Punch Lines and Politics

Bob Saget, Matt Stone and Arianna Huffington walk into a room...it sounds like the beginning of a joke. Oh but it's not. It's only part of the panel set up for tomorrow nights discussion at the 92nd St Y entitled "Punch Lines and Politics: A Seconding the First Forum".

The panel includes Paul Provenza, Bob Saget, Dan Glickman, Matt Stone, Harry Shearer, Joe Scarborough and Arianna Huffington, Joe Pantoliano and Tony Goldwyn / Lawrence O’Donnell Jr., moderator, and is hosted by Joe Pantoliano and Tony Goldwyn, co-presidents, The Creative Coalition.

According to the 92 Street Y blog (who knew?!) they'll be discussing the limits of "free speech, government and non-government censorship, movie ratings, the state of the First Amendment and everything in between." Previously we would have thought that Bob Saget wouldn't be a likely candidate for this panel, we thought he was a pretty G-rated type of guy. Then we saw the Full House E! True Hollywood story which unveiled to us a whole new side of Saget, an R-rated side!

Tuesday // 8pm // Kaufmann Concert Hall [Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street] // $25 [$20 discount tickets with promo code "COA"]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on September 19, 2005 12:01 PM

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dan selzer

bob saget has always been an extremely bizarre, dirty and funny as hell comedian.

Smithers

pugsley, what about Harry Shearer? Is he allowed downtown?

pugsley

The upper west side is the perfect storage area for appalling people like Saget, Huffington and O'Donnell. I've never been more pleased to live safely downtown. I hope these A-holes never decide to move to my part of town.

Bottomsly Griffin

Anybody who thought The Aristocrats was only for shock - clearly didn't get the joke.

kj

bob saget can go suck a fuck! the dude will never be funny unless he gets hit by a car. On full house he was actually the least annoying which isn't saying much. But America's funniest home videos! My God. I think I had to spend at least half a decade watching south park to get rid of the taste.

jack dong

the aristocrats wasn't funny. It was just shocking. But knowing that bob saget was going to tell dirty jokes made it less shocking. a family has incestual sex and shits on each other. saved you ten bucks

JO Mamm

bob saget can go suck a fuck! the dude will never be funny unless he gets hit by a car. On full house he was actually the least annoying which isn't saying much. But America's funniest home videos! My God. I think I had to spend at least half a decade watching south park to get rid of the taste.

bubba

Bob Saget in the Aristocrats was hilarious! Part of the humour was in the expectation that he was (1) not funny because of the show he was on; and (2) a family-oriented comedian. Both myths are dispelled in his first few minutes in the movie. He's outrageously funny.

b

Arianna Huffington?

i'm sorry, but she's not funny at all

JO Mamm

If bob saget is really dirty then he was a faker on Full House and sold out for a paycheck. I mean can you imagine him holding the babies on full house and thinking aristocrats thoughts about them? what a dick!

carpeicthus

Bob Saget is a funny, dirty man. His act has always been dirty. George friggin' Carlin does the voice work for a kids' TV show. It happens.

Kojak

I'm sorry Jamie, but it doesn’t matter what Saget did during his career that actually made a good mark on television, stand up, or any type of performing arts. Hell he could’ve saved the Earth from an incoming asteroid, negotiate world peace, and end poverty in Africa. But the fact of the matter is when he tortured us with years of Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, all that goodwill from his other achievements went down the toilet and he became a founding member of the ultimate shit list.

Jamie

Saget? Didn't you see The Aristocrats? The man is a unheralded filthy genius. Oddly enough, he also won a student Oscar for a short film while in film school.