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February 9, 2007
Bruce gets the last laugh
The Brooklyn Paper dispatched editor Gersh Kuntzman to Laugh Don't Destroy:
In the end, Bruce Ratner wasn’t that funny.
Comedians stayed away from jokes at the expense the Atlantic Yards developer at Tuesday night’s anti-Atlantic Yards fundraiser, “Laugh Don’t Destroy,” at Union Hall in Park Slope.
With Ratner off the table, the overflow crowd of 150 was treated to the usual array of jokes about urinating, flatulating, defecating, masturbating, douching, drinking one’s own urine (it’s sterile, you know) and, of course, “Star Trek.”
But mostly, it was crude, rude and hilarious. And lucrative. The event raised $2,000 for Develop Don’t Destroy’s legal battle against Atlantic Yards, said spokesman Daniel Goldstein.
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The evening almost came to blows when Manhattan-based jokester Jon Benjamin told an uproarious story about how Brooklyn is really like his little brother, looking up to him, asking for advice, watching him “f—k a supermodel.”
The comedian was heckled, but he redeemed himself with some visual aids:
Benjamin then showed a riotous video of his encounter with “Brooklyn,” the mustached face of the borough that appeared to him one day.
Benjamin told “Brooklyn” that he wanted to help the battle against overdevelopment, but “Brooklyn” wouldn’t hear of it.
“We need the jobs,” the “Brooklyn” character told him. Eventually, Benjamin came around to “Brooklyn’s” position, even offering to sexually gratify him.
But the brief encounter ended when Benjamin noticed that “Brooklyn” was speaking with a Chicago accent.
“I grew up in Chicago before I moved to me,” “Brooklyn” said.
Posted by lumi at February 9, 2007 11:55 AM