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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 11:47 AM
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The "oye oye oye show" really needs to be dropped from the show
Is there anyone who finds it funny?
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 11:48 AM
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1. Cracks me up every time!
I love it. And, BTW, it's "Oy", not "Oye."
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 11:59 AM
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2. I love it. It's my favorite bit. nt
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:00 PM
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3. I hate missing it
The music, actually--there's something wonderfully life-affirming about it.

:headbang:
rocnation
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:14 PM
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8. I hate missing it too
Oy! I say everytime what a shame
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:23 PM
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17. "Wonderfully life-affirming"? I don't know if I'd go that far...
...but the style is called Klezmer Music (don't know the specific piece he uses).

If you like it, Google and explore all you like.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:01 PM
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4. No!
He brings up some of the best points on it.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:03 PM
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5. he brings out the absurdness in News
and who wouldn't say "oy" in hearing about the stupid things that go on?
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:11 PM
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6. Love it. It's only a two minute bit. Quick news bits.
"You don't wanna know"..........a Bush mantra
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:13 PM
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7. I think you have to be Jewish
to be overly amused by it, which I am not. But I can live with Jewish jokes for a couple of minutes.
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:19 PM
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13. that helps, or being from New York where lots of people's parents
talk like this
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:16 PM
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9. It's horrible.
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 12:17 PM by UdoKier
I grew up around nothing but Jewish people. I find Jewish humor funny in small doses, but Oy oy oy is not funny at all.

I would prefer he did a segment that somehow ridicules the bib-thumpin' southern folks, maybe something like a betty bowers thing. Maybe he could get the REAL BEtty Bowers folks to participate for real!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:22 PM
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15. Betty Bower's humor is white bread.
I think Jewish humor is appropriate here, since, oh gee, Al is Jewish. You know the old writer's mantra, "stick to what you know".
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:37 PM
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19. Bowers is funny because she ridicules the evil of the Xian right.
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 12:43 PM by UdoKier
Jewish humor is funny if it actually makes fun of Jewish foibles, but just playing Jewish music and saying things in a Yiddish accent doesn't make it funny.

Another thing thhat detracts from the segment is the fact that all the stories ARE serious as a heart attack.

"Sharon continues to pesecute palestinians" "Oy."

"Palestinian militants continue to suicide-bomb." "Oy"


"More than 10,000 US troops are thought to have returned from Iraq maimed or amputated" "Oy oy oy"



Yeah, freaking hilarious.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:39 PM
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20. Well, I respect your opinion.
If you don't think it's funny, then it's not to you. :shrug:
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:48 PM
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24. And I respect that you like it.
The thing is radio is all about ratings. Maybe the Oy oy oy thing goes over in heavily Jewish areas like New York, but I doubt it, since Jewish New Yorkers are a VERY sophisticated crowd who would probably bore quickly of amateurish Jewish humor.

To Franken's credit, he's done very well in the ratings in New York. But I think that may have more to do with New Yorkers despising Limbaugh and looking for an alternative than with Franken's comedy schtick.

If I thought that most people were laughing at "Oy oy oy", I wouldn't criticize it, even though I personally don't like it. But I have a strong hunch that it makes a lot of radios turn off when it starts...
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:21 PM
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27. I love Betty Bowers.
They SHOULD have her on the show.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:18 PM
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10. The first half hour should be dropped
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 12:28 PM by realFedUp
IMO. The real good guests don't come on
until the second hour....good I guess if
you want to listen to democracynow.org

And I am frickin tired of having to listen
to this show through the damn Internet.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:42 PM
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21. get an XM radio then
:)
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:41 PM
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31. That's a solution
and it's hard to believe they can't get on the public
(free) airwaves in a large city like Los Angeles...and I don't
live in the Inland Empire.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 10:12 AM
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32. XM is realitively cheap
I got it for one reason= AAR. plus on the weekends I can listen to whatever else I want to becuase the local stations suck really bad. (all klear channel)
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:18 PM
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11. Does he still do the "My Cerota" song?
Thhat one is sheer agony.

I love Franken. He can be amusing when just discussing annd being himself, but his planned-out bits are not funny.

Even Stuart Smalley wore out its welcome for me.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:23 PM
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16. Gotta agree with that.
I wish he would drop that one.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:19 PM
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12. I like it. In theory it sounds stupid. But Al pulls it off every time.
nt
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:19 PM
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14. I think it sometimes comes close...
...to being in questionable taste. I've heard Lampfer tell Franken about the latest suicide bombing in Iraq or about a number of US troops being killed and Franken doing the "Oy" bit and then the whole thing ending, as usual, with that upbeat Klezmer music (I think that's what it's called). It often rubs me wrong. It depends on the news that Lampfer is relating to Franken.
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devinsgram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:27 PM
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18. I have no problem with it,
sometimes he's funny, sometimes not!
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:42 PM
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22. Funny, but Mike Malloy is ten times funnier.
Even though Malloy's humor is VERY dark, it cracks me up.

Usually I just cringe at Franken's dated schtick.

Franken has a knack for pointing out lying liars. I loved his exchange with O'Reilly. The fact that Franken is a bit nebbishy and not exactly macho makes it even funnier when he tears the liars a new one. I just wish he would come up with some more relevant comedy material, or just keep the show lighthearted, but drop the "comedy bits" altogether.
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:43 PM
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23. I do.
Although the best part is usually the mention of the "sponsor" at the end.
I agree that it does help to be a NY Jew in finding it funny.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:25 PM
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29. I love it and "get" it .....
and I'm a goy from West Hollywood !! How fercockt is that?
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robpopulace Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:14 PM
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25. Maybe they could change it up a little sometimes.
I'd like to hear an Australian version with AC/DC's "TNT" playing in the background.

OK, maybe only once.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:19 PM
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26. Oy!
Here we go again with another one of these threads. I love the part of the show.

KVETCH ! KVETCH ! KVETCH !


It's driving me MESHUGGINA !!
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:22 PM
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28. You doan wanna know....
:evilgrin:
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Ducks In A Row Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:39 PM
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30. love it
hate mark luthor and if I don't hear him again I'll die happy
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