Hey guys!
RHPC: Hi!
Ryan: The hell...
Start this over real quick
Hey guys!
So by now I'm sure you've already heard about all the drama and controversy
Around, you know, Steve Harvey, and making the jokes about Asian men
Basically he made some jokes on his show about asian men and
how they are not attractive.
And this is what it looked like
Do you like asian men, no
Thank you
And obviously there was a lot of drama that followed
there was two different sides of people
either, you know, attacking Steve Harvey, saying he's racist for making those jokes.
Or people actually defending him and saying, you know, he's a comedian
and Asians need to learn to just take a joke.
And even though I'm Asian and I should
be biased, when I really thought about it,
I wasn't personally offended by what he said
I'm not saying what he said was
right, I'm just saying for me personally
I-I don't get offended by things like that
I've been hearing it my whole life!
Obviously I can see why Asians were
offended and they are upset about this
and I have to admit, I was upset too, but
probably for a completely different reason.
I wasn't upset by the fact that
he was saying Asian men are unattractive.
I was upset for just two reasons.
First of all, the double standard that exists when it
comes to making racist jokes.
Like in our society, it's almost OK to make jokes about
Asians like this. I mean could you imagine
if we switch the roles and we have an
Asian man playing Steve Harvey and said
the things that he said but about black
people on national television?
"Excuse me do you like black men?"
"No. Thank you"
*People laughing*
Yeah. I'm pretty sure that Asian guy's career would be over
and he'd probably be getting death threats
he'd probably not be able to book another job
there would be significantly more outrage
than there was about this Steve Harvey thing
but since this joke was about Asians
it's not as big of a deal
Because, you know it's just a joke.
I mean Asians are like the punchbags of society.
I could understand if this was, like, the first time
that this ever happened in mainstream media
But let's be real, these kinds of things happen to Asians all the time
I mean, remember during Linsanity and ESPN wrote about Jeremy Lin
and they titled the article "A Chink In The Armor"?
Obviously making reference to the fact that Jeremy is Asian?
and yes there was a lot of outrage for that
I'm not denying that
still, again, there was still people defending the fact that it was a joke.
But my point is the fact that anybody would
actually think it's okay to title an article "A Chink In the Armor,"
when you know it's a non-communal sports related article.
Is kind of ridiculous
I mean the word 'chink' is basically like the 'N' word for Asians
You think anybody would dare to publish the article
if they switched out the word 'chink' with the 'N' word?
Of course not, because society and mainstream media
has taught us that it's not okay to make black jokes
but it is okay to make Asian jokes.
And Steve Harvey is a comedian, it's his job.
In fact, if I had to list my favorite black comedians, you know from greatest to worst, Steve Harvey wouldn't be the last one.
You know, I'd probably start, the top of the list, with like David Chappelle,
Eddie Murphy, Wayne Brady, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, Donald Glover, Brady Mack,
Martin Lawrence, Crazy Morgan, Wanda Sykes, The entire Waynes Family,
The Make 7 up yours guy Orlando Jones,
The guy that made the "got eem" vine,
Bill Cosby, Steve Harvey,
and then Bill Cosby,
after the rape allegations.
So see?
Steve is still not at the bottom.
HA! GOT EEM!!
I mean, let's be real, the guy's funny.
When you got jokes that are straight fire
like this one:
Steve Harvey: "You like asian men? I don't even like chinese food."
*ruckus laughter*
"I don't eat what I can't pronounce."
*more ruckus laughter*
*cracks himself up*
*Ryan cracks himself up* 'Cause Chinese food is often in another language!
See?
So sometimes, they pronounce things differently
and it-what seems like *laugh break* And what's Steve saying... *more laughing*
It's a good joke.
The funniest part to me, is that, you know, as a comedian
he didn't just laugh at his own joke.
He was dying from his own joke.
I mean, it looked like it was the funniest joke he's ever told, or heard!
Then again, maybe he wasn't even making a joke.
I mean, chinese food IS hard to pronounce.
And it actually made me kind of curious and I- k- I started thinking, like
What would it be like to have someone like Steve Harvey, you know, at, like, a chinese restaurant, for lunch?
Steve Harvey: *laughing* I ca- I can't eat anything here
I can't pronounce one thing here.
W...w...what does this say? "Ching chong ling long"
Ryan: It just says spring rolls
Steve Harvey: Look at this one- look at this one: swing song pong! *laughing*
Ryan: Sweet and sour pork! it's literally 4 English words
Steve Harvey: What is it- wha- what is it?
Sing hao beng en? sing hao beng en? *laughing*
Ryan: It's Chao Mein...
Steve harvey: dao plum-pling! Ryan: dumplings.
Steve Harvey: pe king roasted duck!
Ryan: wait, you might've actually said that one correctly, for-
nope. you're on the drink menu. That says Pepsi.
Steve: I can't eat one thing from this entire country
Ryan: If you can't even pronounce those, there's nothing you can eat in this entire world!
Steve: Entire world? More like entire runnerup!
Ryan: What?
Steve Harvey: Yeah, I can't eat anything from this planet let alone any other planet in this entire runnerup!
Ryan: are you trying to say 'universe'?
Steve: Oho ho yeah! My bad, I always mix universe and runnerup!
Soo, I guess we, just won't eat lunch, then huh?
Steve: Hey, how 'bout we just go to kuhfuk?
Ryan: umm, what?
Steve: Yeah, kuhfuk! It's easy to pronounce so we can just go eat at kuhfuk, if you want.
Ryan: Are you swearing at me, right now?
Steve Harvey: No, the restaurant.
You know kuhfuk. They have, like those gravy, mashed potatoes, corn,
you know those big ol' bucket of uh, uh chick fried chicken, with the white and red stripes and that picture of that old guy Colonel Bernie Sanders on it.
You mean, KFC?
Steve: Wow. I cannot believe you just said that.
Ryan: Wait, what? You're the one that sa-
Steve Harvey: Just because I'm black you just assume I like KFC? You racist!
That was a horrible Steve Harvey impression, I know
I apologize, and I know that wasn't a good joke to end on either.
So, I apologize for that, too.
See, but at least I admit when I have bad jokes.
*Crowd and Ryan laugh*
Now I should also say that Steve actually did apologize already.
It was a typical PR apology that every celebrity does when they mess up.
And you know he doesn't really mean it because you know when
The backlash first started coming, he literally said this:
"They're kinda beating me up on the internet right now for no reason, but"
"Ya know, that's life, ain't it?"
Leave Steve Harvey Alone!
But anyway, overall
Either Steve Harvey was making a lame, tasteless, overused joke
that Asians have been hearing all their lives.
Or, he actually meant what he said and he really does believe that, you know, women aren't attracted to Asian males
It's one or the other, and we all can agree that it was just a bad, tasteless joke.
Because, we know he's not a racist. I mean
he just had a meeting with the president of the United States
So how can he be racist?
But all jokes aside, I decided to actually do my own research and
uh, see if you know maybe Steve was on to something. Maybe women don't
like Asian men.
So what I did is what any logical person on the internet would do:
Taking it to the streets.
Oh! Excuse me miss could I ask you a few questions? I'll only take five minutes.
Gonna ask you a few simple questions
Alright first question
If you had to pick between these two individuals who would you consider to be more attractive? A or B?
Probably B
A or B?
I'm gonna have to go with B.
I would go with B.
What the heck? I'm not gay man.
In terms of attractiveness, like who would you?
I like the Walking Dead so-
B?
B, yeah.
If you had one of these two individuals, who would you go on a date with, A or B?
B
I'm gonna have to go with B again.
Of course B, I love John Cho!
Are you serious? I mean, I guess B?
Which one would you consider to be sexier? A or B?
Um...B?
I'd go with B.
Definitely B.
Dude I don't know bro, B I guess?
If you were to come across one of these next two people randomly on the street right now, who are you most likely to kiss?
Um...
A
A for sure!
I'm gonna have to go with A.
Are you sure?
Yeah... That's a definite A.
So yeah the findings were inconclusive. Probably just have to try again another time
*Ryan whispers* Stupid girls...
TEEHEE!