And Peter was the only one Matt was trying to impress, so yay.
Uh, Pete? There’s a difference between being offended by a joke — we’re not — and not laughing because an attempted joke isn’t funny. Our reaction to Bam Bam’s immediate need to make a gay joke in the wake of bin Laden’s death, was pity, on two fronts, not outrage. Pity because this is yet another example of the fact that wingnuts just can’t Do Funny. There is a reason that the great majority of humorists are liberals — comedic talent tends to correspond with liberal values, though I’m not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg — and that conservatives aren’t well represented, and it’s that the best humor has to have some sort of grounding in reality in order to work. A religious extremist making a strangely timed gay joke that only will appeal to a few slobbering wingnuts who can’t stop thinking about gay sex on the occasion of the killing of another religious extremist simply doesn’t qualify as humor. The other reason we felt pity was because, as I said earlier, the fact that the immediate reaction of an anti-gay wingnut to this event was to reveal that even then, he was thinking about gay sex, was sad and disturbing.
Many funny things have been said since last night. Indeed, over at the humor site Wonkette — where I am a humor writer! — the initial post on bin Laden’s death was tagged with these words: ”Texas Justice Administered By Kenyan.”
That is funny. Not Bam Bam’s little attempt at a schoolyard dig for the benefit of nine or ten chairborne wingnuts.
Funny? Actually I took it as all gay men are going to hell. Which I guess in the end it is funny, coming from someone who’s obviously going to hell as well for his sinful gluttony.
But Dale, the islamic belief is that you get the 72 virgins when you go to heaven.
It’s a toss-up as to who’s the scummier of the two. Both of them write at about the level of a seventh-grade school paper, with Barber getting extra points off for his ridicule-worthy, infantile rhetoric.
I tend to think of comedy as a branch of the creative arts. Fundagelitives seem to have a hard time in any field involving creativity. How many of them do you know who are accomplished in the creative arts?
Comedy involves creativity – a comedian needs the desire and ability to see beyond the surface, the typical, the obvious, the standard, the orthodox, and beyond the indoctrination that has stunted their development. But creativity is one of the things that Fundagelitives fear most. Creativity represents change, new ways of thinking, insights, and making things different, all of which are anathema to Fundagelitives.
So, Fundagelitives’ attempts at comedy just come off mostly as nasty. It’s a vehicle for them to indulge their bigotry and persecution while trying to make it fun. They’re like bullies laughing at their victims.
I’ve never met gay men who were so obsessed with leathermen as Bam Bam and Porny Petey are ! Guess the next “academy” will be the leather academy, eh, Petey?
Bam-Bam and Porno-Pete, just come out of the closet and marry each other already.