Saturday, August 07, 2021
Return of old humor?
For many years I've taken refuge from modern media's SCREECHING MURDER, living inside the empathetic and gentle humor of the '30s.
Lately I saluted the 1933 program Mirth Parade, one of many low-budget offerings that lightened the mood with low-quality humor and high-quality music.
Mirth Parade featured a satirical swami, a Hindu Swede called Yogi Yorgesson. His Swedish dialect was accurate, but his Hindu views weren't. He closed each segment with a punning prayer to the Hindu god Allah. (This was a common conflation for some reason.)
Yogi Yorgesson specialized in contrived puns:
Q: My husband is Norwegian and he drinks a lot. Should I expect him to be waiting for me when I return from vacation?
A: No, he won't be waiting for you. Norse is Norse and souse is souse, and never the train shall meet.
He also delved into the edges of politics at times, with a pun about the Ku Klux Klan being Dumb Klux. (Partisan politics was illegal on radio in the '30s, so jokes against one party were impossible.)
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Kevin Barrett interviewed a modern comic who seems to be echoing Yogi Yorgesson intentionally or not. He's a Jew posing as Swami Beyondananda. He calls one of his channels OM Times Radio, an explicit echo. He also specializes in contrived puns, a little too densely for my taste. Every sentence includes a contrivance like "Notsee America: spelled N-O-T-S-E-E."
If you have to explain it, taint funny, McGee.
Despite the contrivance, I solidly support his purpose. For the last 30 years all entertainment has simply been FUCK TRUMP. "Comedians" no longer try for anything remotely resembling humor. They've become pure court jesters, reinforcing the aristocratic need to KILL ALL PEASANTS.
Incidentally, one of the Swami's blogs redirects to a Chinese site that AVG halts for malware. Makes me wonder if he's paying attention to his productions.
Labels: Entertainment
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