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Title: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: 12tone. on May 21, 2007, 06:04:44 PM
Here we go! 

Classical music gets insulted maybe for the first time this openly on television by Craig Ferguson.  Maybe you saw this episode.  I never watch the show myself.  I only saw the first minute or so on You Tube and had to post it here.  It's halarious! 

Get ready (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuSt2liSpM).


$:)



EDIT: Maybe not 'funny'...more like sad.  Just another negative finger pointed at classical music.  Like we need another one...  :(
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: dtwilbanks on May 21, 2007, 06:15:33 PM
Where did it get insulted?  ???
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: 12tone. on May 21, 2007, 06:39:26 PM
Just seemed negative for some reason...  :(
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: mahlertitan on May 22, 2007, 01:05:42 AM
nah, it's not that offensive, it's kinda funny though. If we have more fights in concerts, classical music might get more publicity, people might start to go attend concerts again!
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: david johnson on May 22, 2007, 01:23:26 AM
who's craig ferguson?

dj
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: mahlertitan on May 22, 2007, 01:26:47 AM
Quote from: david johnson on May 22, 2007, 01:23:26 AM
who's craig ferguson?

dj

don't usually stay up late, huh?
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Wendell_E on May 22, 2007, 03:01:15 AM
Quote from: MahlerTitan on May 22, 2007, 01:26:47 AM
don't usually stay up late, huh?

I'd never heard of him either, but when I stay up late, I don't waste time watching TV.   :)
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Mark G. Simon on May 22, 2007, 03:25:03 AM
I appreciate that one of the first thing he thinks about in connection with classical music is "The Rite of Spring".
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Cato on May 22, 2007, 04:26:19 AM
Souping up the reaction with a laugh track did not make the comments particularly funny.

As an Irishman maybe Craig needs to uncork his rye humor to be really funny!   :o
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: david johnson on May 22, 2007, 04:38:09 AM
Quote from: MahlerTitan on May 22, 2007, 01:26:47 AM
don't usually stay up late, huh?

sure i do, but i find certain late night actions more rewarding than tv!  ;)

dj
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: dtwilbanks on May 22, 2007, 05:28:56 AM
Quote from: Cato on May 22, 2007, 04:26:19 AM
Souping up the reaction with a laugh track did not make the comments particularly funny.

As an Irishman maybe Craig needs to uncork his rye humor to be really funny!   :o

I thought he was a Scotsman.  ???
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Cato on May 22, 2007, 06:07:02 AM
Quote from: dtwilbanks on May 22, 2007, 05:28:56 AM
I thought he was a Scotsman.  ???

Irishman, Scotsman, little difference!   :o
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: dtwilbanks on May 22, 2007, 06:15:25 AM
Quote from: Cato on May 22, 2007, 06:07:02 AM
Irishman, Scotsman, little difference!   :o

Tell that to an Irishman or Scotsman.  ;D
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Novi on May 22, 2007, 06:17:12 AM
Quote from: Cato on May 22, 2007, 06:07:02 AM
Irishman, Scotsman, little difference!   :o

Now the Celts get insulted ...  :P
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Cato on May 22, 2007, 06:32:33 AM
Quote from: Novitiate on May 22, 2007, 06:17:12 AM
Now the Celts get insulted ...  :P

Only in Boston!  Ask Karl Henning!   0:)
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Hector on May 22, 2007, 06:54:52 AM
Quote from: dtwilbanks on May 22, 2007, 06:15:25 AM
Tell that to an Irishman or Scotsman.  ;D

I will, and although I'm neither, I know that they'll be round to beat two kinds of shit out of him. >:D
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: oyasumi on May 22, 2007, 06:57:45 AM
Quote from: Wendell_E on May 22, 2007, 03:01:15 AM
I'd never heard of him either, but when I stay up late, I don't waste time watching TV.   :)

Yeah, you waste time on internet message boards complaining about TV.
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Bunny on May 22, 2007, 07:36:04 AM
Quote from: Cato on May 22, 2007, 04:26:19 AM
Souping up the reaction with a laugh track did not make the comments particularly funny.

As an Irishman maybe Craig needs to uncork his rye humor to be really funny!   :o

Craig Ferguson is a Scot.  He's from Glasgow, the heart of industrial Scotland.
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: The Mad Hatter on May 22, 2007, 03:25:07 PM
Quote from: Cato on May 22, 2007, 06:07:02 AM
Irishman, Scotsman, little difference!   :o

*thwacks*

I've never heard of Craig Ferguson, so I assume he's Scottish. We've got very few international-level comedians here, and, alas, even fewer who are particularly funny.
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: BachQ on May 22, 2007, 03:30:08 PM
Quote from: Mark G. Simon on May 22, 2007, 03:25:03 AM
I appreciate that one of the first thing he thinks about in connection with classical music is "The Rite of Spring".

........ except that he calls it "The Rites of Spring" ......... ::)
Title: Re: Classical gets insulted!
Post by: Szykneij on May 22, 2007, 05:19:28 PM
Quote from: Novitiate on May 22, 2007, 06:17:12 AM
Now the Celts get insulted ...  :P

The real insult was getting stuck with ping pong ball #5   :'(    :-\