What Is Funny?

One more thing about Sex in the City 2, which is not the worst movie I’ve ever seen: there is a plot line in which the woman who is married to the bald (allegedly) Jewish guy has a very hot nanny and there is concern if her (allegedly) Jewish husband will stray. Then, in a throw-away joke at the end, we learn that she is, I guess, a lesbian so no worries.

Okay, someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but is this not the EXACT SAME PLOT used in a Friends episode in which Ross is trying to keep Joey away from his hot nanny only to find out she’s a lesbian? Putting aside how lame this whole storyline is, if I, a casual watcher of Friends via syndication when I’m in a foreign country and nothing else is on TV, was able to pick this up, why hasn’t anyone else wrote about it? I can’t be the only one who noticed.

All of which, I guess is to say, to all the lesbian nannys out there: Happy coming out of the closet day! And I’m sorry your sexuality has been appropriated as a throw-away joke by both a shitty TV series and a shitty movie.

Hey annoying kid from Picket Fences--you aren't helping. Sincerely, the Jews.

I don’t know if you watch the show Millionaire Matchmaker. I do sometimes. It’s based on the premise that an unmarried woman who is on TV is the best chance awkward rich men (mostly, sometimes women) have at finding true love. Her success rate is startling in that many times her clients are able to secure second dates and after the show in the blurb that tells you how the couple is doing, occasionally they are still dating. I guess this is better than just randomly going up to women in a bar and asking them out, though I can’t statistically prove that.  The men (mostly) all want women who will love them for who they are and not their money, so it makes perfect sense they’d go on a TV show where women have come with the specific goal of dating a millionaire.

All of this is fine, but my major objection to the show is that hey must be purposely going out and trying to find Jewish people who combine the worst characteristics of Jewish stereotypes with an unexplainable need to declare their Jewishness in relation to these horrible traits. So, a woman on the show will be like, “I just want a man to buy me everything I want…what can I say, I’m Jewish.” Or some guy will be like “I love murdering puppies…you know how us Jews do it.”

Please Millionaire Matchmaker production people–I know there are crazy, terrible Mormon, Buddhist, Protestant, Atheists out there—please find them. You’re killing the Jewish brand right now.

CSI has always been a hilarious show, what with its needlessly complicated crimes, over-0ptimism in the ability of forensics and science to uncover mysteries, and general earnest/dramatic acting. But now with the addition of Ted Danson, I guess they’re trying to be funny on purpose too.

That’s how badly this market needs a CSI parody–the show is having to fill the vacuum in the market and parody itself.

Note to producers: Do not, under any circumstances, let Ted Dandson do and episode in blackface. It’s not as funny as you (he) suspects.