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WEDNESDAY LUNCH VIDEO

‘We Can Change!’

This is a couple of months old, but you know what else it is? It’s your “Wednesday Lunch Video” hooray! Yes We Change! Blackface? [YouTube]


1:47 PM on Wed April 8 2009
By Jim Newell
1243 Views

  1. Dave J. says at 1:49 pm, April 8th, 2009

    This is only marginally better than la pequeña Sarah Palin.

  2. Sussemilch says at 1:51 pm, April 8th, 2009

    That needs a rebuttle from Chris Tucker.

  3. norbizness says at 1:51 pm, April 8th, 2009

    You think that’s bad, Google Turkish Star Trek. Those aren’t even his real ears!

  4. Sussemilch says at 1:52 pm, April 8th, 2009

    >rebuttal< literacy me fail

  5. Crow T. Robot says at 1:55 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Iron Chef is better.

  6. suchsweetthunder says at 1:56 pm, April 8th, 2009

    two whore diamonds?

  7. arclight says at 1:57 pm, April 8th, 2009

    LOL WAT

  8. Hart88 says at 1:58 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Wait, where the device that nails the guy in the nuts if he gives an incorrect answer? You call this a Japanese game show?

  9. DoctorCulturae says at 1:58 pm, April 8th, 2009

    My irony muscle just broke.

  10. Hooray For Anything says at 2:00 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Wait, is this some sort of game show or the latest RNC video?

  11. Scandinavian Fetus says at 2:01 pm, April 8th, 2009

    No offense, but I am really starting to understand why Japan lost WWII.

    I still don’t understand why Japanese women are uncontrollably “wowed” by the most insignificant of “surprises.” It is as if they are experiencing everything for the very first time.

    Oh well, I am off to reveal my manhood to my Geisha.

  12. Crank Tango says at 2:01 pm, April 8th, 2009

    I just KNEW Michele Obama was an Asian tranny, AKA my favorite kind!

  13. One Yield Regular says at 2:01 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Is that supposed to be Michelle? She looks like she belongs on the stage of The Queen Mary on Ventura Boulevard, impersonating Diana Ross.

  14. Judas Peckerwood says at 2:03 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Barack The Magic Negro!

  15. ah pook says at 2:03 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Is that guy supposed to be a burn victim?

  16. I’d rather look for change under the cushions of the couch.

  17. mookworthjwilson says at 2:05 pm, April 8th, 2009

    These people need to start hanging out with the Spanish Olympic Team…

  18. ManchuCandidate says at 2:05 pm, April 8th, 2009

    How easy is to find black Japanese comedians who look vaguely like the first couple?

    But then again, I can see why folks might just be a tad upset considering how fucked up US America racial relations are.

  19. NoWireHangers says at 2:06 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Oh come on. What were they supposed to do. There aren’t any black people in Japan.

  20. ManchuCandidate says at 2:10 pm, April 8th, 2009

    NoWireHangers:
    Jinkusu!

  21. SayItWithWookies says at 2:16 pm, April 8th, 2009

    That was supposed to be Obama? I swear, I thought it was supposed to be Al Gore with a deep tan and slathered in vaseline. The dime-store magic tricks make so much more sense now.

  22. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:19 pm, April 8th, 2009

    …Michael Steele?

  23. Capitol Hillbilly says at 2:19 pm, April 8th, 2009

    when life gives you lemons, make tangerines

  24. rambone says at 2:23 pm, April 8th, 2009

    I had no idea that Barry could speak Japanese! And magic too?!?

  25. Luke Warm says at 2:23 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Maybe SNL can replace Fred Armistan with this guy.

  26. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:24 pm, April 8th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: NoWireHangers: …dont tell me you guys have never seen THE LAST DRAGON!?!

  27. Guppy06 says at 2:32 pm, April 8th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: Yes they are, they’re just all in the US military bases.

  28. Colander says at 2:32 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Crank Tango: They probably figured, having her be a tranny, there’s no possible way anyone could be offended because its obviously so insane.

  29. Accordion-o-rama says at 2:33 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Ho hum. Barack sprays all over a nice lady’s lemons. This is not news.

  30. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:33 pm, April 8th, 2009
  31. FamilyLost says at 2:36 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Lots of blackface comedy/impersonation in Japan (ex. Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, etc.). Other audience guys in blackface, also.

  32. Origami says at 2:47 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Blackface Japanese Michelle Obama can’t stop itchin’ her crotch.

  33. Lascauxcaveman says at 2:51 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Origami: Pretty sure that’s a guy.

  34. suchsweetthunder says at 2:56 pm, April 8th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: No. Al Gore slathered in Vaseline looks different than that.

  35. Atheist Nun says at 2:58 pm, April 8th, 2009

    The Japanese Barack and Michelle can open up for The GospeRats:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTIiF84RyM
    and
    /watch?v=9zigfIZrmPY

  36. Lazy Media says at 3:13 pm, April 8th, 2009

    He’s a witch!

  37. sanantonerose says at 3:28 pm, April 8th, 2009

    They’ve just been waiting to get us back for Jerry Lewis’s buck teeth and bowl cut impersonation. Or was that Chinese? They all look the same to me.

  38. vkladchik says at 3:38 pm, April 8th, 2009

    The show is a comedy impersonation show, where the impersonations/get-ups are either amazingly realistic or comedically wrong. This is a case of the latter. There is no more racism involved in this than in Elvis impersonators dressing up to look like Elvis. Sorry for the unsnarky reality check, but you people need to stop imitating Bush and myopically judging all cultures based on your own culture’s values.

    The really, really amazing thing in this clip is Hiromi’s hair–what the hell happened there?

  39. suchsweetthunder says at 3:49 pm, April 8th, 2009

    vkladchik: The show is a comedy impersonation show, where the impersonations/get-ups are either amazingly realistic or comedically wrong. This is a case of the latter. There is no more racism involved in this than in Elvis impersonators dressing up to look like Elvis. Sorry for the unsnarky reality check, but you people need to stop imitating Bush and myopically judging all cultures based on your own culture’s values.

    And they have cute squinty eyes!

  40. ah pook says at 4:16 pm, April 8th, 2009

    vkladchik: Concern troll is concerned. w00t.

  41. fuckinredneck says at 4:52 pm, April 8th, 2009

    At least they didn’t have Pan-kun playing our Barack Obama.

  42. psilage says at 4:58 pm, April 8th, 2009

    looks like Kryten in black head.

  43. Origami says at 6:39 pm, April 8th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: My apologies.

    Blackface Japanese tranny Michelle Obama won’t stop itching his(?) crotch.

  44. vkladchik: I’m as much a weeaboo as anyone else (I noticed the katakana on the youtube thing before I pressed play or read the synopsis, and was all “hey, that says ‘obama’”), but seriously? You’re kind of a prude, and this is a site for the funnies. Go on, git.

    If you really want to play the cultural honesty game, it would probably bear mentioning that Japan isn’t exactly Captain Racial Transcendence over there, what with their Brazilian-Japanese working underclass, and an awful lot of ‘No Gaijin Allowed’ establishments. But really, I’d rather you just not roll into snarky threads and appoint yourself Internet Policeman.

  45. doloras says at 9:47 pm, April 8th, 2009
  46. vkladchik says at 12:19 am, April 9th, 2009

    Right, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh.

  47. BruceLee5000 says at 10:09 am, April 9th, 2009

    This shit is worse than Telemundo!

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