by JimmyPage 43 Replies latest jw friends
Hey Lonely, no problem
I think there comes a point, where some of us are comfortable enough to actually admit that there are cultural differences among us. It's not derogatory. We are different, end of story. Hey watch that Dave Chapelle clip, it was funny as h%ll, and having personally uhhhhh experienced what he was talking about, it was even funnier. He was pointing out a difference that exists.
I think that's subjective. Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle (whom I happen to know personally) are so funny, that I have spit out water from laughing at them.
As far as those ridiculous movies, they are awful, but there are a lot of underground comedy acts that are quite hilarious - of course, they don't get much mainstream attention or funding, which is a shame.
I prefer wit to jokes.
(b) black people unfairly get treated differently from white people
I don't get that impression at all from Rock or Chappelle.
I'm not sure what the demographics are in Dublin, but I think their comedy may be more geared towards a US audience.
Dave Chappelle is the funniest person to have ever lived. Nobody has ever come close. There have been great commentators like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin (RIP) but for straight up funny, Chappelle is as good as it gets. Any funnier and a human couldn't stand it. They would just explode.
Anybody who does not acknowledge that doesn't even know the meaning of funny.
I am not joking.
After Dace Chappelle split from his show
Kat Williams is funny
Wait a second.. when were Blacks ever funny?!?!?!
No comedian living, white or black, can hold a candle to Richard Pryor. The funniest man who ever lived.
I have waited a few days to comment on this thread. Mixed thoughts really. Not that I have a short attention span, but the "beating a dead horse" thing hits home. First off IMO, most anything gets old fast. Long intillectual discussions are great, but to a point. Music, Debate, groups, anything can start to wear a person if too much is fed to one. Personally I was married to a very funny man once. His jokes got really old as you watched him tell the same person it the third, fourth tenth time. Then suddenly he could have been good fertilizer for a comedian.
For instance, this one comedian I listened to was funny to me at one time. But lately have left me flat. A good 6 or so years back when I would get his work bootlegged from the shows he had in town, it was shocking, it was funny. I hear him on TV now...I cannot sit through it. Grates on my every nerve. Dane Cook, (SP) Is funny as hell, but too much of him I am sure would drive one nuts. (Or at least me)
A person is funny or they are not no matter the color of their skin. But keeping it funny for a ong time is hard. And not everyone can stay a follower of something hardcore. Each year someone gets old enough to watch them, someone gets to go see the artist preform that could not go before. I think that may be how they stay in business. Anyone?
It is the same concept as a good book. I may love one by the author and never another. Or all. But all back to back? I think not. It is like having too much sugar all at once can make you hurl. So one must change things up. Watch one, listen to something else, read a book. Variety. Spice of life. That way you don't get tired of any of the things you like in small doses.
Plus a person may not get the humor if they have never been in the culture. Some people are excited by certain aspects of certain cultures, but have not lived all sides of it to get the joke.
Then again some people are not funny!
SP- But.. but.. do you think Blacks in general are less funny than we used to be? :-(
