nucular option.

[scottopic]

I've said it before, but I forget if I did so here:
The term "Politically Correct" was last used without irony on June 23, 1993.
Since then, it's been used to justify every hateful, petty, racist, bigoted, short-sighted and close-minded statement uttered through human lips.

"It may not be (finger motion)Politically Correct(more wiggling fingers), but killing Tutsis makes damn good sense to me.
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is!"

Finally, someone expressed it in a way I appreciate:

"Okay, here's what I said in the RS interview: "He's good at what he does. It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor -- which people like in America - all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel, selling-ring tones-act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride."

-

David Cross, in an Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy

The rest is here:
http://bobanddavid.com/david.asp

I don't know if I've ever seen either LtCG or David Cross perform, but this makes me want to see both.

Comments

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Pick up the Blue Collar Comedy Tour - it's a great compillation. And (from what I've seen, which isn't everything) Larry's not that bad; it seems to be a case of Andrew Dice Clay all over again -- people don't understand that a comedian is making fun of people by assuming an exaggerated persona, so they accuse him of being well, all of those things.

I've been wrong before, though.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've not seen either, so I don't know (and probably don't care ;-)) about LtCG's act. And really, this is one comedian griping at another comedian about what was written in a book about comedy, something I'd probably never read just for that.

The paragraph in particular just struck me :)

[galateadia.livejournal.com]

yeah, Larry doesn't seem that bad to me. maybe his book is worse than his stand-up act? or maybe David Cross is just being a diva (which i can totally see - i love his as a comedian too, but he can be a little bitchy).

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a rant!
But it's definately worth your while to screen Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
I know they were showing it in HBO a lot.
Though Larry is annoyingly funny Hue and I much prefer the dude who's always drinking whiskey.
I can't remember his name, but he made us laugh.
Oh and the crass comercialism of LTCG is obnoxious: In Valdosta you couldn't find a gas station or convienience store that *didn't* have some shit that said Get-Er-Done or whatever.
I don't even know what that means but apparently my red-kneck associates do...

whiskey-drinkin' mofo

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Ron WHITE!
WOO HOO!

Caught him live a couple of times.
Funny as hell, he is.

Re: whiskey-drinkin' mofo

[angry-user.livejournal.com]

Ron White truly is one of the funniest stand-ups I've known. hysterical.