Comments on: The Job

The Job

NotMyselfRightNow — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:56:11 -0800

The Job.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:22 -0800

The comment.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 -0800

The three minutes for a thirty second concept.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:03:31 -0800

The waiting for the punchline.

By: gman

gman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:03:56 -0800

Why is questioned.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:07:29 -0800

The Heh.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:07:45 -0800

Ha! I liked the part where traditional roles were reversed for comedic effect.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:08:13 -0800

The credits are longer than the joke. Funnier, too.

By: Bernt Pancreas

Bernt Pancreas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:09:00 -0800

Clever idea, but it hit a little too close to home to be funny for me. The minute the truck pulled up, I thought, "Oh, look. It's me when my severance runs out".

By: emhutchinson

emhutchinson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:11:54 -0800

ahh the irony.

By: regicide is good for you

regicide is good for you — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:13:09 -0800

The stock "Mexican music" seemed a bit in poor taste. As if that's all a Latino guy would ever listen to.

By: pianomover

pianomover — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:13:14 -0800

The irony is in fact ironic.

By: obvious

obvious — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:14:08 -0800

It's not a bad joke, but the execution ruins it. What is with the music?

By: aheckler

aheckler — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:15:49 -0800

The SLYT.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:17:08 -0800

"and has been honored with 28 international awards."... woh, not bad for middling sketch

By: sidereal

sidereal — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:19:25 -0800

Le sigh.

By: pianomover

pianomover — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:21:46 -0800

This post seems to have been posted by someone who is high.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:10 -0800

The comment calling this racist and kicking off a 700 comment shit fest.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:24:02 -0800

When the guy in the truck pulled up and got out I thought he was going to say something along the lines of "I'm here to do all the actual *work* the rest of you guys do." Which would have driven home the reason for our current situation far more effectively than anything else I've seen.

By: flotson

flotson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:33:33 -0800

I thought this was hilarious. The stock "Mexican music" seemed a bit in poor taste. As if that's all a Latino guy would ever listen to. Except for the music. Which, judging from my neighborhood (Bushwick), is nothing like anything that hispanic dudes listen to ever.

By: BigLankyBastard

BigLankyBastard — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:35:39 -0800

The quality of the post notwithstanding, I need to note that not every stereotype is false/offensive. Speaking as a gringo who has been living, walking, and driving daily in a neighborhood with many Latino/Hispanic families, I am here to attest that it is not unreasonable by any stretch to depict a Latino man in a pickup truck with traditional Mexican music blaring. This is not to say "Hurf durf Mexicuns love mariachis LOL!!1!" but to defend that aspect of this not particularly well-done sketch. I hear that music all the time, from neighbors of every age group. Also, some Japanese exchange students are, in fact, talented at Math, some black folks actually love chicken wings, and a goodly portion of white men really do enjoy classic rock. To include these stereotypes in depictions of persons belonging to these demographics is not inherently negative, inaccurate, or offensive.

By: robtf3

robtf3 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:36:49 -0800

The day laborers at the homes I've worked on listen to a combination of stock "Mexican music," Hispanic rap/pop/dance and American rap/pop/dance. Well, the painters do at least. I think I've only heard the bricklayers play stock music. I have no idea about the framing crew or carpet layers or roofers. I'm not around them. I'm more interested in what the day laborers eat anyways. They'll break out this electric griddle and some tortillas and some meat and vegetables and have a meal fit for a king. Sometimes they'll have food delivered to them. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with a ham sandwich and no siesta.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:39:50 -0800

reminds me of my recruiter.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:40:01 -0800

And then the person with Java experience has his Java stolen on the first day of the job. He wanders around the city with his sad little son, looking for his stolen Java, only to discover and confront the person who stole his Java and is roughed up and berated by the neighbours of the theif. Then, in desperation, he steals someone else's Java and is mobbed by the townspeople and is almost arrested until they eventually let him go and he walks home, Javaless, with his son crying. Fin.

By: destro

destro — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:44:33 -0800

Reminiscent of the Expert Truck from Mr. Show

By: TrialByMedia

TrialByMedia — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:59:04 -0800

The stock "Mexican music" seemed a bit in poor taste. As if that's all a Latino guy would ever listen to. I borrowed a Latino coworker's truck and this is exactly the sort of thing the radio was tuned to when I drove it. But now that I think of it, that may have been his idea of a joke.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:39:04 -0800

Hell, I'm a white guy and I listen to stuff like that. Kinda drawn out for one joke; however, I thought the point was made deftly. Would have been better if the suits were actually going for construction-type jobs - "I need two flatwork concrete guys, ok, and three carpenters - one finish, two rough, ok, yeah, yeah. Two masons. You, You. One unlicensed plumber, and one basic laborer."

By: TrialByMedia

TrialByMedia — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:46:32 -0800

Heh. I do blue collar work for a living, and our plant deals with a sector of the economy that's still relatively strong (fingers crossed). I've talked to several suit-types that hired on as temporary help for the winter. The company is keeping 3 of them long enough for them to join the union, and they feel lucky.

By: lostburner

lostburner — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:57:22 -0800

My (established racist) former boss once showed me this video, laughing heartily the whole time. I already knew he had a chip on his shoulder for hispanic people, but this kind of thing always turned my stomach. It feels like the whole joke is "Ha ha, that Mexican is acting just like a white man, hiring people and giving out jobs! And those white men are acting just like craven Mexicans, look at them scrambling into the back of the truck!" No doubt he saw it as a funny political cartoon of the times without any racial edginess, but I can't stomach people who are already racially insensitive (him) laughing at this type of humor.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:09:31 -0800

Fin. hey i just saw wendy and lucy! kelly reichardt talks about neorealist New Recession Cinema here :P

By: RedEmma

RedEmma — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:26:43 -0800

well, lostburner--my "established racist" uncle love-love-LOVES the movie Blazing Saddles. like it's his favorite movie. sometimes racist people love things for entirely the wrong reasons, and that might make them stupid, but it doesn't mean that the piece doesn't have any merit.

By: lostburner

lostburner — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:05:30 -0800

RedEmma: "but it doesn't mean that the piece doesn't have any merit." I took care not to say that.

By: pontarae

pontarae — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:28:49 -0800

"Timely and disturbingly appropriate" said the Wall Street Journal. "A new milestone in racially-divisive Second-Depression-era video production." claimed the Times. "I liked it" said the writer of this post.