Tag: comedy

  • A quick lesson in honor

    Watching America lost its way as billionaire and corporations buyout your local politicians, I think about how far we’ve fallen as a country. Not that we’re great to begin with morally but there was a sense that, given a fair shot you could make something of yourself. That there was a mist of honor that hovered over the grass in the morning. But it feels like words like honor and righteous have long fallen from the American vocabulary. 

    A few weeks ago I came across an old Joe Rogan clip from when he sat down with comedian Ali Siddiq, where Ali explains how a fight between two pimp taught him a value lesson in honor that’s stay with his life. 

    Honor use to be something I would hear in old kung fu or samurai movies but never truly understood what these righteous characters were talking about. I got the sense that the villains didn’t have respect or over stepped their power to bully people. That because they were able to bully the weak they would for nothing more than selfish reasons. 

    Today like the old kung fu movies we have the exact same plot on the political stage and everyone’s waiting for the golden boy to come and save us. 

    I’m not I’m going to wait around for someone to save me, I rather become what I want to see. I righteous man with honor and self respect for me and others.

  • Chapelle on SNL

    I don’t know why comedians have become the truth sayer of our time. Or maybe they always have been. I mean, even kings in the medieval times had jesters, in arms reach. As far as I can remember Dave Chappelle has been speaking the truth about this country and the times were in, past and present.

    I first came across him during his now iconic run of The Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. Until then I had only seen movie comedians like Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey. Comedians just trying to make you laugh for the sake of entertainment. Guys like Ryan Reynolds, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in the Rush Hour movies. It wasn’t until  the Chappelle Show that I understood what comedy could be.

    Comedy is more than just a genre of hahas and giggles. It can be used as a vehicle to say something important in an intelligent way. What I would later understand about Chappelle, and other Comedians with a message or just something to say, was that if you understood the joke, you probably understood the message. In laughing you understand the sentiment or at minimum see the argument from the comedian’s perspective. And today with everyone choosing a side politically, comedy is one of the few things that brings the country together

    Comedians like George Carlin, Paul Mooney, Dick Gregory excelled in this. Today we all look towards Dave Chappelle to be the lighthouse as we’re lost at sea trying to find our way. Every time he speaks into a camera there’s always a topic of conversation that he wants to address. This weekend he went to SNL and had a few things to say about what’s happened in the last few months in these United States

    If you like Dave Chappelle, google George Carlin. He has a few things to say