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Pajamas TV Finds It Necessary To Torture, With This Video

Oh look, an instant classic. This is exactly how the Rolling Stones predicted their song would be bastardized forty years later, by Pajamas TV, with a random black Internet actor playing the bus-driving African president of America whose first instinct is to make jokes about his recently deceased white Kansan grandmother and, a couple minutes later, sing “But when Rush Limbaugh calls them out/He’s demonized like he’s the one who wrote it,” defending the right-wing radio Republican president’s glorification of a song called “Barack the Magic Negro.” Well at least “Negro” would make sense to them, since that is what they called black people forty years ago. [Washington Independent]


4:12 PM on Wed May 6 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. ShaqsDong says at 4:17 pm, May 6th, 2009

    If the Rolling Stones were still alive, they would be outraged.

  2. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 4:21 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Can someone photoshop clown makeup on that assclown? The stupid; it fucking burns.

    I couldn’t watch the whole thing, so someone else will have to tell me if he sings about doctored birth certificates too.

  3. NoWireHangers says at 4:21 pm, May 6th, 2009

    The What the FUCK Files are proud to present…

  4. BitterKlingon says at 4:22 pm, May 6th, 2009

    That was so bad, I think it gave me cancer!

  5. NoWireHangers says at 4:22 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Also, someone should tell this unemployed actor that he can’t play Barack Obama because doing so requires hair.

    Also, what the fuck? Also.

  6. shortsshortsshorts says at 4:25 pm, May 6th, 2009

    HAHAHA so funny!11!11

  7. ronaldpagan says at 4:27 pm, May 6th, 2009

    So is this what Michael Steele was talking about?

    PS: Our songs were way better.

  8. Itsjustme says at 4:29 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I don’t get it!

  9. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:32 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Fuck PJ teevee. These fucktards thought Joe the Plumber was suitable for the role of War Correspondent and that gives them less credibility than the fucking Weekly World News.

    But really? Is that the best they can do? A black guy “dissing” the preznit and making less-than veiled racial jokes? THAT PASSES FOR COMEDY?

    And why the subtitles? Do conservatives have that much trouble understanding black people?

  10. Will work for shoes says at 4:33 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Nancy Pelosi is pulling his strings?!?

    And what’s with throwing Reagan, Queen Elizabeth, and the Bushes under there? They’re Republicans; that’s where they belong.

  11. SayItWithWookies says at 4:33 pm, May 6th, 2009

    If this is what President Obama’s first hundred have done to the Republicans, I just can’t wait for Socialist Pothead Atheist Vegetarian Orgy Day. Hell, I’ve already started shopping for my tree, even though it’s waaaaay too early.

  12. V572625694 says at 4:34 pm, May 6th, 2009

    If you want intentionally funny comments, you’re going to have to stop posting things that are so unintentionally funny — to everyone except the Strolling Bones’ barristers, who, one thinks, are already in action.

    Plus: that dude can’t sing a lick.

  13. The Cold Sea says at 4:36 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Wow, that must be one broke-ass brother to play that role. Damn.

  14. rambone says at 4:38 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I’m just glad that mushmouth was able to find some work after these years.

  15. IceCreamEmpress says at 4:39 pm, May 6th, 2009

    PajamasTV is pants-peeingly unfunny.

  16. ChernobylSoup says at 4:39 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Poor guys, they just can’t figure out why their “Where’s the outrage!” theme that didn’t work in 1996 still isn’t working today.

  17. SomeNYGuy says at 4:39 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Remember when irony was dead?

    Now they’re holding memorial services for pathos.

  18. jetjaguar says at 4:40 pm, May 6th, 2009

    this could have saved the Half-Hour News Hour

  19. DC Hates Me says at 4:40 pm, May 6th, 2009

    That’s Michael’s brother, Meth Steele.

  20. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:42 pm, May 6th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: What will pass as “political discourse” in two years? I’m picturing Hannity in war paint and Beck drinking the blood of the liberals.

  21. ribnar says at 4:42 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I think I may love this video in a non-ironic way. Does he actually throw a copy of The Fountain Head under the bus at one point? And is end supposed to imply he ran into a tea bagging party, or that he was so distracted by the idea of tea bagging that he ran off the road and died in a horribly violent crash? So many questions!

  22. cranky says at 4:43 pm, May 6th, 2009

    poor alphonzo rachel, with that name he never had a chance.

  23. MayorShroomberg says at 4:44 pm, May 6th, 2009

    The only funny thing I heard was “a hut the size of a small shack” because, seriously, wtf?

    DC Hates Me: Are we sure that this isn’t actually Michael Steele himself? I, like the creators of this video apparently, can’t distinguish between black peo… are we sure this is even parody? Maybe this is actual footage of Obama? So yesterday he’s eating hamburgers, and today he’s singing and taking road trips while the terrorists are 9/11-ing our economy over and over?

  24. Hart88 says at 4:44 pm, May 6th, 2009

    wow, subtitles for the truly idiotic. win.

  25. Accordion-o-rama says at 4:44 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Someone needs to photoshop that bus in the Boner video.

  26. Kev-O-Tron: Don’t be disrespecting the (now defunct) Weekly World News. It reported some great stuff. Bat boy, the alien. I still remember the story they did about the CHAIR OF DEATH. Everybody who sat in the chair of death died, some years later. That’s a hell of lot more credible than anything on PJTV.

  27. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 4:44 pm, May 6th, 2009

    The Cold Sea: Heh. He was one of the ones who didn’t make the final cut for the Storm’s A-Coming/It’s Raining Men spot, obvs.

  28. charlesdegoal says at 4:45 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Boy, they must have wasted a lot of flat-screen TVs.
    Also, very poorly written and sophomoric. Can’t believe how pedestrian the whole bit about Rush Limbaugh sounds (and reads).

  29. NoWireHangers says at 4:45 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Kev-O-Tron: You need the subtitles to meet the clamoring demand the public has for lyrics to this new hit song. I want to know every word so that I can sing it all the time. Only thing is they forgot the bouncing ball.

  30. bfstevie says at 4:45 pm, May 6th, 2009

    We have to assume that PJTV is bankrolled by the same kind of people who bankroll Bill Krystol.

  31. mrcrimmins says at 4:46 pm, May 6th, 2009

    that is the absolute god-awful worst thing i’ve seen since the ad up top there with the fella eating credit cards. i mean, hooray for advertising on wonkette and all, and i will almost definitely purchase your product and/or service, but that picture man, it’s horsecrap. maybe zobama should throw that under his magic exploding bus. but yes, back to that - the steering wheel’s clearly attached to nothing, he resembles neither a president nor a rock star NOR a bus driver, and the whole thing looks like a poor man’s beta video game from a devry commercial. also, it’s just whining about flimsy wingnut attacks failing to stick. i hope everyone at pjtv gets lou gehrig’s disease.

  32. Hopey dont play that game says at 4:46 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Wow, I’ll have to show this to my Uncle Tom. Seriously, I do have an uncle named Tom and he loves this kind of unintentionally funny stuff.

  33. Inadequate Blackmail says at 4:46 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Innovation from Republicans at last!!! “Come” and “bus” rhyme now!

  34. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:47 pm, May 6th, 2009

    FMA: Chair of Death??? Fucking scary.

  35. Brendan M. says at 4:48 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Kev-O-Tron: And why the subtitles? Do conservatives have that much trouble understanding black people?

    It’s so we can all sing along to that catchy tune. Duh. It’ll be the “We Shall Overcome” of the teabagging movement.

  36. dijetlo says at 4:48 pm, May 6th, 2009

    OK, a couple of production notes
    If your going to use the line “the change has come
    It behooves you to find a word that rhymes..the word thumb comes to mind. The word bus …not so much.
    Other than that I’d give it a four, it makes no sense but it’s got a beat you can dance too,

  37. Fox News Light says at 4:53 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Wow, Wonkette usually makes me happy. But then I watched the other videos that guy crated for Plumber Joe TV, and well, I am sad for America.

  38. kthxbai...also says at 4:56 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I liked his side burns. Really edgy.

    Also, I agree that the stupid burns.

    NOBAMA!!!21211! He haz blak brother in KENNYAAAr! Hez pouuur!

  39. FlownOver says at 4:58 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Inadequate Blackmail:
    Actually this had been one of the few instances in which Stones lyrics (the original, anyway) did rhyme. Actually also.

  40. shortsshortsshorts says at 4:58 pm, May 6th, 2009

    And here is the king of the internet… this is amazing.

    http://www.shortsshortsshorts.com/?p=2936

  41. Da Derga says at 4:59 pm, May 6th, 2009

    HA! I love that he was driving a short bus. Because why not take a crack at retarded people while your at it.

  42. kthxbai...also says at 5:16 pm, May 6th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: i bet NOBAMA recycles jizzm

  43. Crank Tango says at 5:18 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Couple of questions:
    1- WTF is a Zobama?
    2- As a white man, can I call out an uncle tom when I see one?
    3- Are they so stupid that we are gonna have to write this shit for them? I mean I have seen Jon Stewart burn Obama in funnier ways than this, and god knows he is a communist joo.

    I’ll take my answers off the air, thanks.

  44. Dave J. says at 5:20 pm, May 6th, 2009

    HE WUZ SIGNING OF OFF TEH TELEPROMPTERZ@11!!!1!

  45. bignutz2 says at 5:22 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Really, have today’s conservatives made anything funny, ever? Do people on their side of the aisle laugh at these things?

  46. mrpuma2u says at 5:27 pm, May 6th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Can we make that holiday fall in March?? March has sucky holidays. I am too old to drink and then barf green beer, so socialist pot-head bathe in bong water day or whatever you dubbed it should be in March.

  47. PopeyesPipe says at 5:30 pm, May 6th, 2009

    The Rolling Stones are black?

  48. OReillysVibrator says at 5:31 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I’ll never vote Democrat again.

  49. dijetlo says at 5:36 pm, May 6th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: Oh my God…I had to bail at 3:06 when he began to explain how he recycled his sperm…..
    You literally stripped all the cool off my slackware workstation with that one, I got to go compile come libraries or something until I can get my head together….

  50. peorgietirebiter says at 5:40 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I’m thinking 19th nervous breakdown you know, nothin’ they do seems to turn out right, they cry and cry in their beds at night?

  51. Nerdalicious says at 5:41 pm, May 6th, 2009

    OReillysVibrator:
    Ditto: AND, I’m changing my avatar to a Republican FAST! O.K, after I stopped peeing myself with laughter…..First of all, I always knew Mick Jagger was African American (didn’t we all??). Are Queen & Gordon Brown under the proverbial bus, because they supposedly got crappy gifts? I think the pic of the Queen framed she gives to everyone is tre’ trashy. I so agree with Michael Moore, everytime the Rethugs try to make an Anti-Librul Movie it is always shitty in quality, hence their protest is lost in their crappy filmmaking & even WORSE, their non-existent comedic ablility. This is yet another example. As the old adage goes: “Are they they laughing WITH you or AT you????????????

  52. hobospacejunkie says at 5:41 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Jesus pig-fucking christ. I made it through 40 seconds. This cannot be happening. How much does Alonzo hate himself? Is this the closest they could come to someone who looks like Obama? Cuz this guy doesn’t. Not even a little bit. And as I only made it through 40 seconds, his grandmother? Seriously? This is funny?

    PJTV Once again proving that all wingnut protests = we hate niggers. Especially if they’re in the White House.

  53. whenPUMAsattack says at 5:43 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I made it 10 seconds. I miss the McCain girls.

  54. daisy chain says at 5:46 pm, May 6th, 2009

    MayorShroomberg: Idiots always get their facts wrong. He lives in a shack the size of a small hut. Or is it a house the size of small building? Perhaps it’s a shelter the size of a small cabin. Whatever. Its fucking SMALL is the point. And he LIVES in it, even though it is small instead of big. And it’s not even large. In fact, it’s little and not very roomy, on the inside AND the outside. Even at night. And no matter how many many people are inside of it, it remains small. It is as small as a small thing and not bigger than things that are not big.

    Shit. I must never expose my sensitive brain to pajamas media again.

  55. Nerdalicious says at 5:47 pm, May 6th, 2009

    ShaqsDong:
    “If the Rolling Stones were still alive, they would be outraged.”

    I call this one: “Please Stop Touring, Thank You!”
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GdNL2BdQnwo/SSLphHfrtsI/AAAAAAAATMc/AdFrE0ulcRE/s400/0207_rolling_rushmore_getty_01.jpg

  56. nyhfrog says at 5:48 pm, May 6th, 2009

    What the fuck is a Pajama TV?

    Did anybody notice the Constitution at the end?

    What the fuck?

  57. mynameisdetroit says at 5:48 pm, May 6th, 2009

    oh, the pain…my moaning stems from pain…

  58. Nerdalicious says at 5:48 pm, May 6th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie:
    Honestly, I can’t believe they put her on this insane vid, what a crazy bunch of MoFo’s these bigots are. Agreed.

  59. NoWireHangers says at 5:49 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Please go troll the YouTube comments for this video. It’s good fun.

  60. Nerdalicious says at 5:59 pm, May 6th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie:
    They have to drain the pus out of the wound, to heal the wound. I assume this nonsense will get even worse.

  61. DeLand DeLakes says at 6:07 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Are you suggesting that Republicans stopped calling black people “Negros” forty whole years ago? Honey, these people still refer to hazelnuts as “nigger toes.”

  62. hobospacejunkie says at 6:12 pm, May 6th, 2009

    My buddy, who’s writing a dissertation on wingtards, has this to say about Alonzo:

    “That guys a douche, he was at cpac. He’s been adopted by malkin and pajama tv, just plumber joe, and trots around as token black dickhead.”

  63. Mr Blifil says at 6:20 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Um… apparently they cannot all dance.

  64. IceCreamEmpress says at 6:38 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Honey, these people still refer to hazelnuts as “nigger toes.”

    That’s actually Brazil nuts. Anyone who calls a hazelnut that is an idiot as well as being a racist idiot.

  65. x111e7thst says at 6:42 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Can wen bring back dueling please? No, seriously can we?

  66. x111e7thst says at 6:43 pm, May 6th, 2009

    x111e7thst: Can we

  67. Nanks says at 6:58 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Agree w/Mr. Blifil: At least this guy is doing his part to combat the racial stereotype that all black people can dance.

    The editor in me loves the subtitles. “anyone of my friend’s who make me look like crap” Really? Your grammar, young man, makes you look like crap (or, in his world, “You’re grammar…”). Also, “Who’d I’d just run over?” Also.

    “A hut the size of a small shack”?? That’s like saying, “A football field that’s the size of 360 feet by 160 feet.” Analogy. Ur doin it rong.

  68. imissopus says at 7:06 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Wow. Just…wow.

    Stay classy, Pajamas Media!

  69. Monsieur Grumpe says at 7:22 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I’m guessing that was Alan Keys son. It’s the only explanation.

  70. SPlaTz says at 7:49 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Guess thats the hate bus listening tour.

  71. proudgrampa says at 7:54 pm, May 6th, 2009

    That is 3:29 I will never get back…

  72. Hominidx says at 8:20 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I always wondered what happened to Carlton.

  73. Knob Gobbler says at 8:32 pm, May 6th, 2009

    I thought blacks could dance. No?

  74. american mutt says at 8:34 pm, May 6th, 2009

    a black panther needs to kick his ass for defending limbaugh.

  75. american mutt says at 8:35 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Crank Tango:

    1. I have no idea.
    2. No, sorry. But I can. he’s a fucking uncle tom.
    3. Wonkette should write for PJ media

  76. Pop Socket says at 9:32 pm, May 6th, 2009

    The subtitles are for wingnuts that can’t speak jive.

  77. Pop Socket says at 9:37 pm, May 6th, 2009

    If he’s saying he threw Rush Limbaugh under the bus, it doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

  78. SnarkNotFark says at 10:35 pm, May 6th, 2009

    That wuz SOOO GHERTTO
    Also too, as the continuity police, I must point out to Pajamas TV that they used a Type A Conversion style bus for the side shots, while they clearly used a Type C Conventional bus for the front shots.

    MayorShroomberg: I would be more offended with the shack the size of a small hut.

  79. sanantonerose says at 11:55 pm, May 6th, 2009

    Egah. I only made it through 1:02 before I slammed the lid shut on my laptop.

  80. ryang says at 4:03 am, May 7th, 2009

    Has there ever been a better song lyric than, “THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED ME THE MAGIC NEGRO AND Y’ALL DIDN’T NOTICE”? That’s exactly what Obama would say if his Teleprompter ever broke down and he said what was really on his mind! And then he’d run over a flatscreen TV with an image of his grandmother on it!…?

  81. trulyskewed says at 7:37 am, May 7th, 2009

    You’ve heard of the saying ‘Its fun funny because its true’? Why are Republicans never funny?

  82. LittlePig says at 8:48 am, May 7th, 2009

    Republicans must just hate the hell out of TVs.

  83. starGirl says at 10:26 am, May 7th, 2009

    Thank NObama for the opportunity or else you would have been the PJTv’s janitor.

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