Chris Rock does not make jokes so obscure you need to Google it to understand it. Clearly this is a calculated effort on Minaj's part.
Not sent from an iPhone On Nov 1, 2018, 5:43 AM, at 5:43 AM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: >Chris Rock is not really targeting an African-American audience. > >On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:42 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Two episodes of Hasan Minaj’s “Patriot Act” have dropped. Although >he’s a >> fairly recent defector from “The Daily Show,” it most closely >resembles >> John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight.” But Minaj seems to be targeting >south >> Asians and Muslims with the show. Also, targeting an especially young >> audience. >> In the first episode. Minaj spends the whole episode talking about >> affirmative action. In the second episode, he talks mostly about >Saudi >> Arabia before switching topics, finally closing with a taped bit that >has >> kids dropping F bombs. >> They attempt a different look with the show. The audience is close to >the >> stage. But in the first episode especially, they sound like a laugh >track. >> In the second episode he calls attention to all the brown faces in >the >> crowd. >> The other issue is instead of a green screen or a large TV monitor >behind >> him, they build a wall of a monitors, Minaj calls it a wall of iPads. >They >> seem to be working out the kinks. Letterman’s new Netflix shows were >> plagued with odd camera angles and cuts for the first few episodes. >> “Patriot Act” caught the same bug. There’s odd profile shots that >almost >> seem to be shooting him from behind. In the Saudia Arabia >presentation, the >> monitor goes dark, Minaj walks to his spot and then the photo of MBS >fades >> in behind Minaj. Somehow it looked too rehearsed and lacked impact. >> >> [image: minajmbs.jpg] >> >> The director is Richard A. Preuss. IMDB lists some impressive >credits. I >> think he needs to smooth it out. Conan O’Brien had a rough start and >it >> took months for him to figure it out. >> A bigger problem is that Minaj doesn’t seem to have the charisma or >comic >> stamina or something to carry a whole half hour. Sometimes his jokes >seem >> good but he steps on the punchline. It makes your appreciate a John >Oliver, >> Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, who can keep up the pace for a full >half >> hour. The latter two benefit from commercial breaks. >> Minaj is also making references to south Asian and Muslim cultural >items. >> Like some kind of test I guess Indian kids take, and some sort of >toiletry >> tactic he feels is superior to toilet paper alone and to Saudis not >owning >> dogs. He notes the Saudis have invested heavily in Wag.com, the >dog-walking >> web site, and said Saudis don’t own dogs. I did a mental search of >the four >> Arab families I know. Two own dogs. One, in fact, own a dog as a >substitute >> for falconry, a sport they are too poor to pursue. (The dogs point >and >> flush and they shoot). On the other hand, of the south Asian families >I >> know, none own any pets. >> New episodes drop weekly. Out of the chute Minaj’s show doesn’t seem >to be >> as solid as Michelle Wolf’s, but perhaps targeting a different >audience >> will make it more desirable to Netflix. I will watch one or two more, >but I >> don’t seem to be in the target audience. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >-- >Sent from Gmail Mobile > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
