Burning in paradise

Tag: humor

  • Love

    I grew up thinking that 

    Love would be enough. Because

    I didn’t have love and I thought that’s all I needed. at home. 

    love like in the movies, father and son playing catch

    Or the geek getting the cheerleader

    the best friend that would help hide the bodies

    But I didn’t know how the world worked. 

    I didn’t know about the crooked cops

    The soulless politicians, the pimp and preacher, the whore with the beautiful smile, the NRA, the panthers, Joe Pesci, bourdain. 

    I thought it was all black and white

    And in some ways it still is. But love

    Can only get you so far. 

    You need pain and frustration, for a better fuck

    Tears to truly enjoy joy

    Humor for survival, to laugh throw the tears

    Love… love is the sci-fantasy with shitty ending and bad accountant that blew the budget

    Love is bad shroom trip in a public place

    Love is taking a shit and realizing you don’t have toilet paper 

  • 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