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...emulates. But ultimately the difference between the two segments is the attitude each director takes towards their self-reflexivity. Rodriguez’s film is funnier, cheekier, more willing to recklessly embrace its own cheesiness. You don’t have to be a zombie savant to appreciate his joke. But Tarantino’s flick all but demands a genre aficionado to fully appreciate the references. “Grindhouse” is a testament to nostalgic perversion, a kind of tribute to rebellious baby-boomer arrested development. It nails every ridiculous convention and casual consequence of low budget...
...that’s written one book and lives with his mom,” he says, but with a book that reveals the hilarious side of real life, it may be a comparison that is well deserved.“I think a lot of the jokes that I love and a lot of my favorite joke writers tend to write about serious feelings and fears that they have,” Rich says. “If a joke isn’t emotionally honest, then I feel like it usually doesn’t make you laugh...
...that's a harder attitude for older people - who grew up with more cultural and actual segregation - to accept or to mimic. Part of the problem with Imus' joke was that it was so tone-deaf. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he said. "Man, they got tattoos ... That's some nappy-headed hos there." The joke played badly in every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first...
...Rutgers students Imus insulted, acknowledged at a press conference, black rap artists labeled young black women as "hos" long before Imus did. And while straight people may not be able to say "faggot," Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace helped mainstream the nonhostile gay joke for straight people. But all this reappropriation and blurring - distinguishing a good-natured "That's so gay!" from a homophobic one - has created a situation in which, when Richards went off on his Laugh Factory rant, it was possible to wonder if he was playing a character...
...Comedians work through these danger zones in the presence of other comics. In a comedians' get-together or a TV writers' room, nothing is off-limits: without airing the joke that goes too far, you can never get to the joke that flies in front of an audience. Trouble might come if material meant for that smaller audience went public, as in 1993, when Ted Danson got in trouble after word got out of a Friars Club routine he did in blackface, though his jokes were defended - and reportedly written by - his then girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg...