ford had been a star athlete and his tripping was NOT a sign of him being accident prone.

BTW was any of it funny? I don't imagine many people would laugh at jokes making fun of a blind person.

A blind man?

How can you not laugh at a story like this??

Some people post on the internet how humorous they find things such as kidnappings.