OT: Da'quan the block is hot
This is one member of the "Palmer 3", a group of comedic University of Michigan students acting on the campus of the University of Michigan in the first video, and the University of Wisconsin in the second one.
University of Michigan link (It would'nt embed, and yes I used old embed code):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-iwZ2O63k
University of Wisconsin:
November 5th, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
The university of Michigan video:
November 5th, 2012 at 10:06 PM ^
"Thurgood Marshall" I swear I was listening to Stephen A. Smith. Creepy.
November 5th, 2012 at 10:41 PM ^
diss 1 trick pony agen?
November 6th, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^
November 5th, 2012 at 10:23 PM ^
Surprisingly comical.
November 5th, 2012 at 10:35 PM ^
I must be old. People find this funny?
He's just walking around talking like Malibu's Most Wanted *shutter*
November 6th, 2012 at 12:01 AM ^
Did you mean "shudder"?
November 5th, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
I kinda liked the music but funny it was not. He sounded and somewhat acted like a young Adam Sandler to me.
November 5th, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^
Dude seems like he has some talent. I just find that preying on the basically good nature of people for laffs, all the while doing the honky shuck and jive, is about the least entertaining or useful deployment of that talent imaginable.
November 6th, 2012 at 5:40 AM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 8:40 AM ^
And something about a white guy comedically giving himself a very urban-style name to go along with that shuck/jive schtick.... I dunno, I guess it riles up all my suburban white guilt.
Yes, I am really super old. Thanks for asking
November 6th, 2012 at 8:41 AM ^
I know a guy who dresses/acts exactly like this.
So I can't tell if it's funny or sad.
November 5th, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^
Well don't worry guys, I thought it was funny.
Nestle?
November 5th, 2012 at 11:24 PM ^
Edit: Sorry double post
November 5th, 2012 at 11:25 PM ^
I don't think Wiscy was his best work, but if anyone hasn't seen it, the Michigan video is absolutely hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-iwZ2O63k
November 5th, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 1:48 AM ^
I actually loled at the pokemon thing. I remember playing that game for hours back in the day.
November 6th, 2012 at 10:50 AM ^
remains flatulence and gross bodily functions. But they are in grade school. My son has graduated to finding people acting like fools (this) funny. He is 12. I guess the age of the audience does matter.
November 5th, 2012 at 11:39 PM ^
Still waiting for killing them in the streets 2.5.
November 6th, 2012 at 12:22 AM ^
It's kind of funny, but pretty self-absorbed, aside from being derivative as fuck. (Ali G, right?) A lot of the Michigan video is just street harassment, which presumably violates the University's Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities whether or not it's supposed to be serious. The tour bits on the Wisconsin video are also pretty disrespectful.
November 6th, 2012 at 1:04 AM ^
Didn't find it to be that great, although I did laugh out loud at the part filmed in the Fishbowl. Rest of it wasn't that great.
November 6th, 2012 at 1:04 AM ^
In this era, it seems like the worst thing one can do, and one that seems to draw the most bile, is to try and entertain someone who thinks what they are doing "isn't funny." Humor is subjective, and it seems to be human nature to want to be the sole arbiter of what is and isn't funny.
OTOH, I almost always applaud efforts at comedy. At least the person had the fortitude to put it out there.
November 6th, 2012 at 10:17 AM ^
I agree with you to a point. I think it is more then whole "let's put unsuspecting people in an awkward situation and laff when they're AWKWARD!" has to walk a finer line than, say, a stand-up routine. I enjoy Sacha Baron Cohen as much (or more) than the next guy, but his bits sometimes felt exploitative too. It's that whole unwitting participant thing that makes a difference, at least to me.
November 6th, 2012 at 1:23 AM ^
It's like a combination of Tom Green and Al Jolson, except less funny or tactful.
November 6th, 2012 at 8:17 AM ^
Bizarro Fred Jackson, is that you?
November 6th, 2012 at 2:11 AM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 5:48 AM ^
i'm surprised there isn't video of someone beating the crap out of that guy.
November 6th, 2012 at 6:43 AM ^
So Ali G, meets Malibu's most wanted, with a pinch of Tom Green. Keep trying kid, this is not a generational thing it's just not funny.
November 6th, 2012 at 7:18 AM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 10:06 AM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 10:10 AM ^
I think you were probably downvoted because people generally don't really care that other people think its funny. In other words, the discerning MGoBlog readers tend to make up their own minds rather than follow the lemmings. That said, for what its worth, I didn't find it not funny.
November 6th, 2012 at 10:15 AM ^
In other words, the discerning MGoBlog readers tend to make up their own minds rather than follow the lemmings.
ReallY??
November 6th, 2012 at 10:18 AM ^
I think there are lots and lots of lemmings around here.
Just look at all the people who have adopted language like Tacopants, Ohio, Fergodsakes, etc. There are some individual thinkers, but I think they're vastly outnumbered by the lemmings.
November 6th, 2012 at 11:36 AM ^
Adopting entertaining memes is different than determining one's position/opinion based on what is "en vogue" but I understand your point. I don't necessarily agree, but I understand what you're saying.
November 6th, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
You can criticize how lemming-like people are here but using Tacopants or Ohio doesn't make you a lemming like we're following some kind of cult leader. They're funny.
Declining to use Tacopants or Ohio doesn't really make you an individual thinker. It makes you an MGoHipster for thinking it does
November 6th, 2012 at 6:24 PM ^
Right--there is a big difference between passing off opinions of others as your own, often misinterpreted ("Taylor Lewan has donkeyed every DL he has ever faced!" "Greg Mattison is infallible!!!") and trying to share a semi-inside joke with other members of the blog based on a common vocabulary. I would note that although some uses of the common vocabulary lack inspiration--I am just as guilty as anybody--a number of posters do bring original twists that go way beyond just rote repetition of "boo boo", "Thor!", and the like.
November 6th, 2012 at 12:02 PM ^
Didn't want to disappoint, and 1st rule and all that.
I downvoted this one because the worst defense for being downvoted is saying "it's because I speak facts/truths/think for myself". Especially when nothing you state is "fact." In your experience most people like it. It doesn't mean it's a fact that a majority do. Neither does the fact that it has 130,000 hits. That's not a lot for YouTube, and something like Two Girls and a Cup has been viewed by far more, but I doubt people were "enjoying it."
Doesn't mean what you were saying couldn't be true. Just that neither one of us really know if it's universal or not.
November 6th, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
Thanks for nothing. Because of you I HAD to go see if "2 girls and a cup" was an actual video and when I saw it was I HAD to watch it.
I want those 6.57 of my life back please. I'd rather watch Da'quan and his hot block than that again.
November 6th, 2012 at 12:26 PM ^
Just because you watched it does not mean you enjoyed it.
November 6th, 2012 at 1:15 PM ^
November 6th, 2012 at 3:44 PM ^
Oh yeah, well its also a fact that CRAIG JAMES ALLEGEDLY KILLED 5 HOOKERS!
November 6th, 2012 at 8:18 PM ^
When will Craig James finally admit that he allegedly killed five hookers while at SMU?
#rememberthefive
November 6th, 2012 at 8:22 AM ^
It's really hard to be funny. And it's even more difficult given that most of you are at your office watching this shit on youtube while you are thinking about possibley throwing yourselves down the stairs rather than live through the long day of boredom ahead.
Be blessed.
November 6th, 2012 at 8:59 AM ^
So I watched these two videos, what a waste of time. Actually, couldn't finish watching either one there were so bad. How he has so many hits on YouTube is beyond me. This is stuff terrible. As a mid- 1990s grad of UM I clearly am not his demographic.
November 6th, 2012 at 9:00 AM ^
Seems pretty racist.
November 6th, 2012 at 9:24 AM ^
I am very indifferent about the video. I think its ok, not great, but not as terrible as most of you think.
What I do find hilarious is the views some of you express about the video like the whining about the video being disrepectful. Hello, you dont think that was what he was trying to acheive? That is what makes the video somewhat funny. The jokes on you for being such a tightass...
November 6th, 2012 at 11:29 AM ^
I think that he was trying to be funny, which is different than trying to be a douche. But when he was interrupting tours, all he was doing is the latter. Pointing out that someone is being a douche is different than whining about it. Please return to this post in a few years when you're an adult and you'll see my point.
November 6th, 2012 at 9:33 AM ^
This shit is terrible, yo. Anyone who finds it funny probably also faps to Anime porn.