1200 stunting as Gaffe 1200

[A Joseph Ross]

On 8/14/2012 8:46 AM, SteveOrdinetz wrote:

> I'm not sure that 50 year old comedy bits is the best way to attract a 
> demographically desirable audience today.  So much of comedy's appeal 
> is in being contemporary....someone telling Nixon jokes isn't gonna 
> cut it with someone who wasn't even born when he resigned.

Topical humor tends to get dated, but there is a lot that is timeless.  
Bill Cosby's Noah, for example.  Or almost all of Jack Benny's work.

Once in the 1980s, I happened to be in the Student Union building at 
UMass Amherst, and I heard Tom Lehrer coming from somewhere.  I followed 
the sound and found a student government office, where a student, who 
was wearing a Michael Jackson T-shirt, working on some papers and 
listening to Tom Lehrer on a cassette player.  Most of that, too, is 
timeless.

-- 
A. Joseph Ross, J.D.|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
617.367.0468|Fx:617.507.7856|http://www.attorneyross.com