Mar 25, 2023·1 reply"the left wing is made up of the communist party, which has a membership of 4000, 3000 of which are FBI agents"
"the right wing is John Birch society, capitalism, fascism and finally, greed"Hoover was probably on his ass
Mar 25, 2023Elricyou know Mort Sahl?
canadian fella considered the first modern comedianwatched some sets and was a scorching satirist
Yeah. People said Lenny Bruce was Mort Sahl for beatniks.
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesElric
"the left wing is made up of the communist party, which has a membership of 4000, 3000 of which are FBI agents"
"the right wing is John Birch society, capitalism, fascism and finally, greed"Hoover was probably on his ass
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yd3Nqp19s3000 of which are FBI agents :jordanlaff3:
I wish I could’ve seen him before he died
- Mar 25, 2023
rise zeroI don't know what you'd call Tom
an aesthetic that has value based on its seeming lack thereof. Its inherent beauty is in its ugliness, its corniness, and its well-worn sentimentality.
Sounds a lot like the anti-humor that’s evolved over the last 30 years
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddy
3000 of which are FBI agents :jordanlaff3:
I wish I could’ve seen him before he died
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesElric
knew it
https://reason.com/2022/06/30/the-fbi-kept-tabs-on-mort-sahls-jokes-about-it-and-hoover-thought-sahl-was-a-sick-man/
They probably kept tabs on D*** Gregory too. Lame f***s.
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddy
They probably kept tabs on D*** Gregory too. Lame f***s.
to be fair Hoover was a paranoid creep that kept tabs on everyone... but especially comedians that roasted him on national TV
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesElric
to be fair Hoover was a paranoid creep that kept tabs on everyone... but especially comedians that roasted him on national TV
You don’t really appreciate how much people like Mort and Lenny did for stand up until you dig into the people before them like Bob Hope
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddy
They probably kept tabs on D*** Gregory too. Lame f***s.
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesinternet buddy
You don’t really appreciate how much people like Mort and Lenny did for stand up until you dig into the people before them like Bob Hope
i heard long ago that there aren't really any recordings or footage or books or anything that can really express how potent Lenny was and you really just had to be there
so yeah i dont know any of his work at all just the rep
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyElric
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7Pnre__a8 “you do the same thing on the west coast but you call it freeways”
- Mar 25, 2023Elric
i heard long ago that there aren't really any recordings or footage or books or anything that can really express how potent Lenny was and you really just had to be there
so yeah i dont know any of his work at all just the rep
That’s kinda cap
His albums are funny as s***
I’ll see if I can make a playlist - Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesinternet buddy
“you do the same thing on the west coast but you call it freeways”
i didnt get that part tbh, what's the joke?
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyElric
i didnt get that part tbh, what's the joke?
The highways were being built just as courts around the country were striking down traditional tools of racial segregation. So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a time when the idea, the possibility of integration in housing was on the horizon. And so very intentionally, highways were sometimes built right on the formal boundary lines that we saw used during racial zoning. Sometimes community members asked the highway builders to create a barrier between their community and encroaching Black communities.
npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyElric
i didnt get that part tbh, what's the joke?
You’ve never heard the term “the other side of the tracks” when describing a town where one side is way nicer than the other?
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddy
The highways were being built just as courts around the country were striking down traditional tools of racial segregation. So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a time when the idea, the possibility of integration in housing was on the horizon. And so very intentionally, highways were sometimes built right on the formal boundary lines that we saw used during racial zoning. Sometimes community members asked the highway builders to create a barrier between their community and encroaching Black communities.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways
never heard about thiswe probably did the same/worse things to the first nations
- Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddy
You’ve never heard the term “the other side of the tracks” when describing a town where one side is way nicer than the other?
or course but those are train tracks not a freeway
Mar 25, 2023·1 replyinternet buddyYou could argue Tom Green completely changed what camp meant for a new generation
I think people just view that as alt comedy irony
- Mar 25, 2023Elric
or course but those are train tracks not a freeway
Same idea tho
Use the railroads to separate from the undesirables - Mar 25, 2023Fella
I think people just view that as alt comedy irony
Alt Comedy as a whole then. EEAAO is camp as hell but it took decades of alt comedy changing public consciousness to have something like that be accepted.
- Mar 25, 2023Elric never heard about this
we probably did the same/worse things to the first nations
- Mar 25, 2023Elric
i heard long ago that there aren't really any recordings or footage or books or anything that can really express how potent Lenny was and you really just had to be there
so yeah i dont know any of his work at all just the rep
Here are a couple Lenny tracks to give you an idea of what he was cooking in the late ‘50s
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesinternet buddy
3000 of which are FBI agents :jordanlaff3:
I wish I could’ve seen him before he died
I don’t really get his bit because the FBI and CIA were involved in basically any dissident group to monitor them or push them to do things that justified their own existence and power. They didn’t really promote any of them, but the sort of post modern individualism of the 60’s and later more fragmented group oriented movements to lead people away from orthodox communism. Notice how anytime there’s a real unified class consciousness brewing—something gets in the way.
- Mar 25, 2023·2 repliesFella
I don’t really get his bit because the FBI and CIA were involved in basically any dissident group to monitor them or push them to do things that justified their own existence and power. They didn’t really promote any of them, but the sort of post modern individualism of the 60’s and later more fragmented group oriented movements to lead people away from orthodox communism. Notice how anytime there’s a real unified class consciousness brewing—something gets in the way.
I think it’s just simple irony
Most of the members are actually undercover government agents - Mar 25, 2023·1 replyFella
I don’t really get his bit because the FBI and CIA were involved in basically any dissident group to monitor them or push them to do things that justified their own existence and power. They didn’t really promote any of them, but the sort of post modern individualism of the 60’s and later more fragmented group oriented movements to lead people away from orthodox communism. Notice how anytime there’s a real unified class consciousness brewing—something gets in the way.
did you have to shoehorn "post modern" in there
