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5.19.2009

alec baldwin's idiotic "filipino mail-order bride" joke
Wonderful. Idiotic comments out of the mouth of Alec Baldwin, who was guest last week on The Late Show with David Letterman... The actor, who is divorced with a teenage daughter, said that he would love to have more children, joking that he was "thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point... or a Russian one."

As you can imagine, once word got around, the remarks did not sit well with folks in the Philippines, including Sen. Ramon Revilla, who said that Baldwin's comment was "insensitive and uncalled for" and an insult to millions of Filipinos: Philippine senator angered by Alec Baldwin's joke.

"Let him try to come here in the Philippines and he'll see mayhem," said Revilla, who is apparently a former action movie star. Hear that, Alec? You've been warned. Come on over to the Philippines and you might just face a beating... personally administered by Senator Revilla himself.

Why do people think that affixing "Asian" (and by extension, Filipino, Chinese, Korean, etc.) to a joke somehow makes it funnier? We see it time and time again. If you're going to use the cheap "mail order bride" quip, is "Filipino mail-order bride" that much funnier? I'm sorry, I guess I have no sense of humor.



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