Can you help me understand this Daily Show joke?
It was in the part called Run RNC, and it was at 4:30 or so. It’s where “Michael Steele”, well, the puppet, talks about his successor Reince Priebus (hopefully I spelled that right).
Anyway, do you get the joke he says at around 4:30?
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It was a reference to the movie, Nell in which Jodie Foster plays a girl that spoke a language no one else spoke because the only person she ever had contact with (her mother) spoke with some sort of wild speech impediment that I can’t remember.
You mean about Jodie Foster’s character in Nell? Well,
Damn it, Ken.
In the movie she drops certain letters, it was a form of twin speak she had with her then dead sister.
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If you want an example of what Nell sounded like, here is a video of Ellen impersonating the character (really well albeit with a humorous bent). It’s Ellen doing some of her important lines and stuff.
So, when the dude’s name is compared to that gibberish, well. You get it. TAY INA WIIIIIIIN.
Also, :P
Reince Priebus is already funny enough.
I think Nell’s mother had had a stroke that impaired her speech, and Nell’s language was an imitation of hers.
@seazen, I know, didn’t Caesar Augustus steal his wife? :snerk!::
@Jeruba @asmonet Both are correct, it was a type of twin speech corrupted by the fact the the mother had a stroke impaired speech impediment
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