Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez

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Comedy

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• Jose
• Jimenze

[OzzIommi666]

This is funny 'cause my name is José Jiménez lol

[p5pp5r]

bill dana was a good comedian in his time.....and his puerto rican accent did not represent the people of puerto rico.....i myself laughed at his jokes and was a viewer of his programs.....yet i am sadened by how many "bigots" use the "posts" to make their ignorant views of other races and cultures.....no one is better than the other and we all "shit" from the same hole in the same place it usually is.......and everybody's bathroom smells the same........lol

[vulnaviadraco]

I used to watch Bill Dana, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleeson (did anyone really think all New Yorkers were like Cramden and Norton?) They were comedians. Is it any better that George Lopez (another funny man) can poke fun because he IS Hispanic? People, if you can't laugh at yourselves you aren't going to last long! Humor is only successful if we can connect, if we can see ourselves in it. Hate and intolerance are bad, humor is not. Tolerance works both ways, you have to learn to tolerate US as well.

[Prowler609]

Let me get this straight.. It's perfectly alright for pasty white guys to be portrayed and characterized as bumbling, idiot fools on TV and in the movies but it's NOT ok to poke fun at anyone that isn't a gringo, honky, cracker, fag, Muslim, socialist, communist etc, etc.

Oh gee!! I hope it's OK to use the word "fag" again,, I think someone changed the rules again and it's OK, I'm not sure! Some one please tell us white, Christian males what we are aloud to say and think..

[LookAtMeNow450]

@OzzIommi666 lol me too i google it

[lcolby11]

I loved Dana and he was sort of big in the 60s

[crazyromanian1]

I must have missed something because I never thought Dana was ever malicious with this character.

[GloriaD5767]

Dad would totally crack up at these skits on "The Best of Steve Allen" which the Disney channel ran a long time ago. I still have some of these shows on tape. BTW, dad was from Puerto Rico.

[thinedoor2]

The comedian's obligation is to be funny. Our shared obligation as individuals is to exercise compassion and respect for our fellow human being and to serve a constructive function within society. I have a feeling that it wasn't Dana's intention to marginalize Hispanics or to portray the character in a way that reflects their behavior, nor was it to foment negative sentiment or misconceptions.

Egalitarianism isn't descriptive, but prescriptive: we ought to treat others as if they are the same.

[ValekHalfHeart]

People who insult or threaten other people over the internet are obviously very smart.

They know that there's an ocean of cyberspace separating them from their enemies, and therefore they never have to actually face them.