Comments on: Leno Comic Serves Up Bland, Stale Twitter Jokes

By: nickypeeps

nickypeeps — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:01:38 +0000

having almost 7000 tweets doesn’t make you “familiar with twitter”. it makes you a self important bore. so does the phrase “Twitter purist”, as if the stupid website hasn’t only been around for two years. Did you really meet a super hot guy on the upper west side? must have been fun. yuck.

but i still thought to myself, “surely she isn’t uninteresting enough to be defending twitter,” or you’re mad because he’s literally describing you, until I saw your last sentence and realized this entire awful article exists solely because you don’t like that Jimmy has said most women comics aren’t funny. and how are jokes about folding a girl in half or sessions of foot fetish scrapping pandering to middle america? i don’t even like the show, but i can still acknowledge how Jay is trying to get away from having shitty country bands perform three nights a week

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:53:34 +0000

Go Yankees!

By: Puter Boi

Puter Boi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:00:25 +0000

Well…if anyone would know bland and stale jokes, it would be Rachel Sklar.

Good job, Rachel!

Go YANKEES!!

By: Ben Linus

Ben Linus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:21:12 +0000

@Rachel
Yes, that was nice. Thank you, Rachel.

By the way, Bright Eyes is what Zira nicknamed Taylor in Planet of the Apes.

By: rmbltmbl

rmbltmbl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:55:40 +0000

This doesn’t have anything to do with Red Eye, does it?

By: Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:12:15 +0000

Don’t really know what you mean about Bright Eyes, but my point was, I get that “Middle America” in the Leno audience parlance has always been used to denote the more bland, less cutting-edge awareness of things like, say, Twitter. And I put it in quotes for a reason, to show the ridiculousness and snobbery of that, and to point out that the audience was ill-served by something so lowest-common denominator that it was way outdated and wrong. So – clearer?

By: Ben Linus

Ben Linus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:52:22 +0000

What the hell is this supposed to mean?
“I get that Jay Leno is geared toward “Middle America” (even though in “Middle America” they read magazines and websites and use social media….”

Yes, Rachel. Me, Bright Eyes. Me, Bright Eyes type-type on board of letters and numbers, then letters come up on glow square in front of Bright Eyes.
Me, Bright Eyes, no like joke-jokes of Dennis Miller and Lewis Black, they too intelli-, they too intelli-…uh…they too smart! NO LIKE!
Bright Eyes love Larry the Cable Guy. He funny. He not too smart.
Wait! Bright Eyes see shiny object in distance!
Bright Eyes, go — Bright Eyes, go!

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:10:22 +0000

Am I being a Twitter purist/unduly harsh?

Not at all. The bit isn’t accurate or funny.

Also, for what it’s worth, it was your awesome tweets that led to me joining Twitter about a year ago.