[FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!

[Jeff Kaliss]

Your causes are just. And your estimation of some of those earlier comic 
efforts is pretty right-on. If you're tempted to place this supposedly comic 
Dog and the current fad of put-down humor on the same level, then you've 
simply lost the ability to tell bad apples from good.

Jeff Kaliss, Writer
 Music, Culture & Other Entertaining Things
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!


>I was fortunate to grow up on a pretty steady diet of the Marx Brothers, 
>Mad Magazine, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, the Beatles (remember the original 
>cover of "Yesterday and Today" that was pulled off the shelves?), Richard 
>Pryor, Mel Brooks, George Carlin, Monty Python, and many more who made me 
>understand that humor can be used to insult in a way that - even when it is 
>crude or just plain stupid - offends nobody because it offends everybody. 
>That's where real tolerance and a healthy thick-skin comes from.  To be 
>offended by a skit with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog backed by a 
>mock-Ladysmith Black Mambazo - from the context of an online world music 
>forum - is just plain pathetic.  You want something to be really offended 
>by?  How about no affordable health insurance for independent workers in 
>the arts?  How about the gutting of the environment for corporate profit? 
>How about the invasion of Iraq to control it's oil?  Lighten up, please.