Our culture is diseased now but damn the post-9/11 zeitgeist was cursed as hell

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Horribly unfunny puppet skit (CW racism and really lame humor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvfiCdk-jc

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • booty [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      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