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Title: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: just Warren on November 25, 2017, 04:03:31 PM
Coddled, weak-willed idiots have no perspective. (http://www.newsweek.com/steve-martins-king-tut-sketch-causing-controversy-one-college-campus-717418)

What I'd like to see is businesses coming together to fund a database where anyone who engages in this type of idiocy is added to the database and any application or resume they submit to any subscribing business is automatically rejected.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Ben on November 25, 2017, 04:12:09 PM
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“The air is different now because what you do in a classroom can end up on Fox News,” Luis Fernandez, a North Arizona University professor, told The New York Times.

Yet this was a Newsweek article.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: 230RN on November 25, 2017, 07:20:47 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XSQAAOSwZVlXiLPH/s-l1600.jpg)

Equivalent to blackface, too?

Why, that has the m-word written all over it.

Terry, 230RN

REF and Pic credit:
Party Hub
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adults-Mime-Artist-Fancy-Dress-Mens-Ladies-French-Circus-Costume-Street-Outfit-/182206620068
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: just Warren on November 25, 2017, 07:46:19 PM
What's worse French Mimes or Illinois Nazis?
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: MechAg94 on November 25, 2017, 08:06:05 PM
I am trying to think of something, but I am having trouble thinking of something more sad than having to go back to 1978 to find something to complain about.  I guess M&M's whining might be more sad.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: MechAg94 on November 25, 2017, 08:07:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4
I feel compelled to post this.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: zxcvbob on November 25, 2017, 09:20:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4
I feel compelled to post this.

Thank-you.  But the video is not working; just audio (for me, anyway.)  So I looked it up at NBC.com:  http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/king-tut/3505914?snl=1  :)
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Andiron on November 25, 2017, 09:44:28 PM
Can't wait til one of these thin skinned twats discovers Blazing Saddles.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: just Warren on November 25, 2017, 09:46:36 PM
The sheriff is neeeerrff!
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Sindawe on November 26, 2017, 03:25:18 AM
Can't wait til one of these thin skinned twats discovers Blazing Saddles.

Blazing Saddles is all well and good, but Don't Mention The War!

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/9/15/1442320260538/john-cleese-basil-fawlty-007.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=c7220ff75b0820533f2138ae9dfc0e98)
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: LadySmith on November 26, 2017, 06:27:56 AM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XSQAAOSwZVlXiLPH/s-l1600.jpg)


Equivalent to blackface, too?

Nope. That there is a crime against humanity.

 :lol:
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: K Frame on November 26, 2017, 07:08:52 AM
Can't wait til one of these thin skinned twats discovers Blazing Saddles.

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: MechAg94 on November 26, 2017, 08:25:31 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XSQAAOSwZVlXiLPH/s-l1600.jpg)

Equivalent to blackface, too?

Why, that has the m-word written all over it.

Terry, 230RN

REF and Pic credit:
Party Hub
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adults-Mime-Artist-Fancy-Dress-Mens-Ladies-French-Circus-Costume-Street-Outfit-/182206620068

Would white face be racist if a black person does it?    =D
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: MechAg94 on November 26, 2017, 08:26:15 PM
Thank-you.  But the video is not working; just audio (for me, anyway.)  So I looked it up at NBC.com:  http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/king-tut/3505914?snl=1  :)
I have had trouble with that on youtube before.  If I refresh the page it usually works okay.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: French G. on November 26, 2017, 09:13:27 PM
What's worse French Mimes or Illinois Nazis?

A French mime miming Illinois Nazis?
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: French G. on November 26, 2017, 09:14:06 PM
Can't wait til one of these thin skinned twats discovers Blazing Saddles.

You said rape twice.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: 230RN on November 27, 2017, 04:33:45 AM
You said rape twice.

Sounds like a line from "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum."  Zero Mostel: "You mean, he raped Thrace thrice?"
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Scout26 on November 27, 2017, 01:25:19 PM
Sounds like a line from "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum."  Zero Mostel: "You mean, he raped Thrace thrice?"

Nope, from Blazing Saddles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96DQspxu0jg
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: K Frame on November 27, 2017, 01:34:17 PM
Oh holy crap I hate Utoob videos in which it's painfully obvious someone cellphone recorded their TV!
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: zxcvbob on November 27, 2017, 01:51:33 PM
Oh holy crap I hate Utoob videos in which it's painfully obvious someone cellphone recorded their TV!

Here's a better one.  Same scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bigZ1fmwD-Q
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Angel Eyes on November 27, 2017, 02:38:42 PM
Can't wait til one of these thin skinned twats discovers Blazing Saddles.

Thread drift:

mommy parts

twats

Interesting.  The word filter only catches the singular form.

*expletive deleted*ck

*expletive deleted*s

*wow such a strong word to use, check your anger at the door*

c**ts   (nope, didn't catch that one either)
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: Mannlicher on November 27, 2017, 04:31:12 PM
everything under the sun is racist to someone.  The important issues are those that the media is championing at the time, as they will get all the publicity.
Title: Re: Steve Martin's King Tut is racist.
Post by: 230RN on November 27, 2017, 06:31:05 PM
"You mean, he raped Thrace thrice?"

Nope, from Blazing Saddles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96DQspxu0jg


Nope, right back atcha.

It was used in "Forum*" earlier, but no big deal:

1962 Broadway show "Forum." I don't know if it was used in this stage show.

1966 Film "Forum."  I heard it here in this movie, thought it was hilarious:

Quote
Philia: That's the brute who raped my country, Thrace!
Pseudolus: He raped Thrace?
Philia: And then he came and did it again! And then again!
Pseudolus: He raped Thrace thrice?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060438/quotes

1974 Film "Saddles"  Certainly not the first time a "good one" was used, borrowed, copied, purchased, by other comedy writers.  Origin may go back to Shakespeare, for all we know.  Or Joe Miller.

https://youtu.be/j0qm0KUPeD8 ( 0:18 )
  
Terry

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum