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(balloons popping)
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- What a prick.
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Any man over 40 on Instagram is weird
and that weirdo is performance artist Jan Hakon Erichsen.
He has over 500 of these artsy balloon snuff films.
Real long winters in Norway is my guess.
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(audience sounds shocked)
Time well spent.
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Balloons aren't his only medium,
he also dabbles in dry pasta.
(noodles snapping)
(audience laughs)
But mainly balloons.
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I see his work as a metaphor about how all arts programs
should be defunded immediately.
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As a tribute to Jan,
I decided to pop the most erotic balloons of them all.
(audience laughs)
This is obviously an art piece
about how sex has become to safe in the work place.
(audience laughs)
Everyone knows that the most exciting thing
about intercourse is spending the next three months
terrified that someone's pregnant.
(audience laughs)
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Millions and millions of sad people are spending their time
watching other people cut bar soap.
(soap crunches)
(audience laughs)
I'm told this is soothing and or relaxing.
Honey, it's better than traditional whittling,
with soap whittling,
no splinters and your hands smell amazing.
(audience laughs)
(soap crunches)
When cutting something slippery you always wanna slice
towards the wrist, in a long deep straight down motion.
(audience laughs)
Then take a warm bath.
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Let your problems just float away.
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I made a soap cutting video with my own personal bar soap.
(audience laughs)
(chainsaw revs)
Pubs are natures loofah.
(dramatic music)
(glass dinging)
This video's almost 40 minutes long.
(audience laughs)
Pretty good way to get everyone's attention
before you make speech.
(audience laughs)
That's scnooleheletteletto and he makes tons of long,
painfully dull, almost serial killer esk videos
for seemingly no other reason than to infuriate me,
turn it off!
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Is it art?
How would I know?
I grew up in Florida, that's why I asked you,
the people who have always have comments on everything,
to critique his work in a new segment called art twitic.
(audience laughs)
All right, let's see how you interpreted this.
TheDS, empty and hollow, the mindless repetition of life,
ringing out for all to hear.
Also wide and ceramic like your mom's vagina.
(audience laughs)
This is about (beeps) Obama and his lack of authority
when dealing with foreigners.
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Next, this one is called waffle falling over.
(audience laughs)
(waffle thuds)
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Bush did 9/11.
(audience laughs)
Interesting piece right here.
The waffle represents the bourgeoisie
and gravity is the proletariat.
Powerful.
(audience laughs)
Joe writes, it's a waffle falling over.
(audience laughs)
The next piece is titled, putting book on a bench.
(footsteps)
(book thuds)
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Can we see that again, in slow motion?
No?
Great.
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What does it mean?
Christianity has been benched.
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We are outside now, vulnerable and alone,
unable to go on we rest on a bench,
waiting for night to take us.
(audience laughs)
My followers are deep as (beeps).
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The last selection from his vast library of pointless work
is touching door with baguette.
(audience laughs)
(baguette taps)
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There are almost 82 million videos on YouTube,
that might be the dumbest.
(audience laughs)
It represents the struggles of opening a door
while holding a baguette.
It is very sad.
(audience laughs)
This represents the growing cap between rich
and poor in America.
Only those with a little bread can open doors.
(audience laughs)
That's not bad.
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(beeps) block metaphor, duh.
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For real, mature art twitics.