MTV's Show About 'Yo Momma' Jokes Was Low-Key Racist (w/ Kurtis Conner) 

just a heads up that Demi Lovato uses They/Them pronouns!!!! our bad!

I love how Jarvis keeps dabbing his forehead like he’s a Victorian duchess sweating at the absolute brutish buffoonery of these jokes,

That white kid's entire personality is just Noel Miller's impression of Ajit Pai

He totally missed a "Yo Mama so absent from your life that the show needed to use your cousin instead"

to be fair, jordan is completely immune to yo mama jokes. he was raised by his dad and three atms in a trenchcoat

"your mother has a glass eye with a picture of her family inside" sounds like the introduction of a Jigsaw trap

I’ll never forget the episode where the one guy spits “float like a butterfly sting like a bee, I slept with your mama now it hurts when I pee” And guess what 7th grade me did

One thing I love about modern society is that we've moved so far from "yo mama" jokes that now saying "ur mom" to someone is peak comedy.

Dude honestly this show just shows how bad sexism was at the time of this show that no matter what the girl character says they boo

Gems from this: Boiled quarters "Gentrified your momma jokes" "This feels like a hate crime"

Kenny was amazingly creative. Everybody else's jokes were like "your mom's fat" meanwhile kenny was actually making new jokes.

The "You're so black" hit me like a fucking truck I did NOT expect that

jordan is 100% a theater student playing a character. the casting call was like "give us your best out-of-touch rich guy impression" and this guy broke out what he learned at theater camp. that was a house for sale they filmed at and put whatever props they had and the "cousin" was just someone they hired. jordan is a character. source: I have met like at least five "jordans" in theater classes.

"Boiled quarters" is one of the most strange, yet creative, phrases I've ever heard. Bonus points it isn't making fun of looks so that's always cool to me.

actually the "-is" at the end of their names cancels out so they're just jarv and kurt.

What really shivered my timbers about this was Jordan continuously made very racist jokes that somehow got people laughing and most everyone else made actual jokes that weren't about his race. Boiled quarters is funny, telling a black girl her hair says made in china is not.

Knowing Wilmer ended up being a weirdo made me seeing him ask that girl if her cousin is a good kisser even worse and more uncomfortable

I hope kurtis conner just stands on stage for two hours straight only saying yo momma jokes and nothing else

I feel like the white guy is like when white people write a movie with mostly black people and they add a white guy because the writers feel white people won’t relate to it.

The craziest thing about the boiled quarters joke is I can imagine *exactly* what that smells like

Jordan acts EXACTLY like Patrick Bateman it’s insane

i think the show should’ve taken place on a playground and the judges are all 4th graders. they would’ve made these grown adults feel awful for their amateur yo momma jokes

"you're so black you--" woah woah there jordan lets take a breather first

The "How'd he know about my thong" joke made me laugh too hard

The font they use for names is the same one used in the anti-piracy ads you find on DVDs. *You wouldn’t download a yo mama joke*

This feels like one of those “shows about black people for white people”

jordan looks like he’s doing a really mediocre trump impression at a party and no one asked for it

The girl at the beginning was so creative, and they just made everyone hate her like what

Jarvis and Kurtis not getting that the "your mom has a glass eye with a picture of her family in it" joke is a joke about his mom being dumb because if you have a glass eye you can't see what it looks like inside is hilarious to me.

love jarvis dabbing at his forehead periodically like an overwhelmed southern lawyer

Jordon is like if a sixty year old politician was body-swapped with his grandson.

Also, idk if anyone else noticed, but in Jordan’s bathroom, next to the bananas, was Pepsodent toothpaste. That is toothpaste for dentures.

Man, Kurtis saying “I’m gonna bust” in that Jordan voice made me spit out my drink

Jordan is the kind of guy who would go to a party full of people of color and you'd hear him go "I just think nobody should be allowed to say it"

This dude Jordan delivers every yo mama joke like he’s a used car salesman. I almost expect him to say, “Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?”

The rich kid delivers every line like Patrick Bateman

I truly want someone's mom to come in and say "what did you say about me?" A better show would be people making fun of each other's kids. I would watch that. Why do the moms always get picked on?

I once saw a literal 7 year old say "yo mama so hairy, when she gave birth to your brother, he got carpet burn" 💀

Jordan’s jokes were as diverse as his family tree.

Jordan seems like the kind of guy to wash his hands after a shower.

I had a friend whose mum passed away, and his older brother would always start yo mama joke contests, then turn around and the second someone hit him with a yo mama joke he'd go "yea? well my mum's dead." And then laugh uproariously at the look of shock and guilt on the other person's face. It was honestly hilarious and I often think of how he used to do it. I lived with them for a while (abandoned kid steez) and I could not bring a friend around without immediately having them hit with that.

If someone told me I smelled like boiled quarters I’d honestly be devastated lol

That white guy is literally a walking caricature of a trust fund baby

Your mom is a beautiful woman and she makes me very happy. I really think this is going to work out. I love her very dearly and I know you have some issues left over from your father, but I promise I want to stick it out and be there for your mama. I'm not trying to replace your dad- but I want you to know I'm there for you if you need anything. I feel very blessed to have wonderful lady like your mama in my life and I'm going to take care of her, I promise.

I love how, out of the entire cast of this show about making jokes, only one person is actually funny

Jordan permanently sounds like an exaggerated masculine character in a cartoon

Jordan sounds like he's pronouncing the letter Æ in every word he says

They should reboot this show but like at the finale they have the last 2 competitor's moms have a boxing match and that determines the winner

Jordan would be the type to go "why i oughtta!" Or "You're in a situation here!" In a fight while circling his fists

The "yo momma has a glass eye with a picture of her family in it" was actually one of the riddles the Sphinx used to say in ancient Greece

Why was there such a trend of searching people's bedrooms in shows from the mid-2000's? It feels like a fever dream.

I graduated in 2006 (I'm old) and every other word was about glass eyes. We called grapes glass eyes... the only thing more harsh than a glass eye joke was emphasizing how much an individual loved and cared for their family... golden age of comedy👴

The only memory I have of this show is I tried watching it and it was like the “try out” round and one lady was like “yo momma so fat, she takes up *not one, not two, but THREE* city blocks!” And it was just crickets

The glass eye joke (for anyone who is wondering) is like a "yo Mama's so stupid" joke: if she has a glass eye, she is missing the eye, meaning she can't see, so framing a picture within it would be useless.

Rich boy looks like he’s gonna ask you if you know who his father is, but knowing his Mama, he’s probably really wondering.

i would watch the hell out of kurtis standup if it was him cycling through one yo momma joke and the robot dance for an hour

The fact the Jorden consistently makes the Pixar face every time he’s on screen cracks me up

I fully believe that Jordan got his ass kicked immediately after the cameras cut.

Jordan Klumper is the suit guy's name. He has an IMDB. In his latest role, he's listed as "White Guy #3"

27:53 why does this guy look like a dub of himself

this has been my comfort re-watch ever since it came out. i’ve see. this video probably over 30 times and i still laugh every time

“alright…that feels like a hate crime” literally cackling

The guy in the suit legitimately scares me, he's so unnatural and bizarre, he's like a fever dream in the middle of real life.

I watched this the first time I got high and I was laughing so hard I was doubled over and drooling

Jordan speaks the way teachers expect u to read a sentence with spaces in it

"My dad will f***** sue you." was top tier Kurtis.

i realized what jordan’s deal is. he’s got a politician vibe to him. the look, the sound, the racism… and he’d say that he relates to the black community because he “grew up in the hood” (he did not, in fact, grow up in the hood)

The absolute devastation I would experience if someone told me I smelled like boiled quarters

Bro Jorden sounds like he puts “🧐☕️” after every text he sends

the racist undertones are absolutely ASTOUNDING 🤩

I feel like Jordan's that one racist that goes "I have black friends it's fine"

I’m genuinely terrified of Jordan. He is my new sleep paralysis demon.

26:00 serial killer apartment alert . . .I bet he uses paper plates only and throws out a napkin after one dab. Everything's so beige!

Everyone laughs at Jordan because he threatened to sue anyone who didn’t

The King Kong "joke" really has me wondering why this aired on tv. I hope DeShawn was there to see Jordan's defeat, that poor guy looked so angry at the blatant racism targeted at him.

20:00 Basically Jordan: "Your mama is so hairy that she takes extra care in styling it."

the way that Jarvis laughs at 12:39 made me laugh so hard like he said “whoahohoHAHAHAHA”

not Jordan calling a black woman a gorilla and the crowd cheering diddisidjidkdkskssj

Let's bring glass eyes back.

this was just super racist?? there weren’t even that many yo mama jokes in this show just racism???

I very much appreciated Kurtis filling the dead air while Jarvis left the room 😂

Kenny definitely deserved to win - He was coming up with brand new material, albeit sometimes iffy, but he legitimately tried. Everyone else was just kinda re-hashing relatively common jokes. Also love Jarvis and Kurtis together.

Not gonna lie, I laughed hardest at "That's not funny" it seemed like he almost broke character out of confusion

The glass eye thing is saying she is stupid because she put a picture of her family to see it but she can’t actually see through that eye. It took watching this 4 times to figure that out….

The white guy sounded like he was trying to do an impression of Will Ferrell from anchor man

YOU KNOW THIS WAS FILMED AWHILE AGO BECAUSE HERE KURTIS STILL HAS HIS MUSTACHE 😭😭😭

the white guy's jokes weren't even that funny yet they hyped him up while he was putting down the black woman

The amount of Hamilton quotes here- 🎶"young, scrappy and hungry" "wait for it"🎶

boiled quarters is one of the greatest things i’ve ever heard and now my entire comedic journey is going to be me trying to replicate it

Isn't that right BALDWIN HILLS? This bit kills me hahaha

I am here for Jarvis dabbing his forehead like a southern baptist preacher at a tent revival in August

i legit started WHEEZING when Jordan started doing the robot after his joke. like bro what did you think you were doing 😭😭

There was a guy in one of my classes last semester that unironically spoke just like Jordan all the time and it drove me insane

Jordan's house mixed in with the suit really gives me American psycho vibes

This was the perfect episode to convey what I used to say. They'd always pick the Non-Black participants to move on to the second round even if they weren't funny at all. I don't know what they were trying to do, but I hated it as a kid.

i frequently think about "boiled quarters". it's 100% the funniest shit i've ever heard. it's literally so absurd and i love it

That Spider-man jacket was genuinely very cool! I suppose now it would be a more acceptable piece of merch but the Raimi Spider-Man came out in 2002 so it wouldn't have been completely nerdy.

That boiled quarters joke implies that someone on earth has boiled coins before

11:36 honestly, i feel like if ANY guy had said that instead of her ppl woulda laughed.. fn 2006

7:46 And im not throwing away my shot