PATRONS GET IT FIRST! The long-awaited Chill Goblin take on the CHRIS ROCK OSCARS SLAP
Added 2024-01-10 01:51:29 +0000 UTCThis video has been in the works for a LONG time- since March 2023, so we're just under the one year mark!- and I'm excited and frankly relieved to finally be able to share it!
Because of all the copyrighted content, I'm not able to post it on YouTube just yet- I'm disputing Netflix right now which might take up to a month (LMAO) so please enjoy it in full uploaded directly to Patreon. Never done that before... Let's find out if Patreon is a decent video platform together!
I had the idea for this video almost immediately, during the first 20 minutes of watching the Chris Rock special live on March 4, 2023. Originally I was like "This is such a simple idea, I could write and film and edit it in two weeks!" HA! Young Goblin was a fool.
Comments
Thanks so much!
Chill Goblin
2024-01-15 20:16:02 +0000 UTCThis was a great analysis - I love the “eternal set up” concept and will probably be thinking about it for a while to come. Thanks for all you do Mr. Goblin!
Masha Sundararaman
2024-01-15 17:56:27 +0000 UTCI interpreted the trans joke the same way. As a trans this kinda thing has happened to me way too often, so I think the joke is pretty darn funny.
Rat in the Hat
2024-01-13 14:45:18 +0000 UTCOh that makes sense! Maybe just removing the question mark would help clarify that. It’s a long ass headline so I assumed it was a quote
Lou Spence
2024-01-10 22:45:51 +0000 UTCOk I made that screen so long ago haha and looking into it, the quote itself WAS the headline and subheadline of the article. I should probably make that clearer somehow...
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 21:18:15 +0000 UTCDid not even realize Patreon did auto subtitles, I'll have a look and see what can be done
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 21:16:56 +0000 UTCTotally get that take! And that's a good point on the trans joke, I'm sure there are other possibilities too, but I had a surprisingly hard time figuring out what the intended punchline was meant to be about.
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 21:16:20 +0000 UTCThis owns. You are a good little goblin. Very smart and thorough work. Re the "She's yo' daddy" joke. Even if the punchline is that Rock misgenders her, I would assume that the humour comes from Rock setting up his allyship then doing a slapstick fall at the end. With that framing, I am not laughing at the parent, or trans people in general, I'm laughing at Rock building himself up ("As an artist...") then still making a mistake that lots of people, even allies, accidentally make. But then I have basically no context for Chris Rock, he's not part of my eternal setup, so as a fan you can presumably see why that interpretation is unlikely to be shared by his audience in a way I can't. Personally, I was always Team Smith, because my setup is hugely influenced by disability politics. For me, it doesn't make any difference if Rock knew about Pinket-Smith's alopecia. I get your point about not knowing that he was making a joke about disability, he thought he was making a joke about a fashion choice. Say she did shave her head as a choice (and she kinda did - it's not like she doesn't have access to ways of creating whatever hairstyle she wants despite alopecia), we know lots of people are hairless for disability reasons, and the joke becomes vicariously about them too; the joke is about a shaven-headed person and can therefore be applied to other shaven-headed people, some of whom are shaven-headed because of disability. For me it wasn't OK, and Smith's response was justified, in fact it was badass. It felt amazing to see an ableist joke getting slapped down so publically, when ableist jokes are still basically fair game in standup, rarely even getting recognised as ableist, let alone critiqued.
xanna
2024-01-10 17:03:32 +0000 UTCSubtitles could do with a proofread. Particularly there's a load of nonsense at 13:15 <3
xanna
2024-01-10 14:48:18 +0000 UTCWhoops, thanks! That's embarrassing. I'll fix that for the public release
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 10:52:12 +0000 UTCAmazing vid! The analysis here is great and I love the “eternal setup” idea, never heard it before, great and useful concept. Just a small note: At 1:31:00 there’s a quote from an article and the headline is missing (the text reads “headline: subheadline (?)”)
Lou Spence
2024-01-10 08:48:30 +0000 UTCHell yeah 😎🎸
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 06:00:06 +0000 UTCLOL the Will Smith of Fox News over here!
Chill Goblin
2024-01-10 05:59:44 +0000 UTCKeep Gutfeld’s name out your fucking mouth.
Strath Ravage
2024-01-10 03:33:26 +0000 UTCNailed it.
Steven Gruber
2024-01-10 03:13:07 +0000 UTC
