‘Funny Or Die’ Creates Another ‘Die’ And Gives Obama (who opposes gay marriage), and all the Muslims and Blacks Who Voted Overwhelmingly For Prop. 8 A Sweet Pass In Order To Focus The Hate On Mormons
Posted by Dirty Harry on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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Talk about being painfully un-self aware.
I only made it all the way through because it’s kinda my job.
Anymore like this and I may have to offer myself my two weeks notice.
Oh, and if Biblical ignorance were talent this clip wouldn’t suck like a blackhole.
Maybe with your SAG card comes the removal of that thing which causes you to be capable of embarrassment? I don’t know, something has to explain this stuff.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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Stephanieon 03 Dec 2008 at 10:35 am 1Jack Black is so gross. He is the part of Tropic Thunder that I was bored with to. What a total LOSER!
Brandonon 03 Dec 2008 at 10:39 am 2It think this qualifies as selective memory. It’s yet more anti-religious propaganda from Hollywood, hold on while I feign shock.
Ohio Wolverine Momon 03 Dec 2008 at 10:40 am 3Okay—these aren’t funny, so why don’t they just die away?
billypaintbrushon 03 Dec 2008 at 10:48 am 4the caption says all star cast. i recognize john c reilly and the tattoo’d margaret cho, talk about a hubba hubba, eh? and jack black, but who are the rest of those people?
i thought you had to actually have achieved something to be a star. i guess that’s like no score in t-ball, it would hurt feelings for somebody not to be a star
Carolynon 03 Dec 2008 at 11:08 am 5This is the leftist idea of Economics 101?
This country can be saved from a recession simply by erasing a tattoed butterfly from someone’s butt or putting a lavender coat of paint on the Elks Hall?
Oh, God!! I can see the apple stands on the corner already!
Brandonon 03 Dec 2008 at 11:16 am 6Billypaintbrush does raise a good point. The definition of star studded has indeed been lowered significantly over the last several years. Besides Margaret Cho has always made me think of a bobble head I just can’t look at her without giggling.
Ohio Wolverine Momon 03 Dec 2008 at 11:17 am 7Recognized Allison Janney—-thought I never watched West Wing—figured middle-aged, much lauded non-sexual female celebriry actress would be included in the ranks, and Christine Lahti was too busy wither voice over work (and so 90s,anyway…)
MovieBobon 03 Dec 2008 at 11:17 am 8Why did it take Neil Patrick Harris until Harold & Kumar (okay, Undercover Brother but people SAW H&K) to tell everyone how GOOD he is at self-aware parody? The guy’s a young Shatner in that regard - easily one of the funniest non-comedian comic actors working today.
miles archeron 03 Dec 2008 at 11:53 am 9Ahh, lighten up. What could possibly be wrong with a little musical theater!
The Bible reference isn’t entirely unearned. Folks tend to use the Bible as a foundation for all kinds of opinion, and frequently opinion about the way other people live their lives. But they, in every case, are being very selective about the parts of the Bible they utilize/obey.
In fairness, most of the crazy shit is in Leviticus. But still…
Publius804on 03 Dec 2008 at 12:09 pm 10It’s not even funny - just dumb. Unfortunately I think the supporters of gay marriage will eventually win the day - social liberals have won most major cultural battles much to the detriment of the civilization at large.
JohnFNWayneon 03 Dec 2008 at 12:43 pm 11Under the left’s rules, can videos like this be classified as a hate crime? After all, they are inciting violence at churches and on Mormons.
Mavison 03 Dec 2008 at 12:49 pm 12The subject of the Jews not eating shrimp came up in my morning Bible study today. The Jewish dietary laws set them apart from the rest of the world. But, when Christ came, He came for all. So, when Peter had the vision in Acts that showed him that he could now eat the “unclean” animals it meant that God “accepts men from every nation who fear him or do what is right.”
So….it’s interesting that this issue is brought up in this production. God does not play favorites, but He does want us to follow him and do what is right. After Jesus, shrimp is ok to eat. But, the Bible never backtracks on sexual morality.
Anyway, Jack Black, before you start lecturing people about their own religion, maybe you should visit a Bible study sometime.
godzirraon 03 Dec 2008 at 12:56 pm 13“Funny or Die” - they keep threatening, yet they never follow through. On either point.
Opuson 03 Dec 2008 at 1:08 pm 14I recognized a couple others, Maya Rudolph formerly of SNL and Andy Ri chtor who used to be Conan O’brian’s side kick and has had a few failed sitcoms. If I’m not mistaken there’s also Kathy Njimy (spl?) and then maybe the warehouse guy from “The Office”.
John McClainon 03 Dec 2008 at 1:40 pm 15Way to go Mavis, yeah what he said!
Die Hard Fan
John McClainon 03 Dec 2008 at 1:42 pm 16The girl in the yellow t-shirt is from MAD TV which is now canceled. I guess she has some extra time on her hands…all of them do for that matter.
Die Hard Fan
dappaon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:25 pm 17Separation of church and state. Marriage is a religious institution that predates our constitution. So keep your state out of my religion.
On the other hand I really don’t care if two dudes want to get married. It does not effect things one way or the other.
PS. Neil Patrick Harris ROCKS.
JohnLockeon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:26 pm 18Sarah Chalke from Scrubs was in there, too.
I think the biggest problem I have with this is that it’s just not funny. Notice the little message at the very end? It’s really just an overlong anti-Prop. 8 ad. Now, if the organization had simply done a serious ad filled with a bunch of simple-minded arguments and theological misunderstandings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. I would debate the points, but still. Instead, they dressed it up as a “comedy” and put in on Funny Or Die when there really are no jokes, just a series of talking points set to music. That’s not funny. That’s lazy.
texacaliroseon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:28 pm 19Anyway, Jack Black, before you start lecturing people about their own religiondiet, maybe you should visit a Bible studyJenny Craig sometime.
texacaliroseon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:29 pm 20Dang it! I meant to say:
Anyway, Jack Black, before you start lecturing people about their own diet, maybe you should visit a Jenny Craig sometime.
godzirraon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:41 pm 21JohnLocke wrote:
I think you’re wrong here, at least from Funny or Die’s perspective.
I think they thought the whole Mormon part of the bit was hilarious (to them, at least). Showing Mormons sodomize each other to song? OMG! ROTFLMAO-IH (IH=”In Hollywood”)! Making those ignorant, suit-wearing Mormons realize how they’re preaching hate while Jack Black tempts them with a tasty shrimp cocktail? My sides are aching!
If you weren’t laughing, you either a)didn’t get it, or b)are such a homophobic bigot (and racist and xenophobe and blah-blah-blah I bet you’re a white European-American male who’s part of the patriarchal system trying to keep everyone else down!) that you are too much of a prude to find humor in sodomy song follies that mock the Mormon religion.
I mean, they’re Hollywood, right? They know everything! Didn’t they convince us all to vote with those wonderful commercials and stuff?
Carolynon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:49 pm 22You know, this is like one of those Young Pioneers skits. Everybody singing the party line - not because they actually believe it but because it keeps them out of the re-education camps.
I mean, if the fanatics scare us by burning Bibles, whacking old ladies and stalking us on the Net, then it’s got to scare these people too.
Mavison 03 Dec 2008 at 2:52 pm 23Neil Patrick Harris is always fun to watch. He’s a natural. Who knew Doogie was so talented?
Mr24pon 03 Dec 2008 at 3:12 pm 24My thing about this video (as is most of the ones I’ve seen from that site) is that it’s not funny nor entertaining. And I’ll be honest it’s filled with hatred. That is always my main beef with the left. Winning an argument through hatred doesn’t work.
And it talks about cherry picking the Bible. How about cherry picking the hatred? They cherry pick the Mormons but leave, as DH has pointed out, the President-Elect alone.
Want to win me over to your side? Then show me people in love and caring for one another. Show me happiness and goodness. Right now all I see is hate for those that you disagree with. I don’t side with hate.
JohnLockeon 03 Dec 2008 at 3:16 pm 25I think they thought the whole Mormon part of the bit was hilarious (to them, at least).
You may be right, but if it only entertains it’s solipsistic creators and people like them, I don’t think it can really be called comedy. It’s not about the subject matter, it’s about the execution. Leftists used to be able to do good political satire, stuff that even conservatives could laugh at. But the frothing hatred that has brewed in the hearts of the left over the course of the Bush years has lowered the bar on political comedy to the point that slapping a McCain/Palin button on a Nazi uniform, as done in a recent Family Guy episode, is supposed to be a joke.
newguy40on 03 Dec 2008 at 3:25 pm 26Irreverent is okay if it is funny. I re-watched “Life of Brian” and I still find it hilarious. Blasphemous? Not sure, but it is entertaining. Unlike this drivel that I stopped watching after about 30 seconds.
For me, ANYTHING with Margaret Cho, Alison Janey, John C Reilly just screams, “Inane”. As for Jack Black… other than School of Rock, what else has he done that is any good? He does the same shtick in every role whether it’s Tenacious D, King Kong (Uggg…), or Tropic Thunder.
I wish these dopes would just… go…. away.
NavyMomon 03 Dec 2008 at 3:34 pm 27As usual, Hollywood gets it totally wrong when it comes to people of faith. What they think is clever and amusing is actually mindless and not even remotely close to what the Bible teaches about eating shrimp, the stoning of family members, homosexuality, etc. Morons.
PerfectTommyon 03 Dec 2008 at 3:40 pm 28Why is it Hollywood is so concerned about this particular issue? Gays are thrown in jail in Cuba, but you don’t see them rally around that issue. Gays are executed in the Middle East, but they don’t seem to riled up about that. No, whether or not the State of California will recognize the vows of a gay couple (that can have all the privledges of marriage just in a different name), now that is the issue of the day.
dappaon 03 Dec 2008 at 3:57 pm 29Tropic Thunder was funny as hell.
newguy40on 03 Dec 2008 at 4:12 pm 30dappa-
I enjoyed some parts of Tropic Thunder. I thought Robert Downey Jr was great. Tom Cruise was hilarious. I got tired of Black’s eye brow rolls about mid way thru.
whiskeyon 03 Dec 2008 at 5:07 pm 31Christians, including Mormons: “We’re not so sure gay marriage is a good thing. Why not try the already existing domestic partnerships?”
Muslims: the debate is over the best way to kill Gays — throw them off high buildings or topple walls onto them.
Naturally, Funny or Die goes after the safe target of Mormons. When they go after Muslims, I will figure they have guts.
Frank T.J Mackeyon 03 Dec 2008 at 5:09 pm 32Horrible video. Hollywood clearly doesn’t understand the opposition to gay marriage and why Prop 8 needed to be passed. It is not at all about hatred of gays and lesbians, but about preserving traditions Americans want to be held.
Furthermore, the liberals on Funny or Die clearly don’t understand the constitution and the bible. Our constitution was not founded on separation of Church and State. In fact, those words do not exist in the constitution. As for the bible, the creators of this stupid sketch cannot tell the difference between the contents of the old testament and new testament.
Now I agree that our laws should be secular in reasoning, but I still don’t agree w/ gay marriage. Marriage means the union between one man and one woman. That’s why you have a groom and a bride at wedding ceremonies, to celebrate the bonding of one man and one woman. Tearing down the original definition of marriage for the sake of tearing down our traditions is not right in my book.
Frank T.J Mackeyon 03 Dec 2008 at 5:23 pm 33Obama claims he opposes gay marriage, but his voting record shows he really supports it. He came out against DOMA and the Federal Marriage Amendment. When the California Supreme Court permitted gay marriage, Obama did not object to the decision.
So if you’re against protecting traditional marriage, on both the state and federal level and support supreme court justices which would legalize the practice, how could you claim as a public policy that marriage is between one man and one woman? The answer is you can’t.
Kensingtonon 03 Dec 2008 at 5:36 pm 34“[Jack Black] does the same shtick in every role whether it’s Tenacious D, King Kong…”
The biggest failing of King Kong is that Black’s character didn’t get squished underfoot the way his counterpart (played by Charles Grodin) did in the previous version.
Hoping to see that was the only thing that kept me going through the whole interminable crapfest.
Trogdoron 03 Dec 2008 at 5:50 pm 35newguy40 -
Jack Black was fantastic in Nacho Libre.
misterdon 03 Dec 2008 at 6:11 pm 36I would not have voted for Prop 8, so at the most basic level I agree with them. However I know I’m in the minority, and I kow many people who don’t support gay marriage who do not have “biblical” issues with homosexuals. Unfortunately, not only does this miss the large number of people who have reasons other than Leviticus to oppose same sex unions, it is also terribly cheap, obvious, and unclever. I’ll give it a 2/10 for Neil Patrick Harris, but that’s it.
misterdon 03 Dec 2008 at 6:15 pm 37newguy40,
I’d put Life of Brian down as “non-blasphemous”. As I understand it, Monty Python wanted to be blasphemous, but, unlike some celebrities, they actually took the time to check out that Jesus fellow before they mocked him, and found little to mock.
Rabidwolfeon 03 Dec 2008 at 6:40 pm 38Jack Black did Nacho Libre, and the director of that movie (and screenwriter) is Mormon.
He must be holding a grudge about that film. I guess they won’t partner up any more.
godzirraon 03 Dec 2008 at 8:33 pm 39JohnLocke wrote:
To quote the great Ed McMahon - You sir, are correct!
They (Funny or Die) and those participating in the schtick, actually think it IS funny, even though there’s not a modicum of chuckle contained within. I doubt anyone else sees anything slightly resembling a laugh from miles around that lame skit.
USS Benon 03 Dec 2008 at 11:01 pm 40So now Jack Black has gone full retard.
Black’s character didn’t contribute to any of the laughs I got outta Tropic Thunder. In fact, it would’ve been funnier without Black in it, because he was more of a distraction from the comedy (mostly Downey).
Black is like a really annoying Jerry Lewis, IMO.
Jake Was Hereon 04 Dec 2008 at 12:10 am 41As I understand it, Monty Python wanted to be blasphemous, but, unlike some celebrities, they actually took the time to check out that Jesus fellow before they mocked him, and found little to mock.
MisterD: The main reason Jesus isn’t in the movie (except for one scene) is that they couldn’t think of anything funny for him to say or do that would enable the writers themselves, let alone the audience, to laugh and yet still say “Yep, that’s Jesus.” Paraphrasing Eric Idle, every time Jesus came into a sketch it killed the mood because they couldn’t think of a way to make him funny.
Of course, I think of that as their own limitation. I imagine that as a human being, Jesus enjoyed a good joke and probably knew several himself — Kurt Vonnegut once argued that Jesus probably does tell a few jokes in the Gospels, but they’ve been filtered through so many translations that the humor content got lost.
Bubbaon 04 Dec 2008 at 6:35 am 42Black is like a really annoying Jerry Lewis, IMO.
Wow. Harsh.
Completely true, but harsh.
Bubbaon 04 Dec 2008 at 6:46 am 43Jake Was Here, in Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis described the different causes of laughter: “Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy.”
Flippancy is the easiest thing to demonstrate, but the least spirtually beneficial. I can’t conceive that Jesus indulged in the flippancy that defines most comedy today, or even the silliness that was Monty Python’s greatest strength.
Did Jesus laugh? I sincerely believe so — the world is fallen, but there is still much that is humorous — and I cannot conceive that He didn’t laugh with His family and His closest friends. Lewis also wrote that joy is the “serious business of heaven,” and I have to think that His apostles knew true joy in His presence, the sort of joy that takes the burdens of the world very lightly, but is only possible among true friends who take each individual soul very seriously.
But I’m not sure that Pythoneque humor had any place near Him.
And it’s possible that the Python’s were raised in a nominally Christian environment were the stern figure of Christ our Lord overshadowed the comforting presence of Christ our Friend.
TeacherDaveon 04 Dec 2008 at 8:25 am 44I found NPH’s bit most interesting. As DH said, lack of self-awareness at an alarming degree. But the cynical truth of it is: guess what, gay community–you’re just another group to be pandered and sold to.
It was played for (attempted) comedy, but probably hits closer to the truth than any of the participants would willingly admit. Hollywood, and pop culture in general, seems to be putting all its eggs in the pro-gay basket. Why? Because they have the cash, baby, and in most (obviously not all, but MOST) cases, they don’t have any kiddos that would demand their cash.
Follow the money, honey.
Neilon 05 Dec 2008 at 7:24 am 45The shellfish argument is full of holes but is appealing to many because so few bother to study the passages. I address five serious flaws with it in flaws of the shellfish argument.
Jeremy Jensenon 10 Dec 2008 at 9:41 am 46They don’t even mention Mormons in this video. The people they are parodying include religious conservatives of all stripes. It may be a little disingenuous that they’re giving the Democratic party a pass on a gay marriage, but to say they’re just targeting Mormons in this is just wrong.