Comments on: Cat juggling!

By: Shelby

Shelby — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:38:22 +0000

These are referred to as “lucky babies”?! Isn’t it more like “moronic parents”?

By: recidivista

recidivista — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:40:46 +0000

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…

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:03:50 +0000

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

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:22:43 +0000

I have no problem with this video. Steven Martin, however, is a unfunny and I still do not understand why he was so big for so long.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:23:43 +0000

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.

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:10:42 +0000

Everybody drops their baby once and awhile. It builds the kids’ characters.

By: l'elk!

l'elk! — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:23 +0000

granted, they’re awfully talented at catching babies. all attempts i have taken at catching babies has turned out in vain.

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:35:39 +0000

yep, that would be bad if their statistics went out of whack

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:25:12 +0000

ted : I was about to make the same comment:

HELLOOOOOOW? DID ANYBODY SEE THE VIDEO?

What are the baby miss and maim statistics on that event?

By: Shadowman

Shadowman — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:29:44 +0000

Yeah, It’s the Jerk. That movie is funny as ever.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:40:54 +0000

“with vinyl, and stripes, and a cup built right.”

By: recidivista

recidivista — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:09:04 +0000

well put, ted.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:28:43 +0000

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.

By: priscilla

priscilla — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:43:52 +0000

ha…i meant rebecca.

By: priscilla

priscilla — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:43:17 +0000

@rachel. i was thinking the EXACT same thing.

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:04:02 +0000

“I don’t need this stuff, and I don’t need you. I don’t need anything except this.”

and he picks up….

By: Snappy

Snappy — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:19:56 +0000

THE Jerk! (As in DA Bears!)

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:08:48 +0000

Oooook…. O_o

By: trevorblanco

trevorblanco — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:57:51 +0000

Didn’t he use that joke in his comedy album “Wild and Crazy guy”

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:46:33 +0000

on purpose.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:46:13 +0000

Steve Martin is awesome and all, but I don’t know if you guys noticed the babies being dropped.

They just dropped babies.

By: molly

molly — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:36:47 +0000

No! No! Send them away! There are a lot of people more deserving than me!

By: media_lush

media_lush — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:10:45 +0000

…… 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!

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:55:43 +0000

Cat Juggling is horrible.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:39:21 +0000

Yes.

By: Stubbs

Stubbs — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:15:46 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Steve Martin ALSO play the man juggling cats in the video?

By: Reality Byte

Reality Byte — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:09:30 +0000

It was way before The Jerk. I have an old album of Steve Martin and it’s on there.

By: patiodog

patiodog — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:55:34 +0000

Mr. Martin said, “I’m talking about, of course……. car juggling.”

It makes him sick, see.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:49:29 +0000

“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?

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:41:12 +0000

That has got to be the most inhumane thing ever. I can’t believe the mothers let these people do that to their children.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:37:09 +0000

Cat juggling reference is from Steve Martin: The Jerk – I own it.

By: Satyrsong

Satyrsong — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:36:52 +0000

I have seen the Flying Karamazov Brothers actually juggle cats.

By: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:36:11 +0000

Steve Martin, both in standup, and in the movie The Jerk.

By: Ben R.

Ben R. — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:14:43 +0000

Iron Balls McGinty! (no google or wikipedia here)

By: Michael May

Michael May — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:14:17 +0000

Cat juggling? I do believe that’s a reference to The Jerk.

By: caroline

caroline — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:05:24 +0000

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.

By: robyn

robyn — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000

THE JERK! with steve martin!

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:53:38 +0000

OK…

More Jerk trivia. No cheating allowed.

Johnson kicked somebody in the crotch and seriously hurt his foot. What was the name of the character he kicked?

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:52:16 +0000

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!

By: BenG

BenG — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:50:38 +0000

The optigrab, no I didn’t google.

By: meganisamonster

meganisamonster — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:49:58 +0000

opti-grab done made me cross eyed

By: violet/riga

violet/riga — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:49:03 +0000

“bonus question: what was his invention?”

The handle on the bridge of glasses, but I forget its given name.

By: Toe

Toe — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:44:22 +0000

Steve Martin

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:43:11 +0000

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.

By: Honest Guesser

Honest Guesser — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:39:57 +0000

That would be Steve Martin.

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:39:26 +0000

Three minutes – amazing!

By: LPJ

LPJ — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:37:47 +0000

That’s gotta be from The Jerk. And no, I didn’t need Google for that …