Stewart: Bjork "was trying on her Oscar dress, and Dick Cheney shot her."

[WilliamPitt]

OK, *that* is funny.

[sasquatch]

1. Uh-oh, now you're going to get flamed

:P

[bridgit]

2. oh, so you're into the oscars afterall...

:eyes: that joke was dumb-ass & Stewart needed better writers

[Shakespeare]

8. Do you *remember* her bizarre swan dress?

That was a GREAT joke!

[bridgit]

9. like E-yeah..from like YEARS ago, talk about a dated reference...

:eyes:

[Shakespeare]

10. I don't think "dated" really applies for iconic Oscar moments.

Hell, I still hear the occasional joke about Susan Surandon and Tim Robbins....or about Brando and Sasheen Littlefeather. If the joke fits--and this one certainly did--who cares how old the reference is? If anything, it speaks volumes about the iconic nature of the Oscars themselves; everybody remembers those things, so the reference strikes a chord immediately.

edited to add: That joke got one of the biggest laughs of the night, which shows that the whole "dated" thing doesn't apply.

:eyes: right back at ya.

[bridgit]

11. imo the 'joke' was dumb-ass...

you wanna be pitt's cover that's fine too :eyes:

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[Shakespeare]

14. good gawd....

Yeah, I'm saying the joke was sustainable. Just like there have been a brazillion Brokeback Mountain jokes already, but the joke of the cowboy movie montage (showing how "gay" cowboys have always been) was funny, too. Just because countless jokes have been made about a topic doesn't mean that any subsequent jokes aren't funny. My favorite joke of the night was the one about pulling the statue down, but yeah, I laughed at the Bjork joke, too. Just like everybody in the audience did, and just like a helluva lot of DUers did. Sorry we don't meet your standard of comic approval, whatever that apparently is.

My initial post to you was written because I thought perhaps you weren't aware of the swan dress. That things have devolved to this has me just shaking my head. I was even nice trying to explain why I feel "dated" doesn't apply in this instance.

And yeah, I'm not only calling you nasty, but I'm reiterating it based on your last response. I don't know who peed in your Wheaties today, but geezuz...take a powder. I was not "giving you shit," but attempting to talk about why I think the joke resonated. Sue me.

[bridgit]

15. well, then you just have all the fun you think you will need today, honey

[Shakespeare]

18. Well, there ya go.

[WilliamPitt]

16. I need cover now?

Hee.

Methinks you need to get out more, find a hobby, take a deep breath, something.

Egads.

[bridgit]

17. whatever dude...

[WilliamPitt]

19. I've got your face

[bridgit]

20. disagreed...

[WilliamPitt]

21. Nope. Got your face.

[bridgit]

22. got you nose...

[WilliamPitt]

23. Nose? Feh. I've got your whole face.

[bridgit]

24. heehee, joke's on you, hon...i don't need my whole face...

just the part that talks the shit!!! :rofl:

[WilliamPitt]

25. No wonder my hand smells funny.

:P

[bridgit]

26. "funny"!! you call 'shit' "funny"!?! maybe THAT was the basis of that joke

up thread :P

[WilliamPitt]

28. Poop = humor. I've got your face.

[bridgit]

29. heehee, you said, "poop"...

:blush:

[tavalon]

31. That swan dress will live on in oscar infamy forever

Just as poor Sally Field will be forever remembered for her "you love me!" speil. How many years ago was that one?!

[tavalon]

30. Do you remember that dress?

That was a hilarious joke.

[stellanoir]

3. LOL for somone who protests that he doesn't

give "diddly do . . .(or whatever you said) about the oscars it's pretty darned funny that you've started three threads about them in a relatively short amount of time.

it's way too much self congratulatory Hollywood hype and spittle for me and I prefer older and more obscure flix anyhoo.

Though I watched a smidgen just to see Jon.

But comparison and competitions of artistic expressions always has kinda silly when it's so-o-o bloody subjective and there's no accounting for taste after all.

Issues such as these always remind me of Elvis Costello's commentary about music critics. . ."Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Be glad I'm not quoting him to you in person or I would be launching into my best performances of my assorted Ionic Column and Flying Buttress dance routines.

[WilliamPitt]

4. I saw the line in a Times article

and snarfed. :)

[stellanoir]

7. so does that mean your not longing

to see my Ionic Column and Flying Buttress dance routines. . .?

shoot & shucks

I was gonna hop right in the car and zoom up there and do 'em on the bar at Bukowski's

[In_The_Wind]

5. Thanks for planting that thought in my head.

:spray:

[underpants]

6. I really liked the one about the reporter movies being period pieces

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030501171.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/entertainmentnews

It was here but it is gone now.

[AussieDave]

27. Best line of the night, amongst some pretty good lines

Many people have good memories and remembered *THAT* dress.:thumbsup: