This article: funny, stupid, or some rascist shit?

I don't know, maybe I'm overreacting.

(the above may or may not be sarcastic)

That'll teach me to post on Saturday nights where I stay in, drink, and get in a bad mood.

there was a guy on comicview a few nights ago that asked if there were any white people in the audience and said he was going to explain black comedy to them and he did a thing where he talked to a white woman in the balcony in an exaggerated goofy white person voice and used a bunch of corporate memo buzzwords in a strung-together, nonsense way. it wasn't very funny but he had already won the audience over with a funny routine about dmx and master p (he just substituted master p because the show was in new orleans, i think) trying to get into heaven.

The most shocking thing to me was that the person writing seemed to want pop music that stayed away from sex. Of course, what it actually meant was that the writer doesn't like hip-hop and finds someone bigging up themselves in a hip-hop way to be kinda funny becuase that's not how 'proper' people talk.

i'm sorry but those are clearly the greatest lyrics ever - if only 50 Cent talked like a 19th century English aristocrat

-- cloverlandthug (redandgree...), February 1st, 2004

That sounds hilarious. Who is that guy?

But what about the 50 Pence record, In Da Pub? Is that the same as this? On one level you could say it was, but the track does work for me, and part of that is the changing of the lyrics to reflect an english geezer. The translation type thing. I think it probably does suffer from the same pitfalls, but is merely done better.

Also, while *translating* lyrics from hip hop, is an extremely lame cliche, it is probably even more cliched to *translate* them too this weird stilted "ah, my good gentleman" poindextered churchillian landowning englishman thing. stephen fry even built a career out of it. so, if your'e going to do this 'translation' humour it has to not be the slang to upperclass thing, thats never been funny, and its even less funny the 2890572807580257th time