Jason Salmon | Gen X 

Why is GenX trending so much lately? Are we finally getting the recognition that we don't care about?

The only time gen x wanted t.v. was for wrestling and weekend cartoons. The other 99% of the time we were in the woods with sticks commencing medieval battles.

"Gen X is a generation nobody messes with for a reason. Their rock stars committed suicide, loved heroine, and dressed like lumberjacks. Their rappers murdered each other. Their parents raised them by just opening the front door Friday night and vaguely making sure they returned home for school by Monday. Unlike the millennials, nobody cared about their trauma, and unlike Baby Boomers, their economy has sucked enough that they've had plenty of it. They know how to survive in a world before internet, cell phones, and people caring about offensive words, but they're young enough that they had to learn all the above to stay employed. They don't give a damn about generational identity because they saw their Boomer parents do that in the 60's as a shallow self-congratulatory exercise that solved nothing. Then they've seen Millennials distracted with narcissistic self-worship and self-involvement that's no better. Gen X is left alone because they don't care about the spotlight enough to be noticed. But it's unwise to mess with people who don't care about the spotlight, because that means they don't care about responding to your sh*t in a popular way. Gen X is perfectly fine with you giving their response to you a 1-star rating and an unsubscribe."- Henry Rollins

GenX was the first generation to become familiar with the VERY rapid development of technology, and grew up knowing they had to keep up. Which is why there's 50 year old parents who not only are building their kids PC's, but still remember how to set the time on a VCR. We can set up a VPN, beat Super Mario Brothers in one life, fix a roof and toilet, and were there when Tool and Rage Against the Machine were brand new (not just being "rediscovered"). Fear us - we're bullet proof.

"a map the size of the house" 😂 And, when you were done, you had to fold that map back up and fit it in your glove compartment. 🤣🤣🤣

GenX kids (of all generations) are awesome because our parents said "go ahead and do it. See what happens" a whole lot.

1969 Gen X metalhead D&D nerd here. We learned not to trust the government. We saw the TV lie about the Dungeons and Dragons we played and the Judas Priest and Ozzy we listened to. We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes about others and ourselves but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. The person making the hard-core racist jokes usually got the hint nobody was laughing with him and occasionally he got knocked out. Anthrax and Public Enemy onstage together was a good example of the vibe. Too much togetherness isn't good for those at the top sticking it to us so Division became the game again. Politicians been playing that game since forever but Telecommunications Act in 96 made it much easier to control the info and keep the division going. They are doing the ae thing now with the Restrict Act. Don't let the TV, tablet, phone or Teacher make you hate your neighbor. Keep talking and keep thinking, People. Chris Forever Young

Jason is hilarious and hit the nail on the head. I'm a 52-year-old Gen X and everything he said, I connected with. The only thing he didn't bring up was Boomers lived in the time of free love, but Gen X lived in the time of sex equals death (AIDS), because there were no good treatments until the mid 90s.

It was a fight to the death and every gas station attendant had the extra responsibility of giving directions to a destination 10 miles away

I'm definitely GEN X, and proud of it- 1974❤

As generation x, we ghosted all the time , it was easy . No cell phones , 🤷‍♀️ We didn’t answer the phone , and it was easy to forget a number just rip it up ,

GenX who raised 2 GenZ, and I'm disappointed about my work as a parent. Two anxious teens that don't want to leave the house. I'm still trying to find out where I failed.

"I had to print out 28 pages of MapQuest" TRUTH! Then staple them together and hopefully flip through them during the drive without causing an accident.

“Our bologna had a first name!” Yea, it did! 🥳

"I did grow up Generation-X with the gender fluid music...so I might not understand what you're saying but I'm still gonna listen because I'm not gonna miss the next Purple Rain..." You know, there's a tremendous amount of respect in that one line. We don't have to understand others to appreciate what they have to offer. As it's always been, the real humor is just in seeing the truth of the times we live in.

✨✌️😜✌️✨ You know you are Gen-X when you LOL at a Highlander joke. ✨🗺✨

I'm GenX and went K - 5 at a school that was later closed down for asbestos removal and the playground was demolished for having 40 times the limit of lead paint on the equipment.

I'm split on Gen X not having a war... We had the Cold War, and the constant threat of being 18 minutes away from dying.

"You're both right. Chill out." LOLOLOLOL Yes.

Hey! I'm a Gen X born 1966. I do remember the Vietnam War. As a 7 year old I thought the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkheit was about Vietnam. A Gen X 70s memory.

"My job to translate between the generation"... I literally said that verbatim a couple days ago at work... I work with a 22yr old who has no real world experience and surprisingly doesn't know some ofthemore rudimentaryfunctions of computers (like what Tab does or what a Zip File is)... And a 60yr old who complains every few minutes about his computer being stupid because he has 40yrs worth of real world skills, but now he's supposed to do it on a machine he barely knows how to use... I gave the applicable aforementioned speech of "The best way for this team to work together is for me to translate between the two of you" Surprisingly they BOTH openly embraced it and we've been getting along great so far. 😁

By far the best 12 minutes I’ve spent on RU-vid in a very long time. I enjoyed that so much.

This is a great comedy routine that could be a TED Talk. He nails the dynamics between the generations. Also he forgot Michael J. Fox in his list of Michaels.

We grew up with MTV when it actually played music. We saw the end of disco, the Punk movement, heavy metal, atari, nintendo, grunge music, Carl Lewis broke the 100m sprint record, the start of the internet, new wave music, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, the start of the PC, Hong Kong belonged to the UK, our dads and uncles were Vietnam vets, NASA's space shuttle was the next frontier in our quest for space. A great time to be young. 😊😊😊😊

GenX OG here. My dad fought in Vietnam. I grew up with that and the aftermath of him checking out of our lives, forever. He was not dead, just could not make connections with other people. Actually, this is true of my Boomer mom, as well. It was more important for them to appear as the smartest one in the room, than to be right. My friends fought in the First Gulf weekend with, yes, the OG Bush, the good one. Mapquest was hilarious. Then trying to track progress on the 28 pages, not printed to any scale with the first 17 pages to get on the interstate. Locally, I kept a map and a phone book in my car to find things.

A big bird, a crime dog and smokey the bear. Pretty sure that sums up the 80's. 😂

Gen X ghosting was Letting the answering machine take your phone calls 😂while you screened. Plus we were better with numbers because we had to remember every damn phone number of every person we ever knew 😂

I think we should take Gen Z, drop them off in the 80’s and they have to live like we did. No phones, locked out until dinner. They would last a week, and that’s giving them 6 days. If you know, you know.

Adults: you kids and your participation trophies... Kids: YOU MADE THE TROPHIES!

Taking my hard EARNED allowance to the hood 7/11 for the newly Ordained "Super Big Gulp" on the way to what my mom assumed was the pool in the Summer....It was actually a railroad bridge spanning the Spokane River near downtown perfect for jumping off of. I was 11, and that was 85'. W3 learned how to be Self Sufficient, instead of self indulgent. Self important.Self Centered! I wholeheartedly approve of this response!

For a topic that can easily be overdone, this guy kills it. So much funny stuff! Glad to have found Jason - gen X here ❤

Born in '66. Gen X. I got the first two Michael's and the Vietnam War. My parents are Silent Generation. And we don't care cuz no one else does.

Just want to clarify GenX starts at 1965. I was born in 68. Right after the assassinations of MLK Jr & RFK, & Vietnam was still happening, although I was to young to recall that. I was listening to the Jackson Five & little Michael when I was 4-5 yrs old.

What a lousy audience- this guy has some great material- DEFINITELY deserved a better response.

😂😂 being a 55-year-old Gen xer this is hysterical!

The part about printing multiple pages was hilarious. This guy spits clever bits.

Unfortunately the comic is 20x smarter than his audience . The "Existential stability" line elicited nothing but clueless silence .

As a Gen X 1980. I am starting to dislike all this attention about us. Ugh..leave us alone. Lol

I think they handed out Xanax to the crowd before the show. That's solid material.

“You’re both right”. As a Gen Xer I approve. 😂

My high school class motto was "It just doesn't matter." He's spot on about us Gen-X'ers not caring.

**PEOPLE START PAYING ATTENTION TO GEN X** Gen X: **annoyed sigh, goes into bedroom and shuts the door**

You can always tell a gen xer from a millennial while driving. Gen xers never ever ever turn around. Ever. I'm never lost. I'm always going forward.

1965 GenX here. I've got enough material for you to fill up a 3 hour HBO special. Damn, i just defined GenX!

Gen X is fighting with anyone - we just want to be left alone, but we will set you straight if you want to include us in your silliness.

Hey remember kids falling down wells 😂? Or was that the 80's? This guy has the best Gen X jokes hands down.

First time seeing this guy!!😂 High school was every 80's movie for real. Best music ever!❤ As kids, we played hide and go seek until after dark with our neighborhood friends. Feel very lucky #Genxr

Dukes of hazard, fall guy, magnum PI, smokey and the bandit, ren and stempi....

Other generations,"spanking is abuse" gen x "thanks for spanking me dad"

**CLEARS THROAT IN COLD WAR**

Im starting to think anyone who grew up in the 70s 80s and 90s lived in the best period in human history to date. Best music , movies , tv and relatively safe freedom as a kid.

He's wrong about Boomers giving us civil rights. The previous generation did that. The very oldest boomers, born right on 46, were 19 when the civil rights act was passed. So a very tiny fraction of them would have participated in the movment. Most of the work was done by the older brothers/sisters of boomers from the Silent Generation and the youngest members of the WW2 Gen. Boomers just took all the credit for stuff they were barely there for because it sounded cool. Nobody called them out on it, so they kept doing it.

Oh my god so true! I went through a road trip in France with my dad fully arguing with the GPS and then having a shouting match at the map!! 😂😂😂

Quicksand!!! Tarzan movies had me terrified of quicksand. 😂

GenX. Oh well Whatever Never mind

Awesome job. The fact you could find soo many funny things about one subject is great. Not that you care.😂

Gender was a T/F question and its an essay now 😂 i am so bored of people arguing about that topic so this was the best joke ive heard in ages 👍

This is so funny.I care so little i didn't even realize i was a gen x

Oh shit. I just fumbled onto this set and now I need more. I was laughing loudly. Thank you 😂😂

As a GenX from New Zealand, I can only agree. Foot in both worlds, spending the whole day outdoors until street lights are on. Music united folks, community spirit was an all time high. We are blessed!

the best, smartest Gen X take I've ever heard. but I don't care.

Everyone wishes they are Gen X! We rule! 😅

I’m a millennial raised by gen x, I’ll never forget my mom telling me to use map quest and just print maps 😂 I was like uh mom I have my phone 😂

GenX has a chip on our shoulder. We don't care what you call us, just leave us alone.

"W'ere gunna use the thing that can see traffic from the sky. That's how this journey's goin." LOLOL BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Okay. This guy is reaaaaalllly goood xD

I was born in 1965. All my memories as a child were between 1970 when I turned 5 and 1980 when I turned 15. His stand up is pure gold.

1973 here. Best childhood anyone could ever have. Ghost in the graveyard, kick the can, strike out, 2 hand touch football in the street. LFG.

This was so much fun! Nice for Gen X to get some recognition!

“documentary Michael Jackson”…hilarious!😂

This guy is a natural

Another thing about GenX: We have a sense of humour. Well done, Jason. Very funny. Could almost be a lecture series or a TEDTalk.

This is the second video that confirms that my fear of quicksand wasn't just with me.

Gen X here 😂😂😂

Growing up I thought that Y2k and Quicksand would be a MUCH larger problem than they were.

"Hey, you're both right." Love it!

Gen X FOREVER ❤️❤️❤️

Shoutout to the Gen X soldiers who did serve in the Afghan, Iraq and Gulf wars. I appreciate your service, and I know a lot are dealing with it. I love comedy, but def don’t agree with trivializing the service you guys did.

Gen X - Go Play Outside! Be Inside By Dark!

I am sorry but when do you think GenX started? GenX began in '65. I was born in '67, I experience Vietnam in my lifetime, I was introduced to Baby Michael, and got to enjoy the Jackson 5 in their heyday. I got to watch the Three Stooges cartoons in their first run, and the Brady Bunch. We had Star Trek TOS, and that's ALL we had and watched religiously every Sunday. I was born in the 60s, my entire childhood was the 70s, grew up in the 80s, matured in the 90s, and watch the world loose it's collective mind in the new millennia. If you were born at at time between The Monkees & MTV, that makes you GenX.

This guy is the wittiest comic I think I've ever heard.

Generation X is smaller than the adjacent generations.

Gen X used the Thomas Guide a decade before Mapquest.

This gets funnier every time I listen to it! 😂😂😂

Gen X fought most of the GWOT not Millennials. The youngest GenXers are 43 so they were 20 or 21 when the war started.

In 1996, I was driving south with printed MapQuest directions on Ocean Blvd along the Atlantic coast. The directions said to turn left. 😑

I am from the first batch of Gen x’ers and I used paper maps most of my life. When Map quest came out…man - I thought it couldn’t get any better than map quest lol. . Gps didn’t become popular until like mid or late 2000’s i think. I didn’t start using it until a few years ago. Now I wonder how all those years ago I was able to drive all around the country without it 😊.

It’s an essay now is hilarious!

As a Canadian Boomer with a Gen X partner of 13 years and a Millennial co-worker colleague, this comic nails it.

Excellent analogy of generations. Lots of memories for this Gen Xer!

I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard! More please!

Don’t forget Michael Bolton! 🤣

We are pretty much all Goonies. '73

Little Michael Jackson Thriller Michael Jackson Documentary Michael Jackson 😉🙂😄😆🤣

I am a millenial. My dad is a boomer. And I have had that GPS conversation in the car so many times 😂😂😂. I got so frustrated once I almost pulled the car over 😂😂😂

Some of us gen X moms, have raised millennials, and some of us waited, and are raising gen Z. (or our kids are) Somehow people are getting dumber though...

Hahaha! But seriously, great points! Gen X'er here

Generation X was and is the best Generation! Growing up in the 1980's totally awesome!✌👍👏❤⚘🍷

Gen X here. I have a t shirt that says Fun Fact i don't care!

Gen Xers 65 66 will be the last people on earth to remember watchin the moon landings and Vietnam war on tv.

I'm a GenX who was married to a boomer, my siblings are millennials my boys are GenZ and Gen Alpha. I enjoyed this set so much.