Before Monty Python, there was Jack Benny. Warped and absurd doesn't just come from nowhere, you know.
And sometimes, prime-time television in White Bread America (which is what we, today, assume what all of America must have been in December 1960, when the episode of The Jack Benny Program aired) was just downright twisted. So twisted there would be hell to pay if it aired today.
I'D TELL YOU how twisted, but that would give away the plot. And the jokes.
No, in the New Edgy Millennium, you can rhapsodize about giving your baby "D*** in a Box," but you can't show this.
In 2008, you can go just so far. We have standards of decency, you know. Some things still are offensive.
But if you can't be offensive at Christmastime, though, when can you in the New Edgy Millennium?
Strike a blow for freedom of expression. Watch.
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