Play Nice Random Chat Thread IV

[CharlieMortdecai]

They’re trying to cancel Bill Burr over this. How dare he make SNL funny.

I think he should be cancelled for being boring. Barely raised a chuckle. Which bits did you find funny?

 

[B4Bear]

I think he should be cancelled for being boring. Barely raised a chuckle. Which bits did you find funny?

The edgy bits man, the edgy bits.

 

[goalieboy82]

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and now we have this too:

 

[Snake_Baker]

I think he should be cancelled for being boring. Barely raised a chuckle. Which bits did you find funny?

Well, it does require the requisite intelligence and something approaching a sense of humor.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

The edgy bits man, the edgy bits.

Reminds me of Ben Elton in the 80s and 90s. He could be genuinely funny on lots of things but when he strayed into social commentary there was more cringingthan laughing.

 

[Val Keating]

I think he should be cancelled for being boring. Barely raised a chuckle. Which bits did you find funny?

All of it

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

Well, it does require the requisite intelligence and something approaching a sense of humor.

What intelligence/sense of humour is required to think that Rick Moranis being punched in the face is funny?
But anyway thanks for the truism, which actual bits made you laugh? For me I think it was only the part about Gay Pride month getting 30 days while Black History month only got 28, in winter. And that wasn't particularly great but at least it raised a smile.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

All of it

Fair enough, I suppose humour is very much an individual thing. I guess I'm not particularly invested or interested in his topics of choice too, to be fair.

 

[Val Keating]

Fair enough, I suppose humour is very much an individual thing. I guess I'm not particularly invested or interested in his topics of choice too, to be fair.

I like his method. He works his jokes backwards from something that we’re not supposed to laugh at because people are touchy about the topic. He goes after sacred cows, I like that

 

[Val Keating]

What current comedians do you like CharlieMortdecai ?

 

[ferball]

Refusal to publish by a company is not censorship. If the government prevented it, that is censorship.

Why aren’t you questioning why a NEWSPAPER that has both online and hard copy editions are complaining that a third party won’t publish its ‘news’.

Total click bait designed to get the outrage machine going into hyperdrive.

Twitter and Google are intimately linked to the US government and both US parties' funding sources. Not to mention the revolving door between the US admin and people on the boards of those (and other, Wall St based,) IT companies and the way everyone who became a billionaire out of the IT explosion of the last 30 years has a direct line to the leaders of US politics.

I agree with you about private companies and censorship.

It happens in Australia all the time tho because Murdoch owns so much of our media and completely controls the entire MSM narrative here. And it has ****ed our "national conversation" and turned the general population into mushrooms. It's not censorship as you describe it. Murdoch journos publish stuff that gets the AFP riled up. But look at his publishing policy on climate change for twenty years. For example.

He censors stuff.

That's why News Ltd didn't publish a single positive story about Gillard's coalition government a decade ago when al that shit went down. As a result we actually elected the most incompetent PM we have ever had and he ended being everything he spent three years crying about.

During that three years so called conservative turncoats Oakeshott and Windsor were interviewed about their support fo Gillard and both said the reason they supported Gillard, and took so long to make their choice at the time was that wanted to support an Abbott government but couldn't in good conscience cos they didn't think he was up for the job. So every time they made a decision to support his government they couldn't go thru with it.

They effectively felt they had a duty of care to protect Australia from his incompetence. And they were vindicated after he was elected and turfed by his own government after about half an hour.

Those interviews should have been national front page news and forced the Libs to do the political rebuild they needed after Howard. Without corporate media censorship that would have happened.

As it is no one knows they even said that stuff.

#catamongpigeonsposting

 

[ferball]

It’ll be interesting if any of the anti war sites like consortium news will ever get a handout..

As if. Google have been ****ing around with their algorithms to keep those sites off the first ten pages for over a decade.

 

[ferball]

What intelligence/sense of humour is required to think that Rick Moranis being punched in the face is funny?
But anyway thanks for the truism, which actual bits made you laugh? For me I think it was only the part about Gay Pride month getting 30 days while Black History month only got 28, in winter. And that wasn't particularly great but at least it raised a smile.

It's Rick Moranis. How is it not funny?

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

What current comedians do you like CharlieMortdecai ?

I don't catch a lot of standups but my kids were watching a show called last one laughing. I don't think there was enough content for however many episodes they stretched it over but the two who I found genuinely funny were Anne Edmonds and Frank Woodley. I happened to see a stand-up routine by Celia Pacquola which was quite good.
Not stand-up, but the funniest show I have seen on television for many years is Derry Girls, although it probably helps that I was exactly the same age as the main characters in the mid-90s when it is set.

 

[Snake_Baker]

I like his method. He works his jokes backwards from something that we’re not supposed to laugh at because people are touchy about the topic. He goes after sacred cows, I like that

The VERY best hamburger meat Val.

 

[DesertRoo]

Once a man appeared in a village and announced that he wanted to monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, realizing that there was no dearth of monkeys in the nearby forest, went out and started catching them. The man bought thousands of monkeys at $10. As supply started to fall down, the villagers stopped catching more monkeys.

Now the man further announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. As the supply diminished even further, people once again stopped catching monkeys and started going back to their farms.
The man further increased the rate to $25. Soon the supply of monkeys became so little that it was quite an effort to even get a glimpse of a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50. However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant said to the villagers: “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50.”

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. But they never ever saw the man or his assistant again in the village; only monkeys everywhere!

Ever wonder what traders have to do with scared cows??

If you can convince a group of people not to eat a animal, you’ll end up with an abundance of said animal to sell to the next village over, pick another animal to make scared in the second village and sell it back to the first...
Underpants,
Something,
Profit...

 

[B4Bear]

Twitter and Google are intimately linked to the US government and both US parties' funding sources. Not to mention the revolving door between the US admin and people on the boards of those (and other, Wall St based,) IT companies and the way everyone who became a billionaire out of the IT explosion of the last 30 years has a direct line to the leaders of US politics.

I agree with you about private companies and censorship.

It happens in Australia all the time tho because Murdoch owns so much of our media and completely controls the entire MSM narrative here. And it has f’ed our "national conversation" and turned the general population into mushrooms. It's not censorship as you describe it. Murdoch journos publish stuff that gets the AFP riled up. But look at his publishing policy on climate change for twenty years. For example.

He censors stuff.

That's why News Ltd didn't publish a single positive story about Gillard's coalition government a decade ago when al that sh*t went down. As a result we actually elected the most incompetent PM we have ever had and he ended being everything he spent three years crying about.

During that three years so called conservative turncoats Oakeshott and Windsor were interviewed about their support fo Gillard and both said the reason they supported Gillard, and took so long to make their choice at the time was that wanted to support an Abbott government but couldn't in good conscience cos they didn't think he was up for the job. So every time they made a decision to support his government they couldn't go thru with it.

They effectively felt they had a duty of care to protect Australia from his incompetence. And they were vindicated after he was elected and turfed by his own government after about half an hour.

Those interviews should have been national front page news and forced the Libs to do the political rebuild they needed after Howard. Without corporate media censorship that would have happened.

As it is no one knows they even said that stuff.

#catamongpigeonsposting

If Twitter and Google are intimate (what a thought you dirty bastards) with the government like you postulate; why did a Republican controlled government refuse to run a dirt campaign on Hunter Biden through Twitter?

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Sorry mate, you don't understand. Only Trump can do wrong, if you say otherwise you're a fascist*.

*TM Funky

Who enforces that a private company must allow you to use their platform to tweet shit?

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

I like his method. He works his jokes backwards from something that we’re not supposed to laugh at because people are touchy about the topic. He goes after sacred cows, I like that

What were the sacred cows by the way? Going from memory here:
People who won't wear masks- I'm sure I've heard the "natural selection will sort them out " joke before.
Gentrification of New York- I mean you can hear a radical Latinx lesbian academic from Harvard bemoan this on Radio National on any day ending in Y.
Cancel culture - if Nick Cave and JK Rowling can both come out and bitch about something it's probably not a sacred cow.
White women - in the age of the Karen and whatever that show Fox was flogging during the footy, they're a pretty soft target.
Gay pride month - maybe? Dunno, I didn't even realise it was a thing. But I can go back to Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy among a host of comedians to find jokes about gay culture.

 

[Val Keating]

What were the sacred cows by the way? Going from memory here:
People who won't wear masks- I'm sure I've heard the "natural selection will sort them out " joke before.
Gentrification of New York- I mean you can hear a radical Latinx lesbian academic from Harvard bemoan this on Radio National on any day ending in Y.
Cancel culture - if Nick Cave and JK Rowling can both come out and b*tch about something it's probably not a sacred cow.
White women - in the age of the Karen and whatever that show Fox was flogging during the footy, they're a pretty soft target.
Gay pride month - maybe? Dunno, I didn't even realise it was a thing. But I can go back to Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy among a host of comedians to find jokes about gay culture.

Have you watched his specials?

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

Have you watched his specials?

Nah, the only thing I've ever seen is the clip you posted.

 

[ferball]

If Twitter and Google are intimate (what a thought you dirty bastards) with the government like you postulate; why did a Republican controlled government refuse to run a dirt campaign on Hunter Biden through Twitter?

The government isn't the president.

And ... The deep state is a thing. Not necessarily like Trump describes it but more like George Friedman, who was part of it (founded Stratfor), Mike Lofgren (former US Republican who wrote a book about it), and other people with some clue describe it (Ed Snowden for example.)

 

[Val Keating]

Nah, the only thing I've ever seen is the clip you posted.

Then you don’t get it. Bill Burr is one of the best living comics.

 

[B4Bear]

The government isn't the president.

And ... The deep state is a thing. Not necessarily like Trump describes it but more like George Friedman, who was part of it (founded Stratfor), Mike Lofgren (former US Republican who wrote a book about it), and other people with some clue describe it (Ed Snowden for example.)

They control all three branches of government.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

They control all three branches of government.

Obviously not talking about Ferbs, but these anti-woke right wingers have this pathological need to feel the victim or oppressed by something.