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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hello JBR. What is Pootie Tang, please?

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady, if you have to ask, use Google.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a film with Chris Rock.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/PootieTang-1108385/reviews.php

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Rotten Tomatoes has exactly the same Personals format as Nerve.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady?

Fine. Only trying to be friendly.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was out with a friend even older than me a week or so back. He's very English, a little fogeyish. This title was about as close as he got to referencing a music act before I guessed he meant the Wu-Tang Clan. He kept calling them the Wu-Tang Club after that, which I thought was kind of quaint and cute.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Sign your pitty on the runny kine.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 23 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Club

Beautiful. This will be the name of the place they open in Branson, Missouri.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR likes Pootie Tang. I am now definitely a full-fledged member of the Jody Beth Rosen Fan Club!!

Tippa tay on da cappa tau.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 23 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dirty Dee's still dirty, because he's Dirty Dee, dammmit.

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 23 February 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

And "Red Phone Ringin'" as become videogame smacktalk legend.

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 23 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

man, I been saying this forever.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Sunday, 23 February 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

can we start a thread where we all talk like pootie?

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha that Chris Rock, he make me laugh with his routine about how all streets named Martin Luther King Jr. are in dangerous neighborhoods... cuz IT'S TRUE. HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAWHAW

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! This girl I know, Kristin Bell plays the Record Executive's Daughter. She has like 3 lines - gonna be a star.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Club

A few years back someone told me about this DJ they'd heard about and after a couple of seconds trying to remember, suggested he might have been called Skinny Biy Fat.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Club

A few years back someone told me about this DJ they'd heard about and after a couple of seconds trying to remember, suggested he might have been called Skinny Boy Fat.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

apropos to nothing concerning this thread, this picture reminds me of Jody Beth:

http://www.utzsnacks.com/zaHomeArt/oUTZhome.gif

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

sa-da tay!

stop perving on jbr tad!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm confused.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

that didn't work out right ...

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

get a room!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

here ...

http://store3.yimg.com/I/utzsnacks1_1729_1186099

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

better still:

http://www.hageshiku.com/OBSCURERANT.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.city-alert.com/images/pootietang2.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

revive! greatest movie evah. saw it in Kentucky w/hstencil, JBR, Mary, and Eve (and Josh, who doesn't post). both Andy Battaglia and my sister Brittany had been on my ass to see it already, and now I know why.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 May 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

sa-da-tay!

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 10 May 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, definitely. By intentionally making elements of your movie crappy people can't tell if any of the ineptitude is genuine. It's a good lesson for young humorists. That woman (Wanda Sykes or somethin'?) who dances all the time is pretty boring, though. And Robert Vaughn's pretty worthless too. When recommending the film to friends I make sure they find the concept of somebody fighting a gang with their belt inherently funny. Most do (including me!).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie Tang vs. Wet Hot American Summer.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to see the beginning.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie Tang made me realize Master P is a genius

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 10 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.derricksimmons.com/pootie1.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"right now AIR is outside waiting on the corner to get in!"

― kephm, Friday, 18 July 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie too good! Pootie too good!

― ess, Friday, 18 July 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

POOTIE DON'T NEED NO WORDS! POOTIE DON'T NEED NO MUSIC!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/ew/img/review/010706/pootie_l.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sa da tay, my nza!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

A message from the director (for the links, see http://www.louisck.com )

Pootie Tang
Well, what can I say about Pootie Tang? This movie is probably the best thing that ever happened to me and at the same time it
was a very painful kick in my ass. Making the movie was an exhilerating experience. All of the actors were great and I loved my
crew. However, when I started to edit it became imminently clear that the studio and I had very different movies in mind. I was
making a very weird little low budget movie that I expected would open at Sundance or some place like that, and they were making
the next Austin Powers. Subsequently, neither of us got the movie we wanted because they did not provide me the freedom to
make the film I wanted and I did not provide them with the footage to make theirs. So they, being the folks who pay the bills and
own the movie, added a couple of music videos to the front and back, put in voice over and added some weird stock footage, to try
to create a new film out of the one I tried to make. I will say that most of the scenes themselves still resemble the way I cut them,
and the jokes are still working, but it's the overall package that was their idea and not mine. Well, the result is pretty monstrous BUT
at least they released the film, partly due to the tenacity and courage of one Chris Rock, who hung on and kept working with them,
finding a way for them to like the film again. I'll always be grateful to Chris for getting Pootie made and getting it released.The only
thing I wish is that, when they released the film, they had let folks know that it was a low budget film. Anyone who thinks I spent
more than 3 million on Pootie Tang would think that I'm a pretty shitty filmmaker.

Anyway, it was a tremendous learning experience. I don't blame anyone but me for the lack of quality in the film. I mean, even if
you did enjoy it, you have to admit it's a pretty fucked up picture. It would be easy for me to say that they took it away from me and
that they messed it up. But the fact is that, as a director, part of your job is to shepard your film through the studio process and
have it come through intact. It was my first studio film and it was a very aggresively non-linear, unconventional movie so I really
created quite a task for myself, but it was still my job. And I believe that when you sign a contract stating that you serve at the
pleasure of the studio, you can't then complain when they do what they want with their property.

The great thing about movies is that, unlike TV shows, they never get cancelled. Also, movies never stop building a fan base. It's
been a great success on Video and HBO and I never stop hearing about it from people all over. I'm really happy that it's taken off.
Just because it isn't in the form that I wanted it to be in, and just because I vomit every time I watch fourteen seconds or more of it,
doesn't mean I'm not really happy that people are watching it and loving it more and more as time goes on. It's still my Pootie Tang
that I thought up. It's still my story that I wrote and directed. It's still my very good friends up there being intensely funny and I can
say in many ways I'm very proud of the film.

About the language.... I get a lot of people asking me if there is a dictionary to Pootie Language or what certain words mean. The
thing is, his language doesn't function like other languages. To Pootie, words don't have meaning, they are merely an instrument
he plays to express himself. It's kind of like if Miles Davis is playing a "C" or an "A" it means wildly different things every time he
plays them. He isn't saying to his audience. Hello, C, A, G minor, B. He's using those notes to say something else. This is true of
Pootie also. I have a lot more to say about this and I plan to write something a lot longer soon to explain it, but that's a start.

SO, thanks for watching Pootie Tang. I hope you enjoyed it. Below are some of the better reviews the film got. I know a lot of the
links are broken. Sorry. I'll update it when I can.

regards,

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, that should be:
"regards,

Louis CK"

not to imply that I'm the director

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the voice over's great though

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i got such a warm feeling reading that note i can't even express it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The first 15 minutes of this film is all anyone needs to see. And I don't just mean like in terms of "all they need to see of Pootie Tang", I mean like all they need to see, ever, in their life. Like there is nothing comparable.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

plus the first 15 minutes are good too

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I HATE YOU.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I sorta like the part where he goes out to the farm.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that part! I love this entire movie in fact.

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Would the first 15 minutes also have Jarvis Cocker? Then it would be everything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*cue Zapp's "I Want to Be Your Man"*

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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I hate movies and I love Pootie Tang. Chris Rock is funnier than a dead baby.

(Hey gothy mcgothola, are you online at home?)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Saturday, 9 August 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Undercover Brother was a pale shadow of this movie.
I will watch Undercover Brother any day of the week for the rest of my life whenever the opportunity presents itself merely for the parts with Dave Chappelle. That's one funny guy. (though the shower scene is pretty cool too)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wanda Sykes's show is great until it actually starts

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget Dave Attell

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck, I buy this movie. just a little taste when I wake up and I'll be in a good mood all day.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Obviously we need Pootie Tang: The Director's Cut.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, I think a little taste of pootie tang in the morning would put anyone in a good mood all day.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

they should do a criterion collection with all the chris rock show sketches, director's cut, etc.

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, I think a little taste of pootie tang in the morning would put anyone in a good mood all day.

Depends on the tang of the pootie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's this tang.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Which kind of dried tang do you prefer?

http://www.rimarketplace.com/directories/images/bev_06_small.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I like my tang juicy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you prefer organic or vitamin fortified?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing beats an organic tang in the AM!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Freshly squeezed at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

OK, we all gathered together and watched this. And it was t-riff. That's all I have to say. Thanks for the suggestion.

Next, Putney Swope.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 November 2003 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Pootie Tang screen test

― springtime! cue me coffee ludes (Wintermute), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Anytime I see 50 Cent's "acting" in the beginning of that G-Unit video in the car dealership I can't keep from yelling "SIPI TAI!" at the screen.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Hated it

― X RATED TYRONE, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Obviously you suck ass then.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitch shut the fuck up, I lost faith in Chris Rock a long time ago and this is my right as a human being.

― X RATED TYRONE, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

you have the right to suck these nuts.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Still have never seen this.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the right to suck everyone's nuts, I'm popular like that.

― X RATED TYRONE, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Suck mine first! The scenes with Chris Rock are the funniest ones besides the Master P background music.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

And it was funny, too!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

to think, someone died in normandy or baghdad so that TYRONE would have a right to suck sum nuts. george washington's rolling in his grave ... or something.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Onion AV Club interview with Louis C.K., director: http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?i=2

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirty Tyrone, you're a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Pootie Tang will draw you a picture of how he gonna kick your ass, then mail it to you ten days
in advance. The picture gets there right? You're goin', "What the hell is this?" and then Pootie Tang
knocks on your door, Promptly kicks your ass and you still won't know what happened to you!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Tombot, i knew you'd post on here.

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

UUHHHHNNN, NA NAA NA NAA!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's hot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Blabberabababababaa. Bunk.

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

GORILLA!

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.louisck.com/ckbushbanner.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I can't remember if we had Louis CK thread or if this is it, but http://www.observer.com/pages/nytv.asp

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Oh! This girl I know, Kristin Bell plays the Record Executive's Daughter. She has like 3 lines - gonna be a star.
― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, February 24, 2003

― ☪, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:15 (sixteen years ago)

wu tang club

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

Pretty sure I saw this opening week.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 6 June 2009 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

You must have. There wasn't a second week.

― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 6 June 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

10th anniv piece by Nathan Lee:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-02/film/generation-wa-da-tai-happy-10th-pootie-tang/

shot by Willy Kurant, cinematographer on Godard’s Masculin Féminin

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago)

also, Chris Rock apparently will be at that Q&A

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

i saw this film at a little independent theater (that is surely closed now) in allston. it's where my roommates ATT and I would see the HK films that were getting distribution at the time. one day we walked by the theater, not intending to see a movie, and saw "pootie tang" on the marquee. it was kind of impossible not to see it. i have never been more confused in a movie theater. i had no idea what was happening, i was equal parts elated and irritated.

as films with no internal norms save for their own thoroughgoing incoherence go, this movie is pretty great. it's not hausu, louis ck doesn't have that kind of visual imagination. but it's very hard not to endorse a film that invents its own dialect. sa-da tay.

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 11 January 2014 07:31 (eleven years ago)

also, bob costas is a great sport.

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 11 January 2014 07:31 (eleven years ago)

There's an autistic kid at school who keeps asking me if my name is Bob Costas. He knows my name. I haven't deciphered his joke yet.

― bamcquern, Saturday, 11 January 2014 08:35 (eleven years ago)

my brother is autistic and always asks questions he knows the answers to. i don't think there's a joke, sadly.

― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Saturday, 11 January 2014 08:38 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, the kids ask a lot of questions they know the answers to, and just today I was talking about this with a colleague, in fact, but I still think this particular kid is joking when he asks if my name is Bob Costas.

― bamcquern, Saturday, 11 January 2014 09:41 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Sa da tay.

― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 16 April 2016 23:09 (nine years ago)

https://45.media.tumblr.com/eafc84db8e5cd6496a68ec49026d5ef1/tumblr_moksw3rta61r03eaxo1_400.gif

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 April 2016 23:38 (nine years ago)

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