Comments on: Homeless James Bond http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jimmmm http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79287 jimmmm Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:54:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79287 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. 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.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79286 Duros62 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:45:34 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79286 <i>Duros, that's great. What does your girlfriend have to do with anything?</i> Umm, nothing. Sorry. Duros, that’s great. What does your girlfriend have to do with anything?

Umm, nothing. Sorry.

]]> By: DJ Escher http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79285 DJ Escher Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:28:42 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79285 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. 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.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79284 Bruce Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:12:50 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79284 Outrageous. Laughing and wincing with shame at the same time. Outrageous. Laughing and wincing with shame at the same time.

]]> By: John http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79283 John Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:04:50 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79283 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. 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.

]]> By: Oliver http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79282 Oliver Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:49:32 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79282 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 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.

]]> By: John http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79281 John Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:22:30 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79281 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? 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?

]]> By: Oliver http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79280 Oliver Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:51:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79280 So comedy must always be about rich people? That's an ingredient for bad comedy. So comedy must always be about rich people? That’s an ingredient for bad comedy.

]]> By: John http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79279 John Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:36:15 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79279 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? 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?

]]> By: Oliver http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79278 Oliver Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:46:30 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79278 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. 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.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79277 Duros62 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:47:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79277 Me too. My girlfriend is asst. director of the only homeless shelter in our county. Me too.
My girlfriend is asst. director of the only homeless shelter in our county.

]]> By: Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79276 Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:25:53 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79276 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. 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.

]]> By: John http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79275 John Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:41:54 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79275 In a country where kids are murdering homeless people for sport, I don't think dehumanizing them further is all that funny. In a country where kids are murdering homeless people for sport, I don’t think dehumanizing them further is all that funny.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79274 Duros62 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:39:03 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79274 Bad taste? Maybe. Funny? Yes. Bad taste? Maybe.

Funny? Yes.

]]> By: John http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/05/homeless-james-bond/#comment-79273 John Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:33:52 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6596#comment-79273 So much for empathy. So much for empathy.

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