Who’s a Purple Nurple?

So, actor James Woods, 66, is dating someone new. Maybe too new in that she’s only 20 years old so she’s a bit new to the world compared to him.

How he is able to do that is beyond me. I’m 34 and I couldn’t date a 20 year old. 20 year olds just look like taller middle schoolers to me most of the time. And that’s the case with James Woods’ daughter girlfriend. Here’s a picture:

Will your daughter be joining us this evening, sir?

You know when you saw the 3rd Harry Potter movie and saw the cast members and said, “Oh, they’ve hit their growth spurt,” but you still saw them as a child kinda? That’s what she looks like.
I couldn’t do it. What would I possibly have in common with them? 20 year old girls only know Matthew Perry as that funny guy who just can’t get a TV show to stay on the air no matter how good it is.

Go On was great! COME ON, NBC!

I just can’t see myself having a conversation with a person whose conversations usually consist of the phrase, “So, what do you want to be when you grow up?”

How awkward must it be for them to have dinner together at some nice restaurant and hear, “And will your daughter be joining us this evening, sir?” from the hostess? (Watch out, hostess! He’s got eyes on you!) I just couldn’t handle that.

I hope George Clooney is taking notes. Notes on what not to do when he’s 66. At that point he should only date women who are 40. No one will judge that. But when they’re 3 decades younger you’re going too young.

This whole thing just boggles my mind. If I meet a girl who is 25 and super cool I say to my friends, “Man, she is so great, but I couldn’t go for her. Isn’t she too young?” They all say, “No,” but if you have to ask if they’re too young…they’re too young.

How does he even meet a 20 year old at his age? Through his kids? That must be an awkward college vacation. You bring your friends home and your dad hits on them. But seriously, how does he meet 20 year olds?
I’m not asking cause I want to know where to find them. I know where they are. They’re at the gym, but what would possess a person to go up and talk to them? I hardly ever talk to women at the gym, much less the 20 year old girls. The only time that I do is when I think they’re older or they’re in my spot. (I was using that mat!)

How a 66 year old could get with a 20 year old is beyond my comprehension.

So, who’s a purple nurple this week? James Woods?

Nah, it’s still Paula Deen.

Not cause she said the n-word this one time, but because she said she didn’t call some other black guys the n-word because, “that’s not what they were.”
Actually, you shouldn’t have called them that because YOU SHOULDN’T CALL PEOPLE THAT OUT OF RESPECT FOR HUMANITY AND COMMON DECENCY. So you’re a purple nurple, Paula Deen.

And James Woods is, too. That’s super weird, dude.

Public Service Announcement

I just saw someone turn left onto a one way street after sitting for at least a minute at a traffic light that had a very visible “no left turns” sign.

I slowed down, rolled down my window, pointed at the sign and said, “You can’t turn left.” But they just looked at me like I was saying, “What a nice day, right? Look at the sky.”

No one else tried to warn them.

Cars were coming and the light was green so I couldn’t sit there for this idiot. As I drove up ahead I saw them turn left. Onto what was clearly a one way street because several lanes of traffic had cars facing them.

No one tried to warn them! They all just sat there like morons.

It reminded me of this one crazy wreck I saw. I’m sitting at a light about to turn right. When the light turned green 3 cars from the oncoming traffic decided to run the light to turn left. They person next to me decided to go anyway.
They gunned it and SMASHED into the 3rd car.

To me, they both deserved tickets. One for running the red light. The other for being stupid.

Stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to do much. Our life would be easier. And Washington D.C. would be empty of all current politicians.

What’s So Funny When Nothing is Funny?

A lot of behavior we’ve seen from people in the public eye lately, whether it’s a celebrity like Amanda Bynes who is having a Twitter conniption fit every few days or a Strawberry Coolata fan from Florida, are always up for grabs for comics.

It’s something being talked about by everyone. It’s also fraught with joke possibilities because so much is bizarre.

But it’s not always fun and games if the person is having a mental collapse of some kind. Many people realized this back when Britney Spears had what appeared to the observer as a nervous breakdown. For one, there’s nothing funny about that. Secondly, the entertainment industry can be a pretty toxic environment which leads to situations like that. What people realized was, Britney shouldn’t be a punching bag or a target for laughs. She was going through a mental health issue, some believe, and that is no laughing matter. That’s fair.

It’s hard to say what to make of what is going on with some of the people in the news today. I think the sorority girl who threatened to @#^! punch her sorority sisters during Greek Week was fair game because she wasn’t crazy. She was just an idiot. An aggressive idiot. One I would totally fall for if I were in college with her cause I just had a tendency to like jerks when I was younger.

But what about this young woman in Florida who went on a racially charged and borderline terrorist tirade at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Florida recently all because she didn’t get a receipt. My initial reaction is, “Woah, she’s a real jerk. And that big of jerks exist, unfortunately.” If that’s the case, READY THE JOKE MACHINE!!
But then I started thinking about it. What sane person would go that nuclear over not receiving a receipt and believing they were treated in a rude manner? She invoked 9/11 in her tirade because the person “causing” her ire had brown skin. She said she’d “bomb them from Mars.” That’s when I thought, “This person just might be mentally ill.” I’m not taking down my Twitter jokes about her, because I think she’s just that big of a jerk. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe she shouldn’t be made fun of because it makes light of mental health issues.

And what do we do about Amanda Bynes? We’ve all collectively agreed that something is seriously wrong with her health. Well, I say “all” but apparently Drake Bell has no idea what Amanda’s tweets say. But the rest of us see something quite troubling.
Amanda claims she’s not “crazy” a she put it in a tweet.
If she’s not unstable then she is a humongous jerk. Have you see what she says about people? Even people who were just trying to help her or people who didn’t say a one word to her can’t escape her mean-spirited rants.

So what do you do in these situations?

Make fun of Republicans? Make fun of Democrats? Make fun of Jimmy John’s for not serving hot subs. Seriously, guys, seriously?

I have no answers. I do, however, really want some Dunkin’ Donuts today. Any press is good press, I guess.

Labradoodle!

This NSA situation has certainly gotten people up-in-arms. And that’s not meant to be said with a hint of judgment. They have good reason.

It is a mess, but am I the only one who wasn’t surprised? I was aware for well over a decade that if you write the word “President” after writing the words “kill the” on the internet that you would be flagged and you would probably get to meet some Secret Service agents. Which is exciting. I’ve always wanted to meet those dudes. And I may get to considering I just wrote what I wrote.

[Hello, government officials. I’m a good guy, I love my country and I’m just using those words to make a point in a blog I’m writing here for comedic purposes. Feel free to look around on my page. If you know of anyone hiring actors or comedians send them my way! I am of no threat.]

My point is this, I was well aware we were being observed in some way. Why is everyone so surprised about this? They monitor us. It’s been going on for years. And honestly, they should within reason be doing that. There are a lot of dum-dums out there who want to hurt people. You do know that assassination attempts have been made on practically every US President since JFK, right? I have not heard if President Obama has, but they tend to keep that information to themselves…as they should. Tough world we live in.
But every single President except Nixon had assassination attempts made on them. Every one, but Nixon! Even Bartleet had an assassination attempt! That’s pretty messed up. Especially when you realize that there were assassination attempts on even Presidents Ford and Carter.

Really? Ford and Carter?!? What on Earth did they do to make anyone that angry? I know Carter wasn’t the best President, but he’s the sweetest man in the world! Who was the next target on their list? Labradoodle puppies?

Who would want to hurt these little babies?

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People who’d want to kill Carter, that’s who. (aka JERKFACES!)

Anyway, don’t get me wrong, if someone isn’t suspected of being a threat then they shouldn’t be monitored. But if someone is a threat or even says some buzzwords that put the government on alert I say find out what those fools are saying.

I would like to add some things to the list of what the NSA considers potential threats to be monitored:

  1. Michael Bay – If that dude so much as says “Transform” I’m gonna need the government to step in and make sure he’s not about to make another one of those awful movies. 
  2. Whenever someone says, “chalk it up to…” I just hate that phrase. Anyone who says it must be stopped.
  3. The executives of the Oxygen network. They’re up to no good, I just know it!
  4. Pitbull. What is that phrase he keeps saying and what does it mean? Only the CIA can figure that one out. Though I don’t know if even they can figure out what his appeal is. Why is he famous!?
  5. Snoop Dogg, because I want to know if even he doesn’t refer to himself as “Snoop Lion.” What does he call himself in his outgoing voicemail message?
  6. Everyone who complained about the new season of Arrested Development. What do they like? Is there anything?
  7. All hipsters. (There will be a lot of overlap with the 6th one)

Okay, well that’s all I have for now.

Be safe everyone, and don’t be a jerk to people. That would actually avoid the vast majority of every problem we face, if we all just agreed not to be jerks. Especially to Labradoodles.

 

NSFW…or Society…or My Dad…or My Church Friends

So there are terrible people in the world. And for some reason they get to do all of the talking. This is especially true every election season. Politicians say and do dumb things and they do it because they are listening to the loudest of our society.

Unfortunately, the loudest tend to be the dumbest and craziest. It’s why they’re the loudest. And out of a lack of reason and logic we’ve let them represent us. We’ve let them speak for us.

Take the recent argument in the comedy world about rape jokes. Rape jokes are tacky and hackneyed at best and at worst perpetuate the subjugation of women in our society. The very funny and smart Lindy West has been one of a few voices of reason in this debate while many more dummies have tried to shout her down. She brilliantly laid out the logical response to rape jokes in this article here.

The firestorm that came after was pretty ridiculous, especially considering how well thought out (and correct!) her argument was.

Basically what happened was Lindy (I can call her that now. I tweeted her. No big deal. She didn’t respond, but we’re tight. Tweet tight. [Update: She favorited my tweet!] #LoveAtNoSightCauseWeHaveNotMet) Lindy basically said (and I’m paraphrasing), “Rape jokes aren’t good for society. You don’t get to use my vagina as the butt of a joke that perpetuates a systematic hostile attitude towards women.” And everyone on Twitter, except me and a few others, said “You don’t get to tell me whether I get to assault you with my penis. It’s MY penis!” That’s not much of a paraphrase, sadly.

And that’s ultimately why the world is still an awful place. As far as we come in our reasoning towards life as a collective body we still have dumb, barbaric wastes-of-space who will say and do dumb things. For every time we did something good, like freed the slaves, we had some moron say, “Hey, what was the big deal with owning people, oh wait did I call them people? I meant to say what’s so wrong with owning those human-like creatures and making them work for nothing?”

We’ve always had terrible people. We just didn’t always have Twitter giving every idiot a place they can be heard.

Imagine what we would have heard if Twitter existed when Lincoln was assassinated, or the slaves were freed, or when Murder She Wrote was cancelled after poor ratings.

Undoubtedly there would have been people who would have said, “Killing a president is wrong and all, but I don’t care for coloreds.” Or when the slaves were freed someone would have said, “Not hate, just heritage…of making money by forcing others to work for me like my father before me. Seriously, guys. Life is so hard for me. #FML Please retweet.” And some brainiac would have said, “It just doesn’t make sense that Murder, She Wrote didn’t beat Friends!”

Despite how stupid these are, someone would have said them. And someone probably did despite the fact Murder, She Wrote skewed old and never had a strong 18-49 demo. I mean, seriously, CBS, that’s bush league. Friends was in it’s second season!

A big part of comedy is that there can be no sacred cows, because we need to be able to pick apart everything in order to hold it accountable. But that only works if you view comedy as an important artistic tool that helps to smooth out how we think as a society by pointing out where we have gone wrong. But if you think the purpose of comedy is simply to be funny then there are no rules and there is no point. Working under that belief, all you’re required to do is find a clever way to turn phrase.

I like comics who go for something a little deeper than just merely being funny. If all you want to be is funny, fine. Cut up with your friends and leave going on a public stage to the professionals who have something important to do. At the very least you should be doing comedy to make people escape the awful things in the world that most comics are trying to tear down. That’s fine. But if all you want are laughs that come at your behest and control, then get off of the stage.

You have to earn your time in front of people in a public forum. The dumb have been at the mic speaking for us for far too long.