3. Yo mama is so naive, she thinks that because Barack Obama is president, we are living in post-racial America.

— Top 5 Skip Gates “Yo Mama” Jokes [via]

Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007.
That’s a good question. And by that I mean, fuck you.

— The Women Of McSweeneys.net [via]

Fuck… I mean, I get it. We’re an easy target. But I have to think telling jokes about Detroit is like telling a fart joke to a room of first graders. Sure, it’ll go over well with the audience but it should make you feel dirty for getting the cheap laugh and not working harder.

— Addam

White people have a long history of defining themselves in opposition to the supposed inherent qualities of other races. When white people defined non-white people as savages, or as hypersexual, unintelligent or enslaved, they also defined themselves as the superior opposite—as civilized, restrained, intelligent, and free. In the same way, many white interactions with non-white people continue to be narcissistic, because they use non-white people to reflect back in a self-defining way on themselves.
When white hipster humorists perform a racial identity that involves interaction with non-white people, it’s often all about the white person at the center. Using people of color so that you can pretend to be a racist in order to get laughs because you’re mocking racists is not a genuinely respectful and anti-racist form of racial interaction. Instead, it’s a way of acting in an ultimately racist manner, by using overt racism to suggest covertly, but falsely, that you yourself would never do anything racist. And since it’s all really about you, and you’re just using people of color for your own self-defining purposes, it amounts to little more than white self-centeredness all over again.

— act like a racist in order to demonstrate that you’re not a racist [via]

But at some level, what is the difference between someone using racial humor in a straightforward way to presumably entertain their audience and people like Sedaris using racial humor in an ironic way to entertain their audience? She is, after all, using this type of humor to add to her kooky, “I say things in bad taste! I’m crazy!” schtick, upon which her career is built. But her chosen career is to say things that are transgressive and potentially offensive. But on the other hand, what’s so transgressive about making (ironic) racist jokes? Is it problematic for a comedian to use offensive stereotypes of groups they themselves aren’t part of as a casual, on-going part of their public persona, in which case they aren’t so much commenting on the stereotypes as using them to make money?

— Amy Sedaris and Hipster Racism

I want to open up a maternity shop and call it: “We’re Fucked.

— Zach Galifinianakis, Twitter. (via myabortion)

Well, at least it has a cover sheet.”
“Yeah. The plastic’s a nice touch.

— FROGS - Animal Tales

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2. Errors in Check Bouncing
3. Foods That Taste Good When You’re Hungover
4. Guys You Meet in Dive Bars
5. The Crushed Pipe Dreams of Recent College Graduates
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7. The Perils of Having No Health Insurance
8. Drunk Jenga

— Categories I’d Be Sure to Win In on the Show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?