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January 01, 2005
I Don't Care What Ann Althouse Says: Margaret Cho Is Not-FunnyNRO was nice enough to link one of my several anti-Cho pieces here. Kind of bookend links-- they linked me right in the beginning of my blog, and then the day after my first blogoversary. And never in between. Ann Althouse, also linked by Goldberg, insists, just like that dopey Slate reviewer, that Margaret Cho is funny not because of her written act but because of her funny faces and funny voices. To each her own, I guess. Maria Bamford does lots of funny faces and funny voices, but she actually has a well-written act in addition to the funny faces and voices. I don't know why Cho is to be praised for only being able to do "funny faces" and "funny voices" without having any kind of written act to speak of. As I've said a thousand times before: I'm sorry, but I think Althouse just appreciates the socio-political content of her unfunny act, and finds it kind of validating. But validation isn't really comedy. posted by Ace at 04:40 PM
CommentsI confess to laughing at one of Cho's bits where she impersonates her immigrant mother, but then, you know how Allah likes the racist humor. Try screening that old "ancient Chinese secret" Calgon commercial for me and watch the puddle of urine form at my feet. By the way, Ace, kudos on changing your banner back to the old style. The font you were using a few days ago was just a little too "Magic: The Gathering," if you know what I mean. Posted by: Allah on January 1, 2005 06:02 PM
Cho has reached the stage in her career where she thinks she does not have to prepare for a comedy performance. She thinks that anything that pops into her head on stage is funny. Most of the time the headpops are not funny-just stupid. Been to a Seinfeld performance lately? He works just as hard today as he ever did and he is just as funny. Posted by: Jake on January 1, 2005 06:02 PM
Margaret Cho is not funny. You know who's funny? Willie Tyler and Lester. Now, THAT'S funny. Unlike Margaret Cho, who is not funny. Cheers, Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on January 1, 2005 06:53 PM
Margaret Cho is terrible. To compare her massively over-the-top Asian stereotype thing to Uncle Leo is comedic heresy. As much as I love your ripping Margaret Cho, I think there are better targets out there. Margaret Cho is a nothing. She's worse than nothing, she's in the negatives. Bill Maher has a show on HBO, 90% of which is him telling a semi-joke which gets polite applause and a chuckle or two from the massively liberal audience. People call Bill Hicks a genius. Now he's undoubtedly funnier than Maher, but a lot of his stuff is the same kind of liberal applause line garbage. That is not a genius. Posted by: chris on January 1, 2005 11:09 PM
People drool all over Bill Hicks because he died young. If he were still alive today he'd be Managing a Hardee's. Posted by: Andrea Harris on January 1, 2005 11:52 PM
I don't know why I capitalized "managing." Posted by: Andrea Harris on January 1, 2005 11:53 PM
At last! Someone else who appreciates Maria Bamford. I've been disappointed that career hasn't gone farther. She is one of those act that I'll stop and watch a while when channel surfing, even if it's a bit I've seen dozens of times. Maybe she's a psychopath that nobody wants to hire but she's just seems terribly talented to me. Posted by: Eric Pobirs on January 2, 2005 05:28 AM
I think there is some romanticism attached to dying young, Andrea, but Bill Hicks was funny. To tell you the truth, I don't recall hearing any of the overtly leftist stuff that I read about these days. Posted by: CraigC on January 2, 2005 06:07 PM
I keep meaning to say something about Bill Hicks. I agree with Andrea. I watched an old special of his on HBO, and it was nothing but warmed-over angry-man Carlin leftist crap. Now, that stuff can be funny, I guess, to the right audience. But Hicks' crap just seemed like more of "the alleged comedy of validation." The jokes were banal and obvious, the attitude was borrowed from his betters, and the whole act was just flat. He is adored because he 1) was left wing and 2) died young. I think people imagine he would, with seasoning, have become a superstar. Judging from his tired, stale warmed-over yippie-bullshit act, I'm going to have to say "Not likely." Posted by: ace on January 2, 2005 06:39 PM
I used to say Bill Hicks was nothing more than a talentless hack with stupid immature political beliefs whose career was nothing more than validation applause from fellow liberals, but the truth is, he has been funny a couple of times. All in all though, he really is terrible. Posted by: chris on January 3, 2005 12:42 AM
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"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held. Basil the Great
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)
No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.
Only a cult does this.
Now they've lost 84%.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.
Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...
The British Patriot Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing. Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult. Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending. (((Dan Hodges))) Nick Lowles
STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98. Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years. Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45 Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%. I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens. REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.
Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs. Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.
Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:
![]() That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time. I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"
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