Mickey Z
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Do I amuse you? (lol)
i have told some screamingly sick jokes in my time and the funny thing is, most of them were told to me by doctors. I have a few friends who are doctors in accident and emergency depts and i think the reason they tell the sickest jokes is because they have to see a lot of horrible shit every day and it is a coping mechanism.
i myself have a habit of chuckling when i remember something or other as i walk down the street making bystanders think i am a bit odd.
as for what makes me laugh..loads of things, spike milligan, douglas adams and too many others to mention here. sometimes just completely bizarre stuff makes laugh too…
Posted by michael on from scotland 04/12 at 05:53 AMI’ve been absent a bit lately, and haven’t had time to catch up, so I’ll just say hello to everyone and hope that everything is going well!
Subtle things and absurd things make me laugh. Sarcastic things too. I like the idea of “puns not pills”. I also like the idea of “puns not guns”, but that one is probably even harder for most people to swallow.
Finally, I hope everyone goes and votes for mickey’s blog! http://tinyurl.com/25kytr
(hopefully the vote-for-mickeys-blog link hasn’t already been posted here, my apologies if it has!)
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 04/12 at 06:31 AMKV was kind of a bitter old man at the end there, wasn’t he? Which is cool, because bitter old men are awesome! I wish that last Rolling Stone interview with him was available in full online, but I don’t think RS archives stuff really.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/12 at 07:53 AMThis shit cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_9kDO3q0w
Posted by Jeremy on from Taipei, Taiwan 04/12 at 09:01 AMMy brother, our cousin and I were discussing putting together a list of the best comedy movies of all time the other day...My favorite, The Big Lebowski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJx7wI8Q-I
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/12 at 09:16 AMLife is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.—Horace Walpole
http://tinyurl.com/2dvgtpPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 04/12 at 09:46 AMI just voted for Mickey...everyone should go over there (Deb’s link) and vote, maybe we can pull this off.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/12 at 10:22 AMSorry if this is a really big file size, I just can’t help it:
toothpastefordinner.comPosted by James on from work 04/12 at 10:25 AMI have yet to see The Big Lebowski, JOS, but I know that the Lebowski character was based on Economist Doug Dowd’s son when he was young and wild.
Had a lot of joy listening to father and son duke it out over activist strategy last summer.
Both have a lot of love and pride for each other despite some superficial differences.
Doug Dowd’s website has some marvelous links and audio classes, including photos of Dowd’s son, the real Lebowski:
http://www.dougdowd.org/I don’t laugh as easily as when I was younger-- except at myself (I hope).
More on comedy/tragedy:
http://tinyurl.com/27actoPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 04/12 at 11:00 AMHi Robert...I did not know that, very interesting.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/12 at 11:42 AMHello Expendables from a very rainy NYC.
Welcome back, Deb..and thanks for the nomination. If I lose this election, I’ll be sure to blame Nader. (Now that’s comedy.)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/12 at 11:47 AMIt’s winter redux in New England: 39 and rainy in my neck of the empire.
Tony C, yesteday’s link to the Dimslows was awesome. Putting them in the same fictional room as Dubya might cause DNA to burn, or time/space to rip a huge fart.
Kurt Vonnegut: There was pre-sadness of his passing when he’d said he was “trying to die, but it’s not working.” (c. 4 years ago?) His novels are weird and brilliant, but personally he practiced a gentle sort of defiance. “There is no reason good cannot triumph over evil, if angels would organize like the mafia,” he wrote, which runs parallel to Derrick Jensen’s philosophy.
Q: Is a laugh liberation or mockery, or both?
I laugh with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (When Stephen’s “The Word” is on, there’s nothing like it). Guy Ritchie’s “Lock, Stock...” and “Snatch” are great. The novel “Confederacy of Dunces” has a comic climax second to none.
I laugh at CommonDreams.org, the leadership of the so-called Left, and local newspapers, each of which should not be funny. (Captcha sez “wish.")Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 04/12 at 11:57 AMHi everyone
A good comedian wields his/her humor like a surgeons scalpel; slicing into the soft vulnerable under-belly of our armour-plated self importance and arrogance. Its something about a comedians ability to expose the painful tender areas of ourselves and our relationships...its at once shocking and refreshing. Operating outside of the ‘dos and donts’ of polite society they offer a brief moment of objectivity wherein we can laugh at ourselves, and the absurdity of the ‘predictaments’ we find ourselves in. Family issues are a hugh source of laughter for me. Eve Ensler ‘ Vagina monologues’ has some hilarious bits. Idries Shah is another favorite of mine. Kurt Vonegut Jr. got me through my teens. years ago on a road trip through Arizona, holed up in annonoymous motel for the night, we watched ‘Waynes World’, it was absolutely hysterical, I couldnt stop laughing. I tried to watch it a second time but it didnt have the same effect.
I know I am having a good day when there is some solid laughter happening.
Dont get too caught up in the vote thing, me thinkith it may be a shady ruse enroute to controlling the web waves. Then again, maybe I am just being paranoid.
Posted by frances on from bc 04/12 at 02:47 PMFor those about to laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-oJhBxn6oPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/12 at 03:42 PMWas Zen saying that there’s no good articles on Commondreams, so it’s just a joke website? I guess, but this was a good and savage review of a book which should make everyone laugh, at least through clenched teeth:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/12/469/Posted by James on from work 04/12 at 05:15 PMFull disclosure: I am a German by birth, and Germans are not supposed to have much of a sense of humour, but here is what makes me laugh: Monty Python sketches, the film “A Fish Called Wanda” and ‘Fawlty Towers’, to name but three ..
And thanks for this whole humorous post and for the Vonnegut quote, Mickey. Here is the Vonnegut obituary from ‘The Guardian’:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2055226,00.html‘Hi’ from a still unseasonably warm Daylesford (80F today) to Michael, Deb, Jeremy, James, JOS, Robert B. Livingston, Zen Prole and frances. Be as well as possible, all of you.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 04/12 at 07:31 PMI couldn’t resist posting “Death from Above” at Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/12/21254/4444Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/12 at 08:49 PMThe Big Lebowski is definately up there in my list, as well. I love how the TV is on in the beginning, and Bush is saying how aggression will not stand after Hussein invades Kuwait. Then later in the movie when confronting Mr. Lebowski, he repeats the line. “This aggression will not stand, man!” Friggin’ hilarious.
Posted by Jeremy on from Taipei, Taiwan 04/12 at 09:44 PMHey Mickey, how come you dont respond to comments on dkos? Just wondering.
one guy talks about bombing innocents versus guilty(?). Doesnt make sense to me.
All the war-mongers should be rounded up and plopped onto one of the radioactive Bikini islands and left to duke it out till there are none left. That would leave the rest of us to get on with Living. and cleaning up the mess they left behind.Posted by Frances on from bc, canada 04/12 at 09:57 PMChris Morris’ “Brasseye” series was the gold standard for scathing satire that made you laugh outloud at the same time. I love the Daily Show team but they can’t go as far as Brasseye because of obvious limitations. Even Brasseye fell foul of that eventually.
When he came back with the ‘Peadophile Special’ I was speechless all the way through.
Watching Chris Morris’ monologue as a navy admiral explaining why homosexual men shouldn’t be allowed in the navy was hilarious but also felt like being savaged by a rabid dog at the same time. It’s from the episode “sex”. The same episode where the talk show host gets angry with the Aids sufferer for having ‘bad aids’ and not ‘good aids’.
It was also the first show to perfect the technique of setting up real politicians and celebrities in the fictional show.
In the peadophoile special one MP gives a (sincere)description of inflatable “trust me trousers” that hide playground erections and are distributed between sexoffenders. Another MTV VJ shows a keyboard that enits a gas that makes your child more succeptable to peadophilia. And they all believed it.
Chris Morris = the man.
Posted by Andy on from Shanghai 04/13 at 12:08 AMFrances: My writing is up all over the Web and ends up being discussed on many, many comment boards and forums. It would be a full time job to keep up with it. That’s why I always include a link to this blog so they know where to find me.
Hii Andy.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/13 at 04:24 AM
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