It's a friggin' joke, people!

My most recent AMERICAN IDOL recap also ran this week on the HuffingtonPost. Among the comments I received was this:

Ken, there are a MILLION sad, pithy movies you could have chosen to compare Syesha's tears to. I got a sick, racist rumbling in my belly over your choice of "Old Yeller." If she were caucasion, I wonder what film would have been appropriate?

May I just respond by saying WHAT THE FUCK?!

At what point did we become the most politically correct, thin-skinned, overly-sensitive nation in the universe? This is beyond ridiculous.

Comedy by its nature is subversive. It is sometimes pointed, sometimes biting. Larry Gelbart once said:

If what you're writing isn't likely to offend or annoy anyone at all, go back and start again.

We need to stop taking ourselves – and everything else – too seriously. I’ll leave you with one other quote, this by Erma Bombeck:

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

LIGHTEN UP, PEOPLE!

It’s an Old Yeller joke for crissakes!