Here we go! Below are the original PHOTO CAPTION ideas before the Charlie gang went with the cartoon.
They tried a variety of gag lines, but ultimately...
...well, it wasn't that they were concerned that these were sick jokes in poor taste. It was that the photo agency might charge too much for the use of the picture!
You know, even satirists have integrity. Better to pay a cartoonist $50 than a photo agency $500!
But since blogs have no integrity, and copyright is copy wrong, and this is all protected by the GNU and "fair use" and "attention, this is public domain because I said so..."
HERE YA GO...
Oooh. Bad taste. Strike me down with an eight ounce bowl of hummus hurled from Uranus.
Sorry!
Comedy is NEVER supposed to "offend" anyone.
"Blazing Saddles" didn't have fart jokes. "Holy Grail" didn't show a knight getting his arms and legs slashed off. "Benny Hill" never told a fat joke. The "Carry On" movies never deliberately stripped a woman to her bra and panties to humiliate her for fun. Graham Norton is never snarky and always complimentary. Peter Sellers never fell down. Rich people were always treated with respect by the Marx Brothers. Poor people, such as tramps, were never subjected to violence in a Chaplin film. Seeing Harold Lloyd hanging from a building and facing death was not supposed to make anyone laugh. "Steptoe and Son" wasn't about bickering and insults. And Marty Feldman's serious thyroid problem was never used for a cheap laugh.
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