CHESS Sets June 21 Closing- Page 4

[Kad]

CHESS Sets June 21 Closing#75

Posted: 5/27/26 at 12:38pm

nealb1 said: "
Several comments here on the thread referred to the Trump & Biden jokes in the show and being in bad taste. So......? It's really no big deal. And, the show isn't shoving anything down anyone's throats.."

It's not that those jokes are in bad taste- it's that they're hacky and tonally out of step with the show (a show set forty years ago!). The show manages to make political jokes that are toothless groaners for everybody on the political spectrum, which, in this age of polarization, I suppose is a sort of accomplishment. 

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Updated On: 5/27/26 at 12:38 PM

[suzcap]

CHESS Sets June 21 Closing#76

Posted: 5/27/26 at 12:51pm

Cap

Updated On: 5/27/26 at 12:51 PM

[nealb1]

CHESS Sets June 21 Closing#77

Posted: 5/27/26 at 1:10pm

Kad said: "nealb1 said: "
Several comments here on the thread referred to the Trump & Biden jokes in the show and being in bad taste. So......? It's really no big deal. And, the show isn't shoving anything down anyone's throats.."

It's not that those jokes are in bad taste- it's that they're hacky and tonally out of step with the show (a show set forty years ago!). The show manages to make political jokes that are toothless groaners for everybody on the political spectrum, which, in this age of polarization, I suppose is a sort of accomplishment."

That's the power of humor.  What one person finds funny, the next one doesn't.