Snowflakes? You decide.Steve Martin's 'King Tut' Sketch Is Racist, Liberal Arts Students Say

Steve Martin's 'King Tut' Sketch Is Racist, Liberal Arts Students Say
Beatrice Dupuy,Newsweek 18 hours ago

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Steve Martin's 'King Tut' Sketch Is Racist, Liberal Arts Students Say
Well, excuuuuuuuuse him!

Steve Martin’s seminal “King Tut” sketch is being blasted as cultural appropriation by a group of students at a prestigious liberal arts college in Oregon after the classic "Saturday Night Live" parody was played in a humanities course.

The sketch, created by Martin in 1978 to parody the hysteria and commercialization surrounding a traveling Tutankhamun exhibit, has outraged students who say the sketch is the cultural equivalent of blackface because one of the side actors emerged from a sarcophagus with his face painted gold.

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"That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere,” a member of the group, Reedies Against Racism, told The Atlantic. “The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface.”

Students first took issue with the video when it was played during a humanities course, which is designed for students to “to engage in original, open-ended, critical inquiry.” Students said they should not be forced to take the course until different coursework is given because the sketch is racist.

Martin was obviously prepared for the backlash, even back in 1978. Dressed in faux Egyptian garb, he opens the sketch by first explaining somberly that he has issues with the popular traveling exhibit for the boy king, King Tut.

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“I think it is a national disgrace the way we have commercialized it with trinkets and toys, t-shirts and posters,” he says, earning laughs as most of his live audience likely knew he was kidding.

He and his band then launch into a jazzy song that includes the lyrics:


Now, if I'd known/They'd line up just to see you/I'd trade in all my money/And bought me a museum/King Tut/Buried with a donkey/Funky Tut/He's my favorite honky!
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Well class, this was a parodied skit (only about 40 years ago) that ran on SNL and actually was quite original and funny. My how the new millennials have some entitled sense of butthurt. It's a humanities course at a liberal arts school. Irony?

 

I love Steve Martin, great comedian

 

Ah, there is some sort of environmental adaption that results in some group of humans having gold faces so we can make fun of them? Time for any resident anthropologists to check in. I seem to have missed something.

 

Take that up with mummy decorators.

 

some Conservatives are so stupid, blaming all liberals cause someone that may or may not be liberal does something stupid

are there stupid Liberals, sure... there are plenty of stupid Conservatives too

 

A minuscule (practically negligible) "group of students" (in a country of over 300 million) expresses a ridiculous "opinion"?

Surely, the Republic is in imminent jeopardy.

 

This is typical emerging liberal snowflake culture

You personally may not feel the outrage yet

but thats whats being taught to future trend setters in academia

 

I'm sure Egyptians are very grateful for these brave white knight defenders looking out for them.

 

Damn, then Cheech and Chongs Basketball Jones would be off the racist chart causing heads to explode.

 

Yeah, but the scale seems to be tilting toward the Left.

 

Ya gotta chuckle at the notion of a comedy sketch "misappropriating" a long-dead culture.

 

Right? I think it would still be OK to joke about white people, especially straight white people, most especially straight white men, as they did in that movie. But anyone else? OMG #TRIGGERED!!

 

There would be people out there butthurt about Blazing Saddles if it were a new release today. Another classic.

 

No one seems to be in much of a laid-back, laughing mood anymore, at least not on the intardwebs, and to some extent not on college campuses, which have an inordinately high quotient of SJWs. Young people, eh.

 

Just because somebody attends a university, doesn't mean they are intelligent or possess common sense.

this is a classic example.

 

I heard this on Real Time with Bill Maher, even he had the same conclusion you had

 

lot of think skinned people for sure, heck we elected one as our president

 

Comedy has always been wasted on the Leftist.

 

I think it's about equal, and the right elected Trump.. lol

 

I dunno. If you can't laugh at one's self, life is pretty hollow. Comedy usually is never PC, never has been. I miss Sam Kinnison.

 

Don't make me dig out my Popeye stuff

 

Yup Maher and many other comedians are saying it's increasing difficult to make a living in stand up these days because Leftist crowds ruin the show for all that attend, heckling, booing and sneering at every comedic hyperbole they deliver.

Come to think of it, that's what Leftist do, ruin everything for everyone! Typical misery loves company come to fruition!

 

True. And traditional liberals would be wise to distance themselves from the far left. It seems they didn't learn a thing from Nov 2016.

 

Mel Brooks, the Jewish King of comedy, OMG was that Politically INCORRECT?