Our culture is diseased now but damn the post-9/11 zeitgeist was cursed as hell
I regret to inform you that Jeff Dunham is still touring
married to someone he was 'just friends' with until the day she turned 18
"50-Year-Old Dane Cook Defends 27-Year Age Gap With Fiancé"
https://www.yahoo.com/now/50-old-dane-cook-defends-150844117.html
He's aged so radically that he gets mistaken for Harvey Weinstein in public.
You weren’t wrong lol… dude has aged 25-30 years since like 2008 lol.
looking good, you can hardly notice the knot of skin tied at the back of his head
Because the Saudi's find his Achmed the dead terrorist schtick to be hilarious because, and this a reaaaasllllly important thing to realize, they don't believe it describes them, the successful bourgeoisie.
Surely the Saudis are succesful aristocracy wearing a top hat and a monocle and hoping they've fooled everyone.
My roommate watches that guy's specials regularly on Netflix so I don't have to remember him I'm reminded like once a week. ETA: Also I met a girl on a discord server once from Norway who said she liked Jeff Dunham and I mentioned the Ahmed character being racist and she literally said "DONT EVEN GO THERE" like it was the most offensive thing I could have possibly said.
I have always fucking loathed Dunham. He's a ventriloquist pretending to be a comedian. My dad's ex once claimed that I didn't like him because he didn't swear, no I don't like him because he's not fucking funny.
Or the jalapeno on a stick that is literally just a racist accent joke
My parents thought that was the funniest shit in the world. I did too, but I was 10 years old. They were in their 30s.
Most of my parents' sense of humor was just racist accents from my memory
The ones I can remember hearing the most were:
On a stiiiiiick
- Jeff Dunham
Dong, where is my automobile?
- 16 Candles
Stop looking at me swaaaan
- Billy Madison
My parents were truly connoisseurs of comedy :cringe:
I had not heard of this one.
Luckily the Jeff Dunham wiki apparently is a thing that exists for me to read about Jose.
Horribly unfunny puppet skit (CW racism and really lame humor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvfiCdk-jc
Eh it's a bit skeevy but not the single most islamophobic thing you've ever seen, it was actually pretty tame all things considered.
yeah the joke is mostly "haha he does a funny voice" and "lol hes made of bones and freaked out about it"
i guess the point is the character actually being a muslim terrorist is barely part of the joke. he just needed a persona that screams "this is a Bad Guy" and that's what came to mind for americans back then. if he was making the same character in 2023 it would be Andrei the Dead Russian
Even setting the racism aside he always did that thing a lot of hack comedians did at the time where they raise their pitch a lot where the jokes are lol like it feels like it’s a vocal “please laugh” sign and it’s like nails on a chalkboard for me lol
Vivid memories of doing day labor years ago for the local traveling carnival, setting up for a rural county fair, and one guy in particular would not shut the fuck up about nascar and Jeff Dunham. Felt so on the nose I thought I was having a bad dream.
There was a time I thought it was hilarious (like 10 years ago when I was a lib) but then I grew up and looking back now, it's pretty cringe and :gulag:
That dude is still going at it and has only gotten more racist over time
I remember his “zayn hussein did 9/11” song. Racist and stupid as shit, but I have to admit that I will almost always laugh at a “____ did 9/11” joke no matter how stupid. Fucking big bird did 9/11? Funny to me.
No idea what that is but I did think MC Chris' character "tai mai shu" was really funny because I was 12 and that's the kind of music I was finding on limewire
Now that someone else has acknowledged the existence of rucka rucka ali I feel like something dark and ominous has been purged from my soul
saying the no-no words=funny.
If you're not being transgressive, you're doing comedy wrong.
We all laughed our asses off at George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV" bit. Imagine if he'd stuck to G-rated material.
