Catholic League to the rescue: Larry David pee's on Jesus

[trumad]

Classic

On Sunday's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' Larry David was taking a "new pill" that caused him to urinate with excessive force. This caused a lot of splash back, some of which ended up on a Jesus painting hanging on the bathroom wall of his pious assistant, who later sees Jesus "crying" and assumes a miracle has taken place.

Catholics are not amused. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said in a statement:


Mention Larry David in a word association game and "Seinfeld" rolls off the lips. That show, which David created, wrote and produced, was brilliant. "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is not. Indeed, last night's episode demonstrates that David's best years are behind him. He ought to quit while he's ahead.

At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn't clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, "every erection is a miracle." That's what passes for creativity these days.

Was Larry David always this crude? Would he think it comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother? This might be fun to watch, but since HBO only likes to dump on Catholics (it was just a couple of weeks ago that Sarah Silverman insulted Catholics on "Real Time with Bill Maher"), and David is Jewish, we'll never know.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/catholic-league-angered-b_n_337199.html

Youtube of clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWsQyoCMIUk&feature=player_embedded

[MercutioATC]

1. Is Donohoe equally outraged by E-bay "Jesus Cheeto" auctions?

...because that's the kind of nuttery this humor is aimed at.

[ck4829]

2. It's funny that Bill Donohue's attacks always follow a protocol

Usually with right wingers, they're crazy, but you can always expect the same kind of smears with Donohue.

How a Bill Donohue attack always goes:
1. What the "offender" did
2. The offender is washed up and should retire
3. The offender is stupid, dumb, a sell-out, etc.
4. And remember, we're the victims here

Donohue's attacks are like clockwork, he can't even be original in calling someone stupid.

[Mojambo]

3. That episode was hilarious.

And Bill Donohue is a fucking moron.

And Curb is so much better than Seinfeld it's ridiculous.

[AllieB]

10. Agree-that episode was hilarious.

:rofl:

so much outrage by these idiots...

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. This whole season has been wonderful

The blow job episode was pretty funny too.

[valerief]

4. Dare I call it a pic of Peesus?

:rofl:

[Fuzz]

5. What's the difference between Jesus and a picture of Jesus?

It only takes one nail to hang a picture of Jesus.

[Mojambo]

7. LOL. n/t

[Fuzz]

18. I know, right? That's something that's sure to piss of a whole bunch of people though.

[virgogal]

15. Not funny. eom

[spanone]

6. get a life catholics, it's funny as shit

[Canuckistanian]

8. That was hilarious

The scene was making fun of people who see Jesus in tortillas and such.

Even the Church itself distances itself from these people.

I imagine that even a priest or two would get a secret laugh out of that.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. One of the funniest episodes ever from that show

This whole season has been terrific. But Larry peeing on Jesus was hilarious. :rofl:

And screw the stupid Catholics. (Since I used to be one I get to say that)

[rurallib]

12. Why do real Catholics not stand up to this bully

or is he the face of American Catholicism now?

[SharonAnn]

13. You're right. He's a bully! He's a right-wing zealot, not a typical Roman Catholic.

[donheld]

14. I've thrown up on the cross

but only because I gagged as it was being shoved down my throat.

[tularetom]

16. As far as I know Bill Donohue is the only member of the Catholic League

Unless you're talking about the one where they play high school basketball.

[global1]

19. Are You Saying Bill Donohue Is In A League Of His Own?........nt

[hlthe2b]

17. One of the funniest episodes ever was when he spotted...

the baptism of the jewish fiance' of his wife Cheryl's (Catholic) niece in the lake, which they spot as they were driving up to the wedding. He mistakes that they are assaulting him and jumps in to save him--only afterwords finding out how ridiculous his mistake, but by that time all the other jewish guests are lauding him with praise for stopping the "conversion."

That said, this doesn't strike me as funny.... Comedy sometimes crosses the line, though...

[LeftyMom]

20. Why does the Catholic family's home have a picture of Jesus in the shitter?

Pretty much my whole family's Catholic, and even the one really, really religious aunt who has crucifixes in every other room of her house and various religious art all over doesn't have a picture of Jesus in the same room as her toilet.

[Initech]

21. I'm a huge Curb fan and was laughing my ass off at that episode.

[bridgit]

22. Eh, we pee on the messengers we chose to I guess, if he'd a peed on a matzo ball...

someone else would have been pissed. That Bill Donohue dude needs to lighten up, he's way to busy with this stuff. He knows better; with a history of nefarious doings stretching 100's of years it's not like Catholicism is blameless here, and his end-to-end protestations too much about all this inappropriatness befalling the church leaves me with an impression he has no interest in discussing anything not even why some relics are just bones - Take A Chill Pill Bill, haven't you heard?

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