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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 01:42 AM
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Poll question: Are SNL's (Continued) Jokes About Governor Paterson's (D-NY) Disability Funny?
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 01:53 AM
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1. no
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 01:57 AM
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2. How is he disabled? eom
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 01:58 AM
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3. Gov. Paterson is legally blind n/t
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:05 AM
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6. Wow! I didn't even know that!
Learn something new every day!
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1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 01:58 AM
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4. we should not make fun of anyone anymore....
Edited on Sun May-10-09 01:59 AM by 1
not color or disability nor culture or accent.

there should be no more humor about any of that.

no jokes about political differences. height issues. accents. nothing.

all humor must henceforth be disallowed.

agreed?
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:03 AM
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5. I like a good joke as much as the next guy
But I don't think every joke about Gov. Paterson should be about his disability.


There is PLENTY of joke-worthy material on him without making fun of him SOLELY because he is blind.
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1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:13 AM
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7. ok, cool. but i'm not from ny or nyc so i don't know this asshole from adam...
i get that y'all think we hold your shit in the same importance as you do.

we don't. i don't know your mayor. i don't know your governor. the rest of america pretty much feels like i do. i don't give a crap about you, or your city or your state.

we don't give a shit.

and as for this paterson dude... i never got the blind thing on snl, i just thought he was "slow". he's a republican, right?
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:15 AM
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8. I am not from NYC/NYS either.
David Paterson took over the Governor's Mansion in NY after Elliot Spitzer resigned because of a scandal involving prostitutes.


(And I did put (D-NY) in the title...)
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:16 AM
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9. no, he's a dem.
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1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:19 AM
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10. sorry. i though ny always elected repub govs. my bad.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 02:48 AM
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11. Elliot Spitzer, once known as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" because of his high-level
Prosecutions as AG of NY was elected in the blue wave of 2006. By a huge margin. (69% to 29%.)

Because of the scandal and the fact that public dollars may have been used, he resigned.

His Lt. Governor, David Paterson (also elected by the same margin,) took over after the resignation.




Hillary Clinton was also re-elected to the US Senate by a similar margin in 2006 (67% to 31%.) She lost to her Republican opponent in only 4 counties out of the 62.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:07 AM
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12. Not funny. But the jokes about New Jersey make up for it.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:35 PM
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22. LOL @ Mr. Banana Grabber.
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eilen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:42 AM
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13. I'm from NY and not offended
Paterson makes self deprecating remarks regarding his disability frequently. He has to expect some blowback with all the new taxes and fees he has pushed on us.
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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:44 AM
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14. I don't think it's funny. But, they have the right to make their "jokes"
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 09:34 AM
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15. No.
I can't believe "Yes" is winning. :eyes:
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 11:15 AM
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19. yeah, it'd be better if we lived in a dry humorless completely pc society
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:34 PM
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21. It'd be better still if we had slightly higher standards for humor.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:37 PM
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23. Yes, bring back the ethnic comedy stylings of Amos n Andy!
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 09:44 AM
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16. It's become as predictible as a Chevy Chase President Ford routine
Edited on Sun May-10-09 10:10 AM by Stevenmarc
Sometimes less is more.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 10:08 AM
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17. SNL is never funny
So why expect these jokes to be funny? They are lazy franchise writers. They make the easy, low hanging jokes. The surface.
Funny people can make jokes about others without going for the obvious, but SNL writers are not funny people.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 11:21 AM
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20. I like that bit in the Tim Robbins mockumentary, Bob Roberts, where John Cusac plays....
...a comic/actor on what's supposed to be a SNL type show, and he does a take to the camera at one point claiming that such shows by and large exist to keep the populace ignorant about deep politics by keeping the public's focus on cosmetic, celebrity personalities, and play-it-safe humor.

Re SNL, agreed. Early 90s or so was the last time I watched it, and even infrequently then.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 10:11 AM
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18. Loved the Marco Polo bit. Comedy ain't pretty.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:46 PM
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24. I don't believe it's funny, anymore than if he had Muscular Dystrophy and jokes were
about that.

If he wanted to joke about it, that's one thing, but I don't find anything humorous about healthy individuals making fun of someone's disability or disease, whether it takes place in a school or a national comedy program, even more so with the latter because the former has somewhat of an excuse; that being immaturity.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 05:47 PM
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25. better question, is anything on snl funny?
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 12:06 AM
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26. Eh?
Might as well kick this, just to see if I can get a larger sample.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 12:13 AM
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27. Other - I laughed but felt kind of guilty
The thing is that the guy did such a good job at imitating Paterson's mannerisms that I couldn't stop watching. Oh well.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 12:16 AM
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28. Nothing Armisen does is funny.
He must be a Repuke, or whoever writes for him definitely is. The Obama character is terrible too.
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