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1. So you are suggesting people who live on 40p a day would give two squirty shits about a smartphone? That is a result of global economic issues of which one person smashing a phone (they presumably own) is negligible to the point of complete irrelevance. Non sequitur, if this is really a concern to you then you need to go after the corruptions and inequalities in our very financial system. Handing down a phone (which is likely near the end of its useful life anyway) is not going to change anything of significance here.

2. I'm suggesting you are making an entirely subjective value judgement about the pleasure and practical use one could derive from the same investment of money/material. Lets not forget he generated around $7000 of personal income from a £50-100 investment. But more than that, perhaps to some people the pleasure and entertainment of smashing that phone was comparable to other activities that might cost the same (e.g. a night of drinking or a weekend away could easily exceed the cost of that handset). Are you suggesting spending £50-100 on leisure activities etc. is morally reprehensible? Let's not forget "smartphones" don't do anything essential for most people, they are luxury items. If you have a problem with 1st world culture that's absolutely fine (laudible even) but you can't be singling out this guy for making a very successful comedy skit when there are people everywhere who's lifestyles could be politely described as "a decadent waste of atoms".

3. Absolutely nothing is stopping that smashed phone from being recycled, many shops would give you a £50-100 trade in on a new handset even in that state as they are typically just melted down anyway (and your new shiny phone contract is worth more to them than caring about the state of your bag of broken phone bits).

Besides as a matter of pedantry my point clearly stands, doing NOTHING in a drawer is clearly inferior to generating $7000, and providing 2mins of hillarity!?!?!?!? (the comparison was between hammer and drawer not drawer and charity) What you did there was called a "straw man" (i.e. twist my word's to make a different argument that helps make your own point)

4. The phone is old and they are not built to last (again feel free to rant on our disposable culture but leave this guy out of it) as @Payback pointed out it's probably knackered anyway.


Somewhere in your argument is some righteous and commendable rage about the inequalities of the global market but you're focusing it in the wrong direction here. Be angry at the CEO and shareholders of Samsung who profit from human death and suffering in the Coltan mines, the Corrupt banks that hold a fake debt over the poor populations of the world or the Complicit governments that support them. Or maybe go after the Ideologues and philosophers that conceived and spread the culture of consumer and corporate greed driven economics.


Basically anything but rage at this guy for making a IMHO pretty funny video on a budget that utterly pales into insignificance compared to just about anything else.



Could he have handed it down? Sure. Could he have traded it for a crate of jack Daniels, a half ounce of weed, an animatronic chicken alarm clock, a present for his wife etc. etc. etc.?

Your argument taken to its logical conclusion would condemn anyone that spends money or resources on anything other than practical necessities or charity. I'm not saying that's what you meant, but that's what your argument as stated invites.

Hmmm, needs new material. Almost identical to his skit 2 years ago. Although, his timing has gotten better. And his 20 month relationship is no more.

Better than the actual skit

yeah skate *comedy skits FTW!

A great skit, but you need the first bit too to get the context - *backup=[...snipped...] is the complete version.
As well: *related=http://videosift.com/video/Andy-Kaufman-on-Johnny-Cash-doing-Elvis-Presley
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Carrey-as-Elvis-Presley

I love his X Men shtick but I can't get into his new television show -- which opens with the X Men skits and then is like a talk show without any more skits -- hilarious guy though. (I want his show to be more like a hilarious white people version of Key and Peele, not like a late, late night version of Conan.)

No bass guitar? Wow, these couch skits are getting longer and longer. It is somewhat better than the whole episode! Oh, and I like classical music more than jazz.

Ugh, bad skit.

FFS, if you only have enough material for one joke, make a 30-second video.

This is as bad as SNL: good ideas but terrible, drawn-out implementation.

The thumbnail is funnier than the skit is. (But I still upvoted )

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Kimmel's Kid's Corner Skit Offends China has been added as a related post - related requested by chingalera.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Kimmels-Kids-Corner-Skit-Offends-China

That was a brilliant skit, but it wasn't about the shutdown at all.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Key, Peele, phone, skit' to 'Key, Peele, phone, skit, key and peele' - edited by eric3579