More on Jesuses and Penises
David T’s post on Wednesday about the saga of Jesus’s penis brought this to mind. Evangelical Christians should not be complaining. They had been warned… through the universal language of country and western music:
In related news, the National Secular Society is concerned that this is an attempt to reintroduce the recently scrapped blasphemy law by stealth.
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| 5 September 2008, 2:09 pm |
In related news, the National Secular Society is concerned that this is an attempt to reintroduce the recently scrapped blasphemy law by stealth.
I don’t as a rule expect to agree with the NSS, or support their stance, but, on on both points, on this, I do 100%.
And (having seen the pic of that statue for the first time): it’s not so much blasphemous as absolutely hilarious (kind of puerile, too).
| 5 September 2008, 2:29 pm |
Well the ‘penis’ looks like a soggy springroll, if you ask me.
| 5 September 2008, 2:48 pm |
Its not particularily uplifting is it?
| 5 September 2008, 3:26 pm |
Of the funny arts, there’s nothing unfunnier than comedy songs. This is no exception.
Except for Benny Hill’s Ernie, of course. And The Darkness’ Christmas single. And Bing and Bob’s The Road to Morocco. And Kenneth Williams doing his My Darling Clementine bit. And Stan Freberg’s Day-O. And…
Actually, maybe I should amend it to comedy songs that attempt to convey political messages and whatnot. Go on, name one that’s genuinely funny…
| 5 September 2008, 4:21 pm |
Yeah!
| 5 September 2008, 4:31 pm |
Fuck Yeah!
| 5 September 2008, 4:45 pm |
Actually, maybe I should amend it to comedy songs that attempt to convey political messages and whatnot.
There’s a few Tom Lehrer songs that spring to mind
National Brotherhood Week
Who’s Next
Pollution
Send the Marines
or We Will All Go Together When We Go
etc etc. Here’s a couple
| 5 September 2008, 4:58 pm |
But that Eric Schwartz song is definitely not funny. Angry Americans with thick necks are never funny - they’re scary. You can’t be funny and scary. It’s not possible.
| 5 September 2008, 5:00 pm |
Jerry Sadowitz is both scary and funny.
| 5 September 2008, 5:03 pm |
Never found Peter Cook particularly funny, I’m afraid - he’s possibly the most overrated comedian of all time (usually by other comedians who never fail to tell us how much funnier he was behind the scenes/in private etc.) I never thought the equally overrated Lenny Bruce was funny either.
| 5 September 2008, 5:07 pm |
As for Tom Lehrer - definitely not funny. Charming, witty and clever, yes, but not funny.
This, however, is as funny as fuck:
| 5 September 2008, 5:46 pm |
bill,
If you like Tom Lehrer, you would probably enjoy the Capitol Steps.
“We put the ‘mock’ in democracy”. Lol!
| 5 September 2008, 5:47 pm |
“Never found Peter Cook particularly funny”
Not even his appearances on Clive Anderson?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeG9r6HxJgE
AL: …And with that background I formed the Escapini Defence.
CA: Right.
AL: Which consisted of a ten-man defensive unit -
CA: Yes.
AL: I had them stood on each other’s shoulders in the goal mouth, their back, back to the opposing team -
CA: I see.
AL: And they’d just sit there and we’d rely on rebounds
P.
| 5 September 2008, 5:53 pm |
“Jerry Sadowitz is both scary and funny.”
No. Jerry’s very funny, but quite cuddly too, really.
“Never found Peter Cook particularly funny, I’m afraid - he’s possibly the most overrated comedian of all time (usually by other comedians who never fail to tell us how much funnier he was behind the scenes/in private etc.)”
As overrated comedians go, he’s hugely underrated. Check out Sven, Cook’s Norwegian fisherman, who used to call LBC when no one was listening, or if you can find them, ‘The Rainbow Tapes’, recorded by his neighbour, ‘Rainbow’ George. They were tapes of private conversations, long after Cook’s peak, and while it’s certainly not all comedy gold, there are hints of ephemeral genius. And how can you even talk about Sadowitz without reference to Derek & Clive?
As for Lenny Bruce, much of his material is necessarily dated, but where his observations are still relevant, he is still wickedly funny. Even when he’s not attempting to be funny, there’s a poetic rhythm in his diction that means I still love listening to it, even if I don’t really get what he’s on about.
| 5 September 2008, 6:01 pm |
zionist jew scum
| 5 September 2008, 6:10 pm |
“As overrated comedians go, he’s hugely underrated. Check out Sven, Cook’s Norwegian fisherman, who used to call LBC when no one was listening, or if you can find them, ‘The Rainbow Tapes’, recorded by his neighbour, ‘Rainbow’ George.”
Seen and heard them all. Comedy accents? Please. I’m not saying that Cook wasn’t funny, just that I think he’s less funny than certain people make out.
As for Lenny Bruce being “wickedly funny” - well, as you go on to say, it’s more about his delivery than anything else.
But maybe we just have different ideas of what ‘funny’ means. For me, it’s not the same as being amusing, witty, scathing, clever etc. I’m talking about the kind of funny that has people literally weeping with laughter - the kind of funny that the likes of Richard Pryor, Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Peter Kay, Chris Rock, Billy Connolly, Spike Milligan… know/knew about. Y’know, very funny and very clever (just so we’re clear that we’re not talking about Jim Davidson here) - and far beyond inducing the mild chuckling and knowing winks that the likes of Bruce (even back then, when his material wasn’t dated) got.
I concede, however, that Derek and Clive is genuine laugh out loud stuff.
| 5 September 2008, 6:16 pm |
“Not even his appearances on Clive Anderson?”
They were okay. Hardly comic genius stuff. But it’s funny, don’t you think, that Cook was at his funniest when he was mimicking the working-class?
| 5 September 2008, 6:55 pm |
“But it’s funny, don’t you think, that Cook was at his funniest when he was mimicking the working-class?”
Are you suggesting we need a class analysis here? As it happens I think he was very funny in some of his upper-class incarnations, too, like Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (or Greeb-Streebling) or Sir James Beauchamp from the Clive Anderson special.
We possibly do have different definitions of ‘funny’, but Peter Cook and Lenny Bruce were laugh-out-loud funny, at their best.
| 5 September 2008, 7:00 pm |
“Motivation, motivation, motivation: the three M’s.”
“CA: Well quite. Has this experience changed you in anyway?
NH: Yes. An experience like that. In fact that experience [pause] made me realise just how insignificant they were.”
I haven’t watched the Clive Anderson thing in years, but those lines are ingrained in my head. I’d say they were inspired.
| 6 September 2008, 9:35 am |
There’s no plural of Jesus, you ignoramuses.
| 6 September 2008, 4:51 pm |
Artbitch by CSS
My art is called egocentric soft porno
Or maybe it’s just narcisism
My one and only subject
Goes from something like anything but
Me-ism
….
I ain’t no art-ist
I am an art-bitch
I sell my panties to the men i eat
I have no port-fo-lii-o
Cuz i only show
Where there’s free al-co-hol
….
Lick lick lick my art-tit
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Suck suck suck my art-hole
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| 7 September 2008, 10:37 am |
I think it’s rather good.
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