Wait, nobody else watched "Ego Trip's Race-o-Rama" on VH1 tonight???

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Caught the last 20 minutes of the "sex" episode, whatever they called it, and another episode comes on in about 10 minutes. This is fucking GOLD.

Highlights: a bumper on "Places where Blacks and Asians get together" (scored by MISS KITTIN'S "1982" WTF) which consisted of "The Houston Rockets" and "Game of Death"; Paul Mooney making fun of Mariah Carey as "tragic mulatto"; MC Serch looking doughy.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Also the gaudy pictogram-style bumper graphics are probably the best I've seen on any TV program. ZONK

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

haha that kool keith guess their race lapdance was great

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

I caught an installment a day or two ago, when they were talking about who gets a Ghetto Pass. Phil Collins and Teena Marie were mentioned. I wish VH-1 showed stuff like this more often.

― Sara Sherr, Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

This better get a DVD release, dammit

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

holy shit

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

Best part of the episode w/ Phil & Teena - the Hamburger Helper hand versus the Black Power fist! And the Hamburger Helper hand got a Ghetto Pass, too!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah i was about to cast evil voodoo your way for tempting me to turn it to vh-1 (and am still a lil skeevy from the five minutes of surreal life i saw) but this is pretty funny.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

I watched most of the one that was on yesterday, after flipping channels and going OMGWTF how did this get on television? It's too good! Are they going to replay? I was busy tonight w/the Project Runway finale.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I missed it today, saw it yesterday, and it was fantastic. I love that they interview everyone from David Banner and the Ying Yang Twins to a dude like Aaron McGruder.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

haha "i see what you're doing wesley, and it's called pimping"

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahahaha - 'who is more chinese: tyson bedford or naomi campbell?'

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I never realized that the black dude on sesame street was known for playing a pimp in the movies.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

This goes on the TV now

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I've only seen the Blackaphobia one so far. The other two are on TiVo. Favorite moment had to be Paul Mooney (paraphrasing here): This white woman saw me and started running from me, so I decided to chase her."

Is that not Professor X of the magnificent XClan on voice-overs?

― Andy K. (ADK), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

"This white woman saw me and started running from me, so I decided to chase her."

hahaaaa the best part was how he delivered it though. Yeah great times.

So i pulled myself away from the computer and watched this tonight, it was terrific.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

i tuned in to see wayne and mannie and the kool keith thing (fried gold), but I couldn't watch too much bcz the finale of PROJECT RUNWAY was on omg~~~

― pokey!!11!1 (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Thursday, 24 February 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Loved it cos the selection of pundits did so NOT follow lazy TV logic - I've NEVER seen W.C. on television and probably never will again, same goes for Devin the Dude and some other cats that must have left many, many, heads scratching. The comments were unmediated and giddily emptyheaded(I was waiting for someone to say FUCK the "good hair" meme, for one thing) but more of this conversation on relatively mainstream TV would go a long way.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 February 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah i guess if there's one criticism its the incredibly fast pacing, but that's more than balanced out by its unbelievable addictive style and it's probably more effective that way.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

And yeah, Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne! David Banner! Ying Yang Twins! Devin the Dude! WC! MC Serch!

The blacks and asians together thing was funny...houston rockets and russell simmons' house.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah what surprised me was how much it basically was another vh1 show a la i love the 80s or whatever the fuck the others are called only ACTUALLY funny and NOT clueless and with devin the dude instead of kathy griffin or paul mooney instead of rob sheffield. ie ALOT BETTER.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

"This white woman saw me and started running from me, so I decided to chase her."

I didn't even see this show and this (paraphrased) line had me on the floor. FUCK I need to see this.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 24 February 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

I can't find a torrent of these shows either, damn it.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 24 February 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

i caught about 20 minutes of it last night. thought it could have been funnier. i like ego trip but this had too much vh1 smugness.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 February 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

The RZA on Tiger Woods: "You look in the mirror. Your name is Tiger. That's ghetto. You're black."

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Aaron McGruder owns, by the way.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

haha was rza the only one who stood up for tiger? Everyone else was all abt Jason Kidd.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Aaron McGruder is great. A couple years ago when I lived in DC & took the bus every morning, one day I was sitting next to him at a bus stop on Georgia Avenue in Petworth. I had no earthly idea what to say. I was busy fretting like, oh no, I am going to be the only white person on this crowded bus again and I feel like everyone's staring at me. hah!

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

THis sounds gr8! I love Paul Mooney. I would look for this on l0k1t0rr3nt but wen I visit that site now there's a really scary message from the MPAA! Anybody want to mail me their TiVo?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I agree that there's a little VH1 smugness thrown in (I only saw the ghetto pass one), but overall, yeah, it's brilliant. Paul Mooney and RZA are the two best guests, for sure.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

nobody mentioned Jim Jones! wtf to Jim Jones on VH1, talking about poppin' white girls but never actually dating one.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I am so getting someone to tape this for me now. ALL three episodes are beign reshown tonight!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

O YEAH

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

The best thing about Paul Mooney's delivery: its dryness. You can tell he's really fucking pissed off but he won't let the white man see it. I caught him last night on Chappelle (Ask a Black Guy) and he was talking about how white people don't let black people have nothin'. And the question was about why black dudes shave their heads. Personally I think black dudes look much better than white dudes with the shaved head thing, but there are probably exceptions.

― Sara Sherr, Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

glad everyone else is on this - whoever said it's like the usual VH-1 "I Heart A Decade" crap only waaaaay better and with waaaay better guests/commentators is OTFM. I've only caught two episodes so far but it is great great great. I hope they run this shit all month. Just seeing Kool Keith and the RZA and Chairman Mao and Paul Mooney and the Ying Yang Twinz on TV is fabooo.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Watch this be the one thing that VH1 *doesn't* rerun over and over and over.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Do they rerun the Ego Trip Guide to Minorities on Television thing?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

haha today's apparently 'black people - how bout it!' day on vh1 - they're showing how stella got her groove back tonite

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I remember them rerunning that a few times, right after the initial showing, Alex. Haven't seen it since then.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Typical VH1. Oh well I am glad I have it on tape.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

sometimes they rerun shit really late at night, but you have to check to schedule

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

the three parts (there's 3 total, right?) will be shown one after the other in a couple hours, y'all

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 25 February 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

VH1's been doing this 'we discovered black ppl!' thing all this month, with those "recognize the impact" spots and all.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 25 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

This is pretty alright. The frothy commentary gets to me less than the earnest commentary. Ego Trip on their own sorta write at a level where all that backstory is taken for granted and they just have this outraged absurdism going, while the show feels relatively straightforward by comparison. The lapdance thing was pretty impressive tho!

The movie clips are k-classic choices too!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Also w/r/t ego trip in print:
The List Is Humor At Its Purest

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

"Undercover Brother" was pretty great movie.

I am v. impressed w/ kool keith's lapdance-deduction abilities.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

The show is hilarious, but it also makes me, as a hopelessly single, acutely self-aware white man, want to kill myself. Which I suppose is a sign of success on the creators' part. Bravo! Maybe a lot of other pathetic white men watching this show will be also be inspired kill themselves, which will make this country, and the whole world, a better place.

― Matias F., Friday, 25 February 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I now have all three episodes on tape and will commence watching them over lunch.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Paul Mooney is one pissed off motherfucker, god bless 'im.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

thank goodness for tivo online scheduling:

Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama "Dude, Where's My Ghetto Pass?" White people adopt idiosyncrasies of black culture. Sat 2/26 11:30 PM 66 VH1
Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama "Blackaphobia" Black people are stereotyped as being tough and intimidating. Sun 2/27 12:30 AM 66 VH1
Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama "In Race We Lust" Interracial love, dating and offspring. Sun 2/27 1:30 AM 66 VH1

all times central

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

add an hour for coasters

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

why is everything an hour earlier in the middle of the country?
are y'all really all farmers?

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Some of us are fishermen

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

do fish sleep?

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Alex, can I borrow the tapes???

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Of course.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

You know, there's that one part where he talks about the afro being a symbol in the 70s of black power and it made people look physically larger and somewhat threatening to lots of white people. How is this explained with the presence of afros on so many black ppl on commercials? Seriously, its like all those "hip youth counterculture" commercials have the one black kid with the huge afro and i don't think its about radical blackness (obviously), its almost like a white-friendly accoutrement. Or am I misinterpreting here? I think to most Americans they're more OTM about a doo rag representing fear of blackness these days.

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

(major generalization alert obv)

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

it's not the 70s any more

― ()ops (()()ps), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah obviously i just don't recall any sort of discussion on the co-option of the afro, they just sort of left it out there as "afro = blackness" without an update for the 00s.

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Who knew the Ying Yang Twins would be so dorky?

Mannie Fresh and Lil' Wayne were hilarious. I couldn't understand Devin but I wuv him.

― Great, Brave, True, Strong, Great, Real, Wise, Great, Crazy/Beautiful, Grea (nor, Friday, 25 March 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

David Banner was funny too. Obv Jim Jones stole the show though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jim Jones was a natural pundit!

I was a bit disturbed by the discrepancy between genial, well-groomed, thoughtful David Banner and the David Banner that screams "FUCK them niggas!" and "bend over, lemme see your pussy lips!" but hey

― Great, Brave, True, Strong, Great, Real, Wise, Great, Crazy/Beautiful, Grea (nor, Friday, 25 March 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha I was thinking that myself.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

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