TalKing of the Hill - Traffic Jam
Added 2022-04-18 04:01:01 +0000 UTCChris Rock guest stars at the height of his power in this month's episode, one that provides wisdom about race relations and proper backing up procedures! When Hank gets into a fender-bender with Kahn, he's forced to take a driver's ed course and ends up on the receiving end of insult comic Booda Sack—who soon becomes Bobby's hero. It's a very late-90s tale full of "yo mama" jokes and important lessons about freedom of speech; like how you can say whatever you want and still get your ass kicked. So listen in, unless your mama is so fat it somehow prevents you!
Note: We recorded this weeks before The Oscars, so just pretend one of us made a joke about Hank Hill saying "You keep propane's name out of your gottdanged mouth!"
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The improv in Houston has comedy classes. I took one in 2020 to drop my speeding charges and I had to sit for hours listening to this Cajun comic online. You couldn’t skip the videos and luckily I got my charges dropped.
Blarghjon
2022-04-20 01:30:44 +0000 UTCI remember not caring much for this episode when I was younger, specifically Booda Sack’s comedy bits. I was definitely aware of Def Comedy and caught Show Time at the Apollo after SNL, but by the time the concept filtered into my rural Kansas community, it was mostly as a punch line. Even then when my tastes were pretty awful, I thought that kind of comedy was beneath Chris Rock. I only got from your analysis of the episode that he’s supposed to be beleaguered doing that material. I’ll have to rewatch this one. I’m also quite familiar with Rock’s more infamous bit too. Regrettably I was the kid in middle school giving my white classmates (I’m mixed. Pfp is not me) N-word passes when we repeated our favorite lines from him on the school bus. There was only one other minority family around and they lived in town, so it all felt harmless at the time. I didn’t really experience the fallout of that until years later when a supervisor at a summer job wound up trying to explain to me how she wasn’t racist cuz she didn’t mind her grown daughter dated black men… well, except for the last one. She went on to explain that she knew the difference between black people and N-words just like Chris Rock. And yes, with a hard ‘R’. I don’t think she realized I was mixed. I’m often mistaken for Latino cuz I’m half Sicilian. It wouldn’t be the last time I bit my tongue when I heard the word at that pool store cuz I wasn’t going to find a better job for the summer. Reaping and sowing.meme, I guess lol. One last thing, the “Yo mama” joke format/game is called “The Dirty Dozens” or just “The Dozens”. I don’t think people actually talk about the dozens much, so saying it out loud sounds odd to me, but calling them yo mama jokes is the whitest thing I’ve ever heard out of you two Berkeleyites (Berkelyans?).
Ron Sterling
2022-04-19 18:54:14 +0000 UTCI'm glad to know my Austin assumption was correct
Bob Mackey
2022-04-18 21:51:54 +0000 UTCI watched this episode with my wife and when Hank was reviewing all the different defensive driving pamphlets she thought it was a little too absurd. had to tell her that I myself had a moving violation when i was 17 and had to take a course to remove it from my record. I went to one in Austin called 'Funnybone Defensive Driving' because it specifically advertised itself as Comedy-themed. the best way to describe it is imagine a 6 hour episode of Full House that's entirely centered on Uncle Joey explaining the rules of driving while pulling out all his terrible voices.
Blake R.
2022-04-18 20:08:54 +0000 UTCPractically all the big comedians came from def comedy. I suppose the biggest might be chappelle
Frank Grimes
2022-04-18 17:36:59 +0000 UTCI'm sick to death of The Slap discourse so I'd say you recorded this at the perfect time
nina matsumoto
2022-04-18 17:08:24 +0000 UTCYou guys timed the chris rock episode perfectly, only for it to be prerecorded before the oscars threw the world into chaos. Its nice to have an archive of such simpler times
Joshie Clarkin
2022-04-18 10:51:19 +0000 UTC
