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04-24-2012, 06:35 PM
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The joke does evolve. It goes from unreasonability to unnecessary belligerence and then crescendoes when he thinks a cellphone is (or rather, is not) his dad. And then there's his clothing, and the sour look on his face. This I gathered was supposed to be some downtownie wiener type, perhaps (If I can be so bold) an outright hipster. I assumed the facial hair was making fun of Adriaeieeien Brody's stupid-ass gillette commercial with his horrible goatee. The humor was definitely more in the video itself than the song.
There's an art to absurdity in humour. That video just got stupider and stupider as it went along, not more absurd.

Aside from anything else, every single joke was telegraphed way in advance, so that you knew the punchline before it was even finished being set up.

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The cellphone, and the cake.

This is what happens when you get a reputation for hating everything. The moment you say that you didn't hate something you get a response asking what the fuck is wrong with you for not hating it. WELL FUCK OFF NATE I'M A HUMAN BEING AND I CAN LAUGH AT STUPID SHIT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IF I WANT!
To be fair, I would have said that to absolutely anyone who said they liked that video.
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