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trying to imagine a black guy on a zipline or wearing khakis or eating sandwiches even LOL

He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, and I just realized that you were just taking blackhealthzone.com from the comment made about 30 Rock.

I don't watch 30 Rock, so I haven't been paying close attention to this thread lately.

pplains, Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

pplains, it's all love

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

er, xpost

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

pplainslovezone.com

Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

don't click on that at work

pplains, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

pplains got chastized for clicking on pplainslovezone.com at work. repeatedly.

He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

http://rareseeds.com/ching-chang-bok-choy.html

mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

last nights 30 rock episode was pretty great in terms of the stuff we were talking abt itt

max, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:40 (fourteen years ago)

i mean in terms of "being smart and challenging about race"

that being said margaret cho's kim jong il is..... something

max, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://rareseeds.com/ching-chang-bok-choy.html

― mh, Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is probably just a romanization of 清江白菜 using a wade-giles type system

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

xp that something is straight up horrible. i mean, at least they got an Asian to play it (i still remember Amy Poehler), but ugh, still

Nhex, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

thx dayo!

mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

trying to imagine a black guy on a zipline or wearing khakis or eating sandwiches even LOL

why are you laughing at me, I thought we were friends

*sob*

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:44 (fourteen years ago)

*sobs*

*ziplines away across Cambridge*

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:45 (fourteen years ago)

Little known fact, DJP ziplines to work every day.

goddamnit, xp

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:45 (fourteen years ago)

haha

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:46 (fourteen years ago)

Pictured: Boston, MA [citation needed]

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2010/6/23/45%20Zipline%20Into%20Guerilla%20Country!.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:46 (fourteen years ago)

Those don't look like khakis.

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

But his pockets are full of sandwiches.

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

i agree that sho's accent is iffy but isn't it basically the same accent cho uses in her stand-up to imitate her parents? i don't think that excuses the 30 rock bits but it's not like she's in yellowface. but it's not as for her characterization of kim jong il, it's at least focused on a specific person, not a race in general, and it's mostly about his ridiculous megalomania instead of a parade of general asian stereotypes?

judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

garbled that. but it's not

judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

yeah

max, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

xp i don't disagree with your facts, but i'm still going with my gut here

Nhex, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:19 (fourteen years ago)

counting down to korean blackface youtubes….

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:21 (fourteen years ago)

specific character parodies can become metonymic of a larger group pretty easily tho. wouldn't be surprised if most people remember just haha funny accent. nb haven't seen any of the pop American culture parodies of Kim Jong but uh have encountered them second hand after team America

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

I know the impersonation from MADTV and Team America.

It must be hard though to impersonate someone whose voice was almost-never heard, but it can go too far.

Dayo, have you seen the semi-regular opening skit on SNL where Bill Hader plays the Chinese premier appearing side-by-side with Obama and talks about the U.S. not paying their debt?

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

no but sounds great

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

It was Forte and Hader. They don't stretch their eyes out or anything, but it's still odd to see four white comedians play Asian and African-American figures.

pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

i had reservations about cho's kji last week, but decided not to air them during the earlier part of the discussion. the fact that it's a fairly accurate parody of a specific, horrible and rather bizarre person does help justify the approach. i'm with nhex, however, in that something about it still doesn't sit quite right.

The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Margaret Cho is one of the worst comedians

Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

sad but tru

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:47 (fourteen years ago)

cho vs. chang

polyphonic, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

chage match

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

Who is chang? Not the tennis player I assume

Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

Chang is the name of Ken Jeong's character on "Community"

the girl with the swag and tattoo (some dude), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah I haven't watched the greatest show in the history of human kind that often

Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

know what that makes you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9ATQFgu9o

pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:22 (fourteen years ago)

man that is some comedy.

pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:22 (fourteen years ago)

i had reservations about cho's kji last week

compared to last year?

┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/543065_397389696971229_322009484509251_1155438_111226802_n.jpg

judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

defend the indefensible: ASIA

judas, a scary ho (some dude), Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

not true, i am facebook friends with that kid.

♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

How do people think that kid learned how to live?

mh, Sunday, 20 May 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

Gr80 thread most likely

bailiwick bill (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 May 2012 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

Exactly

mh, Sunday, 20 May 2012 16:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.cholafied.com/

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

aside from being terrible it's really pissing me off that they're not deviating from the same goddamn eyebrow shape / tear / lipliner color

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

http://cholany.com

mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

...what in heck is chola? Thats something that apparently hasnt escaped the Americas at all o_0 is it some sort of juggalo thing?

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)


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