Rickles was FEARLESS in his comedy. And his audience could handle it. That’s what made it funny.
He could roast with the best of them, hit them hard, and have his ‘victim’ laughing along with them.
It’s a dying art, really.
Now, we have comedians getting fined for hitting back at their hecklers. Comics are having their jokes ‘fact-checked’. Their jokes! Many comics have given up on telling jokes to university students altogether.
We are stiff, wooden, and don’t even know how to take a joke anymore. If someone DARES to be funny, they get sensitivity training.
No WONDER our campuses are so messed up and whiny.
We have traded down the WIT of their generation to the lame anger and bile we see today. How many times can you call Ann Coulter a C-nt in one show? There’s nothing subtle or clever about name calling. To tell the really good jokes like Rickles told, it’s important to actually LIKE your subject.
Where today could you find someone stand up and say ‘Carmen you’re Catholic, I’m a jew, and Sammy [Davis Jr.] you’re black… I’m sorry.’ … and have everyone laughing.
This is nothing like Chris Rock’s angry ‘white people suck’ schtick. He had JOY in his humor.
Not cynicism. Not rage.
He got the belly laughs becuase he was always laughing himself.
He will be missed.
If we’re going to have any more like him, we’ll need to start passing this out at the colleges.
It’s a book on how not to be a pussy. There are few more relevant ‘self-help’ books today than that one. Fix that, and a lot of other BS will straighten itself right out.
ClashDaily.com’s, Editor-In-Chief, Doug Giles addresses our nation’s abysmal wussification in his NEW book …
The Effeminization Of The American Male
by Doug Giles
Doug Giles, best-selling author of Raising Righteous And Rowdy Girls and Editor-In-Chief of the mega-blog, ClashDaily.com, has just penned a book he guarantees will kick hipster males into the rarefied air of masculinity.
That is, if the man-child will put down his frappuccino; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome.
In The Effeminization Of The American Male, Giles takes ‘Crispin’ from the unaccomplished, prissy and dank corridors of ‘Wussville’ up the steep, treacherous and unforgiving trail that leads to ‘Mantown.’
“Secretly, everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a p*ssy generation.” – Clint Eastwood
This is definitely one of the most politically incorrect books to ever hit the market.
It will most certainly offend the entitled whiners, but it will also be a breath of fresh air to young males who wish to be men versus hipster dandies.
ClashDaily.com’s, Editor-In-Chief, Doug Giles addresses our nation’s abysmal wussification in his NEW book …
The Effeminization Of The American Male
by Doug Giles
Doug Giles, best-selling author of Raising Righteous And Rowdy Girls and Editor-In-Chief of the mega-blog, ClashDaily.com, has just penned a book he guarantees will kick hipster males into the rarefied air of masculinity.
That is, if the man-child will put down his frappuccino; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome.
In The Effeminization Of The American Male, Giles takes ‘Crispin’ from the unaccomplished, prissy and dank corridors of ‘Wussville’ up the steep, treacherous and unforgiving trail that leads to ‘Mantown.’
“Secretly, everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a p*ssy generation.” – Clint Eastwood
This is definitely one of the most politically incorrect books to ever hit the market.
It will most certainly offend the entitled whiners, but it will also be a breath of fresh air to young males who wish to be men versus hipster dandies.
Buy Now: The Effeminization Of The American Male
