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I think my favorite part about sketch comedy from college students is how funny it is and how much it demeans women in horrific and disgusting ways. #LOL
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Yep, seems pretty sketch to me.
Is this sketch-sketch or just sketch?
So, somebody asked themselves “Wouldn’t it be funny if someone were being raped but couldn’t get help because of an automated answering system?” and then concluded that it would, in fact, be funny. I’m absolutely dumbfounded by this.
“The funniest part though dude, how about the answering system totally makes rape jokes itself!”
Quick, get those kids a job writing for Tosh.0.
Nope.
Speaking of sketch comedy (but of the good, not disgusting kind), did anyone watch the premiere of Key & Peele? I thought it was really funny! Can we take Tosh off the air now?
Yes please. Please.
Yeah, I caught the last 20 minutes. I was surprised by how much I liked it: an average amount. It’s not as subversive as Chappelle, but certainly no worse than Jon Benjamin Has a Van or Michael and Michael which I also enjoyed. Unfortunately, it will probably, like those shows, get pulled off the air after its requisite 6 shows.
This is when the argument “Nothing is out of bounds for comedy, even rape jokes. So I’m going to make a rape joke.” meets the “Ok fine, you can make a rape joke, and then we will make sure every potential future employer knows about your rape jokes.” counter-argument.
Comedy without bounds, like all issues of free speech, is only as good a right as the person exercising it is. People make some very funny, but also very pointed and poignant jokes about very unfunny topics, because they’re very funny, pointed, and poignant. When it’s something like this horrifying garbage, it says more about the person making it (and the culture it’s being made in) than it does about the subject itself.
Sure, it’s a gross topic, but I feel like that’s irrelevant when you also consider that it’s also not even funny. I mean…even if it were about a funny subject, like for example Waffles, or Possums, these people would still have no concept of comedy and how it works.
By the way I’m an expert in comedy, and that is how I know about the Waffle/Possum theory. It’s a comedy-guy secret – there are two guaranteed-laugh-worthy topics. If you’re ever on stage and BOMBING, just break out “hey whats the deal with Waffles?” or alternatively “What is going on with these possums,’ or even better “Have you heard about these Waffles and also these Possums? Who are the ad wizards that came up with that one (and the other one)?”
They’re funny because of the hard ‘K’
This is why Possum Waffles are illegal in 49 states*, because people can’t stop laughing and end up starving to death.
*Looks like anything goes in Vermont. La-di-da, Green Mountain State.
I’m so tempted right now to change my name to possum waffles.
I have this joke that everyone has me tell all the time that goes something like this: “So, I was sitting at the bus stop the other day and I was watching this couple sitting on a bench in the park, and I got to thinking… you know, girls are a lot like waffles, and guys are a lot like possums. No no, hear me out. Because a guy on a bench sitting next to a cute girl always seems to be like…” and then I continue on to the really funny part of the joke. It’s really good.
YOU MEAN THERE’S MORE JOKE?! I thought you were done!
Parks and Recreation ripped off your shtick, except they substituted raccoons for opossums. (And it really is very funny!)
Raccoons? Not funny. Raccoons aren’t even in the top 5!
1. Possums
2. Weasels
3. Platypus
4. Sperm Whale
5. Sloths
????? (really far down the list) Raccoons.
Yes. Exactly. I mean, I don’t defend the concept of humor without limits, but I can at least tell that sometimes people can make some funny jokes, observations, or enact some zany situational sketches about off limit subjects. But in this case, it seems the writers believed that the off limits subject alone would be enough to make next level comedy. These are the type of people that take pictures of dog poop and then claim that they are redefining art. It’s just embarrassing. I seriously feel bad for the people involved in making this.
These are just Jay Leno writers in their “crazy days.”
Yeah, back in my day, the college programming we had was more like mocking those GAP commercials.
http://youtu.be/ThzN8Wzm98k
There were no rapings in sight. Well, maybe aural rape.
“Everybody in vests”
How does this store still exist?
I would like to take this opportunity to recommend Ryan Stout’s comedy album Touché. It has a great joke in their that is NOT about rape. Really funny album.
*in there
Oh good, because my brain was yelling “It has a great joke in their what?” and then it was answering the question with a lot of different things, some of which would only be appropriate on a college sketch comedy video.
I watched it didn’t seem funny at all *but* the joke was intended to be about how unhelpful the automated emergency help kiosks are supposed to be. (I don’t know if those are on their campus or in their local city.) Since I have no experience with those emergency help kiosks, there’s no possibility of any humor for me. IF (and that’s a big if) anyone who has ever tried to use those kiosks knows they’re incredibly frustrating and unhelpful, then that’s where the attempted humor is supposed to come from – and in that case we’re not the target audience.
This concludes my dismantling of an unfunny joke.
Right. I guess I could see someone saying “This is hilarious, because that’s exactly what it was like that time I got raped.” and in that sense, it’s appropriate, in a way.
That was definitely worth pointing out. People tend to light up at offensive stuff so much that it just turns into ‘Rape is never funny!’ and stuff like that, and the people who have made the unfunny joke are just like, ‘You didn’t get it! Gawl!’ But by fully dissecting a failed joke, we cover all those bases. I’m sure someone with a good sense of humor and self-awareness could probably come up with a joke about those kiosks that would have a proper, informative premise full of promise, AND punchline– rape incorporated or not (PROBABLY not, but let’s not discount it completely)– but those people were not the ones to do it.
Your ‘Help Kiosk’ joke was really bad, dumb-dumbs!
“No, no, no. This isn’t a rape joke, it’s a joke where rape is just a humorous aside that is totally incidental and funny! No, it’s still incidental that she’s screaming about being raped and that also the machines use sexually violent language. So, see, not a rape joke.”
Why is that people will work so hard to make joking about rape a nothing matter?
Great. Another story from the fine state of Connecticut in a week. Someone please come and rescue me. I’m on a rooftop in New Haven, waving my arms at the sky.
Oh fuck, it’s from UCONN. Man that was a dumb place. I was just having fun reading all the comments, not watching the video or anything and you had to remind me of my incredibly mediocre alma mater. Now I am sad.