Comedy
Dylan wanted to see something funny last night, and he saw that Bob Burr was playing at the Capital Cities comedy club.
He thought that maybe Bob Burr would be funny, as he has appeared on HBO, and had a show on Comedy Central.
So, we got dolled up, went down to the Club, paid our $32.00 and prepared to enjoy our evening.
Well, it didn't work out quite as planned.
Dylan kept asking me if I was alright, and i kep smiling and saying i was having a good time, coz i didn't want to spoil his evening.
Little did i know that Dylan thought that Bob Burr sucked as much as i thought he did. He was angry, misogynistic, homophobic, bigoted and racist, and not even funny. And i was glad that the club was dark, and we were not seated t the front. Especially as I was dressed in girls' clothes that night!
And, as we, thankfully, left at the end of the show, we both agreed that what appalled us most most not just the show, but the fact that all the people there seemed to think that Bob Burr was so fucking funny, even the girls in the audience.
You know, no wonder Dylan and I seem so disconnected from everyone else in society. Bob Burr is obviously becoming a very successful artist, but what is making him so successful is so antithetical to the way that Dylan and I live our lives. And, as i said, we didn't even think he was funny. There's nothing funny in talking about "fags" and "bitches" and how awful women's voices are when they are campaigning. And why all the women in the audience would think that that is funny is totally beyond us.
As I said, we were both appalled.
I think, for me, it was made even more apparanent by the fact that we had watched Richard Prior the previous evening in his "Here and Now" DVD.
Richard Prior was truly an American Treasure. And even his own misogyny was really very funny, tinged as it was with his own self-deprecation.
I don't know....... maybe this election will change some deeper parts of the American Psyche. It seems as though the last 8 years have been a celebration of hatred, bigotry and intolerance. And also, coincidently, some kind of exultation of the virtues of over-excessive testosterone.
Do you think that, sometime in the next few years, tolerance, sensitivity and compassion will come back into fashion?
He thought that maybe Bob Burr would be funny, as he has appeared on HBO, and had a show on Comedy Central.
So, we got dolled up, went down to the Club, paid our $32.00 and prepared to enjoy our evening.
Well, it didn't work out quite as planned.
Dylan kept asking me if I was alright, and i kep smiling and saying i was having a good time, coz i didn't want to spoil his evening.
Little did i know that Dylan thought that Bob Burr sucked as much as i thought he did. He was angry, misogynistic, homophobic, bigoted and racist, and not even funny. And i was glad that the club was dark, and we were not seated t the front. Especially as I was dressed in girls' clothes that night!
And, as we, thankfully, left at the end of the show, we both agreed that what appalled us most most not just the show, but the fact that all the people there seemed to think that Bob Burr was so fucking funny, even the girls in the audience.
You know, no wonder Dylan and I seem so disconnected from everyone else in society. Bob Burr is obviously becoming a very successful artist, but what is making him so successful is so antithetical to the way that Dylan and I live our lives. And, as i said, we didn't even think he was funny. There's nothing funny in talking about "fags" and "bitches" and how awful women's voices are when they are campaigning. And why all the women in the audience would think that that is funny is totally beyond us.
As I said, we were both appalled.
I think, for me, it was made even more apparanent by the fact that we had watched Richard Prior the previous evening in his "Here and Now" DVD.
Richard Prior was truly an American Treasure. And even his own misogyny was really very funny, tinged as it was with his own self-deprecation.
I don't know....... maybe this election will change some deeper parts of the American Psyche. It seems as though the last 8 years have been a celebration of hatred, bigotry and intolerance. And also, coincidently, some kind of exultation of the virtues of over-excessive testosterone.
Do you think that, sometime in the next few years, tolerance, sensitivity and compassion will come back into fashion?