Dat Phan: He funny, haha.

I don't know about you guys, but I think this is even worse than Margaret Cho. The audience had no idea that he actually didn't have an accent and laughed their butts off anyway. Why is it that we find these stereotypes appropriate? He portrays his mother as very determined and goal oriented, especially when it comes to her son. And then of course the small business joke. "Two Asians walk into a bar. Two weeks later, they own it."

comedys influence of society,Marcus Anderson post 11

Throughout media and film, there are many avenues which display many stereotypes of different races. Especially in our society today, comedic stereotypes are being used more loose within out society. An example is the other day on a radio station i was listening to was playing an unedited song was that had the N word in the song. When the song aired it was about 7pm. I never before in my life had heard the N word played on the radio on a public station. I just think that our society is flirting with a dangerous line of letting things "fly" as far as races are concerned. Its nice to be entertained, but in the same breath its a senstive things when we joke and allow certain things that cant be accepted "fully" and without hesitation to be acceptable.

Stand up

Whenever a comedian does stand up there is one thing they all have in common. They all have a distinct voice for different races. Probably the most famous from recently is Dave Chappele's white voice. Every race has a distinct voice and every comedian seems to follow the same voices. Is this a big problem or not? They are all very exaggerated an maybe a little over the line but isn't that what comedy about, pushing the limits to test peoples boundaries? I personally do not think there is anything wrong with it but I have heard on occasion, complaints from people saying that it went to far. I think it really does just depend on how easily you get offended. Comedians seem to be trying to get that shock factor now or that is how they truly hear people. Maybe that is why people laugh, because they are accurate. It is just an example of perspective and what you find funny.

Cho, Marcus Anderson post 10

After watching the stand up of Margret Cho, there are many things that I took from the stand up. In my own personal opinion, I thought that Margret Cho was quite funny. I think her appraoch to indentifying and addressing the racial stereotypes that she faced within her life was great. She was able to talk about her life experiences and address the wrong in which she was viewed by society because of her ethnicity. I think that is was quite interesting when she spoke and said that the people on who were running her show said she wasent to "asian" enough. I think that it is quite interesting that our society feels that it has the power to control what is acceptable in the behaviors and identifying of different races. I believe that the misconceptions that society makes of people of races saying that there" too much or too less" of their race is crazy. Time is changing as we know it, and those old stereotypes of races are growing old too.

King of th Hill

We were talking about the TV show King of the Hill in class and the only thing that went through my mind was Episode 6 of Season 10, "Orange you glad I didn't say Banana". The reason this was going through my mind was because we had discussed the insult to black people was being called an Oreo, and in this episode Kahn is called a banana which is the Asian equivalent. The is insulted for being to white Americanized. So during the whole episode he tries to go back to his roots, only to realize he enjoys acting white. This can really send a mixed message, it seems like the show thinks that being Americanized is the best and any other way is just not good enough. He says he escaped Laos to find the American dream, which from the message of this episode would be to be like an White American which might not be the best.

Model Minority

Andrea Burns
Post 12

A topic mentioned in this week's reading was the idea of Asian Americans being the "model minority." While it's meant to be complimentary, I feel it to be an inappropriate thing to say. For starters, a large basis behind them being called this is their success at assimilation. It seems to put a massive pressure on them to assimilate when they shouldn't necessarily need to. It also puts more pressure on them to be successful, intelligent, and to conform to this high pedestal that they're being placed on. Asian Americans are already expected to be of high intelligence and ambition and this furthers the stress being put on them. It puts them on a higher level than other minority groups that isn't necessarily granted for the correct reasons. Other groups may rather just stick to their native culture and shouldn't be looked down upon for that. This idea also groups all Asian Americans together as one when not every individual is necessarily a mathmatician. This overlooks the struggles Asian Americans have faced and still do, especially the Southeast Asians.

Margaret Cho: admirable or dishonorable?

Andrea Burns post 11

Watching the Margaret Cho comedy video left me conflicted in my opinions towards her. While watching it I was getting pretty annoyed with her. I found her to be extremely obnoxious. However I've never seen a comedy act before, so for all I know part of the comedy is being over the top and obnoxious. Looking past that, I was kind of in shock by some of the things she said. Granted I'm not a prude or live under a rock, but I felt some of the things she said was taking it a little too far. Again maybe that is just part of the comedy of it, but I found myself shaking my head at quite a few of her jokes thinking, "did that really just come out of her mouth?" On the other hand, she did do a good job of exposing and addressing stereotypes and how ridiculous they can be. For example, when she mentioned the producer asked her to speak in her "native language" when English was her first language. By bringing these stereotypes to the surface, she was able to discredit them in a comical manner.