While wanting to be personally involved in dealing with the Ebola epidemic is certainly an admirable and worthwhile impulse, it's very important, or more accurately, very valid to understand that there are a myriad critical, morbidly serious issues which demand immediate attention wherever your present location may…

You are demonstrating precisely the sort of aggressive, highly intolerant attitude which would get you tossed into academic jail if you expressed anything like it on any of our hallowed, sacred campuses. Hmmph.

In person, face to face, what you describe is true. When we are able to accurately assess and gauge a person's intent and emotional involvement it's easy to accept declarative statements as invitations for conversation or debate. But in cold black and white type on a page it's a very dicey proposition. It's very hard…

Yes, declarative statements are the worst!

Thank you so very much for crediting me with being intentionally dense.

Aha! I realize my comment appears to be defending Chris while criticizing Jerry, but really I'm making a distinction between their individual complaints of excessively PC college audiences. Chris was once embraced by White's as the Black Guy Who Speaks the Truth About Black People, which, of course, was actually an…

It's more the idea that the preeminent comedian of our day (certainly debatable) seems oblivious of even the remote possibility that his views about what is or isn't racially or ethnically or socially insensitive may be a bit outdated. Chris Rock wasn't reacting to his own audiences expressing excessively PC attitudes…

Then stop doing it. Who's forcing you to use blackface?! Hmmph.

Actually, Paul Prudhomme and Dom Deluise have never been seen in the same room at the same time, so…

Even gay men make jokes about how gay Broadway and Musical Theater are, but your point is valid that the depiction of the gay dancers in the French Mistake scene is exploiting derogatory stereotypes for cheap laughs. There's no wink of recognition that the "f*ggots"—as Dom DeLuise's character calls them—are in on the…

Clarification: Cole Porter song in the style made famous by Nat King Cole.

Scarface did more to inspire whole generations of ambitious, bootstrap pulling, highly motivated self starters than anything the Republican's ever could imagine. In every rapper's home you'll find innumerable varieties of the obligatory elegantly frame, prominently displayed Scarface memorabilia. And also in way too…

Mmm, not so much ironic. More so, incompetent.

Old man on roof: "The new sheriff is coming and he's a ni-" *church bell rings*
Townsman #1: "What he'd say?"
Townsman #2: "The sheriff is near."
Old man on roof: "No, God blam a ram a jammit. The sheriff is a ni-" *church bell rings*
*Sheriff on horseback rounds the corner onto mainstreet*
Townspeople: "Hooray! Hooray!…

Well, Tropic Thunder is very gratuitously exploiting the taboo against Blackface, and doing it with as much bravado and insolence as it could get away with without crossing back over into racism. I think the line is so vague and transient today that it's fun just to witness other people attempt to identify where they…

Tropic Thunder didn't assume as obvious of an anti-racist perspective as Blazing Saddles did because attitudes on racism within the general population have progressed far enough since the days when Blazing Saddles was produced that its more blatant anti-racist attitude wasn't necessary for Tropic Thunder. Audiences…

And Cleavon Little owns that film along with Gene Wilder, so to interpret anything in that film or to accuse Mel Brooks of racism requires a truly blind, oblivious, self satisfied colossal shit head of an ignorant mook, which is to say at least half of all humanity, if not more. Hmmph.

I created a similar video from my collection of Victrola lacquer discs. And another from my papyrus scrolls. Hmmph.

And rusty.

Lookit the unit on that guy!