BREAD&CIRCUSES: Great Reset Humor Roundup (February 26, 2023)
Celebrating Black History Month by remembering SNL's Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood + OJ, Rev. Ray Cistman, Biden & the legend of CornPopski, Trudeau’s run-in with a flower pot & more Great Reset humor!
For this week’s Bread & Circuses roundup, celebrating Black History Month by remembering when SNL was actually funny (long before the Left’s war on insensitivity) with Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood (which has since undergone gentrification…) and their classic OJ Simpson cold opening… The entire “Roseanne Barr Cancel This Comedy Special,” Black History Month with troll Rev. Ray Cistman (get his “Proud Cracker” shirts here and soon you will be able to read his sermons on Substack here…), an Eastern European commercial that would get you cancelled in the West, a Dave Chappelle compilation on White people, Sam Brinton stole an African fashion designer’s luggage (and wore the contents of it…), Justin Trudeau’s nasty run-in with a (no doubt racist Alberta) flower pot… Deep thoughts with Joe Biden (on why he has not visited East Palestine…), “The President is the best communicator we have in the White House…,” the legend of CornPopski and more… Joy Behar says out loud what they are thinking (and the comments…)
And some final words summing up our Bread & Circuses world as the Great Reset continues!
Revisting Mister Robinson's Neighborhood…
Back when SNL was actually funny (and people were less sensitive…) - there is a whole playlist of old Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood skits here:
Mister Robinson's Neighborhood: Summer
Mister Robinson's Neighborhood: Babies
And learning a new word for them…:
Eddie Murphy returns as Mr. Robinson - whose neighborhood has undergone gentrification…:
BONUS VINTAGE SNL: O.J. Simpson Cold Opening…
I also remember cracking up laughting when this first aired…:
Some Bread…
After watching those insensitive old SNL clips, this is worth reading:
I am sure you have also read or were read some of these books as a child:
By now, I assume you have seen the news about the “sensitivity editing” of Roald Dahl, the author of books like James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, The Twits, and numerous others. What happened was, Dahl’s publisher, Puffin Books, hired a little clutch of “sensitivity editors” to substantively rewrite his books, purging words like “fat” and “ugly,” and Dahl’s descriptions of characters as “bald” and “female,” and inserting their own ham-handed, “sensitized” language.
What you may not be aware of is that Puffin Books is a children’s imprint of Penguin Random House, a multi-national conglomerate publishing company and a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, a nominally German but in reality global media conglomerate. Penguin Random House is one of the so-called “big five publishers” that control approximately 80% of the retail book market. The other four are Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and HarperCollins.
