Don Rickles, who is the king and undisputed world champion of clean, insult comedy, has riled the primitives regarding his Obama/mop joke. The crowd **gasped** at the joke when they heard Der Leader was the brunt of a joke, and the DUmmies can't contain their "disgust".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002788174cynatnite (25,144 posts)
Don Rickles' racial joke about President Obama...
Don Rickles told a racial joke Thursday night at the American Film Institute’s tribute to Shirley MacLaine that may have been more appropriate half a century ago at the Friar's Club. This time, though, the object of Rickles' mockery wasn't Sammy Davis Jr. -- but the first African-American President of the United States.
"I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks," Rickles, 86, said according to The Hollywood Reporter. "President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke."
Like many comedians of his generation, Rickles' act has long included racial humor that would be considered unacceptable to today's audiences. But as race relations evolved, it became rarer and rarer for comedians like Rickles to include such jokes in their act.
This was not the first times Rickles did material about Obama that made audiences squeamish. Right after Obama was elected in 2008, Rickles went on "Late Show with David Letterman" to try out some jokes about Obama playing basketball in the White House during a national emergency. The studio audience was audibly uncomfortable with the racial implications.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/don-rickles-tells-obama-racial-joke-at-afi-dinner_n_1582285.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
This thread, in a nutshell, epitomizes the typical leftist. They don't understand racism if it blows up in their faces, and more than any other thread, indicates the true level of emotionalism these cretins possess.
Zillions of "Oh, what an awful racist bastard Rickles is," etc. Now, you may not like his style of comedy, but I've decided to include one of his greatest routines, a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Sammy Davis Jr. is the honoree:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPbJFjrbf20[/youtube]
Brilliant. Just brilliant! IF you don't like this, you are a died in the wool libtard deluxe...
On the Letterman show, he also was there while Denzel Washington was a guest. He couldn't stop laughing his ASS off at Rickles making fun of him the entire time (though he let Letterman have it twice as much).
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I72wiRByxvU[/youtube]
Bottom line: These people do not understand that if Rickles makes a joke about you and your heritage, you've ARRIVED. If he doesn't, you are still B-list or below.