Is there anything funnier than the pearl-bedecked matronly shock and horror that the pop kulcha vulcha kew-el kats mount when you violate the proper decorum surrounding the adoration of commercial culture?
I have to admit eliciting their automatically inflatable outrage is something I do find to be great fun. And it's a riot to watch, that and their mutually expressed moral indignation (to be seen by all kew-el kats) over such violations of pop propriety. Beside that the Nairobi Trio is downright tedious. There, I said it without Ernie and Edie striking me dead. Maybe they've moved on.
Update: Stupy claims that I exposed myself as a sexist for having the nerve to say that after her husband died, Edie Adams didn't do much work other than make cigar commercials and one extended cameo appearance as Mae West in a made for TV movie about her first husband, Ernie Kovacs.
It's kind of embarrassing, me knowing more about that little corner of show-biz legend than La Simels (embarrassing to him, not to me)but I happen to have read Edie Adams' obit in which this passage appeared.
Of her husband, Ms. Adams later said, "He treated me like a little girl, and I loved it — Women's Lib be damned!"
I said nothing about her that wasn't true.
Update 2: And now Simps wants to reopen the Lenny B war again, Bernstein, not Bruce. A wind-up monkey has more of an attention span than Simps.
Is there anything funnier than Sparky, who as tout le monde sait, knows absolutely dick about humor saying "Is there anything funnier than...."?
ReplyDeleteAll signs point to no.
See what I mean? The ass is still OUTRAGED!!!!!!!! that I dared to diss Ernie and Edie(though I didn't) and two seriously unfunny comedians, the entirely overrated Lenny Bruce and his kew-el kopy kat, George Carlin.
DeleteOf the two, Carlin sucked the most because he went on the longest.
I thought Carlin was funny, once. When I was young. Later and later, he grew less funny, then the stuff I thought was funny (7 words, etc.): Meh. "Drive on the parkway, park on the driveway" pretty much sums him up: meh.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Burns is still funny, especially with Gracie. Jack Benny, too. Movie comedians: Groucho, or the silent/virtually silent: Keaton, Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy. All funny.
Stand up, for the most part, fades.
I remember the time I heard Carlin on TV sometime in the 90s, I think it was, and I thought if I wanted to get preached at by an atheist evangelist I wouldn't want to go somewhere they had a cover charge for the privilege.
DeleteStand up often doesn't need to fade, it started that way. I listen to Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee and I think that one week, if not one routine of theirs is funnier than everything I ever heard come out of Lenny Bruce or George Carlin or Mort Sahl. Nichols and May are still pretty funny to listen to but only if I listen to it about once a decade. Lilly Tomlin is more durable. For some reason Simps doesn't like her. I figure she probably dissed him once, or, rather, failed to be impressed by him.
Okay, Sparkles -- put your money where your geezer gums are:
ReplyDeleteProve you know something about humor. Without Googling, provide the set-ups for these three classic punch lines.
1. "At least you didn't leave her hanging in the tree, like the rest of the guys."
2. "He had a hat."
3. "Orgasm? Christ, I haven't even finished tying my shoe."
1. Knowing you it's got to be a "rape joke".
Delete2. What was the first sign that Simps had dementia.
3. What did BG say when she and Simps were getting kinky getting all furry by dressing up like members of the Nairobi Trio and Simps said he was done.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSeriously -- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, really, stop -- you're killing me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, someone did the clothespin on a cutting board thing, I see.
DeleteBTW -- the way, I met the great Jack Lemmon once. Who was one of the gorillas in the Nairobi Trio on at least one occasion.
ReplyDeleteI said to him -- "I would love to shake the hand of a member of the Nairobi Trio." He replied -- with a huge grin, as he shook my hand -- "A card-carrying member of the Nairobi Trio."
Fuck you. Lemmon was an artist and a very funny man. You are neither.
You forgot the part of your story when you say "And Jack never washed that hand again."
DeleteWow. It's like watching somebody who's just done a fart joke pretend his shit doesn't smell.
ReplyDeleteI told you last night, Simps, answer my comments, not your own.
DeleteHave you ever, once, told a joke that wasn't used? Or, when you tell one like this, do they call you "Second Hand Nose"?
Simels has a routine,
DeleteStrictly second-hand,
Everything from slogans to a garage band.
Stuff he calls high art went,
Threadbare long before
Jokes he tells are so old that they're shedding spores,
It's no wonder his audience snoozed,
He never says a thing that ain't been used.
"Have you ever, once, told a joke that wasn't used? Or, when you tell one like this, do they call you "Second Hand Nose"? "
ReplyDeleteA query proving you have never a) told an amusing joke or b) comprehended one.
Who said I was joking?
DeleteOf course you weren't joking. You demonstrably wouldn't know how.
DeleteYeah, anyone who read this thread would know I have no sense of humor. Neither did Buster Keaton.
DeleteOh, yeah, Simps, since you want to bring up ol' Bernstein, if you read Edie Adams' obit you'd see that she committed what you, no doubt, would consider a mortal sin, she turned down the role of Cunegonde in Candide because she wisely figured it was going to be a flop. Which it was. No doubt you can work that up into a charge of anti-semitism.
DeleteYeah, anyone who read this thread would know I have no sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteEVERYBODY who has read this thread -- and everything you've ever posted at this blog -- knows you have no sense of humor.
Hey, there's a thought, maybe I could do what you did and buy one from someone else. Or was yours a found object?
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