That was funny...I wish I could have heard the audio. I find it funny when people get screwed with on prank calls and they fall for it...maybe Im stupid.
You don't think comedians can use race as part of their act without being racist? I have no idea whether evil Dave Letterman is racist or not. I do know that the material that anchors that gag is decades old and seems to stale to me.
I really don't care what comedians say. They have the right to say whatever they want. If it offends someone, just don't listen to the comedian.
i think the funny part is the reaction of the adoption agency lady, that she actually believes that david letterman is really spewing out all that racist crap.
I thought the funniest part wasn't even the racist humour. What I liked best was when Letterman asks, "Are you a fan" right at the beginning. Which celeb. would say that even. lol.
Exactly...its not the material thats funny, its the fact that the prank was working, despite the fact that Letterman was talking such nonsense.
It DOES matter... don't act like it doesn't. If he were white, you know QUANTELL X and most blacks would be all over it.
Well I tried to spin it into a productive discussion on adoption but failed. Oh well. I couldn't find any Evil Dave prank calls on You Tube. I found this PSA they run on Howard TV. I didn't know Evil Dave is racist. I know Yucko and obviously Daniel Carver are racists. I thought Richard and Sal fed him lines. Anyways, don't watch if you're easily offended: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boGhGWb07kk I don't get the link above.
In order for that to work, though, you have to believe that the foundation of this Stern 'bit' is exactly that; meant to be critical of common black stereotypes. That's why, for example, it applies to Chappel. (and apparently one of the reasons he flaked out). The intention is to not make fun of the people, but to make fun of the stereotype. Rumor is, of course, that this began to become a grey area for Chappel (are they laughing at the stereotype or are they laughing because it plays to their belief of the stereotype/ridicule of the people the sterotype is about?) and helped bring about his burn out. In any case, I don't know because I didn't actually hear the bit. But reading it, and having listened to a lot of Stern, I doubt that 'eliminating stereotypes' was the intention here. But who knows. In any case, unless that was the whole purpose of this skit, then your reasoning does not apply. Hence the reason some might not 'get it' like you believe you do. I'm kinda with ima on the whole thing: the main crime is that it is just boring and unfunny.
