Sen. Ted Kennedy apparently tried to rescue a group of guys trapped in the water. Fill in your own joke. The only thing Robert Bork has ever said that I liked was when, during his confirmation hearing in response to a question by Ted Kennedy, he said, "Senator, that's all water under the bridge."
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I steered away from the obvious joke and went for the even more obvious:
"In case of emergency, your senator may be used as a flotation device."
Don't be cruel. What the apparently intended butt of your joke was, happened decades ago.
raj wrote:
I think we must have different definitions of cruel. Cheating on your wife, leaving your mistress to die and then lying to get out of it - that's cruel. Making jokes about it after the bastard bought his way out of it - that's just karma coming back around. There is no statute of limitations on mockery.
Dang, I read this yesterday and just now got it.
Say, didn't they have some kind of mistress problem over in England a while ago? As I recall, they found some pretty young thing bobbing up and down under a peer.
Bill Ware wrote:
Ha. My old buddy Geechy Guy, a hilarious comedian, used to call that a "joke grenade"; you had to pull the pin and then wait for it to go off.
I don't think joking about idiotic behavior is wrong, misguided, inappropriate, or cruel in any sense of these concepts. However, we are in the 21st century and have so much better fodder out there now to masticate upon. I'm with Bork on the Kennedy matter.
So for your further rumination--
"Interesting woman, Harriet Miers. She was a Democrat, found God and then became a Republican. Which is kinda backwards. Usually in Washington, you become Republican, get indicted, go to jail and then find God."
- Jay Leno
My old buddy Geechy Guy...
Speaking of whom, they went and made Scooby Doo movies without him. Such a waste.
Zoinks!
Grumpy wrote:
You're right, he'd be a perfect Shaggy. What a strange guy he is. I had one of the weirdest nights of my life with him. He had come back to Michigan after becoming something of a minor star in LA as a comic, doing a lot of TV shows and such, to do a "conquering hero returns home" kind of show. He was with John Bowman, another old friend and very funny guy, and they were doing the same thing. John was doing a show in Lansing, his home town, and Geech was opening for him, then they were going to Geech's home town, Rochester, and John was going to open for him. Well John got an opportunity to do a TV gig on the second night and had to fly back to LA, so Geech asked if I could open for him in John's place. I said sure.
Well the show was at his old high school auditorium and it was the strangest thing I'd ever seen. A bunch of his old friends had shown up with their kids. That makes for an interesting set, having to rearrange material on the spot that is usually intended for adults. After the show we went to this bar and it was actually my first time ever seeing karaoke (also probably the reason I hate karaoke). I had the bizarre experience of watching Geechy Guy get on stage with a woman and do a duet of Suspicious Minds from Elvis. It was absolutely surreal.