[lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>
> > As for cultural devolution, I believe I can amply demonstrate 
>catastrophic
> > decline in a single generation by contrasting that giant of American
>comedy
> > Bob Elliot with his seriously unfunny son Chris.
> >
> > Carl
>
>... Chris Eliot has a small audience, but a devoted one, which I'd think 
>you'd
>like, Carl. No mass cult pig he.

I apologize for gross overposterism, but a thousand times no.  Bob Eliot as 
Wally Ballou interviewing Ward Smith, cranberry grower, is a bit I could 
listen to daily for the rest of my life and find funny, but a single viewing 
of Chris Eliot having a "comic" zit attack in There's Somthing About Mary 
sent me fleeing from my TV set in horror.  The Farrelly bros. (and equally 
unfunny Coen bros.) I rate as key contributors to the collapse of American 
comedy in our times.

Carl