"Thank You For Your Service" ... don't think I laughed
This episode did not only not make sense, but it was not funny either.
shareLarry should have quit while ahead. Now he's a has-been.
shareYeah, very possibly ... but he is a has-been twice.
Ever since I found out what a conservative ahole he
is, it also changed my attitude towards him.
What do you mean by conservative? I have never heard anything about him being conservative and doubt he could get away with the jokes he tells unless he was a liberal.
shareLarry David is a flaming liberal.
shareYeah, Larry is pretty liberal. I don't think I've ever seen him take a conservative stance on anything. In fact, the whole "thank you for your service" tends to be more of a conservative thing as they are more likely to be pro-military.
shareThat's weird considering Larry voluntarily enlisted in the Army Reserve during Vietnam in the 1960s. Then again, he did get out by having a psychiatrist write a letter to his superiors.
I suppose he really does like to mock anybody pro-Military. He should have brought up the fact that he served in that episode. Would have made for interesting reactions.
I was under the impression he was drafted. But since he was a very young man in the 60's and tried his best to get out of the military, we can be sure he changed his mind at some point.
shareIf he is Liberal, which I severely doubt,
there is no way he is "flaming" whatever these colorful adjectives
you propagandizing Fascists always have to inject into anything
you say. He may be Socially Liberally, as in accepts women as equals
and rights for gays, but that is it. The irony is that on that PBS show
about ancestry they found Larry David was a cousin to Bernie Sanders!
That is the only thing I can Liberal about LD's politics.
Larry mocks republicans all the time.
They had an entire season which culminated in Larry not being able to have sex with the girl he was chasing the whole time, because he found out she liked GW Bush.
Exactly. Larry fucked that anti-semitic Palestinian chick but refused to have sex with a Republican. He's also mocked fundamentalist Christians, the military, people who support the military, pro-lifers, etc. to say nothing of being anti-censorship.
What exactly is conservative about him?
That was satire folks
shareSure, he's satirical towards everyone, liberal and conservative a like. My question still stands, what has he said or done that makes you believe he's conservative? Did he come out as Republican? Did he say something against immigration? What?
share> he's satirical towards everyone.
Satire doesn't work unless there is a satirical point, and Larry's satire is always ridiculing Liberal causes. You notice he never, never, ever makes fun of Liberals.
Satire doesn't work unless there is a satirical point, and Larry's satire is always ridiculing Liberal causes. You notice he never, never, ever makes fun of Liberals.
He ridicules conservative causes as well.
Also, how does not making fun of liberals translate into being conservative? share
> He ridicules conservative causes as well.
Can you give me an example?
Me and several other people above already gave you several examples and you shrugged it off and said "that was satire folks".
shareI don't recognize those as over-generalized examples that support your contention. I want a specific example that we can break down. If you are too lazy to write a few lines then just forget it.
shareWe have given specific examples, but I will repeat them.
I already pointed out that the "thank you for your service" is a conservative platitude. Conservative Americans believe you must support the troops at all times and have a sense of gratitude toward them. Larry refuses to do that. So right off the bat, this entire thread you started involved a joke against conservatives.
Both me and Peteyandjia also referred to a season long subplot in which Larry was trying to have sex with one woman and it ended with him calling it off when he found out she was Republican. Larry absolutely refused to have sex with an attractive woman he had been going after for an entire season simply because she was Republican.
We also mentioned how he makes fun of Christians a lot (who mostly lean conservative). Some examples include peeing on a picture of Christ by accident which led two Christians to believe it was a miracle, him interrupting a baptism because he thought it was a murder which led to the guy in question renouncing Christianity, another joke involving him eating the baby Jesus in an Advent Calendar by accident because he "thought it was a chocolate monkey", that same episode also involved him getting into a fistfight with people dressed as Mary and Joeseph, another episode devoted entirely to parodying Passion of the Christ, and another episode in which he thought his biological parents were conservative Christians and when it turns out they weren't his parents he happily turned back to Judiasm. Those are off the top of my head.
And remember when I brought up him mocking pro-lifers? That was during Larry Seinfeld days but there was an episode of Seinfeld in which a temperamental pizza chef was pro-life. He ended up making a stupid argument about pizza that was used to parody pro-life arguments and then he pissed on Seinfeld's couch.
Now, I ask you to come up with specific examples of him being a conservative becuase you haven't really given anything concrete.
Oh, another example: he got kicked out of his golf club and the only other club available was a Republican club, so he pretended to be WASPy and acted like a conservative stereotype to get membership.
shareThanks for taking the time. Poking fun at WASPs is not the same as being Liberal in my opinion, just to deal with the comment you made here. He did the conversion thing to Christian I seem to remember and personally I don't see that as political at all.
shareSo what did he do that was conservative?
shareI am arguing against your contentions that Larry is some kind of Liberal. You claim he cannot be Conservative because his humor is anti-Conservative, but your examples do not show that. I am sticking to one thing at time ... it's called staying on point.
But thank you for taking the time to organize your points into an example.
This entire conversation started because you called him a conservative and you have yet to defend your stance.
share>This entire conversation started because you called him a conservative and you have yet to defend your stance.
Not really, bigjackrutgers made the claim that Larry David was a flaming Liberal, and I said not. I said that even if Larry was Liberal, which I do not believe, he is certainly not flaming - but it is common for right-wing extremists to go nuts over anything that Rush Limbaugh has programmed them to go nuts over, and hyperbolically express themselves. Like going from saying Larry is Liberal to calling him a flaming Liberal, and the connotation of flaming is defective, or wrong, like a "flaming faggot" or such - it is pejorative.
Why don't you go after him, or are those your words and sentiments as well?
My stance, that I defended in my comment was exactly that.
I will say one thing that bothered me about
Larry was his skits on SNL about Bernie Sanders.
The humor there was mean-spirited. It was not funny, like the humor about Trump, there was a nasty edge to it that I didn't like, and it is when I got bugged at Larry David.
There are plenty of ways to funny in the complicated way that Larry usually is, without just making Bernie and his supporters look stupid, which is what he did.
If he was a Liberal, or even put humor first he would not have participated in those stupid skits, and nor would he have gotten so much attention for such bad unfunny skits.
I will say that many of Alec Baldwin's skits about Trump are not funny either, but they are based on something real, which at least makes them relevant. Not so the skits of Larry being Bernie ... they were just stupid and insulting.
What was so mean about his take on Bernie (assuming he wrote the skit anyway)? The skit was Bernie's campaign as an episode of Curb. It was not mean spirited in the least. Not only did Benrie himself endorse the skit, and not only has Larry supported him, and not only are both men cousins, but SNL lampoons every politician on the show. The cast mates were huge Hillary supporters and had her come on the show, but that didn't stop them from poking fun as well.
You really seem like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
> So what did he do that was conservative?
Not a reply to my comment.
I guess we just disagree. I don't see Thank You For Your Service as anything political. I can just as well say it is a Liberal platitude because of the cliche that Liberals hate war so they have to support the troops in order not to be called anti-American.
So one line of logic could say that picking at saying thank you for your service is conservative because it ridicules Liberals for doing it, or calls it hypocrisy.
To refuse to do so ... well, first it is not a big thing. But second, to thank someone for their service is polite and nice, and so that was the thing with Larry ... Larry's character is never polite and nice and balks at convention. I see you are reaching on this lead off example of Larry's Liberal-ness. In other words Larry picks at Liberal hypocrisy, but not at Conservative hypocrisy, mostly because the show does not inhabit that universe.
Using religion as a proxy for Conservatism is broken logic. In fact in the last episode Larry mocked inclusiveness and others' religions or morals when he refused to say namaste in yoga class.
I am going to just make this reply about that.
>> We also mentioned how he makes fun of Christians a lot (who mostly lean conservative).
See, there it is again, you cannot say that. The nut Christians may lean conservative. The ones we hear about picking gay wedding and telling us we are being punished with floods by god for allowing gays to marry in the US.
Those are not real or the majority of Christians. So, that whole area is over-complicated by ambiguity that you just ignore to ram through a point that I don't think has any validity behind it.
The worst you can make out of that is that Larry is attacking the lack of intelligence or rigor on the part of the loonie Christians who are used by the right, not the right, or Conservatism itself.
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