Sports Media Thread

[Sammy Sofa]

It's a discussion about sports media figures in the sports media thread; it's a really, really low bar to hurdle.

[Derwood]

AKA The South Park Conundrum

 

Chappelle’s Show

[jersey cubs fan]

AKA The South Park Conundrum

 

Chappelle’s Show

 

please explain

[Sammy Sofa]

AKA The South Park Conundrum

 

Chappelle’s Show

 

please explain

 

You beat me to almost posting the exact damn thing by about 10 seconds. This is gonna be good.

[Derwood]

AKA The South Park Conundrum

 

Chappelle’s Show

 

please explain

 

Chappelle has talked about how he wrote sketches skewering various aspects of racism, but then had racist white guys tell him how funny they were. When the audience doesn’t understand satire, you run into problems

 

EDIT: I misunderstood Sofa’s post (if he was suggesting that South Park has turned into what they were originally satirizing, in which case scrap everything I said above)

[Sammy Sofa]

Ah, that wasn't as much fun as I thought.

 

Yeah, Chappelle said it clicked for him when he realized too many people were laughing AT him or what he was saying instead of WITH him and it bothered him. With SP I was thinking more specifically of how a character like Cartman ostensively exists to make fun of characters as awful as he is, but the show long, long, long ago seemingly lost track of that (if it was ever really doing it in the first place) by reveling in how he was such a fan favorite; like, the "joke" is nothing more than "Cartman is racist/anti-Semitic, etc.," and nothing else, yet he's at the same time this beloved character. Chappelle at least was usually at least flat out saying what his sketches were about in the host segments, to the point that people basically needed to ignore those or skip them to then also willfully miss the point (and even then you still had REALLY obvious buttons like, "oh, this racism is KILLING me inside!").

[TruffleShuffle]

this is peak plaschke:

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[mul21]

Bigger moron: Plaschke or Nightengale? The former is the epitome of old man yells at cloud but the latter is such a jock sniffing turd.

[jersey cubs fan]

Bigger moron: Plaschke or Nightengale? The former is the epitome of old man yells at cloud but the latter is such a jock sniffing turd.

The former is an A hole the latter is a legit stupid person.

[biittner77]

Bigger moron: Plaschke or Nightengale? The former is the epitome of old man yells at cloud but the latter is such a jock sniffing turd.

The former is an A hole the latter is a legit stupid person.

 

I object on the grounds that Plaschke is also a legit stupid person.

[David]

i've always thought lou cannellis was a horsefeathering idiot, and just now he further confirmed it by saying that yu darvish only has two pitches (as an explanation for why darvish tipping his pitches would be helpful to hitters)

[Bobson Dugnutt]

lol that's amazing. he throws like 7 pitches. lou cannellis is literally always wrong.

[Banedon]

Lou is still around? I remember him from back in the Jordan days...I liked him then but I was also pretty dumb about sports/media then.

[David]

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[ConstableRabbit]

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I was right there until... that part. What the horsefeathers?

[imb]

its a notorious big lyric but he's got one too many stars in there to get away with that

[David]

its a notorious big lyric but he's got one too many stars in there to get away with that

Yup I forgot to include that context but yep still bad

[Banedon]

I know it's not the important bit, but does Vescey think that he still only has 140 characters?

[ConstableRabbit]

its a notorious big lyric but he's got one too many stars in there to get away with that

Man, I totally didn’t pick up on that.

[SouthSideRyan]

Mike Hall now has a Sports Soup knock-off on Big Ten Network. It is predictably awful.

[davell]

Mooney got let go. That one kind of sucks.

[Banedon]

Mooney got let go. That one kind of sucks.

 

There's no good time to get let go, but damn...right before the holidays.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

This is good overall, but his read of the Simmons tweet takes it to another level:

 

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[jersey cubs fan]

[UMFan83]

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Obviously been rumored for awhile. Sports connection:

 

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Doesn't really impact Chicago sports as CSN is NBC Sports now.