Chappelle's Show
OK. I do not get it. I simply do not get it.
I have been watching Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central for a while now. Granted, some of the skits are rather amusing (especially the one with Wayne Brady gettin' down ghetto style). Most of the skits, though, are down right pedantic.
Right now...Mr Chappelle is spoofing "Trading Spouses." I'm not laughing. Not even a minor chortle. Nothing. I'm actually (just) trying to stay awake for the South Park re-run.
So...what is so damn funny about this show? Am I missing something? Is this comedy like The Three Stooges??? Why did the entire world go into mourning when Chappelle took off for South Africa? I'm beginning to wonder if he didn't do us a favour.
The Mind of Mencia, on the other hand, is funny. A damn riot, if you wish.
Labels: Amusement
posted by High Priestess Kang @ 5/10/2006 08:21:00 PM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
Heresy!
I think estrogen somehow blocks Chapelle from the body's humor receptors, that's the only thing I can think of.
Which is why humans with dangly-parts find The Three Stooges amusing and those of us, sensibly designed with our sensitives protected from harm's way, find that shit MONOTONOUS.
Thou shall not knocketh the Three Stooges, heretic witch!
The Three Stooges are one of the bedrocks upon which modern humor is formed. They elevated slapstick to a fine art in a way which is unmatched today. Hell, even the Simpsons pay homage to Larry, Moe, Curly & Shemp via "Itchy & Scratchy".
What Renoir and Picasso are to the art world, so are the Three Stooges to comedy. Without the Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, and Rocky & Bullwinkle, modern comedy would be utterly lost. Try and imagine a world without Shakespeare or Twain, without Mozart or Hendrix!
Now, if you'd dissed The Stooges (Iggy Pop's band), we'd have some real trouble...
I shall knock the Stooges whenever and however I wish to do so. Just as you knock Sex and the City by calling it, "Telemundo."
There are things in life we will never understand about the opposite gender.
Regarding Iggy and the Stooges...I'm not going to argue you on that point. Although...I do find it amusing that some random cruise line thinks it's a good idea to use one of their songs for a jingle.
I call it "Telemudo" not to knock it, but to convey the idea that, like spanish language TV, I can't understand a word. It's a gender thing.
I was sad that the cruise line left out the "liquor and drugs" verse from "Lust For Life". Makes as much sense as using a song about heroin covered by a christian band to shill birth control, though ("There She Goes").
"Strange days indeed, most peculiar momma, whoa" -J. Lennon
Oh...ok MIDWESTERNER...
I grew up in the Philadelphia area. I think my neighbourhood had a greater population than the entire State of Maine. Oh...wait...who is from there? YOU!!!!!
Born a hick...always a hick.
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