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Britney Spears is very sensitive to Sara's comments
posted by
adventurer02
on August 20, 2015 at 1:29 AM
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Beautiful, 7stars. Thank you so much...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 30, 2007 at 8:35 AM
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posted by
star4sky5
on September 29, 2007 at 9:52 PM
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Sara Silverman has taken cutesy bathroom humor to new septic depths, PatB.
Some days I pray for the return of Gilda Radner, Paula Poundstone, Elaine Boosler. I saw Brett Butler a couple years ago in Richmond. Now, there's a funny woman. I'd rather hear Roseanne Barr sing the national anthem again (as painful as that would be) than ever see Sara Silverman... uh... perform (yeah, that's a hopefully descrptive word of what she does) again, period.
posted by
saul_relative
on September 16, 2007 at 8:01 AM
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There are so many points I want to respond to here...
Sara Silverman's humor -- I thought maybe I was the only one who didn't get it. You've helped me realize I'm not so stupid after all. Britney's bad act -- I didn't see the performance, just the re-runs, and Ellen is right. Her agent/manager/team should have pulled the performance if she wasn't ready. All the finger-pointing and apologizing aside, everyone screws up sometimes, big effing deal. As for your non-apologetic rant... Great writing and funny...
posted by
Pat_B
on September 16, 2007 at 7:46 AM
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Thank you, Azur. Sometimes I find venting cathartic, sometimes just
a rambling summation of raw frustration...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 15, 2007 at 10:10 PM
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Please rant whenever you wish
I enjoyed this.
posted by
Azur
on September 15, 2007 at 8:42 PM
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Thanks, Soul Builder. Most of the time, I try not to rant. Occasionally,
I must...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 7:40 PM
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Saul R..........
Quite a nice way of getting your views in. Enjoyed reading this!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on September 13, 2007 at 5:39 PM
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Don't worry, .Dave, she's like a soap opera. You can miss months of the
stuff and come back to catch up in just a couple of minutes...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 11:59 AM
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I'm gonna have to catch up on the latest Britney stuff. I'm out of that particular loop a little at the moment.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 13, 2007 at 11:12 AM
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thanks, riri...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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You could have a point on Adaptation, M. I would first have to see the
movie, however. Wouldn't want to call people I don't know "stupid" without any evidence on my part. And humor is subjective. My wife thinks Steven Wright is "okay" while I think he's hilarious. She thinks the show "The Single Life" is hilarious while I think it has it's moments. She hates Monty Python; I love Python. Of course, she's never seen any of the movies, but I don't hold out much hope...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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posted by
riri0322
on September 13, 2007 at 10:58 AM
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Well, I can't argue with that last point.
However, nevertheless, there's certainly still a place for crudity and childishness in comedy (when done with aplomb).
Besides, humor is obviously extremely subjective, anyways. For instance, most of my friends didn't think "Adaptation" was funny. But that doesn't make them "wrong" ... just stupid.
Instead of mousetraps,
what about baby traps?
Not to harm the babies,
but just to hold them down
until they can be safely removed.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on September 13, 2007 at 10:50 AM
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Well, M., she'd still be nothing worth mentioning if she hadn't been
sitting beside Kimmel's desk all these last few years. It got her nonexistent career its much needed (and undeserved) boost. And I find her humor crass, trite, and a bit on the childish side. She has her moments, but, you know what they say, put a bunch of monkeys on pianos... Anyway, it's just my opinion, but I wouldn't walk in Sara Silverman's shoes or bother to piss in their general direction. There are far more intelligent and homorous comediennes out there than she -- Amy Madigan, Ellen Degeneres, Kathy Griffin, Rita Rudner, Judy Gold, Wanda Sykes, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Ann Coulter. Damn, M., your blog is more funny in the first couple of lines than her half hour show on Comedy Central is in three combined episodes...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 10:33 AM
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My pleasure, opheliablue...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 13, 2007 at 10:23 AM
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Okay, first of all ...
Sara Silverman was (reasonably) famous/popular well before Jimmy Kimmel (and he's not exactly David Letterman, btw ... or even Conan O'Brian, for that matter).
Secondly, she's very funny. Maybe not so much on the VMAs, but at least in general.
Before you criticize someone,
you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them,
you're a mile away
and you have their shoes.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on September 13, 2007 at 9:58 AM
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*snigger*
It's not often that something really does make me LOL, but that line about Tupac sure did! Thanks for the laughs, it's a great way to start the day!
posted by
opheliablue
on September 12, 2007 at 11:56 PM
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What?
posted by
saul_relative
on September 12, 2007 at 9:25 PM
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?
Roses
from me and Bo =^..^= the wonder dog!
posted by
Whacky
on September 12, 2007 at 9:18 PM
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