Oh My God They Admit It

Here’s a fun idea I had: send me one (or more) of your favorite funny videos—sketches, short films, viral clips, internet ephemera, hell, I’ll even take standup or late night clips—and I’ll put them all in a big roundup. Please include a few sentences (or more) about what the video means to you and let me know if you’d like me to attribute it to something other than your name.

Don't miss the second episode of the Humorism Evening Podcast! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Comedians are fickle people. About 99% of the time they’ll tell you jokes are perfectly meaningless units of language that communicate nothing but the sensation of pleasure, which itself has no connection to the moral or social worlds the comedian and audience inhabit. Then, one percent of the time, they’ll say outright that jokes sometimes express a libidinal desire to punish women for their perceived higher social status—

Normand: Shane telling Teyana Taylor, "Thank God she's funny because that—"

Morril: No, she's hot.

Normand: Oh, sorry. "Thank God she's hot because she is not funny at all." [Ed. note: he said "Thank god she's good-looking, because boy is that bitch not funny at all."]

Morril: That's killing it.

Normand: I spit my drink out, because you don't see that on TV. This fat doughy guy is like, "I get to finally trash this beautiful A-list Hollywood actress." And he was right. She sucked.

And they’ll admit that they take pleasure in racism—

Normand: People were like, "Some of the jokes were racist." You're like, "Of course. Of course they're racist. There's a lot of racist jokes. Racism is hilarious. White, Black, Asian, Jew, that's what we're doing here." [...] Remember Jeff Ross's old joke about Shaq? "I saw him trying to peel the microphone.” Yeah, I mean, he goes, "Shaq, did you walk here? Your knuckles are bleeding." That's horribly racist, but why are you laughing? 

And they’ll even articulate a moral theory of racist comedy that concedes it would, in fact, be bad if the people telling racist jokes were ideologically racist: 

Normand: I know you're not allowed to say that, but racism in the right context is hilarious. I'm sorry, I know that's a tough pill to swallow, but—

Morril: Yeah. When you know the person's not racist and you know the intent is just to make them laugh, there's something kind of fun about it.

How about that! Good thing none of these people are ideologically racist, then.

The comedian DL Hughley, commenting on the Kevin Hart roast, said he would never appear on a lineup with someone he believed to be a nazi. In response to a clip of these comments, Big Jay Oakerson said he’s tired of Black guys telling him he’s a nazi; used a mocking racist accent; and declared: “I don't dislike you now, DL Hughley, because you're Black. It's because you're Black and dumb.”

Hughley (clip): I could never imagine working on the same panel with a dude who I believe to be a nazi, and I do. When a white dude says he wants freedom of speech and all that kind of stuff, it's really just to say n—r. But I knew when I saw the lineup for that roast, I knew it would be—

Bobby Kelly: Just stop.

Christine Evans: So we gotta say what happens there.

Kelly: Can I just say something, though? It does go from you to Shane to a Nazi [Tony Hinchcliffe]. It looks like the SS.

Oakerson: Let him finish what he's saying.

Kelly: Tony has no eyebrows. I never noticed that.

Hughley (clip): Years ago, he was at a nazi rally, and now he's with the [censored] that was on Jumanji.

Oakerson: Play it again.

“I'm tired of watching Black guys in fucking Django hats fucking tell me how the world works now and let me know that I'm a nazi. It's fucking hilarious. A bunch of fucking stooges.”

Evans: They said it's implied. It's implied because they show your picture. So he's obviously talking about Tony. He's talking about him doing the Trump rally, but then he shows pictures of you and Shane.

Oakerson: Well, it's his fucking show, he's showing pictures. "I saw this group." You saw this group in what? You fucking pontificating asshole. Be funny, fuck face. For five seconds. Stop bitching.

Kelly: That is the one thing about it.

Oakerson: I'm tired of watching Black guys in fucking Django hats fucking tell me how the world works now and let me know that I'm a nazi. It's fucking hilarious. A bunch of fucking stooges.

Evans: Luis commented.

Oakerson: Luis will get into it, but it's the same—the word "nazi" means something. Exactly. And it's probably not Jewish people, yet again, fucking dumb dumb DL Hughley. And if you're saying you didn't call me a Nazi and you're calling Tony, it doesn't matter. You're showing a picture of me in this thing. "I saw this lineup and I thought to myself," I don't know anything is what you thought to yourself, because I've known Kev since we started together, is why I was on the roast. Not to go give nazi propaganda, you fucking jerkoff.

Kelly: Yeah. Get another hat in your cigar and shut the fuck up.

Oakerson: If you want to tune in, I know we're leaving here soon. I'm gonna go to Legion of Skanks. I'll tell you for sure, I'm not a nazi. That is a fact. But he is a bitch of a guy, fucking DL Hughley. That's a fact. Doing something like that is so fucking funky.

“Just Black doesn't bother me. Black and dumb, that's my one thing.”

Kelly: It's bullshit.

Oakerson: And to even go like, "That's shitty," to apologize. Because the thing is, I said two days ago, I've never thought DL Hughley’s funny, but that means nothing. That's subjective. I don't give—it's not my thing.

Kelly: Yeah. You don't like learning?

Oakerson: I respect him as a—yeah. I don't like being talked to about—yeah, I don't know if I find the teachings of Farrakhan that funny.

[…]

Evans: Well, this show also, the still on the show looks like it's a political show. It doesn't look like it's a—

Oakerson: Oh, the world's gone by him. He's gotta let you know what he feels about the "earf." He's only been famous for fucking 65 years.

Kelly: Jay always has said to me, "I hate comics that go political."

Oakerson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kelly: That's why you dumped Dave off of the Skanks.

Oakerson: Yeah. I had to boot my own best friend, I'm sick of these fucking politics. But again, he's lumping me in with this fucking thing, and it's like, without knowing anything. And his thing is gonna be like, "Well, I don't know who you are." It's like, "Well, maybe don't put up a video implying that I'm a fucking nazi.”

“Suck my dick, DL Hughley. Suck my dick and I know you want to, because you're an F-word.”

Kelly: It's like, dude, shut the fuck up.

Oakerson: Just shut the fuck up, dude. I'm not ra—I don't dislike you now, DL Hughley, because you're Black. It's because you're Black and dumb. It's got to be both.

Kelly: I wish everybody...

Oakerson: Just Black doesn't bother me. Black and dumb, that's my one thing.

Kelly: I wish everybody laughed at the same time on that one.

Oakerson: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Kelly: All right.

Oakerson: But he might come back on that. He might not come back on that. I'll get worse on Legion of Skanks, so I'm sure he'll fire back at some point, but don't put a picture of me up and call me a nazi and expect to fucking just be like, "These white boys..."

Evans: Yeah, it's pretty fucked. I saw that—

Oakerson: And you know when he's, "I see these white boys up there, they be doing—“ Get the fuck out of here, "These white boys."

Kelly: It is kind of racist, Jay.

Oakerson: "I see this Black boy sitting back there talking on the podcast all the time."

Kelly: "Wabble dee dabble dee."

Oakerson: Double fucking hypocritical c–ts.

Evans: It's pretty fucked they just show pictures.

Oakerson: Suck my dick, DL Hughley. Suck my dick and I know you want to, because you're an F-word.

Jay Oakerson has been saying the n-word on camera for more than ten years; he’s worked with Milo Yiannopoulos, Anthony Cumia, Dave Smith, and Gavin McInnes; his podcast, which consciously brands itself “the most offensive podcast on earth,” has for years used a Black doll the hosts call “Black baby” as a pretext to ventriloquize stereotypical Black characters. But don’t you dare call him a nazi.

Elsewhere in New York City, Chris Distefano is confused about how Zohran Mamdani is backing progressive policies even though he’s a Muslim, and he still thinks the answer may be that Mamdani is practicing taqiyya, e.g. pretending not to be a Muslim. Distefano seems to believe this even though the very thing perplexing him is Mamdani’s open Muslim faith:

Producer: Oh, my daycare's crazy.

Normand: Really?

Distefano: They hit you with thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars a week. That's what it is, so 3k, so Vito's asking, because the universal— it used to be 4k, but now Mamdani made it 3k, right?

Producer: Yeah, and then they're even talking about 2k.

Distefano: See, I like that about Mamdani. Mamdani making the schools free for all the kids, I like, and legalizing prostitutes.

Normand: He did?

Distefano: Well, that's what he wants to do, but it goes against Islam. That's the problem. That's the hiccup that I have with Mamdani. It's like you want to legalize toots, but you can't do that if you're a really true Muslim.

Normand: He's very pro LGBT-queef, so I'm like, how's that work with Islam?

Distefano: Dude, I don’t—

Normand: I think they're shitting on them behind his back. They go, "Oh, look at this guy. Oh, he's a bad Muz."

Distefano: Yes, that, or it's the opposite. There's a thing in Islam. You know what taqiyya?

Normand: Taqiyya.

Distefano: Do you know about it?

Normand: I've heard of it, yeah. You fake it.

Distefano: You fake it and that's all good, as long as you're pushing Islam forward, you can say anything, do anything. It could be that.

Mind you, these men have children.

What Else?

-Tim Dillon told Piers Morgan that he didn’t vote in 2024 because he was in Austin on election day recording a podcast with Joe Rogan, and he’s registered in New York. (Does he know about absentee voting? Unclear.) If he did vote, he said, it would have been for Trump.

-Dave Smith released a three-hour conversation with the nazi Nick Fuentes this week, his second in the last year.

-Chatting with his friend James McCann, Shane Gillis said that after his first SNL hosting gig back in 2024, Louis CK called him “to be like, ‘I love you. It made me love standup. It made me happy. It made me happy for myself.' And I was eating in a hotel bar and I was like, 'Dude, you gotta stop. I'm crying, man.’"

-The nazi Nick Rochefort appeared on a podcast hosted by the comedian Mike Feeney this week. Foolishly, I thought the section titled “Questionable Past” might discuss the controversy over Rochefort’s involvement in a white supremacist comedy group, Million Dollar Extreme. Egg on my face: it was actually about his DUI and assault arrests.