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Posts Tagged ‘Humor’
This parody is kinda deep … and it also makes me want to go and watch Star Wars this weekend. The best part, undoubtedly, is when Barack gets on Hillary about sounding like ‘Annie Oakley’. I must have missed the part where he actually did laugh, out loud during a speech, at her futile attempts of spinning her ‘back country’ image to the public.
…he was worse when he had hair on air.This video has no direct relationship to helping ybp’s in anyway, but I did want to make a point: Sound bites and digging up old clips goes both ways, and karma has a cruel sense of humor.
Warning, the audio is NSFW (not safe for work), but the video is damn funny.
updated: I embedded the youtube. If it craps out, try Gawker here.
Banned Boondocks Episode 2
(video below)
[hat tip to Intelligent Ignorance, previous episode here]
Shouts to Intelligent Ignorance.
Interestingly enough, the question of ‘artistic merit’ is stretched pretty far by McGruder in this episode. While Brandon over at Intelligent Ignorance posed the question of ‘is this more hurtful, than helpful’, I’m reminded of the lessons in history class about the merits of artists that challenged their time, ultimately inventing their own style. At given points in history, Van Gogh and Degas challenged the status quo through their expressions and were often relegated as ‘hacks’ or ‘inciting chaos’. While our times have definitely evolved and McGruder may never be in the same conversation as those artistic legends (except in this post), the principle, to me, is the same.
Art, whether comedy, cartoon, film, theatre, or music, has always had the special distinction of exciting our senses. It makes us laugh and cry, it stimulates our inner critic, and it causes a reaction. Of most importance, it fosters discussion. Art is in imitation of life, and whether your life reflects that piece of art is entirely subjective. The Boondocks is so powerful and polarizing because it does all of those things in a nice-and-neat, shell-shaded package.
Updated: Episode 2 is here.
[video below]
