On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:08:52 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

I have corrected it in another posting...

Blah, blah, blah, tailored of course to a different problem. SOS

Hi All,

I saw Albert Brooks movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World"
last night that had a routine by him that reminds me of this
boot-shuffling, toe-scrubbing side-step:

Brooks (to an audience of mixed Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs....):
"We are going to investigate the humor of improvisation and I need you
to give me a nationality"

"German!"

"OK, German. Now how about a occupation?"

"Farmer!"

"OK, a German Farmer. What does he raise?"

"Turnips!"

"Is he married?"

"Yes, with 5 children!"

"OK, is he rich or poor?"

"POOR!"

"OK, a poor German Farmer, married with 5 kids who raises Turnips.
That's great, we are going to have a lot of fun with this. (starting
to rummage up a routine, and then changing his mind) No, I don't like
him being German. We are going to make him Chinese, but Chinese don't
raise beets, they raise rice and they are doing pretty good, so he's
not poor.

"So, we have a middle class Chinese rice farmer with 5 kids - NO! I
read somewhere they have a population limit, and I don't want him
married. Let's make him divorced with 1 kid.

"No - raising rice is such a stereotype, so let's make him a bus
driver.

"OK, a divorced middle class Chinese bus driver with - No, I hear
Japan is really getting into this divorce thing. OK, a divorced
middle class Japanese auto worker with no children! Imagine him
asking for a raise:
"I want more money! Chinese make more money raising rice than
I do! Even Germans eating turnips do. Give me money!"

Yeah - right.....