Over the past few days, I’ve laughed really hard at jokes about Jews, about Nazis, about gays, about old people, about women, about blind people… and about people in wheelchairs.
Hey, it felt good to laugh out loud without feeling guilty!
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HEY HUMOR!
I loved the lack of political correctness in the musical The producers (directed, translated and adapted by Serge Postigo who stars there playing, singing and dancing).
“It was so vulgar that Mike Ward was shocked.” This line made me howl with laughter. Making a reference to the provocateur-in-chief in a Quebec adaptation of a musical comedy written by a Jew (Mel Brooks) in the 1960s, you have to do it!
In this completely crazy show, we see pigeons giving the Nazi salute, naughty old women jumping on little young people, and “big fools” in leather thongs. But there is absolutely nothing offensive about it! Don’t call the Gestapo for laughter, please!
If it were not done with such derision, it would be deeply uncomfortable. But Postigo (who has the balls to go that far) is counting on the intelligence of the Quebec public and its ability to understand the second degree.
Same thing for the TV series Cloakrooms (broadcast on AMI-Télé), which features (real) disabled people in hi.la.ran.tes situations.
Yes, we laugh at the cries of a woman who has Tourette syndrome! Yes, we laugh at the glass eye of Dominic Sillon (from the duo Dominic and Martin)! Yes, we laugh at the little arm of Charlie Rousseau, a fabulous actress suffering from a congenital malformation. And yes, we laugh at the different body of Michel Cordey, a breathtaking actor suffering from brittle bone disease.
Disabled people are not fragile little beings who need to be overprotected, dammit!
I laughed a lot more in one episode of Cloakrooms in an hour and a half by Katherine Levac. While people with disabilities Cloakrooms lack limbs (they are missing an eye, an arm, a leg…), Levac, who has all his limbs, can’t stop talking about his anatomy.
From her botoxed forehead, from her small breasts which empty like tea bags.
And his “noun”.
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Her “nanny” so “loose” that she loses her Diva cup.
She describes to us the size of the blood clots that come out of her “nanny” when she starts menstruating again after giving birth.
She tells us about the fact that once she was pregnant she was constipated and had a cracked anus.
So she went from a bleeding “nanny” (before menstruation stopped during pregnancy) to a bleeding anus.
Even Louis Morissette is obsessed with his bizoune. In a series of jokes that the august Duty described as “heartbreakingly stupid gags”, Morissette tells us that when he takes antidepressants, he gets hard, but he doesn’t come (and he mimes his way of banging Véro).
WHAT TIME IS THE PUNCH?
Everyone has their own sense of humor. We don’t all have to like the same jokes.
But in this era of political correctness, I find the scathing humor of Serge Postigo (and Mel Brooks) and the disabled people of Cloakrooms than the consensual humor of Levac and Morissette.