Showing posts with label comedian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedian. Show all posts

Monday, July 13, 2026

Hollywood's 'Antichrist' Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken "More Cowbell! (Saturday Night Live)
(Ming) No wonder Christopher Walken terrifies everyone
You want more cowbell? - The Devil's bargain:
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Charismatic Christopher Walken, 2008
Mr. Christopher Walken was born little Ronnie Walken (March 31, 1943) and became a very famous American actor. His work on stage and screen has earned him accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Actor Award, as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. His films have grossed more than $1.6 billion in the United States... More

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Why do we ROAST, to laugh or to cope?



What if we could rise above?
RIGHT SPEECH
 (sammā-vācā) in most Buddhist texts (such as the Pali canon) is presented as four abstentions [29, 68]: "What is right speech? Abstaining from lying (false speech), from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle (beastly talk) speech: This is called right speech."

Instead of the usual "abstention and refraining from wrong" terminology, a few Buddhist texts, such as the "Fruits of Recluseship Discourse" (Samaññaphala Sutta) and Kevata Sutta in the Long Discourses of the Buddha (Digha Nikaya) explain this virtue in an active sense, after stating it in the form of an abstention [69].


Please don't hurt my inner child! It's fragile!
For example, Fruits of Recluseship Sutra states that a part of a Buddhist monastic's virtue is that of "abstaining from false speech. One speaks the truth, holds to the truth, is firm, reliable, not a deceiver of the world" [69].

Similarly, the virtue of abstaining from divisive speech is explained as delighting in creating concord [69] and peace and harmony between people.

I'm humiliated! I can never face the world!
The virtue of abstaining from abusive speech is explained in this sutra as including affectionate and polite speech that is pleasing to most people.

The virtue of abstaining from idle chit chat (animal talk or ticcharana-katha) is explained as speaking what is connected with the Dharma, the goal of of which is liberation from all ignorance and suffering [69, 40] by realizing the freedom of enlightenment and the bliss and peace of nirvana. More

  • Roasters (Comedy Central); The Artist is The Enemy; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit (Noble Eightfold Path factor)

Friday, January 30, 2026

Actor Catherine O'Hara dead at 71 (sutra)





Catherine O'Hara sings the classic "Sally's Song" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman). Where has she been reborn for a life of acting? The Sixth Dimension the Elfman's warned about? The Hell of Laughter the Buddha warned about? 

SUTRA: The Hell of Laughter for actors?
Ven. Thanissaro, "Considering a career in acting? You may want to reconsider..." (edited by WQ)

I just wanted to make people laugh ('n be famous)
(SN 42.2) Then Talaputa, the head of an acting troupe, went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. Sitting there, he said: "Venerable sir, I have heard that it has been passed down by the ancient teaching lineage of actors that 'When actors on the stage, in the midst of a festival, make people laugh and give them delight with an imitation [misrepresentation, lie about] reality, then with the breakup of the body, after death, such actors are reborn in the company of the laughing light beings (devas).' What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"

"Enough, headman, set that aside. Do not ask it." But a second and third time...Talaputa, the head of an acting troupe, repeated his question.

Speak truth with compassion.
"Apparently, headman, I am unable to drop this matter by saying, 'Enough, headman, set that aside. Do not ask it.' So I will address that directly:

"Any beings who themselves are not yet free of lust, anger, delusion (greed, hatred, wrong view), who are bound by lust, focus with even more lust on things inspiring lust presented by an actor on stage in the midst of a festival...such actors — themselves intoxicated and heedless, having made others intoxicated and heedless — with the breakup of the body, after death, are reborn in what is called The Hell of Laughter.

"But if one holds a view like this: 'When an actor on the stage, in the midst of a festival, makes people laugh and gives them delight with an imitation of reality, then with the breakup of the body, after death, that person is reborn in the company of the laughing light beings,' that is one's wrong view.

"Now, there are two destinations for a person with wrong view, I declare, either hell [apāya, naraka] or the animal plane."

How could no one have told me sooner?
When this was said, Talaputa, the head of an acting troupe, sobbed then burst into tears.

[The Buddha said:] "That is what I was trying to communicate by saying, 'Enough, headman, set that aside. Do not ask it.'"

"Venerable sir, I am not crying because of what the Blessed One said to me, but rather because I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled for such a long time by that ancient teaching lineage of actors who say, 'When actors on the stage, in the midst of a festival, make people laugh and give them delight with an imitation of reality, then with the breakup of the body, after death, they are reborn in the company of the laughing light being.'" Source: Right Livelihood: samma ajivo (accesstoinsight.org)

Catherine O'Hara

Yes, but I got a few good years on earth.
Catherine O'Hara (March 4, 1954–January 30, 2026) was a Canadian and American actress, comedian, and screenwriter, whose career spanned over 50 years.

She started in sketch and improvisational comedy in film and television before expanding her career taking dramatic roles. She received several accolades including two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2017. O'Hara started her career in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (1976–1984), where she won the Primetime Emmy Award. She gained acclaim acting in films such as:
  • After Hours (1985),
  • Heartburn (1986),
  • Beetlejuice (1988),
  • Home Alone (1990), and
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
She collaborated with Christopher Guest acting in his mockumentary films:
  • Waiting for Guffman (1996),
  • Best in Show (2000),
  • A Mighty Wind (2003), and
  • For Your Consideration (2006).
She also voiced roles in films such as:
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993),
  • Chicken Little (2005),
  • Over the Hedge,
  • Monster House (2006),
  • Where the Wild Things Are (2009),
  • Frankenweenie (2012), and
  • Elemental (2023).
O'Hara gained a career resurgence for her role as Moira Rose in the CBC sitcom Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)... More

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Hypocrisy, poetry, iconoclasm in Zen



Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu
Japanese Zen Buddhist priest Ikkyū (一休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun) was an iconoclast with an "enlightenment certificate" (inkajo). He was born in 1394 and died in 1481. He was an eccentric, iconoclastic, "crazy wisdom" Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, musician, alcoholic, and womanizer.

He had an impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals [1]. He is perhaps best known for his radical approach to Zen, which included breaking Buddhist monastic precepts and his stance against celibacy [2, Note 1].
Biography
In 1394, Ikkyū was born in a small suburb of Kyoto, Japan. It is generally held that he was the illegitimate child of Emperor Go-Komatsu and a low-ranking court noblewoman [1]. His mother was forced to flee to Saga, where Ikkyū was raised by servants.

At the age of 5, Ikkyū was separated from his mother and placed in a Rinzai Zen temple in Kyoto, Japan called Ankoku-ji, as an acolyte [1, 5].

The temple masters taught Chinese culture and language as part of the curriculum, a method termed Gozan Zen. He was given the name "Shuken" and learned about Chinese poetry, art, and literature. More

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Sad about Charlie Kirk's murder? (stand up)

(Cracked Comedy Club) Standup comedian Shaun Anthony


New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has made a lot of Zionist and secular Jews very uncomfortable. He’s a Leftist and has been on the pro-Palestine side of the divide for a long time, and many worry about what this will mean for NYC and its many Jewish people [hundreds of thousands in Brooklyn]. Yet Satmar Hasidim have taken a very different approach, embracing him with open arms. I explain why I believe this is.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Jewish terrorist kills his parents in L.A.

Every happy family is the same, but every unhappy one is unique. Ask suspect Nick Reiner.
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Rob "Meathead" Reiner, RIP
Father and son strike Jewish community in Australia to avenge Zionist Jews' wholesale slaughter of Palestinians and others and an elite set of Jewish criminal bankers, financiers, arms dealers, surveillance and weapons experts, child sex traffickers, blackmailers, and tech billionaires. Meanwhile, closer to home (Los Angeles), a "nice Jewish boy" grotesquely murders two famous Jews in possible drug-soaked rage stabbing (then hires topnotch lawyer using their money to defend himself and aim for acquittal):
Jewish murder (the double heinous karma of parricide, in this case patricide and matricide) suspect Nick Reiner, son of legendary actor and director Rob Reiner (the genius behind This Is Spinal Tap, All in the Family, and other classic Hollywood products and son of the legendary Carl Reiner) and photographer Michele Singer-Reiner, has been arrested after allegedly murdering (stabbing to death) his parents in their upscale Brentwood, westside Los Angeles home.
  • He married my daughter...in the show
    What must Archie Bunker think of this happening to Meathead Stivic (All in the Family)? Good thing he's passed into a dimension with a better point of view to better understand the strange, albeit ultimately incomprehensible, workings of karma (how a single cause motivated by greed, hatred/fear, and/or delusion leads to so many deleterious effects or vipaka and phala).
Murderous Jewish drug addict son Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested at 9:15 pm local time Sunday night (Dec. 12, 2025) and booked early Monday (Dec. 13, 2025) morning, according to online jail records from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

No official charges were listed, but Nick Reiner is being held on suspicion of a [at least one] felony. His bail is currently set at $4 million. Murdered parents Reiner and Singer were found dead Sunday afternoon.

A source later confirmed to Rolling Stone that the couple's youngest female child, Romy, had found her parents' stabbed bodies. Paramedics, firefighters, and police officers were dispatched to the Reiners' home in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood near UCLA.

By Sunday night, an investigation was just getting underway as the LAPD waited to obtain a warrant to properly search the house. At the time, LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said that the police were "not seeking anyone as a suspect or as a person of interest," though reports were starting to emerge that a family member was being questioned in connection to the unthinkable double homicide.
 
While a suspect had not yet been officially named, a source told Rolling Stone that drug addicted son Nick was involved in the alleged homicide.

While the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Reiner and Singer and still murky, Nick had a complicated relationship with his parents and had long battled a tenacious drug addiction.

He first went to rehab when he was 15 and was in and out of rehab facilities throughout his later teenage years.
When he was 22, Nick put some of his experiences into the semi-autobiographical film called Being Charlie that he co-wrote which his loving father directed.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times about the film, Rob and Michele spoke about the challenges Nick faced in rehab and acknowledged their own shortsightedness regarding the efficacy of these programs for their son.

"The program works for some people, but it can't work for everybody," Rob said. "When Nick would tell us that it wasn't working for him, we wouldn't listen. We were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son."

Michele noted, "We were so influenced by these people. They would tell us he's a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us. And we believed them." More from Rolling Stone:
  • US Pres. Trump mocks murdered Jew Rob Reiner, says he was killed because of his severe 'TDS'
  • [Interestingly, Trump did not blame Dictator Bibi Netanyahu for fomenting worldwide animosity towards Judaism and Jews by promoting Zionist genocide as well as arming and funding wars and conflicts worldwide]
  • Rob Reiner's activist legacy remembered by former US Pres. Barry Soetoro Obama, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi
  • Rob Reiner didn't just make movies. He made moments

Why we can't have nice things. China can

(The Absurdist) What's a Uyghur? And why does West lie about China?

The Absurdist: I traveled to Xinjiang [China in March 2025] to speak directly with Uyghurs and hear their stories firsthand. What I found challenges much of what we often hear in Western media. This is their side of the story.
(BarrettThe West is WRONG [or lying] about Xinjiang, China

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The issue of Somalis in Minneapolis

Somali Muslim Congressperson, the Squad's Ilhan Omar
(Sammy Obeid) Minneapolis Somalis vs. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | stand up
This Is What America Looks Like
(By Ilhan Omar) Ilhan Omar’s career is a collection of historic firsts: She is the first refugee, the first Somali American, and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress.

Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic party’s new progressive chorus of congresswomen of color, The Squad.

This Is What America Looks Like is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes, and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the U.S. today.


This is Omar’s story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America -- penniless and speaking only Somali -- and her triumphant election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Rep. Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times. More

Friday, October 31, 2025

Hate Thy Neighbour: Inside US Neo-Nazi Cult

(True Lives) VICE investigates real white American racism

Yoga is for white people (Zarna Garg)


Bikram ran scam called Bikram Yoga
Zarna Garg (born Feb. 15, 1975) [1] is an Indian American stand-up comedian and screenwriter. CNBC says she is "the zany, outspoken voice of the Indian American woman" [2]. She is also a New York Times bestselling author.
  • ZG is a "Desi" (a member of the Indian diaspora) comedian at Zarna Garg.com. Desi a loose term used to describe the peoples, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora [4], deriving from the Sanskrit देश (deśá), meaning "land" or "country" [5]. It traces its origin to people from South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and is sometimes extended to include the Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives, and Bhutan. More: Desi
Early life and education

Born in India, she lived in Mumbai (Bombay) as a teenager. Her Indian father demanded that she get married the day after her mother died, which was when she was 14.

Why are we Americans overachievers?
Rather than submit to an arranged marriage, she moved out of the house and stayed with friends and family [4]. Eventually, she emigrated to the USA to live with her sister in Akron, Ohio [2][5].

She earned a BA degree in finance from the University of Akron and a JD (Juris Doctor) degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio [6].

After being a stay-at-home mother for 16 years, she was encouraged by her children to try stand-up comedy [7], so we have them to thank. More
  • Zarna Garg (Comedy Dynamics); CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly