On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' Larry David Urinates on Jesus
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night’s episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the HBO show where Larry David plays himself:
Mention Larry David in a word association game and “Seinfeld” rolls off the lips. That show, which David created, wrote and produced, was brilliant. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is not. Indeed, last night’s episode demonstrates that David’s best years are behind him. He ought to quit while he’s ahead.
At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn’t clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, “every erection is a miracle.” That’s what passes for creativity these days.
Was Larry David always this crude? Would he think it comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother? This might be fun to watch, but since HBO only likes to dump on Catholics (it was just a couple of weeks ago that Sarah Silverman insulted Catholics on “Real Time with Bill Maher”), and David is Jewish, we’ll never know.
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weak spirited people use comedy, movies , and other bull to get there point across. he was definitly not trying to be just funny, and i dont take it in as comedy u know what i find funny is that only 90,000 jews were actually killed in the "holo". everybody keeps saying why didnt he make fun of muhammed leave muhammedout of it why dont jews make fun there demoralizing religion, and there quick to divorce beliefs. this is how i view it, jews who are religious are the most racist people in the world, they oppose mix marrige, the refuse to be close to or communicate with people from other religions usually have there own streets and blocks in cities and your only welcome if of course u came to spend MONEY. if u want isreal so bad and believe that it is jewish why did u migrate all over the world and create shit storms, jews that dont believe in religion are the worst liberal, hippy pieces of crap communists. everybody should ask themselves why did hitler do all he did besides for world power???? protacols of zion
I think that all religions are mythos. I am even pretty open to making fun of religion , and even the religious. But only up to a point.
My real question though is why do some of you assume that if a person is fine with urinating on Jesus (bad bad taste) that they wouldn't be fine with doing the same to Mohammed? And why do you immediately go that route in your argument? If you want to defend your mythos, do so, but contain to the argument of your mythos.
I get the set up of the joke, but peeing on people isn't really funny.
what everyone else thinks is supect... typical uneducated view!
If you think it's OK for Hollywood to urinate on an image of Jesus, then if you have spheres in your pants, you should have no problem urinating on an image of Muhammed. Since no one would dare, all you supporters are cowards, period. Hollywood has a proven record of insulting Christianity by ridiculing Christians and Christian symbols. It's a not so subtle agenda by Hollywood big-wigs to destroy Christianity, for whatever perverted reason. I just hope that people remember who destroyed Christianity and helped the ascendancy of Islam in this country. When Islam's foot is upon your necks, you will be crying for someone to help you and there will be no one left. This is nothing new, read the history of previous civilizations destroyed from within by malevolent sickos.
Everything that is not supported by verifiable, falsifiable evidence is by definition superstition. This naturally includes ALL religions, tooth fairies, pink unicorns, alchemy, astrology, belief that the mercury retrograde affects our lives, that the earth is flat, that the holocaust did not happen, that evolution is false, that our planet is less than 10,000 years old, ...
Ignorance is not a crime but society needs to make its best efforts to reduce ignorance.
People can believe whatever superstition they want as long as they do not invoke their superstition to impose superstitious morality on the rest of us.
When they do - and we don't have to look far to see that this happens all the time - we must make caricatures of all superstitions that do.
If they feel offended, all they have to do is open their eyes and use their brains and reason. Parody and comedy are great ways to get people to see that their beliefs don't make sense.
Try the following experiment: get a group of people together that firmly believe that holy book A is true and then make fun of all the nonsense that people who believe in holy book B believe. Then ask how many of those who were almost laughing themselves to death would be offended if group B did the same of group A. Finally ask them why they believe holy book A to be true. If they are honest, they will admit that they grew up with holy book A and never really thought about it.
Making fun of superstitions does not mean that you are disrespectful of the people who believe it them.
The world will be a better place if it is equally OK to criticize or mock any religion , any restaurant, any piece of music, any piece of art, any political view, any ...
Don't you see that we already do all of that, except religion?
That's why I support David Larry independent of how funny or not funny I found this video clip.
opinions are like a** holes, everbody has one!
Where is this unwritten rule that no one can make fun of or even question religion and faith? Comedy is great because it has no boundaries. Comedians constantly push the envelope on what is funny and what is over the line be it with religion, race ...etc. I guess comedy is funny if it is not you or your beliefs that are getting made fun of. Lighten up people and laugh at yourselves. After all Larry did not pee on Jesus on purpose, it was an accident.
Here we go again. More whining and fascism from Bill Donohue. Sigh.
I would have thought that Bill Donohue is the last person to be lecturing others on civility given his recent outrageous attack on gay men published online by the Washington Post. Not his first rant on the subject and I daresay it won't be his last.
I canceled HBO after this and made sure that my cable company knew the reason why. I didn't like it and talked with my pocketbook.