9/11 and JFK
As one of many who still remembers exactly where he was on the day JFK was assassinated, I still am senstive to, and somewhat offended by jokes about it. Last night it was Stephen Colbert, a favorite of mine, that joked about it.
Seinfeld, another favorite, did a whole episode (the Keith Hernandez two-parter) with one of the running "jokes" prominently featuring a supposedky humorous take-off on the murder.
If the younger comedians who didn't experience that horrible national trauma now think it's OK to joke about it, I disagree. Regardless of all true revelations, rumors, and lies about Jack Kennedy after his murder, he was the most inspirational political figure for the baby-boom generation during the twentieth century.
If the young comics would like to know how tasteless it seems to a lot of us to have something so tragic as the butt of a joke, they only have to contemplete the horror of 9/11. Believe me, it won't be any funnier for them, or the young people who lived through that trauma, 40 plus years from now than will be on its upcoming 5th anniversary.
Seinfeld, another favorite, did a whole episode (the Keith Hernandez two-parter) with one of the running "jokes" prominently featuring a supposedky humorous take-off on the murder.
If the younger comedians who didn't experience that horrible national trauma now think it's OK to joke about it, I disagree. Regardless of all true revelations, rumors, and lies about Jack Kennedy after his murder, he was the most inspirational political figure for the baby-boom generation during the twentieth century.
If the young comics would like to know how tasteless it seems to a lot of us to have something so tragic as the butt of a joke, they only have to contemplete the horror of 9/11. Believe me, it won't be any funnier for them, or the young people who lived through that trauma, 40 plus years from now than will be on its upcoming 5th anniversary.
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