Tag Archives: comedy
Eliot Chang’s “Things Asians Hate” video is hilarious rundown of things people say to Asians
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Racism in humor: It’s no longer cool to tell an “Oriental” joke
I grew up in an era before political correctness, when racial jokes were a staple of standup comedy. I’m talking jokes by white comics about minorities. It took until the ’70s when black comics like Richard Pryor started turning racial humor on its head, making fun of white people as well as blacks. These days, […]
The first illegal immigrants
From Los Angeles-based Asian American comedy/improv troupe 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, via Angry Asian Man, here’s a totally politically incorrect skit about race and immigration, but with the tables turned and European Americans as the FOBs (“fresh off the boat,” for you non-AAPIs). It’s a Thanksgiving satire that gave me a chuckle, despite its disgusting, […]
