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‘We Can Change!’

by Jim Newell  1:47 pm April 8, 2009

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]

{ 47 comments }

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

This is only marginally better than la pequeña Sarah Palin.

Sussemilch April 8, 2009 at 1:51 pm

That needs a rebuttle from Chris Tucker.

norbizness April 8, 2009 at 1:51 pm

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

Sussemilch April 8, 2009 at 1:52 pm

>rebuttal< literacy me fail

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

Iron Chef is better.

suchsweetthunder April 8, 2009 at 1:56 pm

two whore diamonds?

arclight April 8, 2009 at 1:57 pm

LOL WAT

Hart88 April 8, 2009 at 1:58 pm

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

DoctorCulturae April 8, 2009 at 1:58 pm

My irony muscle just broke.

Hooray For Anything April 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm

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

Scandinavian Fetus April 8, 2009 at 2:01 pm

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.

Crank Tango April 8, 2009 at 2:01 pm

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

One Yield Regular April 8, 2009 at 2:01 pm

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

Judas Peckerwood April 8, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Barack The Magic Negro!

ah pook April 8, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Is that guy supposed to be a burn victim?

Min April 8, 2009 at 2:05 pm

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

mookworthjwilson April 8, 2009 at 2:05 pm

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

ManchuCandidate April 8, 2009 at 2:05 pm

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.

NoWireHangers April 8, 2009 at 2:06 pm

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

ManchuCandidate April 8, 2009 at 2:10 pm

[re=283923]NoWireHangers[/re]:
Jinkusu!

SayItWithWookies April 8, 2009 at 2:16 pm

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.

AngryBlakGuy April 8, 2009 at 2:19 pm

…Michael Steele?

Capitol Hillbilly April 8, 2009 at 2:19 pm

when life gives you lemons, make tangerines

rambone April 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm

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

Luke Warm April 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm

Maybe SNL can replace Fred Armistan with this guy.

AngryBlakGuy April 8, 2009 at 2:24 pm

[re=283928]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=283923]NoWireHangers[/re]: …dont tell me you guys have never seen THE LAST DRAGON!?!

Guppy06 April 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm

[re=283923]NoWireHangers[/re]: Yes they are, they’re just all in the US military bases.

Colander April 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm

[re=283914]Crank Tango[/re]: They probably figured, having her be a tranny, there’s no possible way anyone could be offended because its obviously so insane.

Accordion-o-rama April 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm

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

AngryBlakGuy April 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm

[re=283928]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=283923]NoWireHangers[/re]: …ALSO!

FamilyLost April 8, 2009 at 2:36 pm

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

Origami April 8, 2009 at 2:47 pm

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

Lascauxcaveman April 8, 2009 at 2:51 pm

[re=284011]Origami[/re]: Pretty sure that’s a guy.

suchsweetthunder April 8, 2009 at 2:56 pm

[re=283935]SayItWithWookies[/re]: No. Al Gore slathered in Vaseline looks different than that.

Atheist Nun April 8, 2009 at 2:58 pm

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

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

Lazy Media April 8, 2009 at 3:13 pm

He’s a witch!

sanantonerose April 8, 2009 at 3:28 pm

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.

vkladchik April 8, 2009 at 3:38 pm

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?

suchsweetthunder April 8, 2009 at 3:49 pm

[re=284161]vkladchik[/re]: 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!

ah pook April 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm

[re=284161]vkladchik[/re]: Concern troll is concerned. w00t.

fuckinredneck April 8, 2009 at 4:52 pm

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

psilage April 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm

looks like Kryten in black head.

Origami April 8, 2009 at 6:39 pm

[re=284026]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: My apologies.

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

Zadig April 8, 2009 at 9:04 pm

[re=284161]vkladchik[/re]: 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.

doloras April 8, 2009 at 9:47 pm
vkladchik April 9, 2009 at 12:19 am

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

BruceLee5000 April 9, 2009 at 10:09 am

This shit is worse than Telemundo!

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