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So much for empathy.
Bad taste? Maybe.
Funny? Yes.
In a country where kids are murdering homeless people for sport, I don’t think dehumanizing them further is all that funny.
I think it is possible to have empathy for the homeless, oppose bumfights, and also find homeless James Bond funny. Maybe that’s just me.
Me too.
My girlfriend is asst. director of the only homeless shelter in our county.
I find it amusing/odd/weird that I’m supposed to be a humorless liberal and not find the skit funny while also being able to have empathy for homeless people. Try it some time, folks.
To each his own. I just don’t find picking on the powerless very amusing. If it was a group of homeless children would it still be amusing to you?
Duros, that’s great. What does your girlfriend have to do with anything?
So comedy must always be about rich people? That’s an ingredient for bad comedy.
This whole thing is subjective. I just think it is remarkably poor taste. I’m surprised if you don’t see any parallels between this and minstrel shows. Maybe not along racial lines, but certainly along class lines.
Would you have thought it was funny if it was homeless Hurricane Katrina victims, or would that have been too edgy for you?
It depends on how its done, but to compare this to a minstrel show is insane quite frankly. By the bar you’re setting, you wouldn’t ever poke fun at anyone.
It isn’t far fetched at all. Minstrel shows made fun of black stereotypes, this makes fun of homeless stereotypes. The way that it is done in both cases is dehumanizing and its subjects are literally powerless.
I find comedy that doesn’t go for cheap thrills a lot more entertaining than picking on people who can’t defend themselves (a tactic expertly put to use by Bill O’reilly).
This is America, so feel free to make fun of whoever you want (I hear that immigrants and the poor are also good targets). I just won’t always laugh with you.
Outrageous. Laughing and wincing with shame at the same time.
Part of this video is just cheap humor against homeless people, but I do laugh at how it’s mocking the James Bond franchise. The window cleaning fluid joke is just a stale, unfunny jab against window-washing, but the flip-down “SavMart” is kind of funny. It’s not mocking grocery carts– it’s about James Bond’s dumbass license plate switch, and it works.
Duros, that’s great. What does your girlfriend have to do with anything?
Umm, nothing. Sorry.
You people are douchebags. It was funny. Laughing at a send-up of Bond films does not equate insensitivity to the plight of the homeless. Period.