mistereveready (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i guess the good thing about innuendos is that people can interpret them differently. they make people think. but, many people seem not to want to think. basically the choice of being ultra blunt, or leading into a joke. both can be good, and both can suck badly. one of the reasons im not a fan of kennison or eddie murphy.

mistereveready (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

no not limited to race. anything that makes people feel naughty. much why shock jocks seem to be in such demand. the whole, omg i can't believe he said that routine. granted, sometimes those things are hilarious, but at the same time, i miss jokes like flip wilsons joke about the woman and the ugly baby. i dont see why sex, the word fuck, shit, or the like should be dirty anyway. the ending to meaning of life explains it.

ogredanhibiki (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

He may be talking about Bing Crosby, though I don't know why, since crosby was a singer.

DrennonDavis (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Agreed

glook (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I agree with it being easier to get a laugh out of "dirty" and "shocking" things although I disagree that it's limited to just sex (race, for example). While I like penis jokes as much as the next guy, I do agree it's a shame "smart and clean jokes", like puns, are not as common (although they still exist, sometime juxtaposed into dirty jokes). I have to disagree that saying dirty stuff separately somehow makes it better though; it actually came of as a little chauvinistic.

glook (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Don't you mean Bing Crosby? Bill Cosby is way to young to have performed with Marx.

mistereveready (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Eh, audiences set themselves up for so called dirty jokes. some how nudity, and various words become traumatizing. but i do think too many comedians use shock value to try to get past that their jokes aren't really funny.

Gefilta (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that's why he's called "GROUCH-O", anyway I thought he was joking. Hence he makes his own doyty innuendo, if you don't like innuendo close uendo.

Sin2286 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Anybody can say something dirty and get a laugh. But say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian." So true. The comedy in the Marx Brothers films - especially from Groucho - was always so clever and witty, you knew you were really watching something special before you. They don't make a lot of comedians like Groucho Marx anymore, which is a shame.

missmabel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Except in this case, Grouchy had always been a grumpy old man. ;-)