Thursday, January 11, 2007

Entertainment?

I tend to keep late hours, and I will often turn on a movie or one of the very few TV shows I actually watch, so my TV is often on well past midnight. This means that I get to browse through listings of all kinds of "entertainment" available to other late night television viewers. Tonight the TV was tuned to a channel showing some guys sitting around having a grand old time, making fun of an overweight woman and drooling over young, thin ones in bikinis. This is entertainment? I opted to watch a movie from 1940 instead. It seemed to be a more appealing choice. I was disappointed to see what looked an awful lot to me like a character straight out of Hollywood's blackface era - a goofy character who looked and acted ridiculous. That really bothers me, but apparently it was popular to audiences of yesteryear. What we find entertaining is sometimes very sad indeed.

1 comment:

J. Wendell said...

I like Abbott and Costello's good clean humor, but Rose has pointed out how ridiculous it is.