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The celebrity death thread • Page 104
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DUFFMAN5 24,778 posts
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Mola_Ram 20,760 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI just assumed Louie had wanked himself to death. -
thelzdking 9,466 posts
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Registered 10 years agoMarried with Children was on today, and it was a lot more bitter and cynical.than I remembered. It wasn't exactly great, but still. -
thelzdking 9,466 posts
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Registered 10 years agoAlso Morecambe and Wise are shit. Two Ronnie's are good though. I find stand-up comedy ages the worst. There are still plenty of classic films that are funny. -
You-can-call-me-kal 16,324 posts
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Registered 13 years agoExcellent twitter thread from Andy Richter on the Louie thing. The final post nails or for me.
https://twitter.com/andyrichter/status/1079799901150572544?s=21
“The PC police are not ruining comedy. It is a challenging time to be making jokes. You either accept the challenge or retreat into a past that was easier for you. I hope that this kind of selfish, easy, decency-contrarianism soon becomes as hack as airline food and mother-in-laws“ -
elstoof 23,661 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSpot on
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frightlever 1,450 posts
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Registered 7 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
FWIW I found the Louis excerpt mostly funny. I can also respect that the Parkland Survivors who've chosen advocacy are an exceptional bunch and what they went through was terrible, but if you frame their situation with humour I'm going to laugh at it.
I don't know about his other comedy, but looking at that I do find it a bit strange how common the "Oh, so you identify as a different gender? Well, I identify as a house plant hur hur hur" type of joke is.
I also respect a person's right to self-identify however they please, but Andy Richter refers to trans shaming, while Louis was talking about gender neutral self-identification. How that isn't a legitimate target for comedy, I do not know.
Hopefully we all agree that homosexuality isn't a choice, it's how a person is born. Similarly, it's generally accepted, certainly on here, that transgender people have no choice over their gender identity and their pronoun should acknowledge this.
I'm basically a reasoned, polite person, so if you tell me you want to be referred to as they/them then I'll respect that choice, barring a few slip-ups from time to time, but I remain sceptical that people who identify as gender neutral or non-binary absent any other physical or emotional misgendering, aren't consciously making that choice. It feels like we've had a few decades to get our heads around gender reassignment and now the rug is being pulled from under our feet.
This is complicated, unsurprisingly, by the large minority of transgender people who aren't comfortable identifying as male or female and so also fall outside strict binary definitions. I feel there's enough of a difference between this kind of accepted condition and, say, a teenager who identifies as non binary, within a generation notorious for their introversion and dislike of social interaction.
I'd be perfectly happy for he/she being abolished and everyone getting referred to as they/them. I don't see that anything would be lost and a lot of gender stereotypes need to go as well. Some people would still want a different pronoun though, and that's comedy fodder.
Also, nobody famous died, right? Just the death of comedy then?
Oh, and some of the recent comedy specials on Netflix have been woeful. Bert Kreisher? Jesus. I've liked the John Mulaney, Demetri Martin and Lliza Schlesinger (especially the bit about the dog - killed me) specials from this year. Probably others. Shame we don't have a Netflix thread.
Anyway I'll be back here later with some questions about my NAS. -
greg_wha 1,336 posts
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Registered 7 years agoAnyone see the Big Fat Quiz of the Year? Now that was the death of comedy, I’d rather rim jar Bigfoot than sit though that shite again. -
monkman76 14,833 posts
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Registered 11 years agoIt's a terrible format, I'm amazed it's survived this long. Who ever thought writing down your answers quietly like in an exam could be televisual in any way. -
Frogofdoom 13,655 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI'm enjoying the mild irritation at the thread being derailed, like it doesn't happen to every other thread on here 
Don't worry 2019 will claim its first victim soon and people can get on with feigning heartbreak and shock that a 94 year old person has died
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fontgeeksogood 6,519 posts
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Registered 1 year agoMola_Ram wrote:
He's still pissy about being called out on calling people 'mongs'
Finally a voice of reason from... Ricky Gervais? Wat
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RighteousPickle 105 posts
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Registered 8 months agoDid he create that whole God awful show Derek just in response to that? -
You-can-call-me-kal 16,324 posts
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Registered 13 years agoSadly the solidarity from Count Dankula somewhat undermines the point. -
JamboWayOh 14,150 posts
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Registered 6 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Yeah that didn’t help his point at all.
Sadly the solidarity from Count Dankula somewhat undermines the point. -
Baihu1983 11,560 posts
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Registered 8 years agoFormer WWF interviewer Gene Okerlund -
ChiefGB 11,053 posts
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Registered 8 years agoNot “Big Gene” 
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JamboWayOh 14,150 posts
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Registered 6 years agoSurely you mean ‘Mean Gene’? -
jaxon58 2,508 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPoor Mean Gene. I hope he let Hulk Hogan tell him something before he passed. -
ChiefGB 11,053 posts
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Registered 8 years agoJamboWayOh wrote:
Ah yes, my bad
Surely you mean ‘Mean Gene’? -
fontgeeksogood 6,519 posts
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Registered 1 year agoFunkhouser, nooooo -
Fab4 8,838 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRIP Super Dave -
Talking wrestling I recently discovered the perfect macho man impressionist.
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You-can-call-me-kal 16,324 posts
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Funkhouser, nooooo
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fontgeeksogood 6,519 posts
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Registered 1 year agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
He was fucking brilliant. When I saw this first time I had to watch it twice, I was still lolling about "worried about the size of her opening" and Larry's rage at how long it was taking I missed the punchline
https://youtu.be/3o5m_mXadoU
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Frogofdoom 13,655 posts
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Registered 7 years agoAHH that's a shit one, he was amazing in curb. He was quite a bit older than I assumed as well. -
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fontgeeksogood 6,519 posts
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Registered 1 year agoMay not be a celebrity to others (and if so, please feel free to comment as such on this thread as that's very classy), but:
Lorna Doom, bass player from punk band Germs, RIP
Oops, autocorrect
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Your-Mother 2,881 posts
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And her sister Gluman.
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RIP
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