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"Seriously, In Living Color was a pretty bad show."


  

          

Watching that marathon the other day (I've been watching it over the week cause I DVR'd a bunch of em), I realized this.

Now, it has it's moments. The Dirty Dozens, Wanda, Homie The Clown (for the most part), Arsenio, and so on are all good sketches. The musical guests were great (Public Enemy, 3rd Bass, Tribe, and so on). But damn I had such a romanticized view of the show from when I was a kid.

I thought that was just from the first season when I got the DVD and I was like, "Uh, that was kinda weak". But the show was pretty lame throughout. Here's why:

- David Allen Grier: NOT FUNNY. Well, sometimes he's alright. Same with Tommy Davidson. On the whole - NOT FUNNY.

- The sketches go on TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAMN LONG.

- When Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey aren't on, usually the sketch isn't so good.

There's other reasons, but these are the ones of note. I know that obviously the material is dated, but I can't hold that against the show of course. I mean, I think Chappelle's Show will hold up 10 years from now. SNL certainly does.

Sidenote - early 1990's fashion was awful. I knew that already, but wow. I'd forgotten most of it.

Another sidenote - the Spike's Joint sketch was HILARIOUS. But it didn't seem like anyone got it in the audience. Didn't people watch Do The Right Thing?

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I'm sorry that's incorrect
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basically
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I agree wholeheartedly
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a lot of early SNL stuff does not (for me)
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yep
Feb 05th 2006
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I don't think SNL or Chappelle hold up well either
Feb 05th 2006
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Yup.
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Wrote a song about it, here it go
Feb 05th 2006
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RE: Wrote a song about it, here it go
Feb 06th 2006
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david allan grier is funny as hell, potna
Feb 05th 2006
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I'll admit he has some funny characters.
Feb 05th 2006
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Shit. For me, DAG is the funniest dude on there.
Feb 05th 2006
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You know what IS funny though?
Feb 05th 2006
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Yeah, YALL are a bunch of strange cats...
Feb 05th 2006
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      That makes you a better person than us. Congrats!
Feb 05th 2006
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      yeah, well except for right now...
Feb 05th 2006
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RE: Seriously, In Living Color was a pretty bad show.
Feb 05th 2006
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Let Loomis Simmons Knock YOU Up!
Feb 05th 2006
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"the other tapes...well they just blank"
Feb 05th 2006
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      ya ovaries ain't no good! They dried UP!
Feb 06th 2006
42
i disgree my melanin lacking friend...
Feb 05th 2006
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The show is still funny to me
Feb 05th 2006
13
Posts like these are why I don't have many white friends
Feb 05th 2006
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Why do you have to make this a racial post? Honestly?
Feb 05th 2006
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Nigga, I doubt you have FRIENDS. White ones, black ones, brown ones,
Feb 05th 2006
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RE: Posts like these are why I don't have many white friends
Feb 05th 2006
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Farley WASN'T funny. He was just the fat guy that acted like a...
Feb 05th 2006
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      no. they were all funny.
Feb 06th 2006
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oh for petes sake! <---just making sure you know I'm white
Feb 09th 2006
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wrongest post ever.
Feb 05th 2006
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"Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good." - (c) Rev Run n/m
Feb 05th 2006
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I've seen those shows a million times, and I STILL laugh today.
Feb 05th 2006
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SNL sucks now, but to say it sucked after Eddie left is crazy.
Feb 05th 2006
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when? I mean top-to-bottom when it was hilarious? Get real.
Feb 05th 2006
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      Top to bottom no sketch show has been hilarious.
Feb 05th 2006
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           except maybe Mr Show and UCB
Feb 09th 2006
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agreed
Feb 06th 2006
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To all you who disagree....
Feb 05th 2006
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i understamd if you don't like the show anymore BUT
Feb 05th 2006
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The reason you dont find In Living Color is
Feb 05th 2006
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Eh, that works for the topical sketches.
Feb 05th 2006
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      obviously, you don't like david alan grier
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nah. disagree totally.
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DAG makes me laugh
Feb 05th 2006
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All sketch comedy shows are dated somewhat
Feb 05th 2006
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Damn, you're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on this one.
Feb 06th 2006
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Should've saved this post 4 April 1st
Feb 06th 2006
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can't say i've seen more than a half dozen eps
Feb 06th 2006
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Upright Citizens Brigade holds up pretty good. Cop that.
Feb 06th 2006
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Ass Pennies
Feb 09th 2006
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1. "I'm sorry that's incorrect"
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X gets the square and the block

  

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3. "basically"
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it may not be as funny TO SOME PEOPLE...but that shit is still funny..i catch a rerun ery now and then...

everybody on the first couple a casts was funny...

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2. "I agree wholeheartedly"
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I bought the season 1 DVD's when they came out remembering it as one of the best sketch comedies ever...........

well, I thought, maybe they hit their stride in season two...........

nope, season 3?

uh................no

  

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4. "a lot of early SNL stuff does not (for me)"
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> I mean, I think Chappelle's Show
>will hold up 10 years from now. SNL certainly does.

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37. "yep"
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and then in comparison to what SCTV was doing at the same time it's even worse.

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5. "I don't think SNL or Chappelle hold up well either"
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I can already look back and see the straight cheapness of the set and stuff on Chappelle and see it doesn't hold up.


You know what does hold up? Monty Python

they did that show in the damn 60's and 70's and it's STILL
hilarious (except for the cartoon shit but even that was ground breaking at the time)




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35. "Yup."
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I just watched some Flying Circus DVDs the other day, episodes I know line for line by now, and I was still cracking up.

  

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6. "Wrote a song about it, here it go"
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In Living Color was very funny
In 1992
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43. "RE: Wrote a song about it, here it go"
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>In Living Color was very funny
>In 1992
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7. "david allan grier is funny as hell, potna"
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nobody, NOBODY does a shady old black man better than he does.

Loomis Simmons? Joe Jackson? Anytime buddy does either one of those dudes, i was in tears

The first two seasons of In living Color hold up really well (actually MUCH better than i thought they would).

Hey, to each their own i guess

  

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17. "I'll admit he has some funny characters."
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He's funny in Men on ____, he's funny as that blues singer, and some other characters. But he just gets on my nerves...perhaps it's partly because his stand up is extremely unfunny. Perhaps it's because his persona is just irritating. But I don't find the dude funny at all.

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8. "Shit. For me, DAG is the funniest dude on there."
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9. "You know what IS funny though?"
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...that a post about how 'In Living Color' not being funny is on the same page as a post about how funny 'The Golden Girls' was.


We are a group of strange cats up here in PTP.

  

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24. "Yeah, YALL are a bunch of strange cats..."
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I dont associate with any part of the forum so im good.

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25. "That makes you a better person than us. Congrats!"
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32. "yeah, well except for right now..."
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>I dont associate with any part of the forum so im good.


...where you associate with part of this forum to tell us that you don't associate with any part of it.

Which makes me think maybe everybody (including you) is better off when you just don't say anything at all.


Ya dig?

  

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10. "RE: Seriously, In Living Color was a pretty bad show."
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>- David Allen Grier: NOT FUNNY. Well, sometimes he's alright.
>Same with Tommy Davidson. On the whole - NOT FUNNY.
>

That's CRAZY talk, David Allen Greer was like the funniest dude on the show

Lumious Simmons= Comedy
Ceephus and Reecey= Comedy
Funky Finger Productions= Comedy

you're funny detector is screwd up

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12. "Let Loomis Simmons Knock YOU Up!"
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If you ain't never seen that one...man, ionno what to tell ya

Dude is seriously underrated

  

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31. ""the other tapes...well they just blank""
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but if you play em real loud youll hear a hissin noise like the ocean...

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42. "ya ovaries ain't no good! They dried UP!"
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Look like lil' raisins!

  

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11. "i disgree my melanin lacking friend..."
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iLc is that shit...

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13. "The show is still funny to me"
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The first three seasons were witty and well written. The Run away slave bit still cracks me up. Hell the fly girls and guest artist..man that show was and is live.



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14. "Posts like these are why I don't have many white friends"
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Well, there are a lot of reasons I don't have a lot of
white friends.

But posts like this are indicative of how different white and black people see the world.

Don't get me wrong -- there are some black people who will agree with you. I'm not gonna pigeonhole all anti-In Living Color views as "white."

But definitely there is a cultural element to the type of humor one
appreciates, and some of that, in part, is impacted by race, at least in this country.

I say that because 95% of SNL is completely unfunny to me.

I mean today SNL.

I mean Chris Farley SNL.

I mean Dana Carvey SNL.

I mean Belushi SNL.

Most of that shit is completely unfunny.

In living color, on the other hand, was fucking brilliant.

Then, and now.

And saying that David Allen Grier isn't funny is just....wow.

  

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19. "Why do you have to make this a racial post? Honestly?"
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33. "Nigga, I doubt you have FRIENDS. White ones, black ones, brown ones,"
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khaki ones, red ones, pink ones, turquoise ones.....

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36. "RE: Posts like these are why I don't have many white friends"
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>And saying that David Allen Grier isn't funny is just....wow.

and saying Farley, Carvey and Belushi were completely unfunny is just...wow.

  

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39. "Farley WASN'T funny. He was just the fat guy that acted like a..."
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>>And saying that David Allen Grier isn't funny is just....wow.
>
>
>and saying Farley, Carvey and Belushi were completely unfunny
>is just...wow.

...a slob. Carvey was okay. I don't know enough about Belushi. I heard he was good. But really, in terms of Carvey and Farley, none of them compare to what was on In Living Color. They are not even in the same league.

<--- we've got bush!

  

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41. "no. they were all funny."
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48. "oh for petes sake! <---just making sure you know I'm white"
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but both him and I said we liked it at the time

I LOVED it, which is why I bought the dvds

I used to quote that shit constantly, it was one of the funniest shows int he world to me

but, something changed, in me I guess

I watch it now, and I just do.not.laugh

well, I laugh a little at some skits, but 99.9% of it is just completely unfunnny to me now

even the skits I used to love!

  

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15. "wrongest post ever."
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16. ""Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good." - (c) Rev Run n/m"
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18. "I've seen those shows a million times, and I STILL laugh today."
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In Living Color was so funny, it is the reason I never really found the Chappelle Show THAT funny. I thought it was okay, but never understood all they hype the Chappelle Show got, when In Living Color was the standard. SNL has been dead since Eddie Murphy left. Its is putrid. Maya Rudolph and Darrell Hammond is keeping that show on life-support, because the rest of the show is dead.

<--- we've got bush!

  

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21. "SNL sucks now, but to say it sucked after Eddie left is crazy."
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It's had a couple of rebirths since then.

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22. "when? I mean top-to-bottom when it was hilarious? Get real."
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<--- we've got bush!

  

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23. "Top to bottom no sketch show has been hilarious."
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There's always holes.

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49. "except maybe Mr Show and UCB"
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47. "agreed"
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20. "To all you who disagree...."
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I honestly have to ask (non condescendingly) if you've seen the show recently.

The reason for that is because I remember when the ILC 1st season DVD came out and there were quite a few people on here who were like, "Uh, wow, I remember this being way better." I know it's rerun on BET and stuff (and actually that's how I saw it even though I own the first season), but...I distinctly remember a bunch of people being dissapointed. Although other people were riding for it.

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38. "i understamd if you don't like the show anymore BUT"
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why do you take issue wit folx who still DO?? i watched an ep the other week..it was still funny..OF COURSE some of the jokes were dated. nut it was still funny...hell, i laughed at a rerun of MadTV the other day and i never thought that would happen although i've basically thought every cast member since the show began was a funny person...

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26. "The reason you dont find In Living Color is"
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because most of those jokes were made in references to that time. Unless you have a good memory and your mindset had not changed since, of course your not going to get or be tempted to laugh at many of the skits. Thats with all comedy shows...Chappelle's Show is also bound to the same rules. The over the top comedy the show relies on wont be percieved the same in ten years...and thus a lot of the humor will be lost on the next generation or us when we grow up and realize how stupid and silly the jokes are. You can quote me on all that...and im not saying Chappelle aint funny, cause it is.

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27. "Eh, that works for the topical sketches."
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IE Arsenio Hall, Love Connection, etc.

But that's discouting the staying power of the non-topical ones. You might be right, but there are non-topical sketches in SNL from 10-15 years ago that I still find funny. There are non-topical sketches from Chappelle's Show that I could see being funny 10 years from now (although obviously I can't KNOW that).

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28. "obviously, you don't like david alan grier"
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because that brotha was funny as hell on that show, and in a lot of the roles he's done since then.

imo, "in living color" was funny as hell then, and still is. how you can discount a show that has both paul mooney and franklin ajaye doing the writing is beyond me. (the same writers for richard pryor) if anything, "in living color" proved they were still on their game. granted, the show started to fall off after season three, but the first three years of that show can stand up to any snl any day of the week.

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laura jane - welcome to my planet boo
me & this japanese guy - waiting for the miracle
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tracey amos - who are we really?

  

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29. "nah. disagree totally."
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ILC is a classic.
n Dave Allen Grier not funny?? all i will do is point u to his "breasteses"-obsessed character, the dude who always yells out "i gotta HAAAYVE it!"

Tommy Davidson is effin hilarious too.

and ive never really liked SNL.

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30. "DAG makes me laugh"
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34. "All sketch comedy shows are dated somewhat"
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Whether its Richard Pryor, Flip Wilson, SNL, Chapelle or whatever.

I remember buying the Ben Stiller show DVD and thinking to myself damn I used to sit in my room cracking up to this?

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40. "Damn, you're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on this one."
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44. "Should've saved this post 4 April 1st"
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45. "can't say i've seen more than a half dozen eps"
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and i also never watched it when it was new

but it's never ever made me laugh

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46. "Upright Citizens Brigade holds up pretty good. Cop that."
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50. "Ass Pennies"
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