Now I want to think of a joke that combines that opening with my girlfriend's punchline: "It's amazing what white folks will say to other white folks."
John Thompson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861027/), a British comic actor, used to do a stand-up routine where he'd come on dressed like a particular style of 'northern' working club comic and, start an array of jokes in the manner of a particular style of racist/sexist comic that, since the 1970s, has largely disappeared from TV and urban comedy clubs but which, nevertheless, continues to exist.
"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar..."
Generally the second he launched into one of these he'd get people booing.
What made it funny was that the jokes generally went...
"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar...
...what a fine example of an integrated society"
It used to be interesting how far he'd get into a show before people would stop booing and realising that each of his 'jokes' was subverting the opening of some sub-genre of racist or sexist humour.
Link doesn't work for me.
Posted by Mr. B | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:25 PM
Nor me. The site seems to be dead at the moment.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:39 PM
Now I want to think of a joke that combines that opening with my girlfriend's punchline: "It's amazing what white folks will say to other white folks."
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:56 PM
It's back now. (Figures. I get a link from Unfogged and the whole wing holding my servers shorts out or something. Thanks.)
Posted by Kip Manley | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 5:59 PM
That is a sublime anecdote, FL.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 7:37 PM
John Thompson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861027/), a British comic actor, used to do a stand-up routine where he'd come on dressed like a particular style of 'northern' working club comic and, start an array of jokes in the manner of a particular style of racist/sexist comic that, since the 1970s, has largely disappeared from TV and urban comedy clubs but which, nevertheless, continues to exist.
"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar..."
Generally the second he launched into one of these he'd get people booing.
What made it funny was that the jokes generally went...
"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar...
...what a fine example of an integrated society"
It used to be interesting how far he'd get into a show before people would stop booing and realising that each of his 'jokes' was subverting the opening of some sub-genre of racist or sexist humour.
Posted by Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 01-23-06 12:18 AM
hm, i don't know. The joke would be funnier if it was clear there were actually, you know, black people around the dinner table with you.
in Shaker Heights.
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 01-23-06 6:20 AM