[Ads-l] Has anyone else noticed the use of "dick" and "pussy" to mean...

[Jonathan Lighter]

John Oliver on _Last Week Tonight_ (HBO) says nearly everything, as does
the cast of _Veep_.  Neither show is bleeped.

But I can't recall hearing c**t, c**k, or p***y. These seem to be the last
remaining verbal taboos. ("Pussy Riot," however, is fine everywhere.)

JL

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > I don't know Adult Swim, but if you're talking Broad City and/or Amy =
> > Schumer on Comedy Central--yeah, those young ladies pretty much say what
> =
> > the f... they want.  Of course on all the shows it's not so much what =
> > they say but what gets and what doesn't get bleeped out; for lip readers
> =
> > (and that's basically all of us if we really try) pretty much anything =
> > goes on basic cable anymore on at least some shows.
> >
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> Tosh.0 is semi-bleeped, as though they're using equipment from the '60's:
> "dumb fuc#." After Chapelle, they don't bleep black people using "nigger"
> anymore, which makes complete sense. Pryor was using "nigger" in front of
> 99.44% white audiences from back in the '60's, at the Troubadour in
> Hollywood, where I saw him *literally* "roll 'em in the aisles." You may
> recall his '70's album, "That Nigger Is Crazy." Then, he got weird about
> it, like Adult Swim, which doesn't bleep the Magic Word at all on "The
> Boondocks," but it does on all other shows, irrespective of the putative
> race of the character using it, especially if the show is live, like
> "Loiter Squad" or "Black Jesus," The Eric Andre Show being an exception.
>
> I've also noticed that nobody sweats "nookie" and "twat," anymore, either.
> I haven't heard "cock," yet, though, in the relevant meaning.
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