I think part of the charm of the SNL sketch is that everyone does their own terrible version of the accent. I think they’re trying to suck at it… there’s no way great performers like Wiig and Hader do a terrible accent unless it’s on purpose.
Amen to this. The only person I’ve ever heard say “anythin’” is Ricky Ricardo. If I drift into my Appalachian, I say “anythang.”
Christian Republican here, which means that on TV, if my group isn’t the butt of the joke, it’s the villian of the week. If it’s funny or relevant to the story, I can be fine with it. The ABC show FRIDAYS did a Rocky Horror spoof with Ronald Reagan in Frank-N-Furtur attire singing “I’m an Arch-Conservative Anti-Intellectual Chief Executive from Cali-forni-ay-hey hey hey!” and it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. South Park gets the same reaction out of me when they skewer my people.
I do remember a dear Doper who drifts in & out who was outraged when her beloved South Park took on transgenderism, to the point of throwing out her Chef doll. And of course, Chef’s Isaac Hayes all of the sudden trumpeting how it’s wrong to make fun of religion when SP took on Scientology.
No, I believe that honor goes to Steel Magnolias.
When I make fun of Alabama I’m not really joking.
Q: Why does California have the most attorneys per capita and New Jersey the most toxic waste dumps per capita?
A: New Jersey got first pick.
Q: Why couldn’t Jesus have been born in New Jersey?
A: God walked up and down the Shore several times but couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
Q: What is the difference between a girl from Newark and a bowling ball?
A: Sometimes a bowling ball is hard to pick up.
Q: Why don’t New Jersey girls play hide-and-seek?
A: No-one would look for them.
Q: What’s the only thing that grows in New Jersey?
A1: Smokestacks.
A2: The crime rate.
Q: What’s the difference between New Jersey and yogurt?
A: Yogurt has an active, living culture
(To the tune of the Scottish song “The Rolling Hills of the Border”):
The Rolling Mills of New Jersey
(Roberts and Barrand)
When I die, bury me low
Where I can hear the petroleum flow.
A sweeter sound, I never did know
The rolling mills of New Jersey.
Down in Trenton, there is a bar
The bums, they come from near and from far
They come by truck, they come by car
The lousy bums of New Jersey
Down in Hoboken, there will be
Garbage as far as the eye can see.
There’s garbage for you, there’s garbage for me.
The garbage dumps of New Jersey.
When at last, I decided to roam,
Far away from my home in Bayonne.
I sat down, and wrote this poem.
I wrote an ode to New Jersey.
I hear woman jokes and dumb blonde jokes all the time. I am internally offended, but it’s not enough of a deal for me to confront or or call it out or anything. I just mentally mark that person as “bigoted asshole, watch for racism and homophobia too” and go on about my day. I tend to respond to such jokes with stonefaced silence.
If we’re telling jokes about our groups, here’s an oldie but goody about hillbillies that touches on a couple points:
Barefoot Paw comes into the cabin to warm himself at the fire. Maw says, “Paw, lift up your foot! You’re standing on a live coal.” To which Paw says, “Which one?”
I’m from Buffalo and it’s all about the snow jokes. We laugh and say bring it on you wimps.
I am a native Californian, never had anyone say anything about a California accent. I suspect what people are calling an accent is actually Valley girl speak. In fact when we moved to Canada no one ever said a word about my accent, they had no problems with my daughters speech either, they wanted to “pull the words” from my husbands mouth apparently they thought he spoke slowly. Then I literally had to translate for my son. He spoke like my daughters I thought.
I was expecting…
A: You can only fit three fingers in a bowling ball.
It’s the viola that gets the greatest laughs, right? (I play it too)
You have my sympathy.
Nobody here from Brooklyn? I don’t think there’s any dialect/place that’s been more stereotyped.
You’re brave. I ditched my southern accent within six months of moving to New England.
Hey guys, I love the viola. I think it has a beautiful sound. I didn’t know it was mocking-worthy.
As for me, of course it depends on presentation, delivery, and who is delivering. I don’t mind some Indian jokes but TBH I haven’t heard too many funny ones.
You’re BOTH wrong…
…a Bowling Ball never gets strip searched & felt up in Terminal C…