However this is not the extent of the gag, as the context is crowder's "cultural appropriation month" this is his satirizing of the concept of cultural appropriation. He is doing so with the understanding that these caricatures would be considered offensive by the overly sensitiv
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
So in that context he is making some sort of critique, albeit a limited one, but it is of the viewer. Lastly, these are very short intro gags, they are not heavily involved they are really just him dressing in costume.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
For a better understanding you can watch another of his performances here, this time of the britishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7xoavMvdE&list=PL3e1orPYt_4YwSmw1vhXbxfm4fHZdlCkP&index=153 …
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
My contention is not that this is extremely high brow, only that there is a gag and it might make you chuckle if you are not primed politically to disagree with it.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
I’m going to guess that he was either on the “cultural appropriation isn’t a real thing” track or the “ cultural appropriation is real but I don’t give a fuck about it” path.
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @BorrowUsernames and
Yes, crowder is a right wing comedian and commentator (?) I do not watch his show, however it is safe to assume he does not accept the notion of cultural appropriation as it is formulated by progressives.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
Right. And that’s key because shock humor absolutely can be funny but it needs at least one of two things: an unexpected twist, or an unexpected source.
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @StaringMary and
Or absurd humor hinging on offensiveness, if you don’t want the word “shock” here.
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @BorrowUsernames and
This is the problem. You find it offensive. His audience does not. So the gag cannot be based upon causing offense.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
At the risk of backtracking here, a “joke” can definitely find its ground in being offensive even if the audience aren’t the ones who are offended...so long as the audience are the type that can take pleasure in the anticipation of others being offended.
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that may indeed be part of the humour, his cavalier attitude towards what others may think of this performance. That is evident when you take into view the whole of the corpus, as I have done in this in depth analysis.
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