▲ 34 ▼ Ebonics (media.piefed.zip) submitted 5 months ago by Nusm@piefed.zip to c/norm_macdonald_snl_jokes@piefed.zip 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (3 children) Uhhhhhh......thats not what ebonics is. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] felbane@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 child) The joke is that Asian kids still win the spelling bee even with different rules for spelling. SNL was playing on the stereotype. So many of these Norm-era jokes are wild outside the (more racist, more misogynistic) context of the late 20th century. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago It's part of the criticism that Norm was just a regular comedian and not some comic genius. He had a good delivery but punched down too often to be comfortable. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago In the 90's, we thought it was. There wasn't a way to look it up yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] felbane@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 child) The joke is that Asian kids still win the spelling bee even with different rules for spelling. SNL was playing on the stereotype. So many of these Norm-era jokes are wild outside the (more racist, more misogynistic) context of the late 20th century. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago It's part of the criticism that Norm was just a regular comedian and not some comic genius. He had a good delivery but punched down too often to be comfortable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago It's part of the criticism that Norm was just a regular comedian and not some comic genius. He had a good delivery but punched down too often to be comfortable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago In the 90's, we thought it was. There wasn't a way to look it up yet. permalink fedilink source parent
