“Jane, you ignorant slut”

Where's the beef....cake?

MAGA

"I mentioned the bisque"

Yes, I forgot to include the word “to.” Oh, Dear!

Those skits weren’t the least bit funny, OP.

R5, the phrase and the delivery of the phrase were funny.

Well, nobody's perfect.

"These go to 11."

I’m crushing your head.

Bring me the axe.

No soup for you.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking...

“That’s what she said”

My sister and I crack these all the time and marvel at how many times it fits (hilariously).

"I'm thinking it over."

- Jack Benny (famously frugal) after a very long pause, in reply to a robber who points a gun at him and demands "Your money or your life!"

Op that line isn’t funny.

OP wins, and yes, the line is funny then and now.

R14 I beat you to it!

"Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?"

"He vas my boyfriend!"

I need more cowbell!

Yes, you did, R12. My chagrin is offset by the knowledge that there's at least one other old time radio fan here.

No more wire hangers!!!!

Don't call me Shirley

Take my wife....please.

R16 "OP wins"

No, dear.

“Allison you are humiliating all of us”

It IS funny. SNL's Point/Counterpoint was a takeoff on a 60 Minutes segment of the same name, featuring James Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander in a one-minute conservative-vs-liberal debate. Akroyd accurately nailed Kilpatrick's brittle delivery.

You couldn’t handle it!

She looka lika man!

I am not gay.

Back in Saint Olaf...

Dey eat da poo-poo!

"Bring out yer dead!"

In the butt, Bob.

DATS DA SUCK JOB!

Fat hips sink ships.

"Black man, black man"

I don’t wanna say.

I stole the TV.

We need more lemon pledge.

I agree with you OP. It makes me laugh every time I think about it.

Picture it Sicily 1922.

YOU! ARE A BLABBERMOUTH!

Funniest line reading ever.

She did not just twirl a baton. That baton was on fire!

R44 here. Sorry. Didn't think of the post as just four words. I'll go through the rest of my life with my dress stuck in the back of my pantyhose.

R43 for the win.

Did I do that?

[quote]“Jane, you ignorant slut”

I just don't get the humor in this phrase Never have. Can someone explain it to me?

Let me just say this is not based on any feminist idea bla blah bla, I just don't get it.

"He's a righteous dude!"

R48 I don’t get it, either.

Dan’s character has no control over his reaction to being questioned by a woman, even while cameras are rolling.

Y’know, like a Republican.

That’s what’s funny.

In what, dog years?

R51. Ooh, okay. Well, that's kinda funny. Certainly not worth all of the acclaim tho

Thanks

Lucy: I made a boo-boo!

Wouldn't fly today, that's for sure.

R51. I feel like the real humor is the abrupt, uncalled-for escalation from simple debate on some political issue to over-the-top, personal, un-PC jab. All delivered in a monotone, matter of fact manner

It's Aykroyd's delivery that makes the line a classic. R56 is correct.

The above few get it. It's just such a pompous, misogynistic, way over the top statement and just so ridiculous that makes it funny. That was back when women's issues were coming to the forefront - Gloria Steinem et al - and his white male privileged was threatened. Single Mary Richards moving to a new city by herself was still a novel concept.

Op you big piece of shit!

Haha so hilarious??

No, "Jane you ignorant slut" is not funny out of context. It wasn't funny heard out of context in the skit, which is not something anyone would attempt today in a world of preciousness against comedy amid the foulness of reactionary hate speech.

It's not funny in the context of the skit itself, either. It just sets the tone, theme and delivery of Ackroyd's screed, which itself is where the humor lies. Curtin, too, is funny, but just as a straight intro to the clincher.

OP = Lout

Henny has it as R24.

Thank God R60 arrived to let everyone know what’s not funny. Without her we’d be laughing needlessly.

He look-a like-a man

"Eddie! I want half!"

Stifle you silly dingbat

R48, see R27.

R62, I'm so glad [italic]someone[/italic] got it.

It was my response to the depth and thoughtfulness of previous posters in the thread.

"I not a Mexican!"

President Donald John Trump.

I'm sorry..."Just the one, dear?" trumps (eww) most anything in this thread.

You can never have enough hats, gloves or shoes.

Is this the CAR CLAMP CLUB!?

He looka like a man- Miss Swann

What does Mama say- Stuart's Mom

To all those complaining you don’t get it, I think you really needed to “know” know Shanna Alexander.