I love jokes that take me off guard, where I can't anticipate the punch line. Jimmy Carr is great at make jokes that stop 3 steps earlier than you expect. He made the even shorter joke than the pretentious one:
"dwarf shortage"

but in jokes like those, the delivery is crucial. There's nothing worse than having a crappy story teller deliver a joke.

Mitch Hedberg was a king of the kind of short-fire, fast shooting stand up which is just excellent. He was also a master at delivering his jokes.

Bill Hicks is sorta the opposite with long-winded stories. George Carlin and Eddie Murphy is the same way. Most are like this.

Delivery in itself can make just about any story hilarious. I can point to people like Kevin Smith or Ron White for those kind of storytellers.

"hey man, if the engine falls off, how far do you think the plane will make it, man, how far do you think??"
"all the way to the scene of the crash.. which is where we're headed. I bet we'll beat the paramedics there by about half an hour." Heh.

@10:55 -- son, you can't go to california with those people. eddie murphy might be on drugs or something ...
LOL

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
Majority of the women I know would only watch movies as entertainment occasionally and don't really call themselves "movie buffs." If you think there is an untapped "movie buff" in the female world you would think the movie industry would attempt to tap into it? (Chick flicks?)


Wow.. are you trollin' Tymbie? Or just thick?
Cause if you can't find the faults in that statement. I think you should immediately take some critical thinking classes.
Have you ever wondered why most women you know don't consider themselves "movie buffs"?
Female 1: "Hey the new Comic Book/Action/Eddie Murphy Comedy movie is out."
Female 2: "Fuck yes! I've been dyin' to see gratuitous explosions/shoot-outs/prosthetic fat all year!!"
And then, like some marketing executive from the 60s, you have gall to suggest that female movie enthusiasts truly crave to be spoon fed stereotypical bastardized depictions of themselves in films.
~~ written by @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/BoneyD" title="member since July 7th, 2006" class="profilelink">BoneyD - A lot of chick flicks would fail the Bechdel Test as well, btw...
Like real world women all are desperate love-obsessed delicate lilies that: need to reunite with their sisters and babble about romanticism. Or find a rich man so they can stop whoring themselves. Or reunite with their "mature" party slut friends and babble about sex.
I bet female movie goers find those films ultra empowering! =D
And on top of all that - deep breath - "chicks flicks" don't even begin to scratch even the bottom of any list or review of the most popular movies.
So what have we learned?
- Realistically relatable females aren't depicted in mainstream media.
- The niche genre for females depicts them as clueless whiny emo kids hoping some stronger, usually male, character saves them from their shitty situation/themselves.
- You find that's perfectly normal and don't see an reason why younger females shouldn't be raised to expect the same.


I agree in a number of ways with you regarding the way women are depicted in a majority of modern movies. However, the part that I think there are two big factors here that are being overlooked by you and by women who argue for more "realistic and substantive" roles for women in movies. First and foremost in my opinion at least is the fact that making movies is all about making money (again looking to the majority here, indie films are somewhat of an exception to this but then I think you'd agree that they are also largely an exception to this Bechdel Test). Since it's about making money, the unfortunate truth is that the majority of the target market for films these days is men, and what most of them want is the same mindless, formulaic story over and over again. If making films was primarily about telling a good, detailed and deeply thought provoking story, I think things would be very different. This just doesn't sell on a large scale and you'd have one hell of a time convincing the film studios of the world to begin shooting films for the artistic appeal and forget about the financial aspect.

On a bit of a side note to your point below,

"Like real world women all are desperate love-obsessed delicate lilies that: need to reunite with their sisters and babble about romanticism. Or find a rich man so they can stop whoring themselves. Or reunite with their "mature" party slut friends and babble about sex."

I agree that this is a very unrealistic depiction of real women. I would also contend that real men don't drive cars off ramps onto moving boats, or shoot anything that moves, or smoothly sweep any attractive woman off their feet with a few suave words. That is however, the image of men in the movies and I'd wager that it's not only the male population of moviegoers that enjoys seeing men depicted that way. And that's why it continues to sell...

My advice is... stick to indies.

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
Majority of the women I know would only watch movies as entertainment occasionally and don't really call themselves "movie buffs." If you think there is an untapped "movie buff" in the female world you would think the movie industry would attempt to tap into it? (Chick flicks?)



Wow.. are you trollin' Tymbie? Or just thick?
Cause if you can't find the faults in that statement. I think you should immediately take some critical thinking classes.

Have you ever wondered why most women you know don't consider themselves "movie buffs"?

Female 1: "Hey the new Comic Book/Action/Eddie Murphy Comedy movie is out."
Female 2: "Fuck yes! I've been dyin' to see gratuitous explosions/shoot-outs/prosthetic fat all year!!"

And then, like some marketing executive from the 60s, you have gall to suggest that female movie enthusiasts truly crave to be spoon fed stereotypical bastardized depictions of themselves in films.

~~ written by @BoneyD - A lot of chick flicks would fail the Bechdel Test as well, btw...

Like real world women all are desperate love-obsessed delicate lilies that: need to reunite with their sisters and babble about romanticism. Or find a rich man so they can stop whoring themselves. Or reunite with their "mature" party slut friends and babble about sex.

I bet female movie goers find those films ultra empowering! =D

And on top of all that - deep breath - "chicks flicks" don't even begin to scratch even the bottom of any list or review of the most popular movies.

So what have we learned?

- Realistically relatable females aren't depicted in mainstream media.

- The niche genre for females depicts them as clueless whiny emo kids hoping some stronger, usually male, character saves them from their shitty situation/themselves.

- You find that's perfectly normal and don't see an reason why younger females shouldn't be raised to expect the same.

'Race Card' is the biggest cop out ever invented. If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't drag race into these videos. And don't praise rabid and violent racists. The below quotes are from this thread, not YouTube:

"Black people.. makin' [half of] me look bad"

"Listen to enough black comedians (Eddie Murphy to be precise) and you'll learn that much of their fighting consists of scaring the opponent in hopes that they don't actually fight."

Please explain to me how this kid's actions reflect on all black people? Again, why drag this into it? It's this kneejerk racism that gets me. And you want to defend it and EBM.


Danny, the guy yelled many racial epithets. Stop making EBM into Clark Kent. It was clear he wanted to instigate a fight. Anyone, but EBM's weaker, stupider prey, could see that that kid was outmatched.



>> ^dannym3141:
Sorry to say this but there's a lot of sorry excuse making going on here, including you peggedbea who i'd expect more of.
So many people playing the race card, or trying to. Very easy to pass something off as racism, in fact in our society i think we fanatically adhere to anti-xenophobia to the point where we're dangerously on the other side of the line of fairness.
What this comes down to is one moron threatening a guy and getting his arse kicked within a reasonable limit. I'm not an expert in smack talk, slang or american accents but i didn't hear any racism from EBM, especially before any racism was thrown at him.
The guy moved away, he didn't want to fight, but some dickhead had to try and ruin someone's day, and he got his shit ruined.
You make me so angry making excuses for these fucking morons.. people like this guy (yes he's black but that's only an identifying characteristic, NOT RACISM) are the reason this world is going to shit. I hope he fucking chokes on his teeth, and i hope EBM can kick some more ass of people who go around thinking that they're untouchable and can do what they like without consequences.
What a disappointment, videosift. A guy defends himself from physical assault and you shout him down.

>> ^rottenseed:
Words are just words and I'm always ready to throw down and get my ass-kicked. It's part of my role of being an asshole. But I wouldn't want anybody calling out onlookers telling them that fighting is bad and implying that anybody who watches is not civilized, but a blood lusting animal. Maybe that's not what you were implying but that's what was inferred by me and possible others.
Cool you don't like fighting, go build a bird house or whatever...downvote the video add in your 2 cents about the video but stop generalizing based on how you think of us.


Yes, you are putting words in my mouth. I'm not implying anything; I mean exactly what I said.

And just who is generalizing, here?:

>> ^rottenseed:
Listen to enough black comedians (Eddie Murphy to be precise) and you'll learn that much of their fighting consists of scaring the opponent in hopes that they don't actually fight.

>> ^rottenseed:
Listen to enough black comedians (Eddie Murphy to be precise) and you'll learn that much of their fighting consists of scaring the opponent in hopes that they don't actually fight.

Oh yeah thats purely a black phemenon *FACE FUCKING PALM*

What happened is the black guy was talking shit expecting the white dude to be scared off. Well that white dude asked him to cash that check and when it came to it...

Listen to enough black comedians (Eddie Murphy to be precise) and you'll learn that much of their fighting consists of scaring the opponent in hopes that they don't actually fight.

I wouldn't attempt to fight anybody these days, though. Black or white, everybody's been in the gym practicing their MMA and shit...no telling what kind of shit you can get into.

>> ^budzos:
To extend your Perfect Strangers buzz, I recommend this interview with Bronson Pinchot. Fun details about Tom Cruise's blatant homophobia in the early days, Eddie Murphy being a zombie during filming of Beverly Hills Cop III (most joyless sequel ever? possibly), and more.


That was a quality read. He seems like a good guy.

To extend your Perfect Strangers buzz, I recommend this interview with Bronson Pinchot. Fun details about Tom Cruise's blatant homophobia in the early days, Eddie Murphy being a zombie during filming of Beverly Hills Cop III (most joyless sequel ever? possibly), and more.

I can't believe Eddie Murphy was just 22 or 23 years old when he did this stand-up.

Such an obvious lie.

Did they accidentally pick up the tape from the campaign, accidentally forward to Biden saying that and not see the context, not ask themselves where it was from, show the producers and reporters the tape without them realising where the quote from and then show it, repeadetly for many days?

No, someone made a very conscious decision to include that, to lie outright.

It's pretty similar to this Eddie Murphy joke;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEovJYZsiDY

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Eddie Murphy in Coming To America: Barber Shop Scenes. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

>> ^CaptainPlanet420:

I had to start using channel filters for news, waronterror, and a few others to avoid the unending diatribes from you and those that you've successfully baited. You are, of course, free to comment on any video here you want, but I'm asking you nicely to please avoid my posts if you can. I really like this place. Please don't ruin that for me.

Understand that it's not just your words, but all of the others that are attracted to them and feel compelled to chime in that I'm trying to avoid. VideoSift is entertainment for me - and all of the nastiness that seems to follow you around here is not entertaining. I'm sure it's terribly entertaining for you, but it just makes me want to vomit.

This is a serious concern... what if your videoplayer accidentally changes to play Dr. Dolittle where eddie murphy is eating a hot dog.. things could go really bad, man!

>> ^thinker247:
Hold on a second! What happens if I'm thinking that Arianna is gagging on my cock, and suddenly I look down at this machine, and it reminds me more of some dude named Jaden? I don't swing that way, machine-makers! I don't appreciate your gay belt sander pretending to be a woman who is losing oxygen on my penis! I AM NOT EDDIE MURPHY!