Cat juggling!


OK - not Cat Juggling*, but something almost as good. Baby dropping! Even better, perhaps? YouTube.

*First person in comments to correctly identify the "cat juggling" reference WITHOUT THE AID OF GOOGLE gets a tip of the hat!

Ok - so to explain...

In Steve Martin's "The Jerk," 1979, Martin's character Navin Johnson gets suddenly rich from a stupid invention (bonus question: what was his invention?). Now that he has money, people start contacting him for donations for their charities. One of the people soliciting money has hidden camera film footage "smuggled out" of somewhere showing people CAT JUGGLING - a crime so heinous that it outrages Johnson.
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You guys are amazing. I could only DESCRIBE the invention - "something he invented to keep glasses from slipping down peoples' noses." I had to go to the Wikipedia to rediscover that the item was called the "Opti-Grab." Excellent work!
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I thought it was just a bit from Steve Martin's stand-up routine as a parody of the criticism of bull fighting in Mexico.

This is a paraphrase but "Have you heard what they're doing to animals in Mexico. I'm talking of course, about cat juggling! They take the little kitties, six weeks old... and they juggle them. Meow! Meow!"

Can't remember which album, but it comes on my internet radio at least once a week.
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"Wait! I've heard of this - CAT JUGGLING!"

The Jerk, with Steve Martin. Watched it last month for the first time in years and had forgotten how damn funny he is. Why aren't movies that funny anymore?
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...... Steve Martin?, you really think so?

I'm pretty sure he ripped off the idea from when one of the Monty Pythons (Michael Palin) had the kittens down his pants sketch on SNL - I know he didn't juggle them but the implication was there!
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o-k.
What's sadder about this? The fact that people are deliberately dropping babies, or the fact that more people are obsessed with the cat juggling comment?

I really have no idea.
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Really Adam? NO. This video is awful, and you guys are just obsessed with talking about Steve Martin. He's a great actor and comedian, but did you watch the freakin video or did you just want to say "cat juggling, The JERK!" It's sad really.
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Sheldon, et al:

1. The very idea of "cat juggling" is intrinsically funny
2. 1970s Steve Martin will always be funny
3. Dropping babies 50 ft. from a mosque's rooftop in Western India is the coolest
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1. hilarious! due, in large part to its impropriety
2. absolutely!
3. as a comedic concept

lemme get this straight:
in the movies: "hidden camera film footage “smuggled out” of somewhere showing people CAT JUGGLING - a crime so heinous that it outrages Johnson."
in real life: junknews footage of people dropping babies from 50 ft is cool, and reminds people of a funny bit they saw...
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