'Mad Real World.'
A guy is treated with rudeness and belligerence. Threatened with violence and rape , and people think it is hilarious? Please explain!
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If it was a black man being treated that way by white men would you think it was funny?
shareNo, they would think it was horribly offensive.
That skit was so stupid. The part that was the lamest was any part with his gf just randomly going with the black dudes. The whole thing didn't make any sense.
Maybe the only part that had a glimmer of hope was the opening for the show.
The part where the black girl was all pissed with how the dad was "looking" at her had a moment that could have been funny. But it was acted out all wrong and just played out badly.
God that skit was so stupid. I've seen two episodes and so far, I think I've seen enough. I don't find this funny at all.
Have you ever seen the real world? This skit is saying what would happen if instead of taking a number of crazy white people and put 1 black dude in the middle, you took a number of crazy black people and put one white dude in the middle.
I think its a fairly accurate portrayal on MTVs teh Real World.
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The sketch was based on Dave's friend Dave Edwards who was on the second season of The Real World. He was the obligatory "angry black man" on the show. Edwards was accused of attempted rape by the other cast members when he playfully pulled the blanket of a female cast member who was in her underwear. He was a funny guy but the other cast members didn't like him and he was kicked out of the house. The Mad Real World was a reaction to what Chappelle saw as a pattern on the show where the black guy always ends up being ostracized.
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I think you're missing the underline point of the sketch, Dave is always trying to make fun of every race, instead of focusing on the negative flaws of a race he looks at the positive stereotypes and how ridiculous they are. He was showing the whitest white man (stereotypical white guy focusing on work) being put into a dangerous environment of black people (also another stereotype). Just look past the blatant humour and look at the message. You're being a little butch about it if I'm honest.
shareRape is not funny, the people that poor man was being subjected to are the kind of people the world would be better off without
shareSo, you think that was extremely racist? Because that's what you're suggesting. The white guy is "stereotypical" in that he's normal. The black people are various negative stereotypes.
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A guy is treated with rudeness and belligerence. Threatened with violence and rape , and people think it is hilarious? Please explain!
I know I'm late to the party, but, I'll bite.
"The Mad Real World" was an extremely exagerrated parody/spoof of MTV's The Real World: L.A. (season 2 of the show), with the tables turned on the actual events.
The story behind it, is that Dave Chappelle had atually gone out of his way to help get David Edwards (the lone black male in the house) on the show. Midway through the season, there was an incident involving Edwards and a female cast member, Wikipedia describes it better than I could:
David pulls the blankets off an underwear-clad Tami as a joke, but an outraged Tami retaliates, and the ensuing argument is further exacerbated David's exposing himself and Beth's comparison of David's explanation to the rationalization of a rapist. David, who perceived Tami herself to have been amused by his actions, objects to this characterization, while Tami objects to what she sees as a lack of sympathy by the other men. After Tami temporarily leaves the house, the cast discusses the matter, with the women demanding that David move out.[
It was actually parodied on SNL and Jon Stewart's show at the time... so, Chappelle was not the first person to reference it.
Chappelle was obviously late to the party though (this all happened in 1993, he didn't get his platform until years later), so instead of parodying the actual incident 8-10 years after the fact, he went bigger picture and pointed out how absurd it would have been if MTV had a season of The "Real World" where they had 6 "ghetto" black people, along with one very out of place white-boy.
It's suppose to be completely exaggerated and over the top to illustrate the larger point... which is that most "reality" shows, early 90s MTV "reality" shows in particular, were nothing close to reality. They were a carefully cherry picked cast with a fish or two who were completely out of water in relation to the rest of the cast, that the producers knew would cause conflict/trouble.
I think everyone understands that point now (just because of the sheer volume of trash reality shows), but, it wasn't so much the case at the time the Chappelle's Show episode aired... there were far fewer "reality" shows at that time.
Hopefully this helps to get a better understanding for the context of the episode. It's not meant to be an actual reality show, it's meant to serve two purposes:
1) For Dave to blast MTV and the way they allowed everything to transpire with his friend that he helped get on the show.
2) For Dave to illustrate how absurd "reality" TV is, in an extremely exaggerated and over the top format. share
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shareIs this another one of those "White Victim" comments? Usually, those are reserved for the Fox News IMDB page.
shareyou either didn't watch MTV's the real world, or you are trolling..
The skit was a take on the real world, but reversed (as the real world tended to have one black cast member with a bunch of white cast members)
As for everything that happened, it's called humor, like the second poster said, take the sand out of your vagina..