We're watching a video that was filmed for a commercial, uploaded to the internet and went viral, then put on television as a viral internet video, and then put back on the internet. Isn't our current culture wonderful?
"All I'm saying is, it ain't right to laugh at others and call 'em names just cuz they're different than you. Those bastards got what they had coming." -- _Rudolph_
"Speaking of things that are weird and terrifying..." I'm SO used to him covering Trump stories, I honestly thought he was going to follow that phrase up with a "Donald Trump".
That "access to clean drinking water" joke was in poor taste. Because it implies that they have no right to internet access when they can't even have clean water. Painting the internet as a luxury, when it is actually one of the fundamental rights of any human being according to the UN. Also it's very ignorant of the fact that most of Africa is not actually living in abject poverty as opposed to what the Americans seem to believe, and is actually filled with urban, thriving and modern communities. This casual disregard for facts and the inability (or worse; the unwilingness) to do proper research happens way too often in this show. I'm increasingly dissapointed with the fact that Stephen is willing to sacrifice integrity for a few seconds of cheap laughs. He's a smart man, he must know some of the things he jokes about are just not true.
+MartianBattleplan I'm with you with most of what you said, but he was talking about Sub-Saharan Africa not Desert. There's no water in the desert, as you've said but a lot of places are close to water. And like you said, Stephen Colbert was only joking and I thought it was hilarious too...
***** There is no such thing as the "sub-Saharan Desert" as you say. There is the Sahara which is a desert and there is sub-Saharan Africa, which is literally all of Africa that is below the Sahara. There are nearly 50 countries, with a population close to a billion people in there. And yours is the exacty kind of casual disregard for facts and the inability to research before saying things on record that I mean. Are you a writer for the show?
Marta Martinez To a degree--but if they made duplicates of everything, then it would take twice as much to make it, which is just too much money to spend on a "just in case".
Because when you ask the people in sub-saharan africa what they want the most, it's not clean drinking water, or sustainable food, or medicine; it's twitter and Buzzfeed.
Well... not all of Sub-Saharan Africa is starving children and people too poor to have a need for the internet. The internet helps people communicate, work, and learn, and yes, it is useful to people in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of my friends in Ghana uses the internet to help her communicate with the rest of the world as part of her studies. (Yes, they have University.) And, yes, she is a black African, not a European expat or anything.
You know, sometimes I feel sorry for Elon Musk. His rockets seem to explode more times than they work. Then I remember how much money he has and I don't feel so bad anymore.
It's common knowledge that many failures are required before you can expect success. We just tend not to realize that this applies to multi-million dollar projects as well.
+Mobius One she is polling at 8 to 9 percent you should look at university polls not corrupt polls like CNN. I will never vote for a racist and nor for a a corrupt bitch. So my vote hurts Hillary and trump and that is what i want #Feelthebern always #Bernieorjill
Mureithi Kivuti well that was the joke, we know it's not that bad most places... it's a continent, you'll have you're metropoli along with the indigenous tribes and what-not... there are a few places that are horrible though and that's all alot of people hear about
The Africa joke and the lesbian joke were in poor taste. I was surprised to hear them from colbert, I didn't expect him to do such jokes. A lot of public personalities have started trying to appear sensitive to race and gender since Trump got elected and the me too movement took place. The operative word is "appear", not all of them are as progressive as they now project themselves to be on their TV shows; one only needs to watch their pre - trump work to know this. Colbert must know there's no way those jokes will fly today, in 2018, post-trump, so the only reason he won't make those jokes now and didn't mind making them then, is public opinion and not ethics.
Let's hope those Lapps survive the winter who lost their reindeer ! You can make jokes about it but it is just as devastating as a locust storm in Oklahoma or the orange groves being swept away in Florida. People's livelihoods are wiped away in an instant and those Lapps rely on the deer for everything, food, clothing, housing etc. Indigenous populations need to survive !
1. Dehydration, not starvation.2. The joke is not on people who have no clean drinking water. It's on the absuritity of the situation that they might receive internet before a basic human need such as drinking water. Learn what jokes are and stopping taking offense at nothing.
Literally every sound Batiste makes, makes me cringe. Every time he unnecessarily repeats Stephen, every time he cackles, every time he plays like 4 piano keys after Stephen says something funny. Idk who's allowing him to keep his mic
I believe you missed the intent of the joke. I think he was making fun of Americans for prioritizing internet access over clean drinking water. Also, in that joke they're dying of dehydration and waterborne disease, not starvation.
But are they? Sub-Saharan Africa is a large place. Do they all not have clean drinking water and internet access? And if that joke is causal for a lack of clean water OR food, we've got to attack that joke RIGHT AWAY.
Spencer Grant well that certainly part of it, but you're describing the 'aftertaste' of the joke. on the front end, the joke is established on the premise of starving Africans.
I'm glad they've figured out ways to get Jon Baptiste in there contributing. Much better than just having him sit there and laugh really hard at all Stephen's jokes. Funnier, and less awkward too.
sweet'n'sour reindeer (caribou) isn't all that great... the meat is too lean; too chewy... maybe use a 50/50 mix of caribou and pancetta cubes... i think i might be on to something here... either that, or i'm just really stoned, hungry, and sleep deprived.
"Sir, the line is 'Baked in a buttery flaky crust.' [...] Who the fuck wants a cripsy crust? Sir, the line is 'Baked in a buttery FLAKY crust.' [...] Sir, you fucked it up again. We're giving the line to the woman. Ma'am, the line is 'Baked in buttery FLAKY crust.' [...] I QUIT, I QUIT. I FUCKING QUIT. WHERE'S MY BLACK BABY? *smashes baby against the wall* That's a wrap!"
Gemma Pettersen never said they should be happy. are you happy that animals suffer and die for you to eat?... i don't think so. you can be neutral about things like how you are about eating meat. not everything is in extremes. but this has nothing to do with what i was getting at....
FunWithGuru why would i think they meant that dying animals were cute? im glad to tell you i am not completely retarded. at least i don't think i am. most ppl aren't so you should probably pause before you assume someone is. just a tip
