Comedy Oct 18, 2013 at 5:20 pm

Don't Be a Dick, Kenan Thompson.

Barbara Holm
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All about this name-change, dope column.
Reed Van Valkenburgh on October 18, 2013 at 5:33 PM Report this
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The new title is sexist and derogatory.
onePound on October 18, 2013 at 6:15 PM Report this
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You're gonna really hate Kids In The Hall.
Spindles on October 18, 2013 at 7:15 PM Report this
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Or those scumbags over at Monty Python. Don't even get me started about that lumberjack I almost took home.
JRRTrollkien on October 18, 2013 at 7:20 PM Report this
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I liked the name misorygun. Can the change be reversed?
Pat Richards on October 18, 2013 at 8:06 PM Report this
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Have you read and approved all their scrips? What are they going to joke about? Is there anyway to make a joke about anybody that can't be taken as bigotry by someone who has no sense of humor? It's possible to make funny jokes about many subjects other than people, but eliminating all material about people, means censoring the news.
Occupy This Page on October 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM Report this
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Kenan Thompson said that females of African descent land auditions for Saturday Night Live. That means the producers are looking for funny black chicks. It does not mean that they are turning away good talent. It's not like the Portland Mercury, where they seem to hire anybody whether they are journalists or not, just as long as they fulfill the requirement to fulfill the Federal quota.
PSfnU on October 18, 2013 at 8:39 PM Report this
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Meet the quota? How about stocking up just in case women actually ever do become an genuine minority.
Chef Multnknowman on October 18, 2013 at 8:44 PM Report this
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Sasquatch
Posted by PSfnU on 10/18/2013 at 2:13 PM
http://www.portlandmercury.com/IAnonymousB…
PSfnU on October 18, 2013 at 8:48 PM Report this
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Who would've thought that Barbara Holm would know the inner workings of SNL better than the longest running African American cast member in SNL history. Bravo.
hookerwithapenis on October 19, 2013 at 3:33 AM Report this
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This column is just so stupid.
gloworm on October 19, 2013 at 4:05 AM Report this
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Let me guess, next week you are going to shit on Alex Mack for needing magical powers to be a strong female character?
Barf! on October 19, 2013 at 9:45 AM Report this
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Fuckin' hell. Internet comments are the worst; I'm including myself.

Barb, have a good weekend at All Jane No Dick.
cat & beard on October 19, 2013 at 10:27 AM Report this
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So every week is going to be a column about how much of a dick Keenan Thompson is?
Grandpa Jack Bogdanski on October 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM Report this
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Did you really just take a shit on Monty Python????

You're fucking high, you fucking moron.
dogtrot on October 19, 2013 at 11:15 AM Report this
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I just hope that your new column name will also be directed towards women as well. (Anyone can be a dick.) Otherwise, the old name has no merit, and you will have not beat misogyny, but rather somewhat look like a hypocrite. And some broken hearted man, will beg The Merc, to start his own column called "My least favorite piece of Cockogyny this week," (Purely as a cry for help of course) I actually love the new column name. The door is now open for you to write about anyone, or any why. Have fun with it girl.
Batman on October 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM Report this
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I find troubling your assertion that male to female gender fluidity in sketch comedy roles is something that ought to be be discouraged. Your depiction of this practice is painted with so broad a brush it comes off pretty shortsighted and a little cop-like. It also does little to support your important argument that there is a lot of very funny and underutilized female talent out there. I look forward to your future columns!
Jason Traeger on October 19, 2013 at 1:43 PM Report this
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Who did YOU have in mind, Gary?

Saturday Night Live originally cast players who were unknown to a large audience. As a troupe they were billed as, the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players".

Do you suppose that little irony is what Kenan Thompson was joking about?

Many of the first members of the show were Canadians from Second City:

http://www.secondcity.com

To be able to suggest anyone of any race, creed or gender for SNL, would require the time to patronize all the clubs in every city in the United States and Canada, the way professional talent scouts, and record label artist and repertoire representatives, actually in fact do.
Occupy This Page on October 19, 2013 at 3:25 PM Report this
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In comedy, nothing is sacred. All and everything fair game. Trying to make comedy conform to Cultural Marxism is an attempt to defeat the purpose. Consider the early, European comedians, the court jesters. While free speech could in general only be expressed with great risk of penalty of death, the court jester was the only one permitted impunity to lampoon the King to his face. Sort of an early version of equal time; like a back page letter to the editor about a front page headline.
PSfnU on October 19, 2013 at 3:32 PM Report this
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It's hard being the whipping post of such envy.
Penis O. Thenut on October 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM Report this
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White and Wong

She's a Philadelphia lawyer and he's her private dick. Together they build bullet proof litigation and sue every badly deserving son of a bitch that abuses their poor clients.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/White-and-W…
Chef Multnknowman on October 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM Report this
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I think the Kids in the Hall (five dudes, no ladies) all did pretty well at playing female characters who were actual *characters* -- they were never just "tee hee, I'm a guy in a dress!" (I also love Monty Python, but I think they did female characters less sympathetically, 15 years earlier.)

I'm out of the loop on current SNL, but: 1.) Many comic actors of any gender can effectively play characters of any gender, at least in a four-minute sketch, and 2.) surely there ARE tons of good African-American female comics out there, and if SNL can't find them they're not looking hard enough.
E Bex on October 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM Report this
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How about just call it "Don't Be An Asshole"? You know what they say about assholes-they throw out a lot of shit but they can't take any of it in.
HT on October 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM Report this
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Not all comics make good actors, and very few actors can do stand up worth a shit. Sketch comedy, arguably, does not necessarily require the greatest acting ability, but it helps to have "Funny Bones".
Chef Multnknowman on October 20, 2013 at 4:13 PM Report this
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George Fawkes:
(To his son, Tommy)

There are two types of comedians.
A funny bones comedian, and a
non-funny bones comedian.

They're both funny.

One is funny, the other tells funny.

And Tommy...

It's time you knew...and this kills me
the most, but you're neither.

You're not funny.

Know it now. They're not gonna cheer
for you, no matter what you do.

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts…

Funny Bones (1995) trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1wCo3N6As
Chef Multnknowman on October 20, 2013 at 4:14 PM Report this
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NBC has revealed Kerry Washington will host the show's Nov. 2 episode. http://mashable.com/2013/10/16/snl-host-ke…

Chef Multnknowman on October 20, 2013 at 4:17 PM Report this
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Shorter "Don't be a Dick:"
Keenan is a dick for supporting women at SNL!
GeezRilly? on October 21, 2013 at 12:39 PM Report this
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" "Like in auditions, they just never find ones that are ready," implying that there just aren't that many black funny women out there..."

The only implication he made was that the women who ARE ready don't show up to SNL auditions.

From that I'll draw that most comics in general are aware of the cesspool that is SNL and would rather not even risk that quicksand bath. Come on, we're talking about Kenan Thompson here, not Richard Pryor. His other credits are "Nickelodeon, et al" and "Fat Albert." It wasn't even the good Fat Albert, either.
Franklin Chillano Broosevelt on October 22, 2013 at 4:02 PM Report this

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