S.Mouse blackface contraversy???
LokoOne
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This has been egtting a bit of press down under.
Interesting piece in todays paper with some US rapper's feedback.
Has this aired stateside yet? whats the verdict?
I havent had time to check his new series, some say its funny, others say he's lost the magic. He did portray a Pacific Islander teenager in Summer Heights High with a slight make up tan added and no one said anything about it then although this is a bit more obvious blackface....
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/us-hiphop-industry-reacts-to-angry-boys-20110706-1h1k3.html
Interesting piece in todays paper with some US rapper's feedback.
Has this aired stateside yet? whats the verdict?
I havent had time to check his new series, some say its funny, others say he's lost the magic. He did portray a Pacific Islander teenager in Summer Heights High with a slight make up tan added and no one said anything about it then although this is a bit more obvious blackface....
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/us-hiphop-industry-reacts-to-angry-boys-20110706-1h1k3.html
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peace, stein. . .:)
I don't watch this dude cause I've never found him particularly funny. Ali G gets away with stuff because he's very funny, but you could argue that Borat is way more racist than this S.Mouse thing, but who cares about offending Kazakhs, right?
none of that shit is funny.
Maybe it would be if you went to London and met some white, middle-class English 16 yr-olds talking patois.
Maybe not.
What is funny is that Ali G was a piss-take of this phenomenom (duh-duh duh-duh-duh), and it almost seems that when kids saw Ali G, it somehow validated the 'black' accent/attitude thing - it definitely seems more prevalent since the show got popular.
b/w that S.mouse thing isn't funny
B/W I gave up on Angry Boys after 3 episodes.
^^^Speaking of not funny.
a wave of ethnicity comedy copycats is the legacy he left us
please move on to something else please.
If you're referring to the Fur Q video, it dates back 1994.
The irony is this could actually be a song on the radio.
hahah
I Think there in lies the only redeeming quality about the whole thing. Not to mention the visual tone of the video in its entirety is remarkably on point. The day this episode aired, the shop next to the one I work at had Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow on HIGH rotation (ie 10-15 times in 8 hours) and I fail to see a difference, so all of those saying that this is an outdated view of rap need to fall back, this shit is still ALL OVER the radio.
I agree with many people that S'mouse is not really funny. I think the fact that Lilley improvises most of his material shows the worst in the case of S'mouse. Stein is right, the accent/phrasing is poor, he sounds more like the 15 year old taggers that hang around the train lines in Oz acting hard. Whether this is an intentional comment on young Australian males aping black American tropes is up for debate. Like NZ I switched off (or stopped downloading) after 3 episodes.
If you read all the responses in the article linked they obviously haven't bothered to watch a full episode, as his other character 'gran' is far more directly racist. However she's also a lot more amusing, so six of one half a dozen of the other. I think the character of S'mouse makes a lot more sense put into context of Nathan and Daniel, as he seems to echo a lot of the hyper male posturing that the boys engage in. That said, Lilley seems to just be exploring the different facets of what makes up the Australian male psyche, which I think is where the feeling of being a "one trick pony" comes from. If what we are seeing are different versions of the same character, it's because there is a direct relationship in how all of those characters combine to create the twins.