Came upon this and just had to share. I've always maintained that the funniest comedy comes out of truth. Here' a terrific example. The comedian is Lachlan Patterson and this is from the Halifax Comedy Fest. Whatever your age,
I'll bet you laugh.
You win the bet, Ken. I did indeed laugh.
ReplyDeletePsst... 'old." Not "olld."
ReplyDeleteYes, and it's not only your relatives whose photos to anticipate —— Facebook is already bringing me everybody's photos on the day the photos were shot.
ReplyDeleteHe was great on Last Comic Standing a few years ago...
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I'd add...
ReplyDeleteAn 11 year old girl will say "Grandma, what did you do when Ilhan Omar said Jews had hypnotised the world and that the murder of 3000 innocent civilians was some people doing something?"
"I called her critics racist. Now get ready for your appointment at the doctors for your female circumcision. I know you don't want it but it's the law now."
Funny, yet sadly true.
ReplyDeleteI laughed.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what will be considered funny in the future? Probably nothing. Because everyone will be too afraid to laugh at anything for fear of offending someone's sensibilities.
Meanwhile, those of us that will be old, or very old, will be chuckling at lines from Bruce, Carlin, Rivers, Pryor, Newhart, Chappelle, Silverman, etc.
Their loss.
I'm not looking forward to that future. But, at least fifty years hence I'll probably be dead.
M.B.
Geez, Peter, you must be just a barrel of laughs at a party.
ReplyDeleteThe video was very funny, particularly the line about learning patience from watching your father enter his e-mail address with a TV remote. Been there, done that.
Landon
DeleteI am, actually. :-)
That was hysterical. Thanks for posting it.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, but he's talking about US!
ReplyDeleteI just turned 60, so he ain't talking about me.
DeleteThis is my favorite type of comedy ... where we can laugh at ourselves and our idiosyncrasies.
ReplyDeleteYou know, there was a time when I thought 40 was pretty old...
ReplyDeleteI'm in my 40s, and society still treats me like I'm a teenager, and we [shudder] have a president in his 70s who behaves like a toddler. Frankly, I don't have a lot of role models.
Maybe we're collectively going through an evolution on what "age" means right now?
I grinned a couple of times but didn't laugh.
ReplyDeleteVery funny. But I am already an Old and have yet to develop a quasi-Katharine Hepburn accent. Will keep you posted.
ReplyDeleteAs they say, "Once you see something, you can't un-see it!" What a revealing look at what is allowed on TV in other countries. It's kinda funny too. Ken, I enjoy your podcast. Your Mt Rushmore of radio was one of my favorites
ReplyDeleteFunny. And true.
ReplyDeleteI just turned 64, and my father had ties to Lindbergh...well, sort of. In May 1927, when he was nearly 3 1/2, his father (a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle) took him to see the "Spirit of St. Louis" fly from Floyd Bennett Field. But chancy weather that morning thwarted the take-off, and Lindy left for Paris the next day. (OK, not much of a Lindbergh connection, but at least Dad wasn't an "American Firster.")
ReplyDeleteNever heard of him until now. Thanks for sharing, Ken. I laughed several times.
ReplyDeleteThat thing about hanging plates on the wall was spot on. It was true of all of my father's aunts and uncles.
FRIDAY QUESTION:
ReplyDeleteThere's a very recent interview with Jerry Seinfeld & Eddie Murphy.
An audience member asks, "How important is it to have trust on the writers, who may not be performers, but you trust their structure?"
Seinfeld says, "You need to have a rapport with the writers, but the key is not to trust the writers. To trust yourself."
You can watch it here, I cued it up for you: https://youtu.be/DqbvsDt_D3o?t=2296
I'm assuming he's talking about himself, and works for him, but it doesn't sound logical to me.
Any thoughts?
I was talking to a young guy who told be that you have to watch out for old people driving. They are the ones driving erratically struggling to put on their seatbelts as they drive along the road.
ReplyDeleteGood to see than (an apparent) Millenial knows the triviality of most social media interactions - at least the non-weaponized interactions. Only the youngest escaped his ridicule, however.
ReplyDeleteTo Frank Beans - society treats EVERYONE like a teenager. I have watched adult prerogatives become progressively eroded since I was one (and not just by "Progressives")
Young people are doing that already!
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