What Frank Nobilo Just Said is Inappropriate & Not Funny

…I really hate this about our country. taking up offenses for other people…even if we don’t understand what the heck was said. Nobilo is from New Zealand and they are a lot more comfortable giving and taking humorous jabs.

RB – you admit that you didn’t understand what was said, and you didn’t understand the joke. The guy said he probably shouldn’t have said what he said…go have a beer and relax. I’m pretty sure the Chinese won’t be invading SoCal or Orlando over it.

Jerry: I wanted to talk to you about Dr. Whatley. I have a suspicion that he’s converted to Judaism just for the jokes.

Father: And this offends you as a Jewish person.

Jerry: No, it offends me as a comedian. And it’ll interest you that he’s also telling Catholic jokes.

Father: Well.

Jerry: And they’re old jokes. I mean, the Pope and Raquel Welch in a lifeboat.

Father: I haven’t heard that one.

is hilarious? You never had kids? That’s always the joke my 5-year-old son told after 43 consecutive equally funny knock-knock jokes.

Ryan, you went to a boy’s private high school in Baltimore City and, “Ok, now I’m offended. I’m offended because not only is it an ethnicity joke on national TV…”.

And, then you try to go back on what you wrote with, “Boys, I’m more offended that it wasn’t funny than anything”.

And, then you try to close with, “…if you’re gonna make a joke that’s potentially offensive, make it so funny that no one even cares that if could’ve been offensive, right? The ole Family Guy tactic”.

The trick I guess is to determine what is “potentially offensive”. At best, that effort is a moving target that moves more every day…

The golf media keeps fluctuating between political correctness and bigotry against Asian golfers. Why no uprorar when Mark Reason posted his garbage?

And members of the media do make fun of how some players talk. I know from my time working the Stanford Intl. in April 2008.

but I think Nobilo did the right thing by apologizing.

Nobilo is from New Zealand and they are a lot more comfortable giving and taking humorous jabs.

Nobilo works for an American company, following an American tour. He should (and to his credit, has) abide by American

How could anyone possibly take offence at that?

Now can anyone take offence at a joke pointed directly at the stereotype that Chinese people speak English with an accent? Are you saying you would feel comfortable talking like this to a Chinese acquaintance?

Frank was trying to be funny.

Forget the fact that he failed; Nobilo’s job description has nothing to do with funny. He is supposed to use his knowledge built from years as a touring professional to tell me about flier lies, putting with or against the grain and getting stuck on the inside, not try out his material for a five minute set at the Orlando Laugh Factory.

For all those who trot out the ‘the PC Police have gone too far’, I have two questions. Doesn’t everyone watching a PGA Tour event have the right not to be insulted in the least? If not, is everybody fair game? Can Steve Sands compare a difficult greenside bunker to Auschwitz? How about comparing the Bear Trap at the Honda Classic to the Bataan Death March?

Golf commentators should leave the cutting edge comedy to Jim Norton and Chris Rock.

it is possible I am cranky due to being snowed in

Well, I guess i grew up in an environment where people gave and took as good as they got. It made for people who didn’t take themselves, or light hearted jabs by others, too seriously. It was a nice place to live. I pity a world where everything we say, think and do, has to be second guessed, just on the off chance that someone maybe slightly miffed. I get the Kiwi jokes all the time. Am I offended? Hell no! I have a sense of humor, not a sense of self righteousness that would have me complaining about a light humored moment taken out of context.

that you waited until I went to bed to tell jokes behind my back.

I think “tooth-hurty” is sweet. Faldo’s “jokes” are usually weaker. We ALL have accents when speaking English for heaven’s sake. If you were taking the mickey out of my accent, I’m sure no-one would object (least of all me) on my behalf. This smacks more of “reverse racism” to me. But I think we’ll all recover.

Ping – don’t be so impatient – we’ll get to the tournament in a minute.

You make a “bad shot”…………. you try to minimize the damage. Get it back in play, then try to make par. Nobilo made par. Let’s move on to the next……….

and not blame the course for taking it the wrong way.

These last two comments sum up my “offense” to what Nobilo said as it relates to ethnicity.

There is nothing that sucks the humor out of life faster than the PC police. If we can’t laugh at each other then we live in a pretty sad country. As a minority, I ‘ve had the needle given me in fun and took no offense. I’m also very capable of dishing it out with the best of them. Notice I say “THE BEST OF THEM”, and I mean that in a good way. I laugh at life, and enjoy good natured barbs. Nothing wrong with that at all,unless you a “whiner”. As for Nobilo’s comment,….it went over my head until reading this blog. Can’t say it was funny, but neither was it offensive, Go Saints,…make me some $$$ !……………………Z.

Too much political correctness these days. 3 irons is correct , we need to laugh at ourselves more often. Go Saints

I have to ask you if it is funny and okay to laugh? Tooth-Hurty IS VERY FUNNY! Old and infantile, but funny. When your first child tells you that joke, you’ll laugh until you cannot laugh anymore.

Frank Nobilo is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant industry.

Will you call me un-American if I think the top 3-4 golf TV personalities are NOT American? Otherwise, I am a racist traitor. A disabled Vietnam War Era Veteran

 Robin Hood spoof – full of politically incorrect innuendo – and hilarious. “From now on all toilets will now be known as Johns”. American Johns, arise in indignation!!!!

By objecting to Nobilo’s remark it seems to me that (in your heart of hearts) you believe the Chinese are ethnically INFERIOR to Americans and therefore shouldn’t have jokes made about them, whereas jokes between ethnically equal races are OK. Think about it.

Kansas City Cheifs etc etc. Anyone could find political incorrectness in almost anything these days. Thats the problem with the world today. Even my favorite charity Childrens Make a Wish Foundation changed there slogan after presure from some. It use to say, “Benefit children with Terminal Illness” Now its Chlidren with Life Threatening Illness. Lighten Up People, lifes to short to let stuff offend you.

I left here around 1 today – it’s about 7:15 now – there are 109 new messages !! Is EVERYBODY snowed in ??

Build a golfing snowman today court ?