Fox News - TBS host George Lopez compared “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Kirstie Alley, praised for her cha cha cha on the show's premiere, to a pig on his TBS talk show Wednesday night. Lopez was belittling Alley's dancing on "Dancing With the Stars" on his show, "Lopez Tongiht." "She did a nice job, her little hooves tapping away. Before the show, she went to the market, and then she had roast beef and this is her going all the way home!" he said, before cutting to a squealing pig from a GEICO commercial...."Lopez's comments were not only demeaning to Alley, who has been incredibly brave and open with her journey toward health, but they were very detrimental to women and girls everywhere," said Yana Walton, Vice President of Communications for watchdog group the Women’s Media Center. "In a country where eating disorders are an epidemic, where advertising continually implies women are deeply deficient, where media places the majority of women's worth on their appearances, this is unacceptable."
Far be it for me to defend George Lopez, I've made it abundantly clear how I feel about him. He's plain old not funny, Mexicanity aside and everything. But like I always say, when you're right, you're right. Sure the joke itself wasn't funny, but it doesn't mean it wasn't on point.
Kirstie Alley really does look like a dancing pig, not just talking about weight here, her face has a very swine-ish likeness. It wasn't so much a joke as it was an observation.
Like if Dancing With The Stars was shot in grainy footage with some 1988 VHS video camera you could easily present an argument that Kirstie is the product of the first successful human-swine breading program.
PS: How much does that dancing dude hate his life? Went from Erin Andrews one season to Ms. Piggie the next, that sucks bro.
