Dear Betty,

That comedian sounds disgusting!!!  It's s ooo offensive
how uncensored these people are....... I was always
skeptical about stand-up comedy, and one yr a friend
convinced me to go. It was awful.  He was making fun of
political correctness, and one of his lines was "You can no
longer call someone spastic, you have to say 'somebody
who has trouble doing  up their shoelaces'".  And the really
distressing thing was that- apart from my friend and I-
everybody thought he was hilarious.

Good luck with that letter.

Emma
>Dear All:
>
>I am livid.
>
>There was a television show on Comedy Central last
night called "Premium
>Blend."  It came on at 10:00 and 10:30, and 11:00 PM.  I
do not watch this
>show but stopped on it tonight while channel surfing.
>
>The 10:30 show, episode number 410, had a comedian
who used the last bit of
>time in his performance to exploit particular conjoined
sisters, Reba and
>Lori Schappell.
>
>He made fun of them, the way they navigate, the fact that
one of the sisters
>wants to be a country western singer, and how it would be
if they were to
>have sex with somebody.  He actually did the humping
motion while he was
>making fun of them.
>
>He had the audience too.  They were all laughing at the
expense of these
>women.  I couldn't believe it.  He couldn't have described
their physical
>appearance in an uglier way, and the audience thought
the whole bit was
>hilarious.
>
>I just bought my TV a few months ago.  I couldn't afford to
throw anything at
>it.
>
>These sisters, if you don't know who they are, have an
interesting story.  I
>saw a program about them on TV some time ago, and
then a few months ago on
>another show.  They went from an institutional setting to
living in their own
>place, and they are doing fine.  They have friends, and
have their lives
>outside of that damnable institution.  They are doing life!
>
>So, this man learns about these sisters, and all he can
think about it is how
>they are good fodder for comedy material?  I can't even
imagine how I would
>feel if I had been his victim and saw all the people in the
audience laugh at
>my expense.
>
>I caught the act too late to get his name, so I sent an
e-mail to comedy
>central asking for the point of contact for "Premium Blend."
In the
>meantime, I'll compose myself and draft a letter.  I can
plug in the name
>later.
>
>I need to find out about his entire act last night too, before
I get started.
> Who knows what else he said that must also be
addressed?
>
>No, these woman are pretty fantastic to me.  You know
how this world is.
>Their circumstances are a bit rugged for a world such as
this.  Just the way
>that they spent their formative years in an institution, but
kept it together
>mentally to advocate for their own release impresses me.
When I saw this I
>thought "You go for it.  Go for everything and take what you
want in this
>life."  It made me feel so great that they were continually
overcoming
>society.
>
>I've heard comedians make fun of PWDs before, most of
us have, I am sure.
>This was an attack on specific people though.  He
described them in such
>detail that they could not have been mistaken for anyone
else. This wasn't a
>generic attack.
>
>Betty
>