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Tracy Morgan lands in PC trouble — and Nick DiPaolo is there to bail him out.
Comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has become the latest B-list celebrity to offend the moral sensibilities of the American public, with homophobic comments he made at his June 3 standup show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The liberal blogosphere is now seeing its most traffic in several scandals, and sanctimonious pundits are topping each other left and left in the umbrage department. Even among his comedy-world colleagues, Morgan doesn’t have many vocal supporters.
Standup comedian Nick DiPaolo, however, offered a few harsh words for Morgan’s critics to The American Spectator. DiPaolo, a Comedy Central and Howard Stern regular, frequently delivers his conservative viewpoints as a guest-host on Dennis Miller’s radio show or as a talking head on Fox News programs like Hannity. “I have to defend Tracy right now,” DiPaolo insisted. “This whole thing is just insane.”
Morgan began his Nashville routine mocking President Obama’s “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign, implying that it’s a fatuous diversion from real social problems (not a bad opener). But as the crowd grew restless, Morgan quickly reverted to homophobic jokes and crude suggestions of anti-gay violence. He reportedly incited a chorus of boos and caused segments of the Ryman audience to walk out in protest.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) struck next. GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios, a Massachusetts state senator, openly condemned Morgan’s actions and called for an “investigation” into his conduct. But no investigation occurred. Barrios could sense that law-enforcement officials, handcuffed by bureaucratic red tape and the fact that no crime had actually been committed, would be useless. If he wanted to take down Morgan — a pretty-boy celebrity protected from on high by the First Amendment — then he would have to take matters into his own hands. He soon announced that he was launching his own investigation, which would presumably employ tape recorders, some newly minted summer interns, and a couple of Matt Drudge hats.
By the end of last week, Tracy-Gate had effectively taken a census of all the LGBT activist groups in the country (even the folks at “Truth Wins Out” got their names in the paper). Morgan has apologized profusely and agreed to meet not only with gay youths in Nashville, but also with homeless gay youths in New York. But DiPaolo doesn’t think Morgan should have to apologize. “A comedian making a gay joke on stage does not then lead to a gay kid getting beat up,” DiPaolo asserts. “Those things are mutually exclusive.”
DiPaolo grew up in blue-collar Danvers, Massachusetts, only an hour away but also a few tax brackets down from Barrios’ legislative district in Middlesex County. He cut his teeth on the Boston club scene in the '80s and then gained traction in New York, where Morgan was also distinguishing himself against a backdrop of booze, hecklers, and cutthroat competition. “You worked fast or else they ate you alive,” DiPaolo recalls of those boisterous East Coast club crowds. “If you didn’t make them laugh, then you didn’t get paid.”
As he progressed in show business, encountering subtle double-standards and the fast-talking men who sustain them, DiPaolo leaned more heavily on his political conservatism. He remembers the rise of the P.C. Movement in America and its seismic effect on the comedy scene in the early '90s. “It was a confusing time,” DiPaolo says, recalling how he found himself fighting for the right to use ethnic humor on stage even as he was regrettably playing the “Dumb Italian” role on a network sitcom. “To me, comedy is about finding the truth. Well, there’s no truth in political correctness.”
Morgan got famous first, in the mid-nineties, when he was cast on Saturday Night Live (a Harvard Lampoon-dominated show that DiPaolo loathes for “conditioning America to safe, liberal comedy”). On the show, Morgan played bowdlerized variations on stereotypical African-American characters. The viewing public grew accustomed to him. Even as he vaulted to superstardom on 30 Rock, his edginess was always tempered, always played for self-defeating laughs. So, what happens when a live audience sees a familiar performer like Morgan expressing himself, without the Clorox?
“It goes over their heads,” says DiPaolo. “People today don’t have any context. They’re all raised on college speech codes, and a little alarm goes off in their head when they hear something that they know is ‘supposed’ to be offensive. I mean, Tracy has different personas on stage. We don’t necessarily know what was happening at that show.”
Maybe Morgan was practicing his own spin on experimental comedy, that vogue late-'70s phenomenon that modern comics like Michael Richards conveniently invoke when they get in trouble?
“It doesn’t really matter what he was trying to do,” says DiPaolo, sounding less like Sam Kinison and more like Murray Rothbard. “As long as he has the right to do it. Let the market decide what it will and will not tolerate. But don’t censor the product.”
The Nashville marketplace seems to have rejected Tracy Morgan, at least for the time being. Let’s see what the homeless youths have to say.
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Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 6.15.11 @ 7:54AM
Thank God Sam Kinison didn't stick around long enough to be turned into just another PC crowd comedian. Sometimes it's better to live fast and die young, than to live "correct" and survive forever and ever, boring people slowly to death!!
Anna K. from Emory U.| 6.15.11 @ 9:52AM
Since Howley does not quote the exact words of this stupid, vile and vicious comedian, I will:
Tracy Morgan said if he learned his son was gay, he better come home and talk to him like a man and not [he mimicked a gay, high pitched voice] or he would pull out a knife and stab that little nigger to death. ... Tracy then said he didn't fucking care if he pissed off some gays, because if they can take a fucking dick up their ass... they can take a fucking joke."
This is just one tiny blip from his "hilarious" routine.
Stab the little gay nigger to death! How funny can Tracy get? Hilarious!
I'm sure most of AmSpec readers would find this gut-busting hilarious, but I most certainly do not, and my students will not be amused when I give them copies. (A student who surfs right-wing hate sites brought this to my attention this morning.)
How Patty Howley can come to Morgan's defence doesn't surprise me. You can always count on American Spectator to defend the most evil attacks on gays and other hated minorities.
Surfer Dude| 6.15.11 @ 10:13AM
OOO! You "most certainly do not"! Am Spec comes to Ms. Cotton Mather's attention.
34 and Taking the Floor| 6.15.11 @ 10:21AM
Morgan can joke about gays or niggers or Jews entering the crematoriums or cancer-striken children or any damn thing in the world. There's a huge audience for this type of shocking trash talk.
But when you're truly hateful, it poisons the humor. And when you're seemingly completely oblivious to the real violence gay and lesbian youth face, to the epidemic of bullying that's killing kids, it just makes you seem like a low-IQ, crass bigot.
Come on Morgan. Time for you to do a little trash talk on, say, Mohammed f**king his nine-year-old wife Aisha. That would be funny, wouldn't it?
ps 77| 6.15.11 @ 10:28AM
Low IQ? Tracy has a low IQ?
You got it. Somewhere in the low 70s, most likely.
Walt | 6.15.11 @ 10:36AM
Take a look at Tracy's head shot. That's one dumb face.
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 10:44AM
Here's another Morgan joke:
How do you stop a baby crying?
Cum in its mouth.
Is this funny? What type of person would find this amusing?
tonypal| 6.15.11 @ 10:34AM
Anna, can you give us a single example of American Spectator defending "the most evil attacks on gays and other hated minorities?" Bet you can't. In fact, I'll bet the only reason your here is your masters at Media Matters assigned you the task of stirring up trouble here at TAS. So prove me wrong and supply us with some direct quotes from TAS writers or posters. We'll all be waiting (probably for a good long time).
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 10:50AM
A single example of Amercan Spectator defending "evil attacks on gays."
This Patrick Howley post, dude. This piece is supporting a stupid comedian who hates gays. Only a serious gay hater could do Tracy's routine.
TrueBlue| 6.15.11 @ 6:09PM
It's not about defending what was said, but the fact that Morgan has a right to say it. That's the beauty of the First Amendment, it gives people the right to say anything they dang well please, regardless of how stupid it is.
That's how you limit (and then destroy) free speech, you start with what a large group consider offensive or hateful, then expand it little by little until nobody is allowed to say anything without fear of arrest or persecution. I give to you the "Politically Correct" movement.
Mimi| 6.15.11 @ 7:06PM
It's not just the violence of his talk that gets me. The fact that an audience sits there and laughs at this abominable, violent filth is what riles me. Laughs at it!
Old Soldier | 6.15.11 @ 10:34AM
Who are you to tell me what's funny? If you don't like Morgan, don't watch him. Do not go on some speech suppressing crusade - because the next person to be suppressed may be you.
I've laughed at far worse things - including actual dead bodies not theoretical gay children.
Humor keeps us sane, particluarly in stressful situations. Breitbart said "Comedy is the exhaust system of a healthy society." He's right.
I learned long ago not to trust anyone who doesn't have a sense of humor - it indicates a rigid mind that will shatter under pressure.
The Joker| 6.15.11 @ 12:06PM
Morgan is one funny man. But I like humor with NO LIMITS. The joke would have been funnier if he had said,
"I'd cut the little gay nigger's dick off, stuff it in his mouth, shove a crucifix up his ass, piss on him, and then stab him 69 times."
Now this is what I call REAL HUMOR!
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Are you laughing with me, Old Soldier?
Old Soldier| 6.15.11 @ 1:48PM
Sure. It's always funny when a douche-bag bombs.
PCP Smoker| 6.15.11 @ 8:57PM
That's a classic response. Don't fuck with this man.
Eric Cartman| 6.15.11 @ 11:27AM
Uh, oh! It's Anna "Knots in My Panties" K from Emory! Here to growl and spit her disapproval when an unfunny comedian (Really, Morgan just isn't that funny) when he swerves into the protected class! Watch it, everyone, or you'll get soaked by the spittle of her tsking!
I don't know who is more loathsome, Anna K or Morgan. Wait, I do too! Its Anna K. Morgan made a stupid joke, Anna is the Queen Bitch of Political Correctness at Emory, holding the sweaty, "Andria Dworken Fat Nasty Chair" at the useless Womyn Studies Department and advocates useless PC bullshit to stupid college students. Morgan is just an ass clown.
As a person who knew Sam Kinison in the Houston comedy circuit back in the 80s, I can say with certainty that he would rather beat Anna K with a running chainsaw than silence Morgan, no matter how unfunny the joke. Then again, who wouldn't?
Nick| 6.16.11 @ 1:27AM
Mr. Cartman,
I'm sorry, but it is not the "Womyn Studies Department" anymore.
It is the Gyno-American Studies Department.
Or, as Al Bundy called them, Rhino-Americans!
Stupid feminazis.
RCV| 6.15.11 @ 11:37AM
You are absolutely right, Anna.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 6.15.11 @ 12:32PM
I don't bother with silly not one regular reader being shocked to discover that I the morally unprincipled fraudulent deceiver constantly vomiting excrement all over American Spectator am in absolute agreement with another poster who is consistently pathetic and despicable and unintelligent and dishonest at American Spectator while being on a first name basis with the aforementioned poster on belonging to the party that at least cares about human beings after they're partially born with the exception of every human being partially born as the policies I espouse confirm including comedians and particularly I must emphasize I hate the tea party because they are wholly lacking in intelligence and they are without a shred of real Christian love and they are without a shred of compassion and fear not I will never cease to educate American Spectator readers with ever more continuous posts that are pathetic and despicable and unintelligent and dishonest and other matters of American Spectator conservative hate matters.
RCV| 6.15.11 @ 1:14PM
Skippy....Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
skip| 6.15.11 @ 1:44PM
Apparently, you don't bother with silly little things like 'shame', 'disgrace', 'embarrassed', or any similar 'integrity' matters, either.
jomo2009| 6.15.11 @ 3:54PM
Never mind all those things, how about some punctuation marks?
skip| 6.15.11 @ 11:53AM
Holy crap.
"(A student who surfs right-wing hate sites...)"
Morgan was attempting jokes about homosexuals in a live comedy routine.
Your comment is not in jest and subject to revision at any point before submission to this site.
Do you have the intelligence and honesty to realize you've exercised your freedom of speech more offensively than Morgan?
Slacker| 6.15.11 @ 12:27PM
Really none of my business… but, why get yourself and your students all worked up over something so trivial as a fag joke? I don't see what good it does them.
33333| 6.15.11 @ 12:48PM
I do not usually post my thoughts on this blog, but I feel I must speak out on this issue.
As a father of a young son who is gay, I have had to go to his school on numerous occasions to talk with teachers, principal, and counselors about kids who are bullying him. I took time off work to do this.
I want the readers of this page to know that I will not sit by silently and watch gay people being slandered by a comedian or anybody else. As a few posters on here have said, Morgan went way beyond humor into downright cruelty.
It is my hope that many of you sympathizers of Morgans hateful attack will have gay sons or daughters or gay grandsons and daughters. You have to experience a closeness to these human beings to appreciate how they suffer from bigots. Perhaps then you would let go of your hatred.
As for my son, I am proud to be his father and I love him with all my heart. I just hope he meets a loving partner and has a happy life with him.
My son is kind, smart, talented, and I will give him my love and support throughout my life. What Morgan said about his hypothetical gay son is so repugnant to me. His remarks are in one word-- evil.
Whenever I hear colleagues make derogatory remarks, I tell them my son is gay and I will not tolerate their hateful statements. And, thank God, my boss backs me.
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a conservative when I read the hateful posters on here.
LMajito| 6.15.11 @ 1:21PM
so is your son normal? i mean it looks by your post the he's some type of handicap...if he is not, then teach him some real skills and enroll him the nearest mma academy so he can defend himself of the bullies...remember that big fat kid in australia body slamming the little punk? well if your boy excercises his new found skills maybe you'll be at the principals but only to hear how you boy has put some punk in the local er for making fun of his homosexuality...
another thing, how does people around you know you're a homosexual? somebody must have said or done something for folks to know...this is not information that easily gets around...
skip| 6.15.11 @ 1:36PM
"I will not sit by silently and watch (homosexual) people being slandered by a comedian or anybody else"
Does this include The Lord God Almighty? Is The Lord God Almighty slandering homosexuals in Leviticus 18:22? Does this include anyone who quotes Leviticus 18:22?
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18:22)
RCV| 6.15.11 @ 3:13PM
Keeping away from shellfish and mixed fabrics, too, Skippy?
skip| 6.15.11 @ 5:59PM
Apparently, you don't bother with silly little things like having your own words used to point out what a shameless, disgraceful, embarrassment you really are, on the gratitude all readers have for Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus being here to point this out matters, either.
DRed| 6.15.11 @ 7:13PM
Skippy, you think we should execute former Senator Ensign for committing adultery with another man's wife? The Lord God Almighty says so in the book of Leviticus.
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 6:22PM
Skippy is dragging out the ridiculous book of Leviticus.
In Leviticus, it describes grasshoppers as having four legs. Look it up. An obvious error. So much for the "infallible" Bible. (That thing you're feeling now is called "cognitive dissonance, and the bible is full of it.)
Whoopie for oopie! He knows his stuff!
michigander_sandusky| 6.15.11 @ 11:05PM
A grasshopper uses the front two sets of legs to "creep" (i.e., walk) and the large set of rear legs "with which to leap on the earth." (Lev. 11:21) Duh!
skip| 6.15.11 @ 10:37PM
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable"
I can see where the wording is so complex, so deep metaphysically, that comprehension of such a complicated sentence as "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" can only be parsed by a liberal.
When such an obvious genius as RCV interprets such a complicated statement as "Thou shalt not murder" with such intelligence and honesty as to witness to the world he belongs to the party that cares about human beings AFTER they're born and stand for abortion as the devout churchgoing Christian he proclaims, it is utter folly to doubt his intepretation of the statement "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable".
Same for a genius like DRed, since his intelligence and honesty so obviously reveals "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" can only be understood by changing the subject to any other passage involving any other behavior subject to interpretation only by moral liberals, there is simply no other way.
Same for a genius like ooppie; if ooppie says the Bible is just cognitive dissonance when stating "Do not lie with a woman as one lies with a man; that is detestable", who am I, or anyone else for that matter, to disagree, when it is so obvious it is not the Bible but ooppie who is infallible, and pity the idiot that is not aware of it.
To put authority in the Bible as a guide to life, or to put authority in geniuses like RCV and DRed and ooppie, is such an easy decision to make after perusing all the brilliant posts of these three intellectual heavyweights whose honesty is beyond question, especially when they so astutely interpret such a complicated statement as "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable", not to even mention the politcial acumen on display through their revelatory posts.
Lord God Almighty, or RCV and DRed and ooppie; what a toughie; ooppie and DRed and RCV or Lord God Almighty; I think it's a cinch to go with the the three geniuses; after all, three is triple more than one. The final straw in their favor is the subtle nuance of their interpretations of such a complicated statement as "Do not lie with a woman as one lies with a man; that is detestable" though, because none but liberals could ever figure out such a complicated statement as "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable".
Thanks guys.
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 11:16PM
Skippy, boy,
The bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals with flawed moral reasoning and no scientific knowledge whatsoever.
Desert dwellers who lived 3,000 years ago created a desert religion that attempted to form some rudimentary moral framework for that primitive time. But the bible is full of violence, contradictions, and scientific errors. The book of Leviticus has nothing to say to modern ethical humans; we have evovled morally light years from Leviticus.
You poor soul. You're using ignorance to back up your bigotry.
skip| 6.16.11 @ 1:17PM
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness" (Isaiah 5:20)
I would argue those humans 3000 years ago are evolved morally light years ahead of you.
Regardless, we are in a high stakes contest over this, the stakes being eternal welfare. I pledge I will do my best to not say I told you so at any point during eternity.
Good luck to you on this trivial matter.
RCV| 6.16.11 @ 1:21PM
Skip, if there is indeed a loving and just God as I believe there is, the chances of you being in any eternal place I would want to occupy are slim.
skip| 6.16.11 @ 1:38PM
Tell that to the fifty three million innocent unborn Americans, who eagerly await your arrival, whose brutal murders you've 'legally' supported, before explaining to The Almighty that His Word is fallible, mister devout churchgoing Christian constitutional lawyer expert.
RCV| 6.16.11 @ 7:09PM
Skip, you worry about accounting to God for your own life and attitudes toward your fellow human beings, and I'll do the same.
skip| 6.16.11 @ 9:15PM
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom" (Colossians 3:16)
It would be worse than the country being led by the dithering idiot liar in chief, to be denied eternal life, simply because I didn't 'teach and admonish', of all people, a liberal Californian reprobate, who despite 64 years of experience on this planet, is such a dumb ass charlatan, he posts pathetic, despicable, unintelligent, and dishonest drivel, dreck, treacle, and vomitus, to such a staggering degree, I ignored the douchebag asswipe of epic magnitude, simply because his posts are morally repugnant, contemptible, and vile; and, you are welcome, you ingrate.
Grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 3:57PM
Gee, el schmucko grande, how many times can you fit the word "hateful" into a post?
Conservative my ass. Who do you think you're fooling?
Grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 4:16PM
BTW, troll, why aren't you grateful for having a gay son? I'd think it'd be like winning the liberal lottery.
Doesn't it allow you to flex those moral outrage muscles and bask forever in the reflected glory of your moral vanity? I mean, isn't it worth the occasional alleged bloody nose of your alleged kid if it allows you to puff yourself up?
Yeah, it is YOU who are the bigot, my supercilious, preening friend.
But I guess you really get your rocks off wielding your "goodness" over we benighted "haters" like a cudgel.
Do you people ever tire of patting yourselves on the back?
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 6:17PM
Careful, Grzmlyk,
You don't want those cancer cells to start multiplying again, do you?
Anger and bitterness are detrimental to your health. Didn't you know, old man?
grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 7:33PM
Why the hate? You're a hater!
Hater! Hater! Hater! Hater!
Bigot! Bigot! Bigot! Bigot!
That's not funny. I'm a cancer survivor, and I am offended by what you have said. You know I have a constitutional right not to be offended EVER.
The speech police should be knocking on the door of your room at the welfare hotel anytime now, and they're gonna set your mind right about offending cancer survivors, you hater.
Oh wait - you're a liberal. Never mind. You can hate all you want. Just like your moron tyrant in chief and his bigoted attorney General and all of the Marxist minions that never stop coming out of the clown car that is this administration.
I find it amusing that liberals' greatest fantasy is to round up all conservatives and slaughter them in the name of tolerance. Well, maybe that's your second greatest fantasy. I guess getting buggered by Obama is still number one, right, Oopsie?
So tell me, Oopsie - which kind of liberal are you? A crook or a fool?
My money's on fool.
By the way, is there something in your Daily Kos marching orders that tells you people to refer to all posters on this site as old? How about a scintilla of originality? Oh wait - you're a liberal. Never mind.
Mimi| 6.15.11 @ 9:15PM
grzmlyk,
Your hysterical ranting make all of us look bad. Are you incapable of expressing your thoughts in a civil tongue? Reread your thoughts and you will see that your tone is too abrasive.
I' m getting a little tired of your shrill tirades, and I'm sure there are others who feel the same as I.
grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 10:00PM
Know what Mimi?
If you don't like them, DON'T READ THEM.
Think you can handle that?
Slacker| 6.15.11 @ 5:26PM
Ultimately we decide what offends us and what doesn't. Why allow derogatory remarks to get you in a twist? Your anger only hurts you.
Gays will always be slandered and bullied because, well, so is everybody else. Plan to spend the rest of your life offended? Bummer.
Todd S| 6.15.11 @ 2:48PM
Hey Anna K, you know who also defended Tracy Morgan? Your hero Tina Fey, I guess she also hates gay people and must be a secret conservative. It is people like you that gives feminism a bad name thinking it is your job to be the PC police.
Grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 3:55PM
Your comment has offended me.
As you know, the only right that matters in this country anymore is the Constitutional right of members of "Preferred Victim Groups" never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever to be offended by anything they hear, read or see (and by "Preferred Victim Groups," of course, I refer to gays, lesbians, transgendereds, etc.; blacks, "Hispanics," Muslims, liberals, women, physically-challenged people and any other Democrats).
I am physically challenged and therefore a member in good standing of a Preferred Victim Group.
As a result, I have a right to silence you, and if you do not comply, I'll make some calls to the IRS, the Ministry of Universal Health Care and the EPA and they can look into your finances, your personal habits and your impact on our precious, but very fragile, environment. They will also look into the finances, personal habits, and impact on our precious, but very fragile, environment of your parents, your siblings, all of your acquaintenances and all of their acquaintenances, and you had better hope they find every "t" dotted and every "i" crossed on everybody's paperwork and that all of you have the right attutides and behaviors, or it's the re-education camp - or else liquidation chambers - for every last offender (praise be to Obama).
I insist that, right now, you do the following in order to prevent the rest of your life being taken up by subpoenas, audits, investigations or, worse, remedial actions: 1) apologize to me and to everyone on this planet who was similarly offended by your hateful remarks; 2) promise never to say those hateful things again; 3) enter a rehab program for hateful human scum whose minds have to be put right; 4) make a substantial contribution to the charity of my choice; and 5) until the day you die, become an activist for that charity.
Don't thank me. I'm sure you'd do the same for me.
Die Fledermaus| 6.15.11 @ 6:00PM
Anna, its called free speech you facist ninny.
Gee, the left has turned into moral preeners. Lenny Bruce is spinning in his grave along with George Carlin.
Take your PC attitude and shove it.
tm677| 6.16.11 @ 10:27PM
agreed. always scary when a smart (read: smug) writer takes the side of true ?Evil. Patrick Howley? Get a soul
McCandles| 6.15.11 @ 11:05AM
Kinison's "shoot the homeless" routine is worth a look on you tube. Hilarious.
bluecollarbytes| 6.15.11 @ 8:37AM
Comedy used to be more liberated, before the new conformists, consisting of folks masquerading as non-conformists, 'took over' and demanded strict adherence to a set of political guidelines. The new-conformists demand the same from us in work, play and all general societal interactions. It's a symptom of these folks that neither they or we are allowed to think for ourselves. So much for their 'intellectual' curiosity.
Conforming leftists are among other things, extremely boring, including their comedians.
annie| 6.15.11 @ 8:46AM
They're not "mutually exclusive," they're "independent."
Old Soldier | 6.15.11 @ 9:30AM
The Opie and Anthony show along with comedian Jim Norton stuck up for Morgan yesterday. They also made fun of GLAD for bullying Morgan in order to use him as a bullhorn. They correctly pointed out what a dangerous trend it is to start going after comedians for material in their acts!
People who have followed Morgan for years know he is raunchy and spontaneous – and absolutely hilarious. Now that he is known for 30 Rock, he gets people who aren't expecting it - who walk out. Screw ‘em.
With 30 Rock money coming in, he can be held hostage. A regular circuit comedian would have told them where to stick it and made fun of GLAD in his act.
nister| 6.15.11 @ 9:42AM
How could you write this article without telling us what Morgan said? If you're gonna mock PC attitudes, don't wimp out on the punchline.
Uppity Uppity| 6.15.11 @ 9:57AM
Scroll up and read Anna K.'s rebuke. She quotes Morgan's hateful and hideous words.
nister| 6.15.11 @ 10:12AM
True enough, but beside the point. The author of the article didn't have the sack to include them. How PC of him.
Uppity Uppity| 6.15.11 @ 10:25AM
Hell no! The author would not include the exact words Tracy said, for if he did, any sane person would see what a perverted idiot piece of gutter trash Tracy Morgan is.
Old Soldier| 6.15.11 @ 10:49AM
Right down and read a routine by Richard Prior, Sma Kinison, Dice, etc... They will all sound terrible if you take them seriously.
If you take anything Tracy Morgan says seriously, you have a problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ure=relmfu
If you are reading it - at least read it in a Tracy Morgan voice. Jay Mohr can help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Grzmlyk| 6.15.11 @ 4:36PM
You're a racist.
tonypal| 6.15.11 @ 10:38AM
Anna K. is nothing more than a leftist troll. Note that she (if Anna K. is really a she) uses all the classic Media Matters for America cliches, combined with unsubstantiated statements about The American Spectator. In fact, she's a typical leftist - a hateful liar.
Patrick| 6.15.11 @ 10:08AM
For a good example of what liberalism has done to humor, read the New Yorker shouts and humor column, which is never never funny--compared to the great days of the past. Part fo being humorous is saying awful things--sorry it's true. Of course these days that's reserved for the catholic church--the PC crowd allows any terrible thing to be said about them.
If you don't want to hear this stuff don't go. I'm sick fo one point of view being stifled over another.
DAZ| 6.15.11 @ 10:38AM
1. I'm sooo glad I didn't go to Emory.
2. Tracy Morgan, meet Dennis Miller.
Doctor Right| 6.15.11 @ 10:39AM
Tracy Morgan is simply another over-rated, unfunny SNL-alumnus.
The only reason Morgan is able to make a living doing "comedy" in the first place is because he's black, and the PC-crowd are afraid to tell him he sucks.
ooppie| 6.15.11 @ 10:47AM
How right you are, brother! You be speakin' duh truth!
Old Soldier| 6.15.11 @ 11:12AM
Actually Morgan is another SNL alumni (like Bruer and Mohr) who was never got the chance to shine there. He has made me laugh to tears in his stand-up on as a guest on talk shows.
Here's Tracy making fun of a disabled Vet. Boho! I'm so offended. Wah, somebody hurt my feelings!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Appleby| 6.15.11 @ 10:57AM
I agree that the market place should decide; if somebody is buying, somebody will be selling. It's a real shame that most "humour" seems nowadays to be merely new and inventive ways to yell "poo poo head!"
On the other hand, it would be helpful if some kind of warning were included, or a generous refund policy were in place, so that those of us who thought we were coming to a comedy show could gracefully get the heck out of there and take our refund to a nice restaurant instead.
Old Soldier| 6.15.11 @ 11:16AM
It's called Youtube.
You might want to check out Bob Sagett there before taking the kids to his show.
Die Fledermaus| 6.15.11 @ 6:03PM
Yep, Sagett can even make me blush.
And watch any of the Comedy Central "Roasts". It's all un-PC and vulgar.
Funny too!
Die Fledermaus| 6.15.11 @ 6:03PM
Yep, Sagett can even make me blush.
And watch any of the Comedy Central "Roasts". It's all un-PC and vulgar.
Funny too!
LMajito| 6.15.11 @ 1:33PM
never thought that obscene and vulgar dialog was comedic in nature...i never found this guy morgan humorous but then again always though SNL was retarded humor at best...never found what was the fascination with the show...
but as with anything in the US today, society seems to accept anything as humorous...i could never view slicing the head of my son as humorous but i do know folks that do...personally i stay away form these human beings but to go out and make a stink about it...hhmmm...
i mean this guy is not any different from maher, carlin and even baldwin (alec that is) when they speak of taking wifes, children and whole family of christians or conservatives and butchering them...
where were those incensed a morgan's snide homosexual remarks when these left wing punks, that parade as comedians, wanted to butcher politicians families because they agreed that presidents ought not to engage in sexual activities with young interns?
wolflen| 6.15.11 @ 1:41PM
would early pryor be "funny" today..could you make "blazing saddles" without protests and lawyers...humor, and speech in general..and extend it to thought...is now "pre-screened" .. and reviewed by a mind control panel that makes rules in back rooms..and threatens any violator to a term in "haters prison"..never to be forgiven..human behavior in now monitored by cameras in each persons hand and reported to the bigger cameras that tell all viewers who is naughty and nice..no one is immune or bypassed.."..But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.."
Oldefarte| 6.15.11 @ 1:52PM
As a [according to some of the imbecilic comments here] TYPICAL AMERICAN SPECTATOR READER, I'll confess to not be familiar with this comedian's act/material. He no doubt is similar to other liberal bullexcrement artsy-fartsy morons that make use of body parts, sex, minorities, religious affiliations, etc to create what's disguised as comedy to stupids [when communicating with sub-humans or animals, you have to descend down to their mental level or said audience will simply not GET IT]. The true comedians are now mostly dead or dying of old age, and what's left are sorry excuses for human beings and are simply displaying what the old philosopher Forrest Gump once proclaimed as STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mimi| 6.15.11 @ 6:29PM
Oldefarte, for once I agree with you. Comedy today is vulgar and profane and obscene beyond belief.
There is nothing funny about Tracy Morgan. He's nothing but a scummy public-housing gutter mouth.
Trash. That's all he is, and there are a lot more just like him. Yet, some readers of Am/Spec think he's amusing. God help us!
Old Soldier| 6.15.11 @ 9:54PM
So don't watch him. Don't listen to Don Immus or Doctor Laura or whoever else is this week's target.
But don't try to restrict their speech or silence them. Once somebody can be silenced, anyone can be.
Richard Baker| 6.15.11 @ 8:47PM
I always find it amusing that the sexual perversion of the homosexual is "GLAAD" and "GAY." Wonder how the gerbil population is doing these days, as well?
Ore Gone| 6.15.11 @ 9:54PM
You have the right to not listen to it. Just as you can turn your tv off or your radio. Most of rap music is also offensive but I don't listen to it. Real things last the test of time and fads and vulgarity tend to go away. I like Nick Dipaolo and I think people are entitled to one thing in this world and that is their own opinion. That is the only entitlement and the thought police can just spin on it.
weddingdresses | 6.16.11 @ 4:09AM
I always find it amusing that the sexual perversion of the homosexual is "GLAAD" and "GAY." Wonder how the gerbil population is doing these days, as well?
mmercier| 6.16.11 @ 6:32AM
I got in a fight with Nick in junior high school.
He was not that funny then.
I won.
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