Is John Mayer really funnier than David Cross?

However last night i saw Ryan Adams, and he felt compelled to tell everyone that David Cross is his neighbor.

John Mayer is as of now hereby right up there with Dave Matthews and Les Claypool in the "wow, what a personable guy -- I could totally see getting a few beers with him if his music didn't suck" category.

I love that Anthony said "disappointingly rockist."

(and yes, cross is a douche)

{Or Yancey or whoever, for that matter}

Bill Hicks - Needlessly over-angry. I prefer Lewis Black, because he at least makes it funny.

Jimmy Fallon - C'mon, someone's pulling your leg!

david cross needs to be shot into the sun.

< /alex in nyc>

Cross = Tobias Funke!!!

Jimmy Fallon does have talent (he was great in "Almost Famous") but having Lorne Michaels tongue stuck up his ass isn't helping him improve (I haven't watched SNL in years but some of the last ones I saw had him frequently being "Jimmy Fallon" rather than actually playing a part). Plus he laughs at his own shit and settles for cuteness FAR too often. But he can do a decent impersonation and "Idiot Boyfriend" was amusing.

Maybe true, but I didn't even think he was all that funny when he was alive.

I'm not kidding around.

He's not even the best thing about that show, either.

Bill Hicks was never funny. His attempts at topical/political humor were so far behind the times it's untrue. In short, he was not that bright. Ryko's efforts to portray him as a misunderstood genius toiling against an ignorant, conservative society are revisionism at its worst. Detestable.

yo, cinniblount where's Richard Pryor?! don't tell me I'm gonna have to explain why I like HIM here.

Why does this man provide the rope with which to hang himself?

I remember Kittie being real funny a year or two ago. But maybe I'm wrong.

Did you hear Shifty's collabo with Paul Oakenfold! I really liked it! I wish he'd drop the moaning and the sludge band and just rap!

And yeah, I think I heard the Shifty/Oakenfeld thing once and liked it.

As for Buckcherry, I never listened to the words. I admit that several songs may not be as good to shoot pool to as "Hard to Handle," for whatever that's worth. (Actually, I never listened to Black Crowes' words either, come to think of it.)

I only mentioned Dave Grohl as being funny in interviews, Scott. I wasn't referring to the Foo discography.

i like the black crowes okay.they could be boring though. i would rather listen to country music or old boogie rock. i have amorica but i think i only listened to it once. buckcherry i only remember a video by and well i can't really remember.

David Cross is tedious. His lack of enthusiasm in his own material made his comedy album a slog. At least Bill Hicks could convey rants and self-hatred with a smile and some honest effort. (If Hicks' anti-establishment, anti-GOP anger strikes a nerve with me, does that mean I'll vote for Dean? Just curious.)

But The Goon Show destroyed Python, right? (At least I used to think so.)

I can't agree with this, really. Both shows had some dizzying highs and real blahs.

thank god, I like that Mark Blackwell, Jonathan Bernstein and Jim Greer are now writing such films as Max Keebler's Big Move - though Bernstein's movie reviews and book Pretty In Pink weren't bad.

non-xpost re: klosterman
I actually think Klosterman writes some of the most entertaining interviews out there. He's not afraid to ask the stupid questions that force the interviewee to answer with some thought.

the pink Jim Morrison cover was actually a different set of lists--the top 25 albums and 100 singles were a year before. but I LOVE those lists, and Spin at that period, and fucking JOHN LELAND's singles column, which I have been looking at a lot lately in preperation for the year-end issue, just to see how you DO it, y'know? he's one of the best critics ever.

x-post - i agree it seemed maybe a bit more popist pre-blenderising (when sheffield reigned supreme i guess).

And they'll give David Lee Roth four pages to answer questions from readers! RAWK!

he NAILED JB,
sang "I Feel Good" like a god.
the rest, though, did suck.

proven by SCIENCE!

Anyway, I still laugh a lot at Bill Hicks. Not the political stuff as much as the porn stuff and a long track on one of his CDs where he just assaults the audience for about five straight minutes.

And I'm another one who likes Rolling Stone better now than I have at any time since I first picked it up, in junior high. (The first issue I ever bought had Michael Douglas on the cover. I should have been warned by that, but somehow wasn't.)

--Mr. Show is pretty good, but before the third season were very inconsistant and occasionally terrible.
--David Cross's appearances on every award show ever, AND his new DVD with some of the most ufnunny segue bits ever make me sad for him
--Kids in the Hall was excellent, and is just about tied with the Upright Citizen's Brigade with best sketch comedy show ever
--However, having re-watched the Ben Stiller show and episodes of the State I can say that are completely unfunny
--SCTV is the most overrated show of all time
--MadTV was never funny
--The first 5 years of SNL DO live up to the hype
--Same with Python
--For my money, Chris Rock is the funniest working stand up comedian, however Cross's stand up was top notch. He's a great performer, even if Odenkirk is a better writer.

all great comedy shows look shitty when you just watch random episodes though, practically nothing was good enough to hit every time

sctv in the good years comes closest for me tho

Dean Objects to Ethnic Humor at a Comedyfest in His Honor

By JODI WILGOREN
305 words
9 December 2003
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
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(c) 2003 New York Times Company

About 200 people who donated $250 each to Howard Dean's presidential campaign gathered last night in the ballroom of the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea for an evening of dessert and comedy and a greeting from their candidate.

But as the warm-up acts told bawdy jokes and used epithets referring to African-Americans and homosexuals, the guest of honor was in a room next door wondering whether he should appear onstage.

When the M.C., Kate Clinton, introduced Dr. Dean, she had to stall for a few minutes, because he was still fuming in the other room. A few minutes later, he tooke the stage and apologized for what he called offensive language. ''I just don't have much tolerance for ethnic humor,'' he said. ''We are all one community.''

The raunchy one-liners, delivered mainly by the comedian David Cross, were typical comedy club fare, but unusual for a political event. Mr. Cross is known for using profanity in his act.

Judy Gold, who appeared before Mr. Cross, had also told ethnic jokes. The actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo also appeared at the event, which was part of a day of fund-raisers that netted more than $1 million for the Dean campaign.

The jokes got mixed reactions from the mostly white crowd. Some snickered and some shook their heads at what they said were inappropriate remarks. But Dr. Dean and his staff were not amused.

''That's not the kind of humor that has any place in the governor's campaign,'' said a spokesman, Doug Thornell, adding that the comedians had all been ''given instructions to keep it clean.''

''The governor was incensed and angry,'' Mr. Thornell said. ''He thought the language was totally outrageous.''

I once saw a skit on Mad TV that was literally this:

It was a parody of one of those TV workout aerobics show, but, HERES THE CATCH, the lady who was instructing it HAD GAS! So they played fart noises every time she would bend or move! Oh what hilarity!

That sad thing is . . . that is actually funnier than anything from the past 5 years of SNL.

This sounds like another MadTV sketch I saw awhile back, about a male stripper hired to dance for a bachelorette party. He comes in dressed as a construction worker, and gradually strips down. But when he pulls off his jeans, he reveals that he's wearing two huge, horrifying (think Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People" video) leg braces. He begins to stiffly move around, attempting to lap-dance the bride-to-be while still wearing orthopedic gear, and the women all look totally horrified, but try to overcome it. It was fucking hilarious.

but dave q to thread to praise cheech and chong!

"Cheech & Chong's Next Movie"

Conversely, I never "got" Cheech & Chong. I mean, I get it: they're stoned. But is there anything more than that?

i mean its also humor that says "look at me i am trying to make you laugh and be weird and engaging" not like all this meta-humor shtick.

i am a humor rockist! why can't people just tell jokes, like henny youngman did?

(also the caddyshacks are brilliant but perhaps the only good things rodney ever did?)

Mad TV:Rolling Stone :: Saturday Night Live:Spin

Though really, "Mad TV " (which, judging from the episodes of both I've seen over the past couple years, does indeed blow *SNL* out of the water these days no contest) might even be more like *Creem* or something (which maybe *SNL* was, once upon a time, who knows.)

Anyway, my point is that Spin has always seemed scared of its own shadow to me, too. Back when I used to freelance for both mags, Spin (who were always afraid of seeming uncool, hence no negative Pavement or Jon Spencer reviews in the mid'90s and no positive Spin Doctors ones, etc) *always* fucked with my reviews; Rolling Stone rarely did.

(the krusty-goes-sienfeld episode of the simpsons totally nailed the difference for me)

I liked George Carlin more than Cheech and Chong back in eighth grade in the '70s, though like everybody else in my class, I had more albums by both of them at the time than by any people who made music.

but i love the marx brothers and mel brooks and have seen LOTS of their movies. i guess the difference is that in the marx brothers or something when things go mad, you cheer it on, like its very much this mennipean absurdist anti-stick-up-ass type thing. in sienfeld when things go mad, its sorta horrifying, much more in a comedy-of-manners jane austin sort of way?

the best homage to harpo that i've seen in the last ten years, by the way, is I Need $ in How High. There's loads more scenes with him in the DVD version.

I've never seen a good homage to Zeppo.

:-(

Seriously, when all is said and done, at least can we go away with the general consensus that Cross >>>>>>> Klosterman?

I'm reminded of bill hicks' "'artists' who do commercials" bit.

1. Certain Leaders in Government Look or Act like Certain Pop Culture References!

2. Women, Please Rinse Off Your Vagina and Anus!

3. A Rapid Series of Comical Noises!

4. I've Taken a Popular Contemporary Pop Song and Changed the Lyrics to Comment on the Proliferation of Starbucks in My Neighborhood!

5. Although Indigent, Rural Families Have Little to Say in the Matter, Third Rate Public Education Has Kept Them Ignorant and Thus, Great Sources of Ridicule!

6. My Child is Enthralling, Especially When It Says Something Unexpectedly Precocious Even Though It Doesn't Understand What It Just Said!

7. My Immigrant Mom Talks Funny!

8. When It Comes to Jews, Behavior One Might Perceive as Obnoxious and Annoying I Present as "Quirky" but It's Okay to Joke About It Because I, Myself, Am Jewish!

9. Pandering to the Locals!

10. Even Though I Am in the Closet, That Won't Prevent Me from Getting Cheap Laughs at the Expense of Homosexuals!

11. Weathermen Have Become, for the Most Part, Obsolete!

12. When All is Said and Done, I am Lonely and Miserable and Barely Able to Mask My Contempt for the Audience as I Trot Out the Same Sorry Act I've Been Doing Since the Mid-Eighties!

but wait, don't mention run ronnie run cuz if chuck rents that he will never rent mr.show. even bob and david dismiss it on their
web-site. although i thought it was kinda okay. kinda like brain candy. just nowhere as funny as the show. yeah, i like all the songs
from the show too. the new san francisco song. the one the milking machine sings at the end of the travelling salesman musical.all of
them.

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 9th, 2003.

I mean, what's funny about this:

"The key to a successful project?
I believe this depends on four main factors: the questions you ask, the decisions you make, a clear plan and the people on your team...working together."

I mean, I see his point, but I think he could have "said it funnier."

Re: Phil's post: His track listings were the funniest part of his last record, I thought. Glad to see he is continuing his streak.

oops! ok, scott, just for you, i promise i will prove you wrong and rent mr. show someday regardless. (but my real question for you and michaelangelo is: DO i look like him, or what? and if so, how???) again, contrary to lisafrank!'s opinion, which seems partly based on poor reading comprehension, i HAVE HAIR. (i AM slightly old, however.)

yeah, i haven't really paid much attention to his standup. obviously i'm surprised because of the "cross" thing.

Cross's standup and writing, etc... (i.e. stuff AS David Cross, himself) is generally pretty terrible. But his improv and character work is outstanding. I think half the reason I like Mr. Show so much is that Cross seems like this guy who would do terrible, rant-y, non-charcter material is so good at creating substantial characters.

(x-post)

okay, well...correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this not substantial whatsofuckingever "ronnie" character in *run ronnie run* ONE of his characters from mr. show?? or did i just misunderstand that part? (or do the other characters display significantly more substantiality?)
(and either way, i definitely don't have a MULLET, and never did.)

(But I did not bring my late great Guinea Pig, Eggnog aka Peanut Butter.) (Or my late Guinea Pig's later greater predecessor, Eggplant, for that matter.)

Yeah it is, but it's a terrible example (full disclosure: I've only seen about 10 minutes of RRR). There's also a world of difference between sketch comedy and feature film.

It was more the plaid, the guinea pig and the aww shucks grin.

also i probably said that exactly about 100+ posts up, so if i did ignore me.

Uh, meanwhile, confirmed the last bit of him I needed to know.

YOU DONT EAT COCKSICLES FOR BREAKFAST.

(also, ned, you flirt if you wanted me to come to the fap, all you had to do was say so, silly goose)

David Cross: What's this? I know he's saying "What can make a nigger do something." Oh, this is a good song! This is the "drinkin' again" song, where all the alcohol is being poured. Oh yeah, it's the question mark! That's the name. The title is the question mark.

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/45620/5

T*****
I am always on the fence about that dude
T*****
sometimes I think he is kind of awesome
Me
was he the one yelling about ron paul at the Mac guy (Justin...?)?
T*****
think so yes
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last time I saw him on TMZ he just started asking the paparazzi dudes for camera tips
T*****
like, he wouldn't talk about whatever, he kept diverting the conversation back to cameras

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/611387370c

heh

and Run Ronnie Run is more consistently entertaining than Brain Candy.

-- Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, December 8, 2003 9:11 PM (4 years ago)

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200805/?read=interview_cross

whatever happened to that guy xpost

i don't think that person really hates him

xp

I don't think Bill Hicks was the world's greatest comedian by a long shot, but I do have wonder how old the guy was who wrote:

"Bill Hicks was never funny. His attempts at topical/political humor were so far behind the times it's untrue. In short, he was not that bright. Ryko's efforts to portray him as a misunderstood genius toiling against an ignorant, conservative society are revisionism at its worst. Detestable."

I might be biased due to the fact that when I first started hearing about Bill Hicks, I was a high school student from a religious family who had recently re-located to Texas from the north, bombs were dropping on Iraq live via satellite on CNN every night, and Republicans had been in the White House since I was 7 years old. To me there was no other comedian out there more topical than Bill Hicks. His political humor wasn't nuanced or all that insightful; it was the kind of stuff a likeable drunken uncle would rant about at a BBQ and get a bunch of fuck-yeahs and laughter from other people who were pessimistic and pissed-off. His political comedy weren't meant for the type of people who would giggle at The Daily Show, it was for people who hated politics, who were totally disengaged and cynical about the whole game. If anybody right now reminds me of Bill Hicks politically, it's Dave Chappelle.

His rants are also sort of interwoven through all the music I listened to at the time, being played between and over tracks on public and college radio, so I definitely get a lot of nostalgia listening to him. Definitely biased. It's true a lot of his stuff hasn't dated very well, so I can see a younger person listening to him and wondering what's the appeal. A lot of shock-based comedians don't date well with the bar being pushed further forward all the time. Bill Hicks, David Cross, and others of their ilk were basically designed to be listened to once.

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread to respond to a years-old post, but David Cross is kind of boring. Point me towards the Bob Odenkirk appreciation thread!

"I don't think Bill Hicks was the world's greatest comedian by a long shot, but I do have wonder how old the guy was who wrote:"

I think Ott's in his mid-twenties.

I missed this thread before but I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one who doesn't think Bill Hicks isn't very funny.

er, he's not funny, to me, is what I am saying, and I thought I was the only one.

I've never heard Cross' or Mayer's standup routines (nor Hicks', for that matter), so I really have no clue who's funny and who's not. But television-wise, Cross has the distinction of being a cast member of both the greatest sketch-comedy series of the '90s AND the greatest sitcom of the '00s of all time, and he shone in both; and that's enough to redeem his entire career. (Or anyone's career, for that matter)

I don't like Bill Hicks much either, so you have company. xp

xpost OTM!

Also, that John Mayer video had nothing resembling 'funny' in it.

"If you really think that Twitter is the pathway to spiritual enlightenment, well...It's one step away from sending pictures of your poop."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090327/en_music_eo/106394

Shoulda used the word shit and given the interviewer a Hobbson's choice. That said, how many 'followers' does he have, everyone in the world except a few outliers and hermits?

John Mayer is awesome because he was on Tim and Eric's Awesome Show.

Bad news, my new bar/restaurant/nightclub didn't pass building inspection. Maybe because it's 6 feet by 3,000 feet.
8:25 PM Jun 13th from TwitterBerry

Interesting note, the floor would move very slowly on a belt that fed people out the door. One building's length every 90 minutes.
8:29 PM Jun 13th from TwitterBerry

We had a lot of interesting things planned, really. No ceiling, just plumbing. Glory holes placed impossibly high.Child bathroom attendants.
8:32 PM Jun 13th from TwitterBerry

What the. (Interview via Playboy if your workplace cares about that.)

MAYER: I’m a self-soother. The Internet, DVR, Netflix, Twitter—all these things are moments in time throughout your day when you’re able to soothe yourself. We have an autonomy of comfort and pleasure. By the way, pornography? It’s a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora’s box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

He compares his penis to David Duke in that interview.

it would be kind of awesome to have john mayer as the friend you're always apologizing for

the interview reads like he's just done $200 worth of cocaine, but I also think that it seems like he would have probably mentioned that in the interview

I saw John Mayer at a free show in college right when he was on the verge of getting popular.
He WAS funny. He had anecdotes in between songs that were really good. He might have called his mom or grandma at one point.

if your workplace cares about that

c+p?

I could explain that, in fact, I’m not a douche bag, but that would be at the expense of believing in magic. I

I want to dance. I want to get on an airplane and be like a ninja.

just keeps on giving

lol
love this guy. think he would be a valuable ILM contributor for real.

the stuff about seeing 300 vaginas before you are out of your pajamas was funny. but the guy has that icky coked-up "i can't stop talking, but i can't stay on one track" quality.

he's that awful straight white guy who made freshman interdisciplinary humanities seminar his personal variety showcase only he's 35 and famous. raise ur good time bro standards, nerds

otm

yes, otm. interview does have some entertaining moments, though.

NEW YORK (AP) — John Mayer is apologizing for his mouth.

The Grammy-winner took to his Twitter page to make amends for his latest inflammatory comments — this time, in the March edition of Playboy.

In it, he calls former girlfriend Jessica Simpson "sexual napalm" and says Jennifer Aniston is a technophobe who wishes she could go back to her career prime in 1998. He also uses the N-word.

On Twitter Wednesday afternoon, he apologized for the racial epithet and said he has to stop "trying to be so raw in interviews."

"It started as an attempt to not let the waves of criticism get to me, but it's gotten out of hand and I've created somewhat of a monster," Mayer tweeted. "I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don't have the stomach for it."

There were plenty who didn't have the stomach for his remarks in Playboy, in which he talked about Simpson's sexuality, his problems with Aniston, his love of porn, why he doesn't date black women and being beloved by the black community.

"Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?' And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass,'" he said, then added: "But I said, 'I can't really have a hood pass. I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'"

Mayer said he should have never have used the N-word in any context and will never say it again.

"And it's such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there's no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged," he said.

The racial comments were hardly the only explosive comments in the interview. He said he still loved Aniston, but then noting their age difference (she just turned 41), he said: "I can't change the fact that I need to be 32."

He also said she didn't appreciate new technology: "The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she's still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, 'These are the new rules,'" he said.

Of Simpson, he talked about her sexual ability, and said: "That girl, for me, is a drug ... That girl is like crack cocaine to me."

In the interview, he also explained why he didn't date black women, comparing his genitals to "a white supremacist."

Mayer — known for his loose tongue — has made a habit out of outlandish comments. Last month, he gave an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked openly about his love life, including sex with other women — and himself.

___

i would dig john mayer a lot more if he just did interviews and twitter and comedy sketches and no music ever

how will he masturbate his way out of this one

http://backoftheroom.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/thatsenoughjohnmayer.jpg

dude shreds and gets great tone. great blueshammer stuff. i guess he's back to songs for shampoo commercials now?

And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass

yes......ok then

"I can't change the fact that I need to be 32."
is 32 the new 14 or something? i wish i'd gotten that memo ...

how will he masturbate his way out of this one

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

doesn't this question answer itself?

i want nabisco to do the next interview with him

i would dig john mayer a lot more if he just did interviews and twitter and comedy sketches and no music ever

I wouldn't! then he would basically just be a dick

Funny you should say that.

dicks that don't make tiresome music >>> dicks that do

^^

i don't even know what his comment means

im basically only aware of john mayer as a punchline in US comedy show but this interview is solid gold.

a platinum record really ISN'T going to wash your ass.

seriously man, just buy the bidet already.

http://gawker.com/5469637/john-mayer-quits-the-media-game

So you're saying that he got off the Internet because of us.

how will he masturbate his way out of this one

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

doesn't this question answer itself?

fwiw I was just quoting from his Rolling Stone interview, which is basically more of the same as the Playboy interview, except without the "N" word. lots of talk about his masturbatory/porn habits tho

Why does John Mayer get a free hood pass from blipsters? [

^^^ no

can someone explain what he was trying to say? seriously, i really have no clue.

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

he's saying you;re saying that like it's something cool, but actually being oppressed isn't that cool when you're living it

take yr pick lol

http://stereogum.com/img/mayer_mouth.jpg

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

― Michael Steele, the first black Superman (HI DERE), Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a really good way of summing up what happened. the part after it was really what made me shake my head and kind of get mad at him, though:

What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

so glad a white guy has cleared up what its like to be black for us all

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

this is what i thought, too, fwiw.

The followup to the "hood pass/nigger pass" sectoion feels edited/out of context, seeing as there's no direct correlation between the first 3 sentences and the last 2 that makes a lot of direct sense; mapping things back to his own life would be more understandable of he meant "'being black'" in scare-quotes, meaning that he was still talking about the characteristics about himself that led to him being embraced by black people.

However I am also perfectly willing to believe that he was just quoting verbatim something some of his black friends told him about their experiences and he was thinking more about how that paralleled some of the struggles in his life than he was about how terrifyingly patrician his proclaiming what it is to Be Black would come across.

What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted

Who asked John Mayer to do Black History Month blurbs?

Can I get a work safe version of that interview, too? Sounds a-mazing.

YOUR BODY IS A WONDERLAND... I'M TELLING EVERYBODY!!!

hahaha

I wonder if John Mayer and James Franco get their weed from the same guy.

BLACK PEOPLE TO WHITE AMERICA:

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH

that interview reads like the dude from Ray Gun but ten years and millions of dollars in the bank later.

There are so many great lines in this interview that it's hard to pinpoint just a few:

"If you say I’m not adult and stable, it sounds as though I’m someone who’s watching football and playing Xbox. I have this bond with infinite possibility—when I go out to dinner, I bring another shirt, a flashlight, a knife, a hard drive, a camera. It’s not like I wanted to be with somebody else. I want to be with myself, still, and lie in bed only with the infinite unknown. That’s 32, man."

"At this point, before I can have sex I need to know somebody. Unless she’s a 14 out of 10."

"If I have a conversation with a really hot girl that lasts all night and she says, “Wow, I had no idea I was going to like you this much,” that is the equivalent, for me, of getting laid."

"If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe."

"I want to dance. I want to get on an airplane and be like a ninja. I want to be an explorer. I want to be like The Bourne Identity."

"If I have a conversation with a really hot girl that lasts all night and she says, “Wow, I had no idea I was going to like you this much,” that is the equivalent, for me, of getting laid."

pretty sure ive known ppl who say stuff like this

"If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe."

lmao

"I want to dance. I want to get on an airplane and be like a ninja. I want to be an explorer. I want to be like The Bourne Identity."

ive also thought this one personally

Young and Innocent Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_z-shZL1KU

hood pass revoked

http://i48.tinypic.com/28cn59c.gif

lol farsighted

This is amazing.

omfghahahahaha I just got mesmerized focusing only on Kanye's right hand slicing at his chest abt 150 times

two of the most awkward human beings alive, being awkward

Also his use of the word 'fag' was pretty offensive as was his general shitty attitude towards women and how he kept making sure everybody knew Jennifer Aniston was old and he was a young sprightly chicken at 32 who just needed to be ~free~. There was some good points as much as I hate to admit it in his 'hood pass' quote it was just poorly executed. Like his music career and entire existance.

this guy is on a nother level

black man comes at him with a wicked karate chop and he disarms!
plays it off like white and nerdy

disaster averted + gif meme created

Hahahaha I fucking love that.

What's with this scene of mini-Mayer singer-songwriters that that are kind of big and famous but I have never even heard of?

I'm talking Matt Nathanson, Matt Wertz, Dave Barnes. A quick glance at their wikipedia pages shows all sorts of appearances on tv and soundtracks, but who are they and what's their deal? The scene seems to be some weird DMB/country/Christian rock/folk rock pool party.

i think TV soundtracks is a big tipoff there -- there's a whole world of musicians who exist for no other reason than to score contemplative moments in Grey's Anatomy and Scrubs

fratboys

I remember when my fratbro RA and I were talking music for the first time, he talked about all these different singer-songwriters, and not only did they all sound the same to me but they all seem to look and act the same, too. Wouldn't be surpised if it's all the same guy producing these contemplative music moments for Grey's Anatomy tbh.

xpost yeah

Oh CW network (and the WB before you), so much to answer for.

i wonder if this entire cottage industry sprang up just because Coldplay set their licensing fees prohibitively high or something

even the kind of critics who can appreciate horrible pop and defend really uncool music take the http://i45.tinypic.com/20z7o9k.jpg

attitude to this kind of thing.

xpost the Coldplay-John Mayer-the Fray music licensing cartel