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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:34 PM
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Many people totally misunderstand Ann Coulter's Comic Genius.
Edited on Wed Jun-07-06 06:35 PM by Philosoraptor
Like Don Rickles and Andy Kaufman before her, Ann's comedy is so in your face and edgy that many people to this day actually think it's real. As always, she's so believable in her male impersonator shrew character, she's in the same league as Dame Edith or Devine.


Let's face it, she's one of the greatest comedians of all time, in a class by herself, outstanding in her own field. But here lately she's tried to emulate Lenny Bruce and gone into dangerous territory, and gone beyond trying to be funny, but to make bizarre political points that only she and a few sick bastards get.

Fortunately for us all, her kind of comedy is going the way of vaudeville.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:36 PM
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1. You cannot be serious
:shrug:
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:38 PM
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2. I'm as serious as Rush Limbaugh is a comedian.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:42 PM
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7. That Adolph Hitler guy was also pretty funny...puting human children in
a furnace and making ash out of them. :rofl: :rofl: That still makes me laugh to this day :eyes:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:45 PM
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9. Winner of the Most Aware Of Sarcasm Ever award!
:rofl:
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:46 PM
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10. Oh
:blush:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:55 PM
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12. ROFL! It's all good - happens to me all the time :)
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:30 PM
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15. LOL!!
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:40 PM
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3. "Axis Sally" was funnier
But Ann is farther to the right.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:40 PM
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4. This woman is not funny to me. She's pathetic.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:40 PM
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5. I don't even like to see her name mentioned in the same post as Lenny's.
The difference:

Lenny Bruce was funny.

Lenny Bruce mocked the powerful and hypocritical.

Lenny is a God.

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deFaultLine Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:41 PM
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6. er...
so that's why I'm not laughing.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:44 PM
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8. Or as we used to say,
"That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!"
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 06:51 PM
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11. No, It isn't funny.
It isn't funny in the same way it isn't funny to poke fun at people with Downs syndrome or to pull the wings off flies or anything else that is cruel and totally uncivilized. Rickles & Jerry Lewis were cruel
but at least they have the fact that it happened long ago in another era when people didn't know better
as an excuse. This coulter person has no excuse other than ignorance, cruelty and stupidity.
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theoldman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 07:03 PM
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13. Heres my take on Ann Coulter.
I think that she is smart but so was Hitler. She may also have a sense of humor but so did Hitler. She does what she does for money and a boost for her ego. People like her and Bill O'Reily have no scruples or principles. They are in it for the money and would sell their soul to the devil. I have the greatest contempt for the ignorant people who look up to them.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 08:01 PM
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14. So the suicide/overdose is due how soon ?
That will cement her identification with the true artistes.

(Or she could cut off an ear. Or something.)
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