Would A White Comedian Have Got Away With Half Of What Chris Rock Got Away With At Last Night's Oscars?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3468716/Hollywood-racist-Chris-Rock-skewers-Oscar-s-audience-killer-cops-rip-roaring-monologue-saves-real-scorn-boycott-brigade.html

[Caribeing]

Watched the show and found Chris Rock unfunny he went on too long about the issue not the best host the Oscars have had.

[jomifl]

hypo, wrestling? latinos? sounds like ethnic stereotyping to me.. or perhaps it is just cultural...who knows and does it matter .

[Hypognosis]

@jom

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hypo, wrestling? latinos? sounds like ethnic stereotyping to me..
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A factoid I only picked up the other week, courtesy of Auntie Beeb.

[Hypognosis]

Ah. Emojis not supported.

That comment was meant to end in a Münch scream-face smiley, to denote "Shock, horror, probe!"

[Booldawg]

Chris Rock is nothing more than an unfunny rentagob in a host suit.

[viv41]

Should have got Ant & Dec to do it !

[sp1814]

AOG

one never hardly hears any other ethnic group complaining, by that I don't include a certain religious group.

Huh?

You complain about how unfairly treated white people are about three times a week.

Even this thread is based on your idea that white people are disadvantaged!!!

[jomifl]

sp, white people don't consider themselves an ethnic group...

[sp1814]

jomifi

But some white people play the race card at every given opportunity.

Blimey...that was a bit unfair.

Next I'll be saying that some have a chip on their shoulders.

Only kidding AOG.

[jomifl]

/But some white people play the race card at every given opportunity./

most can't be bothered

[Svejk]

I quite like him.

[sp1814]

jomifi

Indeed. And thank goodness for that!

[jomifl]

sp, :-)

[Hypognosis]

@Svejk

That video is the funniest thing I've seen in yonks. Things that you can't help thinking but feel awkward about saying out loud.

No date stamp but I'm guessing this was released before the recent slew of traffic stops which mutated into shootings. So now I feel bad again, for finding it funny.

[Svejk]

I saw him doing stand-up at that theatre where all the audience are black? He was holding a mirror up to the black community, saying things a white person wouldn't and probably shouldn't.
They seemed to love it, though.