― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
My friend works for a prop warehouse that supplies all the props for the trapped in the closet videos. Apparently they're currently filming the follow-up. Which is kind of stupid and nuts, because i can't imagine people really still care.
aside from brits reading about it on wikipedia, i guess
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― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost wtf does that have to do with what I'm saying, Ethan?
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
So anything you find personally embarassing from a black person that other people find hilarious is inherently a minstrel act? There's no possibility you can find something a black person does ridiculous and funny without it being based on their race?
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
but even if he was, ive seen/heard too many white frat dudes make fun of this in a v. sketchily racist way to be enthusiastic abt it.
― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
"Trapped in the Closet" is "hilarious" largely because of the juxtapositions of black stereotypes with outrageous non-sequiturs.
I have not seen or heard "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" but I'm certain that its humor works because Weird Al is a comedian good at writing funny material.
Like I said, don't get mad because you happen to really, really like some bullshit.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
No way.
R. Kelly isn't just "somebody", and that's critical. Even without TITC, Kelly is, ummm ... complicated. He's brilliant and awful and creepy and hilarious all mashed together.
There isn't a comparable white entertainment figure that we could map this scenario onto, simply 'cuz R. Kelly is unique. But if a kinda-half-similarly bizzare and wonderful/awful white guy made this exact same film, starring himself, I think it'd receive exactly the same response.
I mean, what if Scott Stapp made TITC? The world would shit itself! The world would do exactly what it did in Kelly's case. You'd have a million condescending blog entries about the "genius" and people rolling in the aisles.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I think reading this made me dumber.
This thing would STILL be a minstrel show regardless of who made it, is kind of my (I thought) explicit point here.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
But if a white person of similar infamy made a similarly plotted, similarly brilliant/retarded film, it would be received in precisely the same way. It would reflect white culture instead of black culture of course, but the basic dynamic would be the same. People of all sorts would adore it in a condescendingly ironic fashion.
I mean, what if Scott Stapp DID make something like TITC, and a lot of black people dug it because of the "juxtapositions of white stereotypes with outrageous non-sequiturs"?
So what? Comedy = stereotypes + stereotypes punctured. Big deal. White guilt about what's okay or not okay to laugh at is retarded. Every culture in the world thinks other cultures are funny to the extent they don't think they're evil.
Therefore, thinking other cultures are funny is a GOOD THING. Or at least it can be...
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
sometimes comedy also equals people falling over or running around to yakety sax
― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― da croupier (da croupier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Die.
XOXOXO
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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