George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)

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Ground-breaking standup comedian George Carlin is all in favor of free speech, but thinks the best comedy comes from punching up, not punching down, and that means not mocking gays, immigrants, women, and other vulnerable minorities.

Mas…George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)

Talk (And Sing) Like A (Mexican) Pirate Day: ‘Santy Anno’ (video)

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It’s International Talk Sing Like A Pirate Day and we’re please to present not only a “sea shanty” about being a pirate, but one about the Mexican-American war of the 1850s. It’s even in Wikipedia! This video of Santy Anno has music by Forebitter and Lord Cavendish manga-influenced artwork assembled by uploader LordDrakoArakis, probably not his real name.

Here’s the some of what Wikipedia says about this traditional song:

Mas…Talk (And Sing) Like A (Mexican) Pirate Day: ‘Santy Anno’ (video)

Pocho Ocho Top Reasons I’m Quite Sure the Fonz Was Mexican-American

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¡Feliz Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month!

I thank God for helping me identify a previously-unrecognized Hispanic icon, a man who always embodied rebel cool, and my personal hero in that corny-ass show, Happy Days.

Gente, here are the Pocho Ocho Top Reasons I’m Quite Sure The Fonz Was Mexican-American:

8. Everybody calls him by a nickname

7. Panache

6. Leather jackets from Leon

Mas…Pocho Ocho Top Reasons I’m Quite Sure the Fonz Was Mexican-American

Lalo Alcaraz Salutes Cartoon Jefe Lee Salem, 1946-2019, RIP

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I spent the weekend to Kansas City paying tribute to Lee Salem, the comic strip editor and syndicate president who discovered so many groundbreaking comic strips that he changed the comics page forever.

I joined a memorial where Cathy creator Cathy Guiswhite and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau spoke, along with Lee’s son and young grandaughter.

Mas…Lalo Alcaraz Salutes Cartoon Jefe Lee Salem, 1946-2019, RIP

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