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Jeff Dunham’s Most Racist Puppet Tapped to Host White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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Jeff Dunham is one of the most disappointing stand ups. He clearly can craft a set and a joke really well but he chooses to go for hack racist premises instead of doing real work.
His act never really changes. I saw him in the ‘90s with Achmed and the Jalapeño. Saw him in the ‘00s and it was pretty much the same act. Saw a video of him recently and it was the exact same schtick. Racist, stereotypes, and “get off my lawn”. Some might try to whitewash it as satire, but sure AF his audience isn’t there for satire.
Comedians doing wholly new sets every time is a thing fir the generation that follows Dunham so that's not a shocker.
I just wish he used his talent to make different jokes.
My favorite joke I've seen Jeff Dunham deliver on stage is from some random old stand-up gig he did. His abstract purple puppet "Peanut" always wears one shoe. He says "Peanut, it looks like you lost a shoe." Peanut says "Nah man, I found one."
That is all true but this is satire.
It's satire lampshading real racism.
When people use "satire" as a shield to tell hateful jokes or mock vulnerable populations, this is often referred to as "punching down." It's also sometimes called "pseudo-satire" or "false satire" because it lacks the critical intelligence and moral purpose that defines true satirical work.
It's not comedy. It's a clap trap for racists.
It is comedy. It's just racist comedy and American culture largely abandoned that in the 2000s.
What's it matters if it's comedy?
Your last sentence was saying it wasn't comedy. Im saying it is bad and hacky but comedic nonetheless.
It's a saying. If you can't understand that I'd reccomend not commenting.
No that's not a saying and you are in no place to dictate who should comment and when.
It is. It's readily available on the internet so it's a very dumb lie to go with.
And I can have opinions on who should comment.
Crawl back out of your ass.
The article is satire not Jeff Dunham. Hopefully they made onion rings before you ate the onion.
And then someone made a comment and we went into a discussion. That's where you showed up with your comment.
So let's run both your social skills together and determine what your best course of action here is
A. Join in the conversation B. Leave the nice people alone C. Drop all context or etiquette and try and be a contrarian online for some sweet, sweet Lemmy updoots
You're the type of person that ruins the internet. Log out.
To be clear you mean The Onion article is satire. You aren't making a quip off of their comment.
I mean hard times dot net is a satire site like the onion.