Marzipan Rapist

Awwww, let me help you wipe that up, you go lie down...

Permalink for TheMinisterofLongitude's comment on From The Mouths Of Babes, Or Whatever at November 9, 2009 11:12 AM
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Ugh. Soul-puke is so hard to clean up... Ectoplasm everywhere...

Permalink for TheMinisterofLongitude's comment on From The Mouths Of Babes, Or Whatever at November 9, 2009 11:05 AM
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I would say jinx, but my comment is a total 3 minutes after yours so, tip of the hat.

Permalink for hlebtastic's comment on Oy Vey! This Movie Looks Terrible! at November 5, 2009 2:51 PM
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I hate it because there are many, many perfectly nice and good and not racist people in "Middle America" who value culture and intellegence just as much as the next American. Shitwads like Jeff Dunham, someone who claims to speak for Middle America, just make the cultural divide in this country even worse. I speak as someone who grew up in Texas and recently moved to the East Coast. I am socially liberal and am politcally in tune with the majority here, but the cultural elitism makes me gag. When someone shoots me the shankeye when I tell them where I'm from and they laugh at my "y'all"s, I just want to scream and move back home. Seriously, Gabe's not kiddin' about them culture wars.

Permalink for kiss the pan's comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 2, 2009 11:14 AM
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Obvs there are people in "Middle America" who like this crap. But I grew up in Indiana, I live in Ohio, and myself and many people I know are so fucking tired of hearing ignorant and brainless people like Jeff Dunham assign this region of the country, full of MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of different, individual brains, these moronic traits and preferences just to justify their mindless idiocy. Yes there are lots of people in America. There are bound to be bottom-feeders in that huge area you generalize.

Permalink for lemonne's comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 2, 2009 11:18 AM
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And of course, when I said "Middle America," I meant it as a state of mind, not as a specific location. I know there are folks in the geographic location who cannot abide this shit either.

My apologies if the brush was too broad.

Permalink for Marzipan Rapist's comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 2, 2009 12:41 PM
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This reminds me of the Seth McFarlane quote, trying to explain why Family Guy is funny: "Because [Peter] is so oblivious. You’re not laughing at rape; you’re laughing at him being an idiot.' This is such a copout in so many ways, and while I do not believe McFarlane is what Jeff Dunham is, I think this is how Dunham might explain his comedy, too.

Both of them project their own sense of humor and politics, (McFarlane, rape jokes and blanket liberalism; Dunham, racism and blanket conservatism), through devices, be they cartoons or puppets, as a means of deflecting the blame. Dunham's own prejudices would have a tougher time gaining an audience if it was just him up there. The puppets are a gimmick, (and a cheap one at that,) used solely to deflect his "upbringing"? and his "Christian values"? to gain general acceptance.

Of course all comedians do this. But the talented ones have expanded outside of themselves, crafted different characters to expose, or even explore, deep rooted racial tensions/ugliness in our society. Then, the audience laughs at the absurdity of our condition, rather than one dude's yuks about Islam. Jeff Dunham just feels content in the latter category, projecting his own prejudices and myopic perspective to the masses.

That his audience is so big for his scope being so small is absolutely beyond me. He speaks for no one but himself.

Permalink for disgruntled hipster no. 416's comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 2, 2009 1:15 PM
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your face is probably true.

Permalink for Big Love Mogul's comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 2, 2009 7:48 PM
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