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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJRH0yxbIU
Here's my favorite sketch from last weekend, i'm glad they finally got an asian cast member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJRH0yxbIU
I'm sure Kate McKinnon's crazy-eyes and accurate-yet-still-kinda-over-the-top impressions will drive people crazy eventually the way Kristen Wiig's affectations grated most people over time, but right now she is money in the bank. I laughed heartily at everything she did. She's awesome.
And Moynihan is one of those people who makes me laugh with every single line reading. His first mention of that stupid cat made me spit up my lunch. I was eating at the time, so it wasn't like I threw up or anything too exaggerated, but still... that's a solid response to such a delightfully silly joke.
Taran Killam and Kate McKinnon are doing real solid work this season.
The "Tech Talk"-sketch was the highlight of the show, some real good satire in there.
I also enjoyed the fake trailer and the siren-sketch.
(oh, and Suds as The Dane Cook)
"She walked out of the room using that pretty ass I mentioned earlier to propel herself forward. I felt like my dick had been kicked up into my mouth, making me throw up from having a dick in my mouth"
Can someone explain Jerry Sandusky in the Gillette ad? Me too dumb.
They just threw the last guy you would ever expect to appear in a Gillette ad. The absurdity of having a convicted pedophile strutting along with a bunch of entertainers.
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I think the point was that it's just as random a grouping as the original ad.
It's a shame Berliner deleted his account, because he probably would have found 'Tech Talk' racist. I know I did.
Also, they're rarely great, but this is an especially not great year for musical guests. Pretty much everyone has been terrible, even acts that I like, like Frank Ocean. Passion Pit were abysmally bad. Muse's second song was one of the worst things to ever happen to music.
That second Muse song is worse than anything Lana Del Rey or Karmin have ever done in their entire lives
— Scott Aukerman (@ScottAukerman) https://twitter.com/ScottAukerman/st...64760745648128" data-datetime="2012-10-07T08:44:28+00:00">October 7, 2012
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At what point did we decide that a person from one culture (none of the people playing Asians in the Tech Talk are 100% caucasian) playing someone from another culture was inherently racist? 2009? 2010?
Eh, sure. If that's what it takes to invalidate my opinion, whatever works. I'm not saying I'm in favor of cheap racial stereotyping for comedic purposes. I'm aware of SNL's casual racism and startling lack of diversity. And I certainly felt that the blackface Obama was a dodgy foundation to build a key impression upon, I'm just asking if something like the Tech Talk sketch (which was a funny, if heavy handed "First World Problems" sketch) is inherently racist because three non-Chinese performers are playing Chinese people. We're they caricatures? I mean, they certainly weren't the butt of the joke. Was it mean-spirited - or is "that accent" just always wrong?Originally Posted by kevin
Is it ever OK for a person of one culture to imitate a person of another culture - or is it all racism? I actually want to know.
I don't think it's as offensive as full scale minstrelsy or anything, but I definitely cringed throughout it. The "Traditional Sarcastic Dance", while a funny line, was based on a pretty racist stereotype of Chinese culture, for example.
I think racism is when somebody doesn't get a job because of his or her skin color, or get's called a degrading name out of hate for their race, or when somebody get's immediately accused of the crime because they are black or dark-skinned. I think.
But a group of sketch performers doing an asian accent in a skit where they are sarcastically sending up some overprivileged Americans?
Saturday Night Live is really not as offensive as it once was, but you couldn't tell, because now we have the internet, and everybody's skin has gotten thinner. Racism used to be about hating people just because they're different.
Haven't watched it yet, but I have to imagine that it's not as racist as the Chris Farley sketch where he's on a Japanese game show, right? I mean, Mike Myers stopped short of buck teeth, but just short. Point is, we all thought that sketch was funny as shit, so I'm not sure what changed.
Unless this sketch you're talking about is actually abhorrent. Then that's different.
How do people find time to sleep when they're so busy expressing outrage on behalf of everyone else?
Y'all are being dorks about racism, stop it!
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Yeah I thought that Chris Farley Japanese Game Show sketch was hilarious. I was also 8 or 9 when I first watched it, and it was a different time. I understand the broader point being made by this sketch, but a central part of it is 3 non-Asians playing Chinese workers complete with accents and other things that made me cringe. Then on the aspecialthing message board I wrote 2 posts containing all of three sentences on this topic with such extreme emotional responses as, "[I] found it racist" and "I definitely cringed throughout it." I wasn't calling for a fucking boycott and even acknowledged that it wasn't over-the-top offensive. Meanwhile a character on this message board wonders how people find time to sleep when they're busy expressing outrage, though this bro has posted more words on the topic than anyone else.
As always, Jixby is right. Everybody stop it.
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A white guy
I'm also a white guy.
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A white guy.
(Since we're doing that.)
I am the one who knocks.
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"She walked out of the room using that pretty ass I mentioned earlier to propel herself forward. I felt like my dick had been kicked up into my mouth, making me throw up from having a dick in my mouth"
Not to be a pedantic asshole about this (too late), but Armisen is a quarter Japanese and Pedrad is Iranian, which does not make her THAT kind of Asian, but still makes her, technically Asian.
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