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Upvote for deadpan face slap

Bravo. Exquisitely balanced use of deadpan irony, satire and sarcasm to make these points in a much more thought provoking way than would otherwise have been possible. People seem to have completely missed this.

Satire is never quite as funny when it has to be explained, but what he did through this dialog was bring out in the open numerous ingrained (and many would agree, wrong) views on the subject of migrant labor (esp on farms). Food for thought, pardon the pun.

Also WTF is up with the lady checking her Blackberry when someone is speaking? I find it staggering that members of this House Judiciary sub-committee haven't been issued Droid Incredibles.

>> ^Njal:

I can't say a sentence without mentioning your name, Brian. I'm trying to connect with you by using your name, Brian. But I'm kind of overdoing it so it turns out to be a bit weird, Brian. Kind of OCD or something, Brian. You don't agree, Brian? Well, you're a twat,.. Brian.
Is he parodying someone famous who "namedrops" ,or whatever you would call it, a lot?


I think to fully get this sketch you'd need to have watched these 2 guys for years, Brian. You see the deadpan satire used here Brian, really works best when reinforced multiple times with multiple viewings and slightly different scenarios. Also you might have to be an Aussie to get it, I have several members of my family that could interchange with these guys.

>> ^VoodooV:

Deadpan?? you didn't notice the self-satisfied smirk on her face?
Don't get me wrong, I like Rachel Maddow, but the answer to shitty journalism from the right is not shitty journalism from the left.


Dude, that's not shitty journalism. She's just having fun.

Deadpan?? you didn't notice the self-satisfied smirk on her face?

Don't get me wrong, I like Rachel Maddow, but the answer to shitty journalism from the right is not shitty journalism from the left.

So totally not what I was expecting... Upvote for the completely deadpan delivery.

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I agree. His deadpan is very solid.

>> ^StukaFox:

Good delivery, Obama!

Sooooo much cheese on that ham samich...

"Hey! Christmas tree!" reminds me of those old deadpan Discovery channel commercials: "Hello mosquito." " Hello mosquito." and "Ahhh. The atmosphere. ahhh."

Bullshit like this, and the other bullshit they did about "Sony's piece of shit that doesn't fucking work" are comedy gold. Any time they can be so deadpan while swearing like troupers gets me laughing.

That's an Australian, not a British accent.

This was hilarious. It could have easily been a big fail, but her deadpan delivery really sells the funny.

>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^bananafone:
he makes a very erudite comment about gender equality, but immediately undermines that by suggesting there's something wrong with men who like to cook.
Fuck you James May.

I'm not sure he was being quite serious about that, at least, I hope not!


Pretty sure it was standard deadpan sarcasm.

Did Pat do stand-up early in life? He's got the straight-faced deadpan humor thing down.

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