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So I've taken a long break from FCP, due to things of a rather personal nature. I come back, and I find out rather cryptically that Smasharoo is a fraud ( I'd love to see a link to the thread where this is discussed/proven. Has marion weighed in on this?) Better still, I come back to a new video blog, and wow, was it funny ( in a very unintentional kind of way. Unintentional, ironic humor is my favorite kind). I know, there have proably been 1 jillion posts about this horrific attempt at humor, and I'm starting a brand new thread about it, but I don't care. I'm a nassisist, and haven't posted in months, so you're taking this thread and liking it. Several months ago, when DN posted his clip of his "comedy" routine from the party poker cruise, I made a comment to the effect of " wow, i thought unfunny, borderline racist impressionistic comedy went out with Rich Little." Well, DN has Smashed through the bordorline, and right into classic racist imagry (though po-mo'd up a bit with the jamacian twist). I'm not sure if these racial impressions DN does all the time, on blogs and on TV, are racist or not, but what they are not is funny. They make me cringe. They make me howl with the type of laughter that I can only muster when I see something horrifically embaressing. Each time I see DN say something, be it gangester, various asian players, or now a jamacian, I literally can't believe what a fool he's made of himself. Now, I don't know DN. I only know him from TV and what he posts in blogs and in posts. He seems like a nice guy, and I have no doubt he has no racial hatred. But if you want to be a multi-media star, you just CAN"T keep dropping these offensive "jokes" and impressions. You can rail against the "PC" country all you want, but eventually this type of thing will cost you endoursements. I persoanlly don't think they make you come accross as a racist, but I'm a white male so i'm a poor one to ask. What I do think they make you come across is a grade-A doosh (something I'm better qualified to judge on). Please, don't do any more impressions until you can make one that makes me laugh unironically.

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Please don't make any more posts until you Know Your Fuckin Role!!!

Black face is never funny. I didn't watch the whole thing because I found it offensive. Maybe Daniel (who is one of my favorite poker players) doesn't understand the history of black face and how de

So I've taken a long break from FCP... Please, don't do any more impressions until you can make one that makes me laugh unironically.
Please, don't start any more threads until you can make one that makes sense.
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7.5 don't see where its wrong to say this by larry the cable guy. " It's like watching a starving Ethiopian with no arms and no legs watching a donut rolling down a hill." might be wrong but it was funny.another favorite LCG skit is the Gramma with the running trots, if you heard you know what I mean because that is my grandma to a fricken Teeeee

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The skit was funny, it was not racist, and it is very clear that people waste way too much energy on being overly sensitive with PC.
No, it wasn'ti It was a painfully unfunny skit that re hashed a bunch of tired old jamacian sterotypes. Listen, I'm not saying that a white man can't immitate a jamaican, but FFS, make it funny. Jamican's smoke pot HILARIOUS. As soon as I saw this blog, I messaged and called 4 friends of mine ( all of which hate DN, and give me **** for liking him and contributing here) and we all laughed outragiously at what a huge Darsh DN is in the video. I don't know, maybe I don't have my pulse on the youth of today, maybe I am not hip to what kids think is funny, but that impression is cringetastic.
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I wasn't offended, I just found it a little pointless and unamusing. The whole thing was kind of awkwardly unfunny for me, seeing his mother sit at a table drinking beer rolling blunts with a white guy in black paint was really weird for me.

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I wasn't offended, I just found it a little pointless and unamusing. The whole thing was kind of awkwardly unfunny for me, seeing his mother sit at a table drinking beer rolling blunts with a white guy in black paint was really weird for me.
If by wierd you mean hilarious. Maybe i'm confusing people by saying I think it's hilarious right after I say it's painfully unfunny. Again, there is a difference between intentional humor and unintentional. the "jokes" we'ren't funny, but the audacity of DN dressing up in black face paint was. I find the level of offesivness of this video to be hilarious and DN's oblviousness to the obvious offensiveness (the rare "o" alliteration! 5 points for Gryphendor!) of it only makes it funnier to me. The fact that DN is painfully unfunny, but keeps doing jokes and impressions is hilarious to me. BUt not everyone shares my taste in ironical humor.
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If by wierd you mean hilarious. Maybe i'm confusing people by saying I think it's hilarious right after I say it's painfully unfunny. Again, there is a difference between intentional humor and unintentional. the "jokes" we'ren't funny, but the audacity of DN dressing up in black face paint was. I find the level of offesivness of this video to be hilarious and DN's oblviousness to the obvious offensiveness (the rare "o" alliteration! 5 points for Gryphendor!) of it only makes it funnier to me. The fact that DN is painfully unfunny, but keeps doing jokes and impressions is hilarious to me. BUt not everyone shares my taste in ironical humor.
5 points to Gryffindor? Interesting, but I do agree here. I didn't laugh at the jokes Daniel was making rather I felt like I was laughing at how stupid the situation was. The rascist jokes were played out and it just seemed really really awkward to watch.
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+1 for those who think it is funny. I thought the skit was hilarious and I have watched it more than five times. I showed all of my friends and they also thought it was hilarious. Seeing an old woman drinkin a beer and askin a jamaican to roll her another spliff is funny, not painful.Dave Chapelle plays the stereotypical white guy all the time and I have never heard anyone talk about his comedy as you all talk about daniels. Dave has been ten times more racist and it is still funny to the majority of his viewers, so whats the deal?

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+1 for those who think it is funny. I thought the skit was hilarious and I have watched it more than five times. I showed all of my friends and they also thought it was hilarious. Seeing an old woman drinkin a beer and askin a jamaican to roll her another spliff is funny, not painful.Dave Chapelle plays the stereotypical white guy all the time and I have never heard anyone talk about his comedy as you all talk about daniels. Dave has been ten times more racist and it is still funny to the majority of his viewers, so whats the deal?
Dave Chapelle is funny, Daniel just takes racial stereotyping way too far without being as funny. I don't see the comparison really.
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It was uncomfortable is the best way I can describe that video blog. I just think it's because Daniel doesn't really have a social barometer so he never really realized when he's going a little overboard with something.But at the end of the day, who doesn't want to be black? If for nothing else than the foot long penis.

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Eh, it wasn't my cup of tea, but I really don't feel DN was trying to insult anyone.There have been several threads on this. I'm not making a snitty "the search feature is your friend" statement, more so you will look at them. I guess several others felt as you do and there was also a large contigent of "loosen up and don't be so PC" DN defenders. So the forum, in general, had very mixed feelings on it.I absolutely understand your point. You're entitled to be offended. It just didn't strike me as being offensive. For me , it just started out as being a good impression, but went on waaaaay to long, so it became quite blah. Did you read his follow up blog entry too ?

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I thought the last blog he did, with the whole PC warning was weird.
Now that blog was actually funny to me, and pointed, and a decent defense to the criticism. The video blog wasn't funny, but I don't think it was offensive, either. DN has some talent for voices and impressions, that -- if he got some coaching and acting lessons -- could well get him a spot in a local improv troupe. He clearly has dramatic and comedic leanings, and no day-to-day outlet for them. He does, however, have access to a narrowcast medium and a decently-sized audience. So he dreams up a little skit and posts it, because it scratches an itch. Too bad he doesn't have a writer, editor, director and dramaturge to work with him too. Then this could become his little new-media corner of the web, where we all come to see what hilariously funny japes he's up to this week.Instead, we have a blog; raw and mostly unedited. Don't judge.
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He just tries too hard..both to show his political knowlege(or lack therof) and to be funny in general...this blog was not a documentary where he simply grabbed a haloween wig and "winged it" because the subject just "went there" while he was sitting with friends. .He took time to plan it, pick the costume, make-up and probably a basic format and then filmed it...its the kind of thing a teenager does with his first video camera...Again i get to the point where I have to say that Daniel dropping out of school had him miss out on many things we take for granted and the social interraction he missed more and more is just obvious in a lot of his commentary, arguments with others he makes public, and especially his views on race , and you can exclude this video blog and still come to the same conclusion...he has had many blogs in the past where he just doesnt get it or how to discuss race . Most of his blogs ,if I didnt know daniel wrote them already, I would have guessed had been written by a teenager that didn't get out much..........the biggest issue here, IMHO, is that he is now at a point in his popularity due to poker that he has a following that is so blinded into thinking that being great at poker makes u well rounded in all aspects of life, therefore to most of his fans, he can do no wrong, to the point that they would compliment the shape and size of his crap if he **** on the floor...

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I think the problem is, Daniel is not getting that, while you can tell sort of 'in jokes' and off-colour jokes amongst your friends, trying to get others outside your circle of friends to 'get the joke' and where it's coming from is a whole different matter.When you become a public figure, you tend to be held to a higher standard, and put up against more criticism (fairly or not).Compound that with the fact the majority of people reading his posts will not be the sort of laid back, multi-cultural friends he grew up with, and how everything must be PC.. things are just bound to be taken poorly.I don't think anyone thinks Daniel is really a racist or ignorant, but if the only evidence you have are those vlog/blog entries, then you're just bound to jump to conclusions.Just my $0.02

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