Comments on: Is the Globe Kidding?

By: Joe Keohane

Joe Keohane — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:56:06 +0000

JL, duly noted, I hadn’t heard of her. Still, though, I stand by my point.

Also, if you weren’t cloaked in anonymity, I’d beat you like a gong regardless of what street we were on.

By: JL

JL — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:22:24 +0000

Deb Farrar-Parkman is a nice lady, an Emmy-award winning producer, and the founder of Women of Color in Comedy, which has provided a stage for some wicked funny (and wicked offesnive) girls like Esther Ku, Bethany Van Delft and Karith Foster (Imus’ new sidekick -unless she already got fired - can’t say I actually listn). No judgement on the Globe story, but if you say anything bad about Deb I’m going to have to kick your pasty white Irish ass up and down Blue Hill Avenue, just to see if anyone gets offended.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:30:36 +0000

…you missed perhaps the most egregious sentence in that whole mess:

“Rock stopped performing an older routine about how he ‘loved black people’ but hated the racial slur for blacks because he thought his white audience enjoyed too much a joke that referred to blacks in a pejorative way.”

She seems to think the joke was about how Rock loves black people but hates the word “nigger,” when, as surely we all know, he was using “nigger” to refer to a type of person. Then again, this sentence is so hastily constructed that, after you spent a few minutes figuring out what the hell she wrote, you can read it about three different ways.