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From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu
Usista writes:
>The masturbating bear is stupidly adolescent and an embarrassment to
>the show. if this is what the storied Harvard grad brings to LA, he
>better come in his speedos cause it will be tank time, and passing of
>the Late Night crown to Dave (Letterman).
Thing is the Masturbating Bear was more talked about than he was
ever really present on the show. He was there for adolescent and slightly
shocking humor, and then more or less there as testament to how silly the
show could be. At least part of his appeal has pretty much always been
that we're too mature to laugh at this stuff yet do anyway. And like most
of the one-joke bits it had a run and then left while people were not yet
significantly tired of it, so that it's still fairly fresh when he makes a
cameo.
At some point, really, the Masturbating Bear became jokes about the
Masturbating Bear rather than the bear himself. The Carrie Fisher cameo
bit and his escape through the sewers of New York City is an example of
that. So was the bobble ... er ... paw doll and the unfortunate
interaction it had with the vomiting Kermit doll back when Late Night did
that odd merchandising sketch.
> I think NBC should turn the
>show over to Jimmy Kimmel. Cleto's band is so much more listenable
>and without the mockery of the band as a bunch of sadsack perverts, as
>Coney does with the Seven. That's also stupid and an embarassment to
>watch. Max should walk and stick to The Boss's class act.
Er ... you know portraying the band as moral reprobates has been
a standard comic approach going back to pretty much whenever bands got
their start? Heck, listen to what Jack Benny used to say about Phil
Harris's bunch sometime; that positively blistered.
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Joseph Nebus
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