Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having lunch with Buckwheat at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in Hollywood last week when the Kingfish rushed in. "Holy mak'rul dare, Brother Buckwheat, a real stupid argument has erupted in Washington," he announced. "You better git dare rat away." "Dare I is," Buckwheat proclaimed, leaping up from the table and inviting me to follow. "It's stupid," he explained. "The Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, a secret outfit dedicated to making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies. I'm coming out of retirement to fight them...
...flew east, Buckwheat filled me in. "STUPID ideas have been on a tear since the Oakland school board declared that Ebonics was an official language," he began. "Then a few months ago, some black militants in New York City scared a young white teacher out of her job for using a wonderful book called Nappy Hair to teach kids that black is beautiful...
...least 650 g (about 1.4 lbs.) of heroin or cocaine. But though the law was intended to net big fish, few major dealers got hit. In fact, 86% of the "650 lifers" had never done time; 70% were poor. "A lot of them were young people who made very stupid mistakes but shouldn't have to pay for it for the rest of their lives," says state representative Barbara Dobb, the Republican who began a reform effort. In August, G.O.P. Governor John Engler signed a law allowing 650 lifers to be paroled after 15 years...
...hocking loogies into tacos and an uber-Dilbertian secretary defecating on her boss's chair. Nelson's new Busted Everywhere for Fox is more of the same. He doesn't go along with Nash's excuses about storytelling or moralizing. "We thought it was funny footage of employees acting stupid," he says. "I like to think of Busted as tapping into the mojo of There's Something About Mary. That same sort of brilliant stupidity." It more successfully taps into the mojo of You'll Never Eat Out Again...
...about his new practical-joke show, UPN's RedHanded, Nelson, 43, gets as didactic as Nash. "We're creating a morality play. But the person isn't aware it's a morality play," he explains. "It's Candid Camera meets Seinfeld meets The Truman Show." Meets something really, really stupid...