{"id":124,"date":"2008-07-24T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-07-24T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:05:28","slug":"on-standup-comics-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/07\/24\/on-standup-comics-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"On Standup Comics and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.- Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let us talk about Race, <a href=\"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/21\/on-race-relations-and-the-url\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just like we did before.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How acceptable is it to tell a stereotype joke if you are from that stereotype? and dO you have to tell a stereotype joke? We ask this because there are many comics out there in the world today and i like a great many of them.\u00a0 Comics tend to pull from real life of course.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nTake for instance the great black comics:\u00a0 Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, all tell jokes from their experience and about being black. Yet, when i watch a comedy show and a black *relatively no name* comic comes on, i honestly don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to come out of his mouth, same with a white comic.\u00a0 All [American] white people (if we may use that certainly gouache phrase), do not tell &#8220;trailer Trash jokes.\u201d However&#8230;, when an Asian comic comes out, we can pretty much guess it&#8217;s about speaking bad and weird sayings with bad language translation.<\/p>\n<p>The question is why is this so?\u00a0 Arguable, does one have to tell a ethnic stereotype joke to be famous if you are not white? Gallagher speaks about political absurdity, and Sienfield speaks about life\u2019s absurdity, yet famous &#8220;other&#8221; comics are usually famous for being Jewish, or their ethnicity or even, their accent.<\/p>\n<p>We leave you there, pondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.- Abraham Lincoln Let us talk about Race, Just like we did before. How acceptable is it to tell a stereotype joke if you are from that stereotype? and dO you have to tell a stereotype joke? We ask this because there are many comics out there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[371,52],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truthiness","tag-comics","tag-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}