there's our catastrophe

Mar 23

“There is that narrative of kids using humour to make friends. I think I did some of that but looking back I could never use humour to diffuse racism. That was something that really stuck with me throughout school. Racism was something I couldn’t deflect, it was a much deeper kind of hostility. The only way I could see kids trying to deflect racism was by laughing along with the racists. …People think that my comedy is about convincing people not to be racist. It’s not about that at all. They think the show is about fighting racism. I don’t think you can fight racism with comedy. Actually I think that if racists came to my show they would actually leave more racist and angry. The reality is people listen to what they want to hear. People don’t listen to music to be offended by the lyrics and comedy is the same thing. People watch artists that they agree with and I create comedy for people who think like me. I know that’s a small audience but I’m not really here to convince anyone that the way they are thinking is wrong. That’s not my problem.”

Aamer Rahman at Mspiration by Saeed Saeed

Aamer Rahman’s comedy is explicitly political (and very funny) and even he has an approach of “changing the world one laugh at a time? omg lol nope I wish” (& pointing out how huge and unattainable and brutal the expectation is that kids will defuse racism via humour)

I really wish some of the self-important comedy bros who go around saying shit like “you can’t censor me, it’s my job to push the boundaries of the ugly underbelly of society” had even half this level of humility

he has a tumblr

Mar 14

Nazeem Hussain of Fear of a Brown Planet is getting his own tv show!! it's gonna be called Legally Brown and it will screen on SBS later in 2013

Nov 8

[picture redacted because it’s awful, click through to see]

januarydaze:

trigger warning: rape, sexual violence, misogyny++

Hey Melbourians, here’s the poster for an event that was going to be held at Richmond’s Station 59 next Wednesday night: “There’s nothing funny about rape - a comedy debate”. 8 male ‘comedians’ battle it out between themselves to determine if rape is, after all, funny, as adjudicated by another man.

I almost threw up when I saw the (vile) poster.

Read about it on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Station-59/6429215677?fref=ts

Looks like the event has just been cancelled - although word is that the event is just looking for a new venue. On the facebook event the manager of Station 59 claims it was done “without his knowledge”, although he knew that the night was booked out and all 9 comedians were coming.

Keep your eyes out.

Station 59 is: 59 Church st, Richmond, Melbourne. 94278797

this shit is why I can’t with comedy. here’s a report in the melbourne times online.

May 5

“I was running a little bit late, so I had my look-alike do the beginning of the interview,” Ansari said.

“I hope he didn’t say anything racist while I was gone.”

Feb 16

missjaneinthesun:

1995 Gay Olympics. Watch the women compete in getting out of the closet, booking a double room in a hotel and other feats of queer endurance!

“Big Girls Blouse” skit with Magda Szubanksi, Gina Riley & Jane Turner.

is it bad that I actually really relate to the “women philosophers taking offencing”

(via squaresome-deactivated20120630)

Jan 22

“This is just a small thing, but I hate brunch. I don’t believe that brunch is a thing that anyone actually enjoys on any level. I don’t think the food is food that people like. I don’t think that people want to see people socially on Sunday morning or afternoon. I don’t think any of it is worth waiting in line for. I’m on an anti-brunch campaign because I think it’s a form of mass hysteria that people want to go to brunch and think that it’s a good thing. And I was constantly trying to get anti-brunch jokes into the show, and no one cared, no one shared my point of view. And I’d get them into table reads, and there would be no laugh because everyone likes brunch because we’re being fed soma by the government, there’s this Brave New World madness. But I did manage, in the guise of Abby Grossman, the hipster comic [on “TGS Hates Women”], one of her clips, if you noticed, was her saying, “Has anyone ever had a good time at brunch?” That’s as close as I’ve gotten to fulfilling my anti-brunch jeremiad. But someday there will be a whole story about brunch and eventually America will wake up.”

robert carlock of 30 rock

he goes on about this for quite a bit.

Dec 23

“Liberal comics get laughs because their audience is made up of dope fiends, hopheads and stoners and they would laugh at a stoplight changing colors.” member of the commentariat at this terrible article

Dec 4

FEAR OF A BROWN PLANET

extendedmetaphor:

str-crssd:

watch stand up comedy duo geniuses Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain on abc iview now!

Only in Aus I think…

Also, has captions!

lioneater:

Drug Free Bluth t-shirt

UPDATE: We have sold out of every size except large. You can contact us requesting a size and if there is enough demand, it will be considered a pre-order once they are printed.

so this is a thing

Oct 12

“welcome to colour television.”

clip from (hilarious, biting) sketch comedy “Basically Black”, australia’s first indigenous tv show, 1973

via gary foley.

note that this contains images of indigenous people who have died.

there's our catastrophe

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved. ⚑ ♀

Nazeem Hussain of Fear of a Brown Planet is getting his own tv show!! it's gonna be called Legally Brown and it will screen on SBS later in 2013

FEAR OF A BROWN PLANET

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved.

⚑ ♀