It's Like Pretty Woman, if You Are The Whore . . .

Happy Saturday, kids. I'm going with the following vid of my nearly home boy (Joisey boy at least) Bill Maher. The subject line above is merely one of his great jokes in his latest 'New Rules' routine.






Earlier today I watched the 'Overtime' segment from the same broadcast. One of the guests was Conservative (she whines, "I'm not a Republican!!!!) Dana Loesch. Now if you don't know about her, she is a disturbingly (but aren't they all) unfunny wing nut radio head (and works for that shit, Breitbart.) I am zeroing in on her, as the Overtime segment started off with a question sorta directed to her.

Turns out she (again, unsurprisingly) uses hyperbolic, bullshit language in her radio show. And (again, unsurprisingly) when she gets called out on that bullshit, she all of a sudden is running for the shelter of calling her bullshit 'just a joke.' I wonder why Bill gave her any cover (she looks good, but she's married Bill. Ya not getting any of that sweet shit.) But he did. He helped her make the 'just a joke' defense. I wouldn't have. And unlike Bill, I am not a professional comedian, but whenever I hear one of these unfunny wing nuts say."It was just a joke," I want say in reply, "Fucking lame one, at best."

I do get it. wing nuts live in this weird echo chamber, best described by the following routine from "The Simpsons." Homer sees something and says,"I don't like him and something bad happened to him. That's funny."

That's what passes for humor among those shits. It's merely a matter of paying insult to those they do not like. They ignore all the real attributes of humor, like universal truths, grain of truth, humorous observations, or actual instances of hypocrisy caught and noted and used for the cheap thrill of some low level schadenfreude. Their pathetic attempts at humor are usually nothing more than partisan sniping. And that's not really funny.

For example, Think about how people use Sarah Palin as the butt of jokes. It's usually based, generally, on the stupid shit she herself says. Sometimes all ya got to do is quote her exactly. It's picking low hanging fruit, often, truth be told. But too often for the wing nut funny bone, the joke is based on bullshit or a lie, and that makes for some fucking lame jokes.

Ok. So much for my rant. But Bill did hit her with a real good zinger, during that Overtime segment. He mentions Dana Loesch's defense of Charlie Sheen by saying something like,"I find your defense of Charlie Sheen, like him, a little weird . . . "

That was a good joke. It was based on truth, not a lie, not bullshit. That well demonstrates the difference between a trained professional, and the amateurs.

Nice one, Bill!