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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 10:39 PM)
Okay. I'm no expert on contemporary American politics, but I thought it was satirical rather than funny. It had a bittersweet flavour to it, rather than being a savage attack on white liberals as MMC thinks (as usual, he gets it wrong). The climax of the skit, for me, is when some white person says "Who knew America was so racist" (or something like that) and the two brothers collapse into laughter. So white liberals are being gently parodied for their idealism and lack of insight into real politics, while the brothers sadly (but with an amused front) see that what they had known all along was happening. America was always racist, and always will be. Liberal politics will change nothing in a capitalist economy which has a vested interest in keeping black people down.
The laugh track (an amazing and puerile invention, calculated to produce a nation of morons) twists things a lot. You get the impression that white liberals are being vigorously attacked, when they are being mildly parodied.
I thought your take, and Gameboy's, were quite good; though why he wants to blame black comedians I don't know.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 10:47 PM)
My wife governs with a loose rein.
LOL, giddy up!
Overall, I didn't think the skit was very funny, but it wasn't too far off of the mark either.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 10:51 PM)
It wasn't funny at all. Rather sad, if anything. I think Gameboy has a point when he suggests that it's weak political commentary, but a lot of comedy is. I think he thinks it's weak because it's not idealistic enough. But you can always get Americans to laugh at idealism.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:00 PM)
I'll tag him in, so he can further expand on his opinion.
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But you can always get Americans to laugh at idealism.
That's because most Americans are cynics and consider themselves to be realists. Idealists are seen as dreamers with unrealistic goals of a utopian society. The average American views such notions as impractical and unattainable, so they laugh at the probability of it.
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My Red Dead Online Guy is NOT Mongo — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:11 PM)
will you be there for me miss Jones? will you run alongside the bed and Tell me every things gunna be ok while they rush me down to the birthing room? perhaps get all angry when they ask all non family members to leave? I need this, Chickaboom.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:14 PM)
LOL, no.
Shouldn't your significant other or mother be there with you?
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:23 PM)
I thought you said your water broke? Not that you had suffered brain damage in the process.
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