Bob Blackman - Mule Train
I look out across the comedy landscape these days and it’s just about enough to make me puke!
Just look at the garbage that they’re calling entertainment these days! Blagh! It makes me sick! Larry The Cable Guy? Dane Cook?! Carlos Mencia?!?! These guys all suck, but things are even WORSE in the world of comedy!
Blame 9/11, blame Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer… hell, blame Wayne Gladstone if you really want to (he’s probably the one responsible). Blame whatever person or terrorist attack makes you feel comfortable, but you know what? That’s just making excuses. If this clip teaches us anything, it’s that comedy used to be a lot funnier than it is today.
What ever happened to good comedy? When I turn on my TV, where’s all the spinning bowties and squirting flowers? When I go to see the latest talkie, where’s all the pie fights and men dressed up like ladies? When I go out for a night of dining and live entertainment, where’s all the guys singing “Mule Train” while hitting themselves in the head with a metal tray?
Where’s all the Kaiser Wilhelm jokes? I haven’t heard a good Kaiser Wilhelm joke in years.
Sigh… comedy just ain’t what it used to be.
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April 13th, 2008 at 2:27 am
He is so pretty .he has my whole-hearted support.I saw him always dating at the free and hot millonaire dating site “RichMatchMaki ng.c om……
“………….Dose he really searching his new love in this site?
April 12th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
How old are you people? Did Lincoln keep his cottage clean? Oh, I just thought you knew since YOU’RE 600 YEARS OLD!!! That was just a poor man-child blabbering while hitting an imaginary bug on his head. Real comedians show humor in other things that wouldn’t be funny otherwise. This is completely weak.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I don’t think Bob Blackman goes back as far as you think. I would say this clip is 1980’s vintage and converted to b/w to look older.
Every age has good comedians. From Dean Martin to Steve Martin to Demetri Martin. And bad — Martin Mull, Martin Short, Martin Lawrence. (The secret is to check where they put their Martin.)
April 8th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Max_Fightmaster
April 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Why can’t Dane Cook (or someone else for that matter) hit Dane Cook in the head with a piece of metal? Except a bigger piece. And really really hard. The same goes for those other guys too, but I especially hate Dane Cook.
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It should be a really sharp piece of metal too
April 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Dane Cook sucks!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Why can’t Dane Cook (or someone else for that matter) hit Dane Cook in the head with a piece of metal? Except a bigger piece. And really really hard. The same goes for those other guys too, but I especially hate Dane Cook.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:42 am
All I’m saying is who really wants to hear concise social or human observations phreased with wit and intelligence delivered with impeccable style and unbeatable timing? Not me, that’s for sure! I like seeing some guy smack himself with the lid to a foil pan of lasagna while singing about mules and cowboys.
Huh huh, cowboys are funny.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
You forgot to mention Jerry Seinfeld. Forget about Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia, Jerry Seinfeld was the guy who invented reaching riches and success by means of not being even a little bit funny.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
You mean jokes about airline food and Brokeback Mountain aren’t funny anymore. My faith in the comedy world is forever lost!
April 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I am in the middle of reading the collected prose of Woody Allen. There is a Kaiser joke on every page. I guess that doesn’t qualify as modern comedy though. But it is a good starting point for anyone who wants Kaiser jokes. Also he does a hilarious take on Gogol’s The Overcoat. It’s as funny as it sounds!
April 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
So that was…um…special.
PS to Kingmonkey + 1: Are you referencing the same awesome song I’m thinking of?
April 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Geez Ross, what are you, 90? Get with the times! Pants should be pulled up to your waist, not your navel. The music that they are playing really isn’t all that loud. Matlock sucks, deal with it. Oh yeah, and black people and women can vote now. Deal with it.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
At first glance it reminded me of Young Frankenstein (Puttin on the Ritz scene). I regret thinking this.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
The Kaiser? Some should put HIM on a roll.
Let’s forget that that joke’s from family guy and give all the credit to me. Sound good? Good.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Comedy died when Bill Hicks died. The only living comedian I get lulz from is Lewis Black.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Ahhhh… I sure do miss Kaiser Wilhelm jokes… And I agree gladstone is a fag.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
How about this for a Kaiser Wilhem joke. Kaiser Wilhem’s dick is so big that even Hannah Montana is scared of it, I read this joke and others like it at tallmingle.com, many Kaiser joke there, ha ha ………Funny?…….no….. oh well.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
OMG!!! How can you not like Carlos Mencia!! He`s making joke about how asians can`t drive and have small penises!!! That`s soooo hilarious!!! I`ve never heard anyone tell a joke like that before!!! Except, you know, that annoying uncle everyone has who thinks he’s funny that everyone has to awkwardly laugh at.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
we’re bringing it back…. back to good ol’ dick and death jokes
April 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Yes. I will blame Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Thank you for your approval.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am
If only I’d been born thirty years earlier, all my jackassery in school might have made me a comedy legend like Bob Blackman. I coulda been a somebody. I coulda been a contender.