{"id":12850,"date":"2012-01-01T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T17:30:25","slug":"kathy-shaidle-on-overrated-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/kathy-shaidle-on-overrated-comedians\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Shaidle on overrated comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2011\/12\/31\/george-carlin-wasnt-funny\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy<\/a> is in her normal take-no-prisoners mode over heroic liberal comedians:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I\u2019m a heretic. I also fell asleep during <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen? Pompous blowhard.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Godfather<\/em>? Long stretches of beige nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>And The Who are better than The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>(Hell, I prefer The <em>Monkees<\/em> to The Beatles\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the first \u201cpop culture\u201d contrarianism I\u2019m a teensy bit afraid to confess in public:<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Carlin never made me laugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about overrated liberal comedians this week, when news broke that a fawning, big budget Smothers Brothers biopic is in development. Great: we\u2019re now facing months of witless hagiography about these two \u201cdaring, transgressive, brave\u201d performers, and the rest of the progressive comedy pantheon of heroic martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>Who weren\u2019t funny.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so <em>you<\/em> think they\u2019re funny. Maybe you\u2019ll be driven to call me lots of mostly unimaginative names in the comments below. But the people I\u2019m about to discuss rarely, if ever, made <em>me<\/em> laugh. Personally. That\u2019s my definition of \u201cfunny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your mileage will vary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s certainly right about <em>The Godfather<\/em>, The Who, The Beatles, and The Monkees. My friends were much more into George Carlin&#8217;s humour than I was (I rather liked his late-career talk on the insanity of &#8220;saving the planet&#8221;, but generally didn&#8217;t listen to him).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy is in her normal take-no-prisoners mode over heroic liberal comedians: Yeah, I\u2019m a heretic. I also fell asleep during Star Wars. Bruce Springsteen? Pompous blowhard. The Godfather? Long stretches of beige nothingness. And The Who are better than The Beatles. (Hell, I prefer The Monkees to The Beatles\u2026) But here\u2019s the first \u201cpop culture\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}