rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

yes

amazing how widespread that is, but then again washington redskins

yep

^^^

I never saw race in this but it made my gf feel a little uneasy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIInySnQe4I

hmm. a legitimate contender for this thread!

that is a legitimate contender for this thread

it's also hilarious

fuck

When I watched the first season of the Mighty Boosh, I remember feeling pretty uncomfortable watching this bit.

lol what the fuck is that

did anyone ever post the mississippi gary stuff from kith here? i'm too lazy/horrified to read the whole thread.

Like, if I had felt the show was worth sharing with my wife or someone, this bit would have torpedoed that for me.

ok someone needs to explain to me how an aquatic hermaphrodite in greenface is racist

it's racist AND homophobic, man

he's old gregg

the male-to-female anthropomorphic fish lobby just doesn't have the funds to get their message out the way other special interest groups do

rolling "Is This Pescaphobic?" thread

ok someone needs to explain to me how an aquatic hermaphrodite in greenface is racist

the aquatic hermaphrodite look is achieved by painting dude up like an ill golliwog and he's speaking in some variant of an American southern accent

the entire thing is hilarious though

in some variant of an American southern accent

That was supposed to be a WHAT?

I thought they were Australian, which really made no sense to me.

i thought he was supposed to be scottish!

it sounded like the child molester from family guy to me

No, wait. He sounded like Cleveland.

he did kinda sound like cleveland.

if he was a scotch-australian child-molesting trans fish-man with a vagina.

#highconcept

Which makes me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs43Ug062-Y

I don't really think it's racist because unlike Amos & Andy radio shows, it's not voiced like a stereotype or to portray Cleveland as a buffoon.

But in a way, it's bit like blackface - a white actor behind a black mask.

The biggest thing to take away from this is that James Lipton is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I hate Old Gregg, it is the second most unpleasant thing I've ever watched, right after Salad Fingers. Not going to rewatch it to evaluate its racistiness.

probably wouldn't be talking about it if it weren't for his lips

... and?

that's verging on saying "no one would be associating me with neo-Nazis if I didn't keep shouting 'sieg heil!' at people"

did anyone ever post the mississippi gary stuff from kith here? i'm too lazy/horrified to read the whole thread.

― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:32 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in at least one of these sketches, mckinney breaks character to talk about how he's a white guy from vermont and feels conflicted about it

i'd argue that mississippi gary is more a parody of a blues man character than just a blues man character. so i guess it depends on whether you think the self-awareness negates the potential racism.

... and?

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:24 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

point was it's very easy for people to avoid this but for some reason the makeup artist had to go w/ the sambo look

it sounded like the child molester from family guy to me

― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:58 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't really sound like macfarlane to me

Cleveland is a good comparison point

lol goole

did anyone ever post the mississippi gary stuff from kith here? i'm too lazy/horrified to read the whole thread.

― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:32 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in at least one of these sketches, mckinney breaks character to talk about how he's a white guy from vermont and feels conflicted about it

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah iirc he does the Mississippi Gary voice but he's not in character/in makeup or referred to by that name

White guy from OTTAWA in the o.g. Canadian versh!

Like, HBO assumed American viewers were too dumb to have heard of Ottawa

...

owwawhat?

ottawhat?

you ottawalk to the library and check out a book on canada

dudes i was going from memory, he might not say vermont

i couldn't find the televised version of the sketch on youtube, just a more recent live version. it's the one where he injures himself doing the hambone.

No you're right, he does say Vermont in the American version
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https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&gl=us&daddr=vermont&saddr=Ottawa&panel=1&f=d&fb=1&dirflg=d&geocode=Ka8TUV-yBc5MMe0V3THhUWqK%3BKf_O2khs3LRMMbRrVDZ0iU0m&ei=jRmkUJnNGquJ0QG404DABg&ved=0CDEQ-A8wAA

thought ottawa was in vermont.

http://hiremegrantland.com/?p=1446

h/t to j0rd

I was already distressed enough that there is a website called "hire me grantland" but this just pushed me over the edge