From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu
Drew writes:
>On 2007-04-26 1:38 a.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:
>> Conologue:
>> ... Bush will meet the Prime Minister of Japan, as
>> Bush calls him, Mister Miyagi. Jessica Simpson's father has offered to
>> manage Ricky Spears's career, noting, she's like the third untalented
>> daughter he never had.
>This may be a bizarre coincidence, but the President's father ("41") is an
>acknowledged fan of the movie "The Karate Kid." I wonder if the joke
>writers knew that.
Huh. I never knew that, myself. Neat.
>Also, to point out the obvious, Conan said Britney, not "Ricky," Spears.
>But without her hair, I suppose she could pass for a Ricky, so I can see
>why you might have made the mistake.
Oh, bah. Well, I heard 'Ricky', and I figured I had just missed
the onset of some new celebrity clod. I never understood the 'Sanjaya'
jokes either, but they appear to be on the way out, as far as I can tell.
Between the long-running cheap punch lines and the transients it's hard
to keep up with all the celebrities we feel smugly superior to.
>I actually laughed out loud at the Simpson-Spears joke, even though I
>usually furrow my eyebrows and shake my head whenever Conan takes a
>gratuitous, mean-spirited swipe at a celebrity. And here he ripped three of
>them in one joke! Maybe my sense of moral indignation is slipping. Or maybe
>I just couldn't help but recognize a stroke of comedic genius.
Well, the thing is most of the 'celebrity clod' jokes is they're
all the same joke. That is, tell one and you have the template for all
the rest of them. This, I have to admit, got out of that rut, if only
by calling a bunch of commercially successful people idiots.
--
Joseph Nebus
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