"Jesus said my people perish for lack of knowledge"

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

She is just soo fucking funny. Best standup routine EVER !!!

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^Deano:
It is astonishing to me that THIS particular video, from the best standup in the business, has not been sifted.

Really? You don't get why a shitty quality, hard to listen to video of a comic being abusive isn't sifted.
Yours and my definitions of comedy are worlds apart sir... worlds apart.


Wow, guy on the internet realises other people may have different opinions - hold the front page gents!

Yes it's unfortunate the video is not of the highest quality. Sometimes that happens. But context is everything which is why I added that.

He is simply not just being abusive. He's actually being very funny, coming up with spontaneous riffs on the city's sporting culture, insulting them in crude yet creative ways and then throwing in a non sequitur towards the end, which is a staple of comedy.

Everyone who has ever heard this realises what a talent Burr is and an underappreciated one at that. This certainly cemented his growing reputation at the time with standup fans and fellow comedians (this was in 2006, prior to that from 2001-2005 he was as he has put it "killing in obscurity". And every single Burr clip on the sift will prove that.

Now if you don't think Burr is funny, fair enough but please don't get on your high horse when you make a comment.

>> ^Deano:

It is astonishing to me that THIS particular video, from the best standup in the business, has not been sifted.


Really? You don't get why a shitty quality, hard to listen to video of a comic being abusive isn't sifted.

Yours and my definitions of comedy are worlds apart sir... worlds apart.

It is astonishing to me that THIS particular video, from the best standup in the business, has not been sifted.

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check out NH if you can stand it... im sure theres more on youtube

http://www.videosift.com/video/Neil-Hamburger-Get-Some-Guts-Huh
http://www.videosift.com/video/Niel-Hamburger-Jug-Town

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Me, I just love any situation when the (possibly) smartest man in the room convinces the not-so-smart people around him that he's the dumb one. That's what I call pwnage

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>> ^westy:
Dag I think you should remove videos like this you can clearly see that the audience didn't get it and well i think some of his jokes were very offensive racist and who needs to be reminded about aids?
I think videos like this might encourage other "un funny" people to make jokes and comments that at the hart of it are racist and inapropreatly offensive I have a friend with AIDS and I can tell you he dosent find it funny, jokes like this are simple and not well thought out. I realy dont want people posting content to the sift that is offensive to a good number of people, Allowing videos like this only encourage more of this crap.


I agree that AIDS jokes are highly offensive and I don't like that aspect of the video at all. But as far as taking it off... can't see your point there.

EDIT: Whoops. Guess I didn't get the irony memo. I stick to what I said though.

>> ^ponceleon:
I'm surprised no one made the Andy Kaufman connection. This is the old gag that Kaufman would do on Saturday Night Live...

I was gonna say the same thing...kids these days...can't even tell this guy is doing Andy Kaufman's standup "foreign man" act from 35 years ago.

>> ^siaiaiaaaaaa:
i think this video is proper racist, and playing to all the frowned upon stereotypes, just like loads of westys comments.
whoever uploaded this should be banned for posting such a racist vid, and west should also be banned, and all the people who found this funny should be given some sort of warning.
this website should not be endorsing racism like this. Loads of vietnamese died in the war.


I'm hoping ur joking. i don't know for sure because im far too buisy to read the rest of the thread to find out if ur comment is ironic.

Aaaaaand this guy is really bad. Why the fuck would anyone think that was funny? its just one more guy being a jack-ass on camera.

>> ^alizarin:
Will I get to the top 10 if I paint my face black and do a standup act based on slavery and fried chicken jokes?


If you were a black man, then yes, you might. See, Lance Krall is of Vietnamese descent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Krall

I don't know exactly how the rules of comedy work, but apparently it's OK to make fun of your own people.

>> ^westy:
Dag I think you should remove videos like this you can clearly see that the audience didn't get it and well i think some of his jokes were very offensive racist and who needs to be reminded about aids?
I think videos like this might encourage other "un funny" people to make jokes and comments that at the hart of it are racist and inapropreatly offensive I have a friend with AIDS and I can tell you he dosent find it funny, jokes like this are simple and not well thought out. I realy dont want people posting content to the sift that is offensive to a good number of people, Allowing videos like this only encourage more of this crap.


No TheFreak, it wasn't a well played move - it is his lack of understanding that looks like a well played move.

He still doesn't understand that what he said wasn't satire even though he intended it to be. It was just racism. That's the worst thing, he doesn't understand it.

It's like me, at a friend's mum's funeral, saying "well she said over my dead body, i didn't realise it'd come true!" It doesn't MATTER if i meant it as a joke, it doesn't MATTER that i didn't mean to offend people, that WOULD BE OFFENSIVE. However many times i protested that they misunderstood what i said, it doesn't make what i said any more of a joke, it was still just offensive.

What that shows is MY lack of understanding of a proper joke and how to deliver it so that it IS a joke.

And, in exactly the same way, what he's shown is that he doesn't understand satire or how to deliver it. That's the sad thing here - he still doesn't understand that what he said wasn't satire, it was just racism. Even IF he said it in a spirit of satire and wanted it to be satirical, it wasn't. It doesn't matter how you intend to say something - that will only mitigate the responsibility very slightly. It matters how people take what you said.

That's why people fined for racist slurs aren't let of the hook for saying "well, i meant it as a joke. you just took it the wrong way." That's not how it works, and i hope he learns that before he walks into a situation like this in real life and ends up getting hurt.

Just remember, it's not WHAT you say, it's how you say it. You take a word or a phrase and transpose it into different situations and it has different meanings. If you said what he said at the million-man march, it'd be racist and you'd likely get your arse kicked. If you said it in a standup routine it could be satirical and you'd get a laugh. If you take the word "black" and put it before an insult, it becomes racist. If you put it before the word "coffee", it's just a description.

Understand yet?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^Throbbin:
I think Westy was being ironic.
You spelled moronic wrong.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRAT CHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"...he'll be here all week, folks"