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Title: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: james e on March 20, 2010, 10:38:32 am

I am not very good on a computer, so maybe someone can do this for me. On you-tube this morning, I ran across "Monty Python, I'd like to buy a hearing aid." It is good for a great laugh today. Maybe some one can drag it over here. Enjoy!

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: jazzfunkanne on March 20, 2010, 11:00:57 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7UqhDs8zj4

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: leapyrtwins on March 21, 2010, 11:33:02 am

James -

this is a scream!!  ;D

I've never seen it before. 

Thanks for sharing,

Jan

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: lori67 on March 21, 2010, 12:49:51 pm

James,

Thanks for sharing this!  Can always use a good laugh!   ;D

Lori

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: nancyann on March 21, 2010, 04:31:30 pm

Thanks James, & Anne for posting this ! !  Love Monty Python.

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: saralynn143 on March 21, 2010, 06:14:46 pm

Maybe we can set him up with Russell's B100.

Lori, Jan, you all still running that garage abutment business?

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: mimoore on March 21, 2010, 06:42:13 pm

That is so funny! Love a good laugh.
Michelle  ;D

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: lori67 on March 21, 2010, 06:45:54 pm

It's temporarily the Parking Space Business - until I have a garage again - but - sure, if there's a buck to be made, we're all over it!   :D

Lori

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: Jim Scott on March 22, 2010, 03:15:27 pm

James ~

Thanks...and thanks to Anne, too, for providing the link.  I love Monty Python's approach to humor.  They were truly groundbreaking.  Unfortunately, this was probably broadcast almost 40 years ago and in today's 'politically correct' climate, where there are always people seeking to protest something by claiming to be 'offended', satire that targets the visually or hearing-impaired would likely be considered 'unacceptable', no matter how funny it was or that it was never intended to ridicule those with sight or hearing disabilities.  I'm glad I was able to enjoy this kind of humor at a time when most folks were a bit less hyper-sensitive.  While no one in their right mind would condone outright mockery of those with a physical deficit, I never understood how being furiously opposed to even the gentle humor shown in the Monty Python skit could be considered 'mocking the handicapped'. 

Humor, at it's essence, is almost always based on incongruity; the authority figure getting a pie in the face, the Marx brothers bull-in-a-china-shop antics, Lucille Ball getting drunk on 'Vitameatavegamin' as she tries to do their TV commercial, etc.  A comedy skit about a man selling hearing aids who is hearing-impaired and whose hearing aid malfunctions, rendering him unable to communicate with his customer and, in the same shop, a nearly blind optometrist supposedly selling contact lenses make for a funny few minutes.  As someone with SSD, I found the Python skit hilarious.  I trust others did, too, and I apologize for my probably unnecessary harangue about 'PC', a cultural phenomena with quasi-totalitarian aspects that has irritated me for some time and which, I fear, is making humor and in some quarters, discussion of anything deemed 'controversial' off-limits for rational debate.  Whoops!  There I go again.  Sorry!

Jim

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: Sue on March 22, 2010, 03:39:38 pm

Phyl, grab Jim's soapbox, will ya>   ;D ;D ;) ;)

Sue in Vancouver, USA

PS
I agree, actually!!

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: yardtick on March 22, 2010, 04:47:55 pm

Talk about art imitating life  ;D

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: GRACE1 on March 23, 2010, 08:06:36 am

Thanks for starting my day off with a good laugh!!

Grace

Title: Re: Monthy Python...I'd like to buy a hearing aid
Post by: grega on March 25, 2010, 11:43:58 am

Just looking aroung the forum at diff topics and came across this one.

Thanks James & Anne for the start .... I'll take it home as 'IT' here won't allow it on the big screen. 

And thanks Jim for the memories!

Greg