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Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:38 am

Chris Rock has a nice take on "when is it okay for a white man to say nigger" and .. it's Transformer related

Chris Rock wrote:But the question remains the same: Can white people say "nigger"? And the answer's the same: not really. But wait a minute, there's one exception. There's one exception. There's one instance where white people can say nigger. And I'ma let it out tonight. I'ma let it out here in Johannesburg. The one time that white people can say nigger. White people are like "this is what I paid for! It's a ****' great night now!" The one time white people can say nigger: here it goes; listen closely. 'Cause I may never say this **** again. The one time white people can sat nigger, OK: if it's Christmas Eve, and it's between 4:30 and 4:49 in the morning. If you white, and you're on your way to Toys 'R' Us to get your kid the last Transformer doll, and right before you walk into Toys 'R' Us, some black person runs up beside you, smacks you in the head with a brick, knocks you to the ground, stomps on your face--"take that, you cracker-ass ****!" Riverdances on your head--"take that, you cracker-ass ****!" Takes your money, pisses on you, and runs away--if you white, at that moment, you can say "Somebody stop that nigger!" Matter of fact, if you white and that happens to you, you can say nigger for a whole month! But you gotta walk around with the police report in your pocket. In case any black people catch you sayin' nigger, the police report will act as your freedom papers. "Hey, I heard you saying nigger; let me see your ****' papers. Gimme the papers; show me the papers!" [pretends to read a sheet] "Christmas Eve! 4:48! You just made it, ****! Pissed on you! ...I hope they catch that nigger!"

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:44 am

Chris Rock is boring!

Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:50 am

original sin wrote:Chris Rock is boring!

In his defence, so are all American stand-up comedians (very, very few exceptions).

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:03 am

Daniel Tosh, Christopher Titus, Kevin James, Gabrial Inglesius, Kyle Cease, Jeff Dunham, Katt Williams, Drew Carey(at least he used to be amazing) are all hilarious and very much American.

News Credits: 42 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:10 am

original sin wrote:Daniel Tosh, Christopher Titus, Kevin James, Gabrial Inglesius, Kyle Cease, Jeff Dunham, Katt Williams, Drew Carey(at least he used to be amazing) are all hilarious and very much American.

Meh x 8.

Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:11 am

if Jeff Dunham great? he's funny, but about as slow as the Prius he likes to talk about.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:13 am

George Carlin and richard pryor.Amazing american comics

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:15 am

Ah, British teevee. Don't get me wrong, I hate Britain more than Andrew WK hates not partying, but those lads know how to make a good teevee show (with our help of course). The list of British teevee I approve of goes as follows:

Black Books
Spaced
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars
Dead Set
Little Britain
The Chase
Waterloo Road
Father Ted (I'm loathe to call it British though)
Jam
Brass Eye
Phoenix Nights
Have I Got News For You?
Room 101

And Sharpie, go listen to some Richard Pryor, Doug Stanhope and Bill Hicks before calling them boring.

Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:25 am

Jeep? wrote:And Sharpie, go listen to some Richard Pryor, Doug Stanhope and Bill Hicks before calling them boring.

I said there were exceptions (George Carlin is one of them)

Richard Pryor is not. Not that he sucks but it's not my cup of tea.

Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:15 pm

Trigger Happy Tv was awesome, as is Monty Python.

News Credits: 42 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:19 pm

Jeep? wrote:Ah, British teevee. Don't get me wrong, I hate Britain more than Andrew WK hates not partying, but those lads know how to make a good teevee show (with our help of course). The list of British teevee I approve of goes as follows:

Black Books
Spaced
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars
Dead Set
Little Britain
The Chase
Waterloo Road
Father Ted (I'm loathe to call it British though)
Jam
Brass Eye
Phoenix Nights
Have I Got News For You?
Room 101

And Sharpie, go listen to some Richard Pryor, Doug Stanhope and Bill Hicks before calling them boring.

also,
TOP GEAR!
The Tudors
Brainiac
Dangermouse
The Crystal Maze
Never mind the Buzzcocks
The IT crowd
Fawlty Towers
Yes, Minisher/Prime Mininster
Shooting Stars
Garth Merenghi's Darkplace
Screenwipe
The Day Today
Thomas the Tank Engine
Topless darts
Thunderbirds
Terrorhawks
The Muppet Show

and Little Britain was never good.

News Credits: 226 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:32 pm

No mention of Banana Man from either of you? Shame. That was a good show too.

And as someone with a 3 year old nephew who has been subjected to a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine I can safely say the early years with that Beatle bloke narrating absoloutely SUCKED!

Pompous, arrogant, straight up rude. His replacement is/was such a nice/r bloke.

Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:42 pm

and superted, lotsa love....

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:56 pm

Burn wrote:- Primeval - I know Red loved this show, but i'm of mixed feelings about it. It had potential, but somewhere along the line it went iffy.

Red - You're not watching that "Demons" show are you? I bagged the first ep over the weekend because the concept of "the last of the Van Helsing line" seemed interesting, plus it stars Phillip Gleistener (or however you spell it, let's just call him Gene Hunt) and it has potential.

I loved the first season of Primeval, but was somewhat disapointed with the second season, and the second season had the same illness that most RTD DW eps have, great build up, terrible nonesencile rushed ending.

I havnt had a chance to catch Demons, Im sure I'll DL it at somepoint (ITV's catchup serivce only works on Intershite Explorer).

original sin wrote:A lot of valid stuff about accepted media rascismn.

I have to say I agree, the MOBOs always bugged me for that reason (Music Of Black Origine awards), Imagien the upraw if there was ever a MOWOs...

However, I Have to say British TV has kinda managed to create a 'Blokes TV' station. Dave.
It's all very blokish shows, but by advertising it as for those who like Banter instead of those who are Blokes, it avoids any scorn.

Jeep? wrote:Black Books
Spaced
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars
Father Ted (I'm loathe to call it British though)
Have I Got News For You?
Brass Eye

Psychout wrote:TOP GEAR!
Brainiac
Dangermouse
The Crystal Maze
Yes, Minisher/Prime Mininster
Shooting Stars
Garth Merenghi's Darkplace
Thunderbirds
The Muppet Show

Burn wrote:Banana Man

Great Shows!

Jeep? wrote:Dead Set
The Chase
Waterloo Road
Jam

Psychout wrote:Screenwipe
The Day Today
Topless darts
Terrorhawks

Never seen

Jeep? wrote:Room 101

I far prefered the first season with Nick whatshisface. Paul Merton is ok, but he wasnt as good at it as the other guy, and the show's format wasnt isnt as good.

Jeep? wrote:Little Britain

It was ok at first. Has gotten a little stale.

Jeep? wrote:Phoenix Nights

Psychout wrote:Never mind the Buzzcocks
The IT crowd
Fawlty Towers

Urrgh. Horrible shows.

Psychout wrote:Thomas the Tank Engine

I liked it as a kid, wouldnt say I much care for it now. I prefered the old books (the origanal ones, not the ones with the photos from the tv show), I had loads of my dad's old ones, and mum used to buy another one in the series everytime we went to a steam railway.

Burn wrote:And as someone with a 3 year old nephew who has been subjected to a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine I can safely say the early years with that Beatle bloke narrating absoloutely SUCKED!

Pompous, arrogant, straight up rude. His replacement is/was such a nice/r bloke.

Yes, but as someone who's got an interest in railways and therefore knows a thing or two about how they work, whilst the Ringo Starr ones were based on the origanal books, and had such had some relivence to how railways actully worked, the later ones were all completly new stories, writern by pencil pushers in Brit Alcroft towers, and as such were absolutly retarded.

Also, Thomas and the Magic Railroad?!? WTF?!?

News Credits: 226 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:12 pm

Fearless Echoes wrote:Yes, but as someone who's got an interest in railways and therefore knows a thing or two about how they work, whilst the Ringo Starr ones were based on the origanal books, and had such had some relivence to how railways actully worked, the later ones were all completly new stories, writern by pencil pushers in Brit Alcroft towers, and as such were absolutly retarded.

Also, Thomas and the Magic Railroad?!? WTF?!?

Yeah, I noticed that with the later series the cast expanded and it moved away from the railroad stuff.

Still, the kid's love them, and with his Grandfather president of the local Mini-Railway club my nephew will easily learn how things REALLY work.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:17 pm

Some of the new charecters are actully out of the books (most of the narrow guage ones for instent), but some of them... yeah, a mainline diesel loco with a crane (that may have been from the film, all I know is they added it to the ERTL toyline)?

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:24 pm

Was Jay Jay the Jetplane a spin off of Thomas the Tank Engine?

News Credits: 42 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:30 pm

Dont think so. Its had a helecopter called Harrold though.

Red, of your 'never seen' list, I recommend Screenwipe and Deadset, both written by Charlie Brocker.
Dead Set is awesome, Divina McCall makes hot Zombie and everyone in big brother dies horribly.

...oh spoilers!

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:35 pm

Oh I ment to watch Deadset, then forgot, lol.

Never heard of Jay Jay, but does anybody remember Jimbo and the Jetset?

JIIIIMMMBBBOOOOOO!!!!!! *crash*

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:39 pm

No Red Dwarf or Black Adder on that list? Or Are You Being Served? or even Dr Who? For shame.

News Credits: 7 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:03 pm

Black Adder and Mr. Bean are classic. (BUT NOT MR. BEAN ON HOLIDAY! That was rubbish.)

Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:06 pm

BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE COMING DOWN THE STAIRS!!!

News Credits: 42 · Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:25 pm

Absolute Zero wrote:No Red Dwarf

****! Cant believe forgot that, I was watching it last night. lol.

So, are we all agreed that British TV is, in fact, awesome and Nickolai is talking out of his arse?