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Muted yet I still heard him

With the tone of his voice?

Sam Kinison's voice echoes 30+ years after his death

And on and on forever.

This gets my upvote.

But I was thinking who wouldn’t want anyone (everyone) to live on forever? Seems like a bold concept. But then I started to come up with a few names. Forgotten is maybe best for some things. Or at least not idolized. That’s a sin right? The false gods problem. Looking at you Alex Jones. Like a blue link, make them go away.

Oh ohhhhhhhhhhh

Hear his voice just once and you never forget it lol!

I played “Wild Thing” for the guys at work on a lark just this week. It’s weird that Sam is on everybody’s mind suddenly.

People are angry, lol

I still confuse Sam Kinison and Sammy Haggar because I'm am idiot.

Oh yeah, what did that Sam guy say? Oh, that's right, I think I'll write him a f***'n letter. D E A R S A M....

Pretty shitty how the kid who killed him only got a year probation and community service

No it doesn't, it reverberates

Like this: oh OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH !!

I heard Seinfeld

Mute just puts him at a normal decibel level.

hilarious 😂

DID TOU HEAAAAR HIIIIM?

I remember my aunt recorded this off of HBO and I must've watched it 100x as a kid...

What? I can’t hear you over having watched this video.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

There was an episode of Tales From the Crypt where he played the voice of the killer’s conscience. That’s just masterful casting.

I even had the slightly painful sensation in my ears

I had the sound off too. Once that man starts screaming, you're gonna remember that noise. Lol

For some reason I thought he was British until I turned on sound.

I was gonna say this exact thing lol

Listen to this "the most terrifying sound in existence"

Sam kinison is so so loud

You live in a FUCKING DESERT.

Same.

I first saw this muted and then unmuted and I swear there was no difference 😂

OH OHHHHHHHH!!!!

Ironically this man died in a desert at 38yrs old

He's younger than 38 in this? Jesus.

He lived very fast. Partied hardy with hair metal bands to his early grave.

I never knew this man. That's a hard 30 something year old. Holy shit.

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Holy shit i just heard about him yesterday in that comedian thread. Funny how that works lol

That’s the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon.

Ironically my friend just a couple weeks ago told me that this phenomenon had a name and now here I see people discussing it.

Baeder Meinhoff inception proving itself as law

Second time I've seen this answer today

Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon

Ah, figured it was a described phenomenon, just didn't know it had a name. In my case, 1 painted house a dark blue, 2 put in a pergola, 3 got a husky/hound mix - started seeing all everywhere. But was pretty sure I wasn't a trend-setter.

Or maybe it fucking isn't because this is the first time I'm seeing this guy myself

Not everything is fucking Baader-Meinhof, and I'm sick of these fucking Redditors regurgitating that shit trying to look like they're smart and educated

You guys look even worse than the 🤓 emoji

That's the Dunning Kruger Effect.

I prefer the carbonaro effect myself

I prefer the Chicken carbonara sub at Quiznos. By and far the single most delicious sub shop sandwich ever produced.

I guess you’ve never had the five dollar footlong

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Back in the good ol' days...

I first learned about the Dunning Kruger Effect recently, and now I’m seeing it all over the place.

THAT'S the circle of life.

Right?! Out of millions of redditors, you are that guy this time

Ok 09Trollhunter09 thank you for you imput

Fuck, almost got me with that one ngl. It's still annoying me now.

I think there are 9,999 others today.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png

And of the millions of hipsters of reddit, you also made it apparent you knew of him all along. #"beforeitwasmainstream"

Sam Kinison had a lot of misogynistic and racist content in his act. He was also a philanderer and a drunk and allowed his partner to be raped by his bodyguard. But for some reason, people let him off all those hooks, maybe because he died a tragic death.

He was an asshole but damn if wasn't funny.

“The Stand-Up from Hell” was this 9yr old’s favorite comedian. I lost it every time I saw Wild Thing on Mtv or saw Back to School.

If I remember correctly Sam Kinison was in an (car?)accident as a kid that did pretty severe brain damage which is why his hair looks like it does. I think he was also in a car accident before his death then finally died in one.

I don't understand why the kid who killed him never had any real punishment?!

Drunk driving and killed someone? Probation!

If America locked up every drunk driver that got someone killed it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world!

Hahahahah this guy jokes

South Africa: lol what?

Canada: I know, right?

We do have the highest incarceration rate. And even if you locked up drunk drivers who kill they'd be out in under 15yrs to be honest. I've sat on a jury where thos girl drunk as shit killed a man as she pulled out of the liquor store. 18months.

You know it already does right? Like triple the second highest. That's the joke yeah?

That is, indeed the joke

You already do what’s the problem

We would also have more frequent elections for US Senators if we were to lock up every drunk driver that got someone killed

It already has the highest incarceration rate in the world, per Capita I think.

We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, but it's mostly filled with people who committed crimes of ______ while black.

US already has the highest incarceration in the world. Too much for being the most free country in the planet.

America: most free to go to jail country in the world

I think we do already…

it would

I thought they got that title already

Who currently got the highest incarceration rate in the world?

The United States DOES have the highest incarceration rate in the world: https://www.prb.org/resources/u-s-has-worlds-highest-incarceration-rate/

How would people get to work?

Back then drunk driving was still considered a sport.

And walks away without a scratch.

Well, his drivers license was also suspended obviously. For two years.

The kid probably had rich parents.

Yes, a likely case of affluenza.

guy should have stuck to bicycles

Sam Kinison would have enjoyed this comment.

Heavy smoker...wasn't practical.

Final destination IRL

So, all those years I modeled my hair style after Sam Kinison.... Wasn't... a smart move?

"(car?)accident as a kid that did pretty severe brain damage which is why his hair looks like it does." How?

His head was tore up from the wreck

I have a very vague recollection of it but I think he had just gotten married and he was being followed by his brother and his brother had this weird story about him leaving his body. He had also been a youth preacher when he was younger Tent Revival type

How does him having brain damage affect his hair growth? Really curious

His head was pretty messed up from the wreck, I’m pretty sure he had to get surgery for his hair and head in general

"...before his death - then he finally died of one"

Misinterpreting you on purpose here but it's kinda fun. He died of only one death? Death reason: Death

No dummy, shorty before he was in the wreck that killed him he was in another car accident.

Also somewhat ironically, he was killed by a drunk driver.

hair metal bands

Listen to Nuclear Assault, the singer was channeling this guy

His hair is anything but metal

How was a guy with this hair allowed to party with hair metal bands

He was a legend at the rainbow room

He was hit by a drunk driver.

Still sounds like he had a good time

And died begging God to forgive him apparently.

Nothing about this man's life was pretty.

The sad part is that he had actually cleaned up quite a bit in the months before he was killed in a car accident by a teenager who was driving drunk.

That's not why he died though

He was killed by a drunk driver, didn't die from partying lol

What? He actually got his life back together and sobered up. He finally was getting good gigs again. He died on a freak car accident on his way to one, the other guy was drunk.

Dude had fuckin fun, now he’s probably living it up in hell with those same hair metal bands 😂

He was killed by a drunk driver, his lifestyle had nothing to do with it.

In fairness, he was killed in a car crash. So I guess he was definitely living fast at the final moment.

Love free or die hard

… I mean, the fatal car accident certainly it was did it.

The partying didn't kill him. His car was struck by a 17 year old drunk driver.

Granted, Sam didn't have his seatbelt on, which could have made all the difference. Kinison's wife was also in the car but survived.

There's an interesting thing where when people look at pictures of people from the past, they overestimate their ages. This is related to things like clothing style. Old people don't dress like old people - they dress like it's the 70s. So now when we see people from the 70s, we instinctively associate that look to old people, because today old people are the only ones that dress that way.

There's a vsauce about this.

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I love those Seinfeld girls. I get older, they stay the same age.

Yada, yada, yada.

What’s the name of the channel? It sounds pretty amusing. Used to enjoy laughing at that kinda thing with my Mama.. <3 I would love to subject the husband to the 80s dating videos though. :B

There would be a vsauce about that. “Hey, Michael here…”

What about women in movies from the 40’s /50’s? They look so much older than they are. It’s the clothing? For example, Lauren Bacall. She was in her late teens, early 20’s and seemed to me like at least 30. Katharine Hepburn, too. (Can’t imagine that all we would have needed to purchase alcohol at 18 would have been different clothes!)

It’s not just the clothing. Hair styles, makeup, camera quality, etc.

In the case of movies, lighting too. Harsh lighting can make you look like you have horrible skin, and by association -- are older. Between poorer skincare, poorer makeup, bad lighting, shitty cameras etc. it's no wonder they look "older".

I have seen that episode lol

pictures of people from the past

As opposed to pictures of people from the future?! Let me see that camera…

All we need is a camera, a black hole, and a few volunteers.

Fuck.... skater and emo outfits will be out people clothes in 2070......dayum

The combover doesn't help though.

People were older back then. It’s not string theory. It’s relatively!/s

A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long

Jesus Christ, I'm 38...

Just to be on the safe side, don't go to any desert for while

Jesus Christ ²! I live in a desert... what do I do now?

"Any last words?"

-The desert, probably

Yeah, Fuck you too desert.

whips out weiner and pees directly into mouth

39 here thinking he was 50. Damn.

then good luck at making it significantly longer than he did!

I'll be 39 in June so let's hope for the best, eh?

Just don't go to a desert and you'll be fine

It's time.

Who am I to argue with the internet.

This gon be a wild ride, I can tell.

Well, don't get that haircut 😅

Never gon happen, I got hair down to the center of my back. I'm an Indian is why. Probably not gonna live much longer tbh

Killed by a drunk driver.

Just read his death story. Drunk driver that hit & killed him only got 1 year probation, 300 hrs of community service & a 2 year suspended license. Man oh man life ain't fair.

Imi just read that. Wtf

Was probably driving a UHaul for the first time, I mean...

It’s fucking disgusting. I’ve had 2 friends killed by drunk drivers. In one instance it was woman with multiple prior DUIs driving the wrong way down the highway. She only got 5 years and her license was suspended for 8 years but her time in jail counted for the license suspension.

If you ever kill or injure someone with a car while drunk, your license should be taken PERMANENTLY. Hell, not even kill or injure. If you drive while drunk you should never drive again.

If you want to commit a crime in the US just make sure you do it in a car.

He looks 48 in this video

He lived his life a quarter mile at a time.

Well, in a car accident on a road in a desert..still one of the funniest comedians that ever lived

Proof or it didn't happen ( genuinely curious)

it ain’t hard but I think the fact that he was a Pentecostal preacher is more surprising.

Imagine living 38 years only to be killed by a drunk 17-year-old in a pickup truck.

Shocked that kid was sentenced to only one year’s probation and 300 hours of community service.

That actually… explains a lot.

Okay, but it was a car accident?

Yeah, I linked his wiki in my last comment. Car accident at 38 in Needles, California right in there.

It’d be crazy if it was a u-haul related accident in a desert. ‘He died doing what he was passionate about.’

The drunk driver that killed him got 300 hours community service, a year suspended sentence, and banned from driving for two years... He was sentenced for vehicular manslaughter. That's absolute insanity.

What happened?

Head on collision with a drunk teenager in a pickup when he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

Well, did he die from Hunger?

He was born in one too. He was born in Yakima, WA

In a car with his new bride.

So he got killed by a drunk driver in a desert? Make it make sense

Bruh 38. Dude looks mid 50s easy

"You know who I ran into on the way to Vegas? Sam Kinison."

Bet he didn't die of hunger though!

Yeah cause everybody listened him, and moved to his home throwing him out.

Dying in a desert aka "WE DON'T LIVE THERE ASSHOLE!!!"

Practice what you preach

To be honest he could have died getting up for his next eclair…

Ironically, many Americans live in a fucking desert.

He died in a drunk driving accident in a head on collision. Drunk 17 year old crossed the center lane. He was killed from blunt force trauma and was nit wearing a seat belt.

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It's not ironic, it's just a coincidence!

Today i realised American comedy is just shouting something mildly amusing but people find it hilarious

He didn’t “die in a desert”. He was killed in a car crash on a highway that runs through a desert

I grew up seeing that infomercial for his stand up collection all the time in the middle of the night. I seriously always thought he must have died young from drugs or alcohol or a brain aneurysm or something. I JUST learned a couple weeks ago he died in a car crash.

Edit: Here is the YouTube video I learned it from, around the 9 minute mark.

He did a set a couple months before his death I think. I don't remember the details really but he broke down on stage and was crying saying how the drinking and drugs are killing him and he said he was turning to God for help and it was just heart wrenching to see

He was a preacher, and from what I heard, really good at it. When he died, he had a moment where he was talking to someone and was arguing that he didn't want to go, and then just said ok, ok, and died. Trippy. Funny and fearless comedian.

Comedian Sam Kinison who died in a head-on collision in 1992 said to no one in particular: “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.” But then there was a pause as if Kinison were listening to someone. Then he asked, “But why?” and after another pause “Okay, Okay, Okay.” A friend who was with him said, “Whatever voice was talking to him gave him the right answer and he just relaxed with it.”

This is both horrible and kind of nice.

That voice was brought to him by.. his brain dying

DMT is a hell of a thing

And was killed by a drunk driver? sounds like god was a big fan

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He was literally killed in a car crash by a drunk driver in the middle of the Mojave desert.

He was out there trying to save those desert kids

From the looks of him I’m guessing he was eating all their food

Where's the lie ?

The Mojave desert? Makes me wish for a nuclear winter sometimes

Have you seen those mud crabs? Disgusting creatures

God damn mirelurks

Mud crabs are about to be a lot more desirable now that snow crabs are out

They probably taste like crawfish

Send a billion of them., please.

... what the actual!? If there is a god that's all some whacked sense of irony.

He was an ordained minister before he turned to comedy

It fucking writes itself. Jesus.

That is why he was doing comedy. He's the embodiment of a joke

The immaculate jokeception

He got into a car accident as a kid too, and went from a mild mannered kid to the wild reckless man you see here.

Comedian Sam Kinison who died in a head-on collision in 1992 said to no one in particular: “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.” But then there was a pause as if Kinison were listening to someone. Then he asked, “But why?” and after another pause “Okay, Okay, Okay.” A friend who was with him said, “Whatever voice was talking to him gave him the right answer and he just relaxed with it.”

Oh my fucking god

God didn’t tAke to kindly about him joking on his desert followers

Jesus is from the desert

I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Because if it's not, then it's funnier than OP's clip despite the sad irony of it.

Not a joke. Sam Kinison died in a Mojave Desert car crash.

Sam Kinison died in a Mojave Desert car crash.

BAWDY COMEDIAN SAM KINISON KILLED IN ACCIDENT

And that drunk driver was in a Uhaul. Circle of life.

This is why I don't mess with cosmic irony.

Was it a U-Haul?

Well fuck........

Was he in a uhaul?

Couldn’t take his own advice…

That is honestly so ironic

What the fuck seriously? 😂

Weirdly enough, the car crash was in the desert, iirc.

Was it a U-Haul with some malnourished African refugees in it?

Just take the upvote and get out.

But he's wrong?

What were Sam Kinison's last words?

“I don’t want to die….But Why?…Ok, Ok, Ok”

He seemed to be talking to someone and died after shortly after this. You can find videos of his brother and another comedian that was traveling with him describe his final moments.

They said it really changed their perspective on life to see someone die that way, like the universe was a kinder place.

I'm not superstitious at all but the day prior to my dad died he was having very lucid/vivid conversations with his mother who died 20 years before and his brother who died in 1957.

Makes you reconsider things.

To be fair, people talk to themselves all the time. Not hard to imagine taking away the fear of what others might think would make you do it out loud.

WHOA!! WHOOAA!!! He would have loved it.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!

"A truck!"

Yes, that's right, Sam Kinison was Emo Philips' grandpa.

The last thing to go through his mind

We are gonna drink and drive..what else ya gonna do? Gimme a bus pass.

Fuck, just take it!!! TAKE IT!! TAKE MY SANDY UP VOTE!!!

Dumbass shoulda gone where the food is

He'd have laughed at that

But he might've been run over by the uhaul with the food tho...

He died traveling between la and Vegas. Drunk driver head on into his lane.

sounds like god was a big fan

He was a fire and brimstone minister before the comedy, drugs, whores and booze.

it's good to know that for a while he had a good life and enjoy drugs, whores and booze.

There's a recording of him talking to his church after he'd hit success, and it's pretty clear how scared he was of what it would do to him. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IsFAmIpa0I) It'll tear you up

From his perspective it could be argued that God let him down. The dude started out as an evangelical preacher if you can believe that. He was very passionate about it until he found his wife sleeping with another dude and this sent him on a downward spiral that had him going into stand up comedy. I don’t know many people who could bounce back like that but he managed it, it was just a tragedy he was taken so soon!

Not an evangelical preacher a pentecostal preacher. That's where he learned how to keep an audience engaged and the most appropriate time to SCREEEAAAM.

I can honestly never tell the difference, I’ve been to both kind of services and there was always lots of screaming!

Didn't he hit his head at some point or have some kind of accident that somewhat altered his personality? It might have happened when he was young

Hit by a truck at three that cause some brain damage.

BaptiPeniCostal

Lmao I know its not what you meant, but the idea of stand up comedy as rock bottom is fucking killing me

😂 sorry, I was kind of trying to get at him finding comedy as a pick me up.

How exactly would God in let him down if his wife chose to cheat, technically God can't control humans right?

Well , we all die. 100% of us. Some if us get a few more years but decades later we are still talking about this guy so that's something I guess.

I was never a big fan if his Comedy. Too much shouting. But he was original.

"He's gonna find this fuckin' hilarious!" - God

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors.

But I think that God's Got a sick sense of humor.

And when I die I expect to find Him laughing

Well....yeah.

Get up here you funny little asshole, I can't wait any longer to hang out

On top of that, Sam Kinison made jokes on stage that he didn't think drunk driving was bad. Like he didn't see the problem.
It reminds me about how Rush Limbaugh said smoking wasn't deadly, and then he died of lung cancer.

Fuck that’s a good joke

IIRC, Sam Kinison was also a former minister. I think he talked about it in some of his stand-up (been forever since I've seen it), and a lot of his material was making fun of religion. I seem to remember that one (recorded) show ended with him speeding off in a Corvette that had a license plate that said something like EX-PREACHER...probably not exactly that, ha, but it was the gist.

Gods drunkest driver

a religious person would say that was god bringing him home early; not wanting him to suffer anymore

and I'd be cool with that, if they'd also just throw the old testament and most of what paul wrote into the ocean. Keep the love and hope; ditch the hate

Well actually people believe god is a big bearded man in the sky.

I'm certain he is doing standup in heaven.

He was a Pentecostal preacher before he was a comedian. He was a fire and brimstone style preacher but failed to make any money preaching so he switched to comedy.

A drunk driver hit him by the way, he never died because of that stuff

He turned to god for help, and then he died. Sounds about right.

Chill bro. What are you implying?

Trace amounts of cocaine and tranquilizers found in his system at the time of the accident.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-29-mn-346-story.html

Don't you mean trace amounts of blood were found in his cocaine system?

He died in the town Needles NEEDLES! DRUGS! NEEDLES! "Sam's voice"

Xantac isn’t a tranquilizer

Feels like they were shooting for Xanax. Xantac isn’t a drug.

Yeah I think they confused it with zantac

Yep. Page three of the autopsy report. He also had "horseshoe kidney," which appears in about 1 in 500 people- just one kidney instead of two, but it's... a horseshoe shape.

Kinison was finally cleaning up his life, got married, and died from a drunk driver. He would have thought that was hilarious.

And probably most other times too by then

Yep, he was killed by a drunk driver. And that drunk driver ended up only getting 1 year of probation and community service. Whole situation was fucked up.

The person who hit him was 17 years old, Kinison wasn't wearing his seatbelt and had drugs in his system but wasn't the cause of the crash. I'm guessing with all things factored they took it easier on him.

Now I imagine him telling a joke that you can survive a car crash if YOU WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!!!!!

CLIIIIIIIIICK THE FUCKING SEAT BELT!!!!!!

Probably screaming at other cars that there wouldn’t be traffic jams if they went where other cars aren’t.

One of the jokes that I could only share with my mom was, "What were Sam Kinison's last words?" And then I'd do his scream with an abrupt stop. I know it's terrible, and my mother knew it too, but it always got her chuckling.

You should go read about what his actual last words were. Fascinating stuff.

I've read about that before. I'd hope there was some comfort in that last moment.

It seemed like he was being comforted.

For anyone that doesn't know...

Kinnison began to look off into the distance and began talking to a force unseen. “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die,” he told the force.

Kinison paused and listened to the unseen being deliver a message. He then asked, “But why?” and then paused again to listen.

“Okay, okay…. okay,” Kinison then responded.

Well that's not the slightest bit creepy. Nope. Not at all.

He would love that joke

It was ironic for someone that (if I remember correctly) struggled with alcoholism to die from a drunk driver.

Also after turning back to God for help.

Iirc he had his gf with him in his corvette, tho I think alcohol may have been involved. Dude was funny af

He had stopped drinking and doing drugs. He was killed by a drunk driver.

Well it seems he had trace amounts of cocaine and tranquilizers in his system when they did the autopsy, so he hadn't completely stopped using drugs...

He had trace amounts of cocaine, valium, xantac, and codeine in his system at the time of his death, though it was ruled that the drugs in his system played no part in his death.

They were hit head-on by a truck that had swerved into their lane in order to pass another car.

Drunk driver.

Yeah a drunk 17 year old kid in a pickup that was trying to pass another car.

What's crazy is the kid didn't even get jail time - he got community service, and his license was suspended for 2 years... for killing a man.

Weren't there traces of cocaine & tranquilizers in his system.

Ahhh, yeah couldn't recall much detail. Sad regardless, funny dude but def not for everyone, which was his best quality imo

Couldn’t recall much detail yet you’re out here talking like you knew alcohol was involved.

The irony or paradox of the universe, shit like this happens on a small/large scale all the time. So weird.

Big smile fade :(

I thought the exact same thing until I read your comment.

Oh shit, surprise TIL in fucking r/holup of all places!

Omg I just had flashbacks to those informercials and thought “another comedian taken to soon to drugs”.

The crazy thing is he was an evangelical preacher and got in a wreck which altered his brain and he went into comedy. Then a wreck took him again.

Bruh... I'm in my 40s and grew up with those infomercials I assumed the same and this is news to me too.

TIL infomercials for standup collections exist

Not to applaud his death, but I'm not unhappy that I don't have to share a planet with that abhorrent person anymore, who'd act as if starving to death would be a choice. I intended to take a break from my all-nighter working on a paper and I think just pushing through until 8am will be more relaxing than watching this.

Just turned world hunger into a migration problem….

Haha just send them to the garbage island

UK?

You beautiful bastard

Rubbish Island

FTFY

As a local resident, I can confirm that it is getting worse

Sad kwasi sounds (jk I know they are happy for what's happening)

Is there any other garbage island?

Australia but I guess thats more of a garbage continent...

Mabey new Zealand?

You must be a Brit

I've never had such a vulgar insult/ slur used against me in all my years on the internet.

Find a good therapist. Or Jack and pain pills. I’m sorry this happened to you.

We're absolutely on your side. That was way out of line....

Got it, American

An American calling Australia and NZ garbage and being insulted by being called a Brit? I didn't know that level of delusion was possible

could be worse: my nose could be gushing blood

Australia is also like 90% desert so are you really fixing the problem?

those are as good as money, sir: those are "plateaus"

Australia not continent, Australia country. Oceania is continent

Depends on your culture and definition of what constitutes as a continent.

Australia, at least in the English speaking world is referred to as an island, country & a continent.

The definition of Australasia refers to Australia, New Zealand, PNG & other neighbouring islands.

Oceania isn’t seen as one of the seven mainstream continental groups, although it maybe in other languages and cultures.

I think it’s an American thing because I’ve met plenty of native speakers who call it Oceania and the world atlas I have ( printed in the USA ) calls it Oceania

France? Idk

France is an island? TIL

It will be. I'm removing it from Europe

You mean West Germany?

Granville Island in Vancouver is literally made on garbage.

Good luck finding places to live there, though.

Yeah Staten Island

Yeah I'm fine thanks for asking

Martha's Vineyard

Do you mean the East Atlantic Protectorate of the United States, aka America's bitch?

where else would they be talkin about?

The garbage Island has food?

Yes, quite a few selections actually. It's also located with ocean access givingwith easy accessiblity to fish😋😋

Na, all the fish are dead basically. Or will be dead soon. Also I hope the garbage island has enough filled water bottles.

Just build a wall of vending machines

And who’s gonna pay for that?

I heard Mexico usually does that. They love to fund walls. Not sure why...

philip morris

Just send them to the desert then.

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Nigeria isn’t a fucking desert. It’s fertile land and can support the population. He means places like Somalia where industrial agriculture is not possible.

You don’t need to move them across oceans. Only a few hundred miles so that they’re closer to river banks and lakes. Building canals and highways also helps.

Sending food regularly is a bandaid for the short term and makes things worse in the long term.

Nope at the proposed scales it is a problem whether made to be one or not. You can‘t just merge multiple countries population into another one without issues.

Honestly I used to think this bit was funny, and watching it again, after, what, 30 years? I find it pretty naĂŻve and a gross misunderstanding of the types of problems that cause hunger (and those problems are largely manmade and instituted by people other than those who are hungry).

I mean, I think it's quite obvious this is not a serious solution lol.

Way more people than you think take the hot takes of stand up comedians as gospel. There is also a shitload of people that get most of their political ideas from south park.

I know, trust me, I understand comedy... but it really minimizes and oversimplifies the issue. It made me think of how much I (and most of us in the west) did not understand about manmade disasters many years ago.

Yeah, watching old comedy clips like these make me realize how dangerous stand up comedy can be at times.

It's whenever their egos get too big and they view themselves as philosophers. Only problem is that philosophers have to consider each and every side of what they argue for, whereas comedians will only say what makes people laugh. Sometimes that's pointing out the "obvious" things, which are just oversimplified, even hateful bullshit. Andrew Dice Clay was the worst at this. But even people like GC I don't really respect as much as everyone else does. People just laugh because someone put their own thoughts out in a funny way, which strengthens these thoughts, even if the thought is "people choose starvation because they're too stupid to move" ignoring so much fucking shit like, you know, cultural roots, and the fact that so few people live in the desert already...

There is plenty of incisive and even offensive comedy where the hack doesn't believe he's a philosopher "speaking truth to power" bullshit. Even the simpsons parodied this trend with Krusty turning serious in that one episode.

A lot of stand up comedians are racists, xenophobes, fascists and misogynistic af. They talk about controversial topics and obviously they have an audience that agree and applaud them for a lot of bullshit they say because they never had the opportunity to say it aloud because they know it's wrong. But you staple it into a joke and people think it's fine to say aloud. Trump got half of the country to applaud and vote on shit like this.

I mean yeah.. it's a joke. In a comedy routine.

I don’t see a problem

Yeah, the Churches shipped them to the US, so we got a crime wave now

almost like the problem is dehumanising people, and that fascists who just want to hurt minorities don't make fuck all sense

If we opened up immigration we could solve a lot of poverty and hunger. We could also get our economy moving if we let all the people we train in our universities stay here afterward.

Nope you are just importing more biomass, consumers that grind in the wheels of capitalism.

You mean migration solution

Well hunger isn‘t the only push factor for migration.

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Most hungry people don't live in deserts. Most people don't live in deserts.

Well the Sahara once was green. But really global warming and such just makes desertification progress quicker. Not to mention land grabbing.

It's time to build the cube.

Not really. Have you seen how green Ethiopia really is? And yet it’s the first country we are thinking about if the topic is hunger in Africa.

It also means that the guy in the video is wrong for thinking that hungry people live in the desert.

Nope. It means that Ethiopians can leave the desert of their country and go to the greener parts of it. It’s still migration but doesn’t involves other countries.

places become uninhabitable and yet people still just keep popping out kids. global warming is only gonna make this a lot worse.

Which is exactly what's happening now and more in future! Climate change has biggest impact on food and water and cause migration crisis. Not just in humans but animals too. It already started.

*immigration

Migration just means people moving. Immigarstion means people coming to some area in question. But really they leave somewhere and go somwhere else. Can‘t think immigrations counterpart rightnow but they always apper simultaneously.

Forget the desert

Let’s get some dessert

Okay I'm here now what

Now get to work and starve there cus no breaks allowed :)

r/beetlejuicing

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts!

Stressed man, a plan, a canal, Pan-Am desserts.

Yep, checks out.

'we have deserts, we just don't live in them' - Las Vegas is built in the middle of the most inhospitable desert on the continent

.... with water supplies drying up

Pretty much applies to most of the SouthWest

The dark times are coming

Just normal times. They just don’t bode well for humans.

Or other animals. And every species that dies has untold ripple effects.

Dinosaurs don’t complain. Why should we?

Because this 6th mass extinction is our fault, and we know it, and some of us are encouraging it and profiting from it.

For whatever reason it took me until this comment to realize that y’all weren’t quoting the turtle from Rango.

Bingo. When the weeping stones of Europe and dinosaur tracks appear from dried rivers, it shows we’re either on the verge of disaster or something new. Fingers crossed.

What do you mean “normal times?” I mean if you want to think about things that way then you have to take into account that everything is relative. In fact, Earth as a whole was an inhospitable hellhole (for us) for most of its existence.

Does that mean we’re living in extremely good times? No. It doesn’t. Why? Because it doesn’t make sense to look at things like that past the human scale.

I’m seeing more and more people here in Chicago from the southwest, Texas, and Florida. One of the common reasons given are “water politics” and climate change.

I think in 20 or 30 years there will be a huge migration to the Great Lakes area.

I didn’t even know what water politics was until someone moved here and mentioned it.

Stock up on guzzolene, and die a glorious death so you can McFeast in Valhalla

But did you see they threw soup at a picture? Why aren't we talking about the real problem? /s

No worries. We'll send you some uhauls

”you are free to move about the country

"Why don't they just sell their houses and move?"

- Ben 'can't get his wife wet' Shapiro

"Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?"

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Well don't move to Idaho...

We have plenty of water up here, but not if all you mf-ers move here....

I'll never forget driving through deserts in central California and watching them irrigate miles and miles of artificial orchard.

Although weirdly it’s been fairly damp in Arizona and New Mexico lately. Just two years ago both states were on fire from top to bottom. I agree about the Las Vegas comment, lived there, total travesty against nature. (But damn, it was fun to be there for awhile)

If you think fighting over oil gets vicious wait until we’re fighting over water.

Laughs in great lakes state.

So, battleground

That or Chicago becomes the new Rome.

Is that what they'll call the city turned mega climate refugee camp?

I live in Indiana where only 45 miles of state touches Lake Michigan.

And it's right next to fucking GARY of all places. One of those cities half the country knows not to go near even if they've never left their home state let alone been to Indiana itself.

I'm not sure if the Water Wars will be the thing that causes Gary Indiana to finally get cleaned up and becomes the new capital effectively, of it'll become a worse hell hole battleground of trenches and chemical weapons like some World War 1 nightmare.

Either way I know that it's gonna suuuuuck.

Might as well buy a lot of real estate there just in case.

You won't be around when it happens, so chill

So did Flint

Yeah... Michigan is kind of hit or miss. But Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Toronto will not be thirsty.

The solution is to import more people from other countries into the Southwestern states.

Just trust me.

Some town in Central CA is going to run out by probably the end of November. I forgot the name of it, I think it’s near Fresno. Then they have to buy water from the private sector.

Like what the actual fuck. It will cost them more than their entire town budget IIRC. The mayor I think was on NewsNation last night.

The water wars are coming

Mad Max... New Vegas...

But not because of Las Vegas.

They generally have a water surplus versus their allotted amount. Vegas is truly excellent at water conservation.

and funnily enough it's not Vegas' fault for it drying up. They've actually reduced their drain on the river even though the city grew.

The city is actually a model for water retention, they’re one of the only places in the western US that has actually reduced water usage in spite of booming population growth

Mean whilestate my can't stop fucking flooding every spring from the nearly six feet of snowfall every winter. I wish we had a water problem in my atate.

Vegas could last a million years with like 5% of the water in Lake Mead. It's Arizona/California agriculture that's drying up Lake Mead. Vegas is actually an exemplar in water usage.

Vegas could last a million years with like 5% of the water in Lake Mead. It's Arizona/California agriculture that's drying up Lake Mead. Vegas is actually an exemplar in water usage.

What's really frustrating is these "farmers" expect to get paid to not farm. Oh yeah, and we are the ones seeking handouts...

Screw this "first in time, first in right" BS. If this was ever a real thing, there would be none of us in the US. The fact that the federal government is seriously considering paying these "farmers" whatever they demand is infuriating.

Arizona is FUUUUCKED with its water supply. Florida is literally sinking into the swamp from once it came. California is burning yearly at progressively worse rates.

And yet national news would rather talk about conservative social talking points 🙄

Arizona gets most of its water from underground aquifers, which are in excellent shape. There's a reason that there has never been a residential water restriction.

And if water cuts are ever needed, they will come from the ~75% of water used by commercial farming, much of which is largely for unnecessary crops (lettuce, exported alfalfa).

Arizona uses less water yearly than it did in 1957, despite a 7-fold increase in population.

You realize those aquifers need refilling, right? And that the state just had a 1000 year drought... except it wont be a thousand year drought for long when it happens again... half a dozen cities have already announced shortages; you do comprehend what comes next, right? and they just had their supply of the Colorado River cut....

And weve seen what does and doesnt get priority in the state. get any golf in over the summer?

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It would help if they understood that a grass lawn in the fucking desert is stupid. Actually they do understand that and still dont give a fuck, they grow god damn almonds, avocados, and alfalfa industrially.

Wtf are you talking about? You make it sound like Vegas has a problem with people growing grass in the desert, but then acknowledge it's actually farmers - in California and Arizona - that are using up all the water, a totally separate group.

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Hoover dam's power does not go to Vegas, and Nevada only uses 4% of the water in Lake Mead and recycles 96% of it. You're wrong about pretty much everything on this one.

Buddy, you should learn that Las Vegas is actually one of the more efficient users of water in the world despite their population consistently growing the last 20 years, they have actually reduced their water usage.

And somehow the development there is booming. I honestly don't get it.

This reminds me of this quote from King of the Hill about Phoenix : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE

"This city should not exist. It is a monument to mankind's arrogance"

Peggy's not exactly wrong lol

I visited Phoenix for the first time last September, being from upstate NY. My reaction to feeling the outside temperature was identical to Bobby's. It was 120F, 10% humidity. I almost had a breakdown walking from the airport to the car rental pickup spot at PHX. Crossed Phoenix off my wishlist of "return to" spots after I got home.

next to the colorado river. More importantly, built on a silver mine. And the mob built casinos cause the land and labor were cheap and no taxes on legal gambling. and with gambling illegal in most of the US up until the 90s, thats where it had to be.

Don’t forget prostitution

Las Vegas is now home to a 550ft tall Ferris wheel.

Also drawing thousands to Las Vegas ... whores!

Credit to Norm RIP

Actually, prostitution is not and never has been legal in Las Vegas or Orange County. Prostitution is Legal in Nevade, but only 1 county allows it. that county is in the northern part of the state and is home to the only 6 legal brothels in the US.

Besides your moms house that is

What's your source?

Elko, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey, and White Pine Counties have 21 active brothels from a quick search.

Prostitution was legal in Clark County till 1971.

It's legal in Parhump as well.

That is illegal in LV.

Since 1971, Vegas was founded a bit before that.

Las Vegas is a couple hours drive from some of the best farmland on Earth.

Mountain range between them, so there's a rain shadow with the farming valley on one side and Death Valley on the other.

Yeah it’s a 4 hour drive from Las Vegas to Bakersfield, CA. That’s from the center of Las Vegas to the center of Bakersfield. Google recommends going south of Death Valley. The route isn’t straight at all. Bakersfield is surrounded by farms. So Las Vegas to rich farmland would be a slightly shorter drive, maybe closer to 3 hours if you start from the outskirts of Las Vegas.

Would it be rich farmland without irrigation? I have no idea, just asking.

Google recommends going south of Death Valley

Gee almost like if there was something bad about said "Death Valley"

And yet that best farmland on earth (the central valley of california) is, surprisingly, one of the most poverty-stricken and hopeless parts of the entire country. Breadbasket, absolutely. But also they have to pump that water in, and drought is going to fuck them hard in the next few decades.

It's still a desert. Also, it is only a couple of hours away because there are roads and cars. Large parts of Africa don't have good infrastructure.

So is the Sahara

Well, yeah. That’s why Egypt has 90 million people. It’s a bunch of people living in the desert, near rich farmland.

from what used to be* some of the best farmland on Earth.

Where?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley#Agriculture

but the water tables west of the cascades is drying up as well

Yep. There are a lot of people in California.

Las Vegas is built in the middle of the most unhospitable desert on the continent

But when Vegas started out nobody thought the Hoover Dam that created Lake Mead would ever dry up. And the reason it's drying up is because winter snow caps in Colorado are nowhere near as huge as they used to be when they melt and make the Colorado River flow.

Don't worry, we'll just move downstream where there's more water. Oh wait. The Sierra Nevada mountains don't have any snow either and the water situation is almost as bad on the other side of those. Fuck.

Gonna be wild coconuts in Seattle by the time I die.

The Colorado River doesn’t even make it to the ocean.

It’s drying up because the hydrogeologist that measured the Colorado River measured it during a particularly wet period of time. There was normally not as much water as they thought, so their calculations were wrong.

Who's calculations were wrong?

I heard it's all about winter snow in Colorado melting in the summer that made the Colorado River a reliable source for water in Nevada's Lake Mead reservoir since 1931 when the Hoover Dam was built.

Are you saying man made climate change is not a factor? If so, I don't agree with you.

No, it’s a factor, but it’s really because of the miscalculations. I studied the Colorado River because I have a geology degree, and this information comes straight from my professor’s mouth.

I don't know what your professor was talking about because in the 1920's when the architects and geologists were designing the Hoover Dam, that was completed in 1931... there is no way they could have "miscalculated" or predicted that man made climate change 80-90 years in the future would drastically decrease average snow precipitation in the Colorado mountains and the annual snow melt into the Colorado River.

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying.

I think they’re meaning that whoever was tasked with the original measurements of volume to find out if it was a feasible idea or not for the future looked at the amount of water and said, “Yes.”

But since the measurements were taken in a wet period, they were overestimated so the answer should have been “No.”

But I don’t know anything about this issue. Absolutely no idea who may be correct.

Reminds me how the top scientists and architects of the early 20th century believed that Asbestos was the greatest building material the world could ever discover.

Eh, they weren't actually wrong. Asbestos isn't nearly as bad as it's often portrayed or people somehow think it is. We made some critical mistakes with it for sure, but a lot of those were related to greed. Being around asbestos is fine in a building and it really is a great material. Asbestos is only a problem in normal settings if it's disturbed like if you were tearing down a building. A lot of the building material today is even worse in that scenario and you don't want to be breathing in any of it.

Asbestos isn't nearly as bad as it's often portrayed or people somehow think it is.

Well it really is very bad when it starts getting chopped up and the dust is created.

As long as you don't touch it too much or break it, or demosh it into dust... it's OK. But eventually all structures get remodelled or demolished and then Asbestos becomes a deadly problem.

That's the same though for a lot of things still in use. And many of them are worse. A single or even a few exposures and interactions with asbestos aren't likely to be a problem. Cement and concrete dust can cause acute and long term issues, but modern tile is even worse. Inhaling the dust of hardening and glazing agents with a single exposure can cause long term silica fibrosis.

If the bar had been set where it is today for PPE in construction and industrial environments you would have never heard of asbestos. But, asbestos is pretty much the reason those standards came in place.

It’s very predictable, but I guess you wouldn’t understand because you didn’t study geology. Climate change is making it less predictable, yes, but it’s still pretty predictable. They studied the river over a unusual wet period that spanned 10 years before they built the dams. We know it was wet because people are still studying the Colorado River today. You can see it in the data.

It’s very predictable, but I guess you wouldn’t understand because you didn’t study geology.

You're right, I never did study geology and this little reddit conversation is fascinating to me because I had no idea that little miscalculation 90 years ago could actually lead to the current drought situation in Las Vegas and southern California today.

The Colorado River flow had been so reliable for about 80+ years and then it started dry up to raise some alarms in 2010.

Could it be it was not a miscalculation and they just calculated, "Fuck it... they should be able to fix it 90 years in the future.". Right?

I don’t know that much about the Colorado, because I kind of know my limitations, at least sometimes hopefully, but this is what my hydrogeologist professor said about the Colorado River about a decade ago. I don’t think it would be any less true today as it was back then, but you’re right, it has probably gotten much worse because of climate change.

Sometimes geologists get paid well to "miscalculate".

Particularly in oil and mineral extraction, but not usually the USGS.

but not usually the USGS.

When the funding of the most expensive man made power generating "Wonder of the World" (Hoover Dam) being planned 100 years ago in the 1920's, I bet they didn't care too much about fudging the USGS findings about what could happen 90 years in the future.

In fact, that same big business/science model is probably 100x's worse right now.

Well it's not that they wouldn't have built it at all. They would have just used the more accurate calculations to plan the in and outflows.

Most people today (not all) are sinfully obtuse about our future descendants.

When Vegas started out nobody thought the Hoover Dam that created Lake Mead would ever dry up.

This can largely be attributed to the fact that John Fremont began writing about the area nearly 90 years prior to the dam's completion, and the city was incorporated a decade and a half before the dam was authorized.

Mr house will solve our problems eventually

It's gonna get ridiculous when climate change starts to take off. They said it's a monument to man's arrogance. They aren't unaware of this issue, however.

What is New Orleans then?

~~New Orleans~~ N'Orlens

Nawlens

TY, I cringe whenever I hear "new or-LEENS"

ppl from new orleans (ore-linns) cringe at nawlins. Literally zero ppl from here pronounce it like that. Ppl actually do say orleens though.

Never heard anyone say orleens who lived there but things change over time. (I lived there during the 20th century)

-Not many but more than say nawlins. That's literally a tourist thing.

“Starts”?

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/02/fast-growth-in-desert-southwest-continues.html

People have been fucking flocking to the deserts. You know what's going to be there in a hundred years? Fucking Sand!

Funny thing is Vegas is doing amazing shit with water conservation

To back up my words and try to pull them out of my ass…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-water-conservation-grass/#app

So Vegas at least is trying to codify, adjust, conserve, and all avenues that depend on each other are working together to keep the city alive even if the location is inhospitable

While you look at Cali or Arizona who are fucking greedy to the core of “Fuck You! Got mine!” mentality of can’t fix this, while consuming absurd amounts of water for shitty agriculture needs. Alfalfa, horrible crop water wise ratio. Say if it takes $1 of water to produce 1 lb of Alfalfa, at least you break even, it worse the crop is negative. For every $1.50 in water expenditure they sell 1lb of Alfalfa for like $0.80. We waste all the water “money” which could be invested in better crops, but some assholes have water rights from their 6 generation ago grand-pappy days or politicians thinking present now by expanding to the breaking points of water reaching people hundreds of miles away… No future outlook

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That’s an often repeated misconception as the majority of Southern California is not a desert. It’s considered a Mediterranean climate, which is a temperate classification, distinct from deserts which are classified as arid.

Don’t forget those almond farms…

Edit: fucking almond…

Right next to the theory orchards.

I was just about to say the same, I'd wager half of California would be a desert without the water infrastructure

I've had family from Southern California and West Texas come up to where I live in Chicago and they talk about how we're blessed to have so much grass and how we can use water without restrictions. Reminds me how much of a bubble we all live in

It's also one of the most expensive places to live on earth because of that.

You also have to remember that Las Vegas isn’t built on charity or human ingenuity or anything traditionally useful.

You won’t find another city like it anywhere in the world because it’s a city built almost entirely… on crime.

The city exists because people wanted gambling and prostitution badly enough that crime organizations realized they could move to an area of the goddamned desert, LEGALIZE those things, and no one would stop them

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Still has better sea food than you can get at 90% of the US within 30 miles of a coastline

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That one desert in Ethiopia is the most inhospitable desert I think. It might be somewhere else but I just read about it a few months ago. It’s so hot and dry there’s nothing alive for miles around, and researchers discovered that in prehistoric times, it was the largest swamp area on earth and found some Of the most deadly fossilized creatures of every time period there, making it the most deadly place in most of the history of the earth.

Sam Kinison died more than 30 years ago. He never saw things like the internet, and had significantly less awareness of a lot of things that we know off the top of our heads today.

It doesn't do good to argue with someone from a different time about something like you're attempting to do.

you assume I was arguing while in reality, I quoted Scott Alexander to share a laugh with a handful of people that get it. I get upvoted by save the planet gang but it wasnt my intention

I knew some dumbass would bring this up lol. Broadly most people in America don’t live in our fucking deserts lol.

The spirit is still there. We can build in a desert because of technology and people aren’t starving. If all the water dries up then people will move and no one will starve.

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I’m not talking about other countries. I’m talking the United States. If Las Vegas goes under because of lack of water no one will be stranded.

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I see you’re just trying to argue. The people of Flint(where I live close to and have relatives living in) don’t need to move. What they did need to do was drink and cook with bottled water much of which was provided by the state and wait for their bad pipes to be replaced.

Yet there is a difference between a first world man made city and a bedouin tent

Where it belongs

I think Vegas was 260,000 people when Kinison recorded this joke. Double that amount and you still wouldn't have as many as Columbus, OH in 1990.

He probably wouldn't make this joke today RIP

By his logic, we should let people living in Nevada starve.

Los Angeles was 🏜 to

It was a huge airline refueling hub. First for the navy/airforce then for public flights. Its basically a giant skymall... with hookers and blow.

Dinosaurus was right...

Yeah and it's horrible, what's your point?

fix it fix the desert make it good 👍

seriously .. nearly all of the water issues people in the US are freaking out about are because people decided to live, and farm, in a fucking desert.

maybe we shouldn't be fucking farming in the desert?

Sounds like a them problem.

Before cars, a horse carriage would take a full day to make the trip to/from Vegas from Los Angeles or Salt Lake City.

My favorite thing to do is take jokes very seriously too.

mine is assuming things about others

it’s not even close to the most inhospitable desert on the continent, Paiutes and other bands lived there for thousands of years 🙄

Right. I was thinking huh? SW folks with their AC all day everyday would like to have a word with this gig.

Didn't it used to be an oasis though?

It exists because they are drilling people's pockets

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If there’s ever a movie about Sam Kinnison’s life I feel like Melissa McCarthy looks enough like him and could pull off the yelling almost perfectly.

She did a respectable Chris Farley.

She does a respectable Chris Farley.

ftfy

Has she done it recently?

She lives it.

Wouldn’t be surprised with roles being both gender and race altered now.

It could be like “Quantum Leap” with her being herself and everyone else seeing Sam Kinnison visually.

Lolls. That’s hilarious.

Oh man, In Heat, going on about the balls, classic Sam right there. "...About the SIZE of mouse balls, but a little smaller, like girl mouse sized balls..."

Lols. I think you’re right on here.

People would want that hoke to play one of the greatest comedians in the history of mankind? What fuckin world do you people live in exactly?

But why are they in the desert?

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This fucking gif is an automatic laugh for me 🤣

if you haven't watched the murder trial of tim heidecker you're missing out.

“I HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO STRIKE HIM IF HE DISOBEYS!”

I don’t blame them, I, too, would like to be inside some ice cream right now

He died while I was in US Navy Boot Camp.

Ten days later, while I was still in Boot Camp, Benny Hill died.

Benny Hill's death hit me worse as I had watched his show all the time. It didn't help that one of my Company Commanders gave me the nickname of.. you guess it.. Benny Hill.

BM2 Williams walked into the compartment and yelled at me, "Benny, you're dead." Not knowing what to do, I dropped to the deck on my back, stuck my arms and legs up in the air to do the "dead bug".

"Get up you stupid motherfucker. Benny Hill died." BM2 Williams didn't call me Benny Hill after that.

This is the most hilarious thing I have ever heard of in my life. I’ll bet he still tells stories about you.

What's BM2?

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Petty Officer

Holy shit. It's one of Bill Burr's ancestors.

u/savevideo

Sam Kinison turned the comedy world on its head with that bit.

He must have done this bit for at least 10 years.

My favorite bit of his was his song to his ex wife.

I thought he would say just don’t send them food so they die and then no more hunger 💀

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On the other hand, this is reddit. The site that "bacons at midnight" and makes frozen soap.

Never underestimate the stupidity of a group of redditors.

Funnily enough people do try to come to where the food is. And a lot of folks aren't thrilled about it.

We need to build a wall so they can't get our food!

Mexico don’t got a food problem.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. But make love to a man, you get a lifelong fishing partner.

They leave that last bit out for some reason.

Going Deeper with Richard Rider, follow for more

It's easier to teach a man to fish if his stomach has a fish in it.

Give a man a fire, he's warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.

Kill a man with a fish he’ll never need another fish again

Was he a priest or something or do I have him mixed up with someone else

Pentecostal preacher. Hence the screaming.

He was stricken with a head injury due to a car accident. Many say he was never the same afterwards.

He was a hella good preacher from the recordings I heard

If you don’t mind me asking what’s the difference between preacher and priest

I always though it was just the delivery that made the difference.

You're homeless? Just buy a home, duh

That is why he says send them Uhauls

Should try ships. They moved a looot of folks across the Atlantic.

It worked for their descendants if not them

More like saying, “you’re homeless…don’t live in the Arctic circle, it’s too cold to not have a home.”

As if we can pick and choose where we live

Hence the bit about sending Uhauls……

Listening comprehension is not strong in this thread

I don't they even watched it.

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That and it’s a comedy bit lol people take what they seriously

It's just a bit.

You aware of what comedy is?

I know it's subjective and I'll let people enjoy what they do but I don't find this funny at all so I went to the comments section to see if I missed anything and nope.

Hey, I'm not racist, but I have to ask,

Are you American?

Have a parent who is American and I've lived a few years in the US when I was a teen but most of my life I've lived in Europe.

Ok. I think it has to do with the differences in humor.

Stephen Fry says it better than I ever could: https://youtu.be/8k2AbqTBxao

Still using the h word? Unbelievable. It's 2022. Maybe start using the preferred term - unhoused. It's not hard people.

No joke, he actually proposed in his act that we should shoot the homeless to solve the problem.

"Find a job, or fuck someone who has a job."

Now in his defense, this was back when that was possible. I made shit pay all my life in retail, but I was never homeless... however, I had to have a job AND fuck someone who had a job at one point.

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Nah, Elon Musk would send them a submarine

But only after calling the people still sending them good all pedos.

Step 1: Claim to be working on solving current problem that is getting a lot of attention in order to steal as much of that attention as possible.

Step 2: Begin implementing half-assed solution to the problem.

Step 3: Cocaine.

Step 4: Cocaine.

Step 5: Realize you've spent all the attention on cocaine so now you're out of attention and running dangerously low on cocaine so you go on social media and tv interviews to rant about everyone involved that you claimed you were trying to help in order to get those attention gauges back in the green.

Step 6: Cocaine.

Step 7: Cocaine.

Step 8: Pull out on the solution halfway through.

Step 9: Cocaine.

Step 10: Blame everyone except yourself and your cocaine/attention-based 10-step process to living life.

The perfect comment. Polarising, and both sides can interpret it as being for or against.

If only it made any grammatical sense!

Who cares, it's easy to read

I mean, if you're trying to trigger people, isn't that just the master stroke?

I miss that guy

Agreed. My version of heaven has Kinison, Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, Bill Hicks, Norm McDonald, Patrice O'Neal, Mitch Hedberg, Bob Saget and a bunch of other people hanging around a coffee shop busting each other up. There's room for everybody and it can get quite loud...

Bill Hicks would like to hang, too.

There's room for everybody. It can get very loud.

May he have unlimited cigarettes up there, and the option to quit and start back up again whenever.

Marlboros!

Smokey smokey!

I'm not sure Hicks would accept an invitation to heaven.

Need to be adding Norm MacDonald to that list

Done. He's telling all his OJ jokes right now.

Wow what a visionary you are

a teenager just discovered classic comedy and is very annoying to all his friends vibes

You wouldnt get the jokes.

And Patrice O'Neal is destroying all of them.

Patrice was the best

Can’t forget Bob Saget 😢

Never did ;)

I always hated him on America's funniest home videos because he was so cheesy. Then I found out he was a fucking degenerate. Now I love him on America's funniest home videos.

Norm tells the longest joke humanly possible with the stupidest punchline and they all off themselves while already being dead. Damn, I love Norm.

Me too! The first time I saw that bit I was rolling on the floor laughing.

Let's get nerdy the reason for hunger is corruption. We don't live in a perfect world so corrupt and power hungry people exist.

Yeah, most places where there's hunger aren't even near deserts.

Saying everything in Afrika is near the Sahara is like saying everything in the US is near Death Valley.

Aside from corruption, there's also perpetual wars and other forms of strife.

The Yemen and Palestine situations are more down to people perpetually fucking with these people than the ability of their environment to grow food.

Development level and wealth also make a gigantic difference.

Some decades ago, my uncle was invited to Saudi Arabia, to teach local workers and a group of managers how to run high tech greenhouses (my uncle had 5 hectares of greenhouse he grew tomatoes in).

The royals built gigantic greenhouses in the middle of the fucking desert and were growing food just wonderfully.

Another contributor is things like World Bank and IMF demands that developing countries grow certain cash crops for trade in lieu staple crops for the population (in order to hasten loan repayment). Sugar cane farming in Caribbean nations (eg- Haiti) is a prime example of this. This leads to costly imported staple foods for the consumers who can't really afford them because they're criminally underpaid for their sweatshop labor and severely disenfranchised by their government representatives who are supported by more powerful countries like the US has worked hard to keep their wages low and from rising even a few measly cents (pennies for those in the first world, but everything for them) so that a few corporations can maintain ever increasing profits. Workers who rise up are violently beat back down with military gear bestowed by the first world government benefactors.

Neocolonialism and exploitation of cheap labor and political corruption and violent repression amplify existing problems. Not to mention climate change.

And the Western first world is shocked and mystified that developing countries are choosing China as an economic development partner instead.

Do you have any sources that I can read to learn more about these problems?

Absolutely. I'm not an expert by any means, just sharing what I've learned from (geo) political programs that I follow via interviews with experts, journalists, and highliting of journalism. Primarily from The Majority Report, Michael Brooks Show, Democracy Now, and Vijay Prashad. You can search their channels and or websites for more information if you want to go deeper.

Vijay Prashad.

https://youtu.be/vRFxkuVLCqw

More current rundown: (skip to 42 min 49 sec) https://youtu.be/wxsojb2bHjA

https://youtu.be/ykDsQyAh8lg

https://youtu.be/ykDsQyAh8lg) in particular is a fantastic resource if you really want to deep dive into these problems. He's written and spoke extensively on these topics broadly, not just with regards to Haiti, and he has many interviews and speeches on YouTube. He's a legit academic and just coauthored a book with Noam Chomsky.

https://youtu.be/vRFxkuVLCqw

More current rundown: (skip to 42 min 49 sec) https://youtu.be/wxsojb2bHjA

https://youtu.be/ykDsQyAh8lg

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Yeah, most places where there's hunger aren't even near deserts.

The african countries nearest to the Sahara are even the ones who have the least problems with hunger.

Thank god someone said it. I honestly took offense in this bit

The #1 reason for hunger is Supply Chain Management.

Yes, somebody in the management is corrupting it.

Not really, it's just hard to do effectively. It's really expensive to move massive amounts of goods.

We do it everyday, that's what global trade is.

Yes, we tend to move those goods to people who can pay for them. So while moving stuff is definitely expensive, selling that stuff gets you the money back.

The problem comes when you suggest we move goods to poor people who can't necessarily pay for them. Because those people tend to really be the ones who need the goods. They can't pay, but somebody has to pay for the operational and delivery costs. But there's no one who can pay, so the idea of doing it is quickly scrapped due to capitalism. We don't want to help people because helping people is not profitable.

Yeah that's where the corruption comes in. We (people in total) do spend enough to cover the costs for producing and delivering the food. Corporations choose to only sell to the biggest markup spenders. But in total, the total spent on food is already more than the cost to deliver and produce food for everyone.

And there's not enough profit in feeding the poor.

I am the creative director for a charity that raises money for the hungry people in deserts.

In our case - the main issue are war, various factions, rebel groups, warlords, etc. stealing the food for their guerillas and armies.

We feed people in 4 different parts of the world and basically if there wasn't a superpower backed proxy war - there would be far less hunger.

Everybody is just hoping to feed the victims and families until they reach some sort of balance and stability to rebuild their farms and ports.

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Sounds like he was talking about Yemen or possibly Somalia

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Africa isn't home to the only hungry desert in the world.

I don't have time for a rebuttal. You're blocked.

yet somehow all the box stores in my city are fully stocked lol

They probably have roads leading to them.

What a beautiful world you live in.

Specifically that there’s no profit in fixing that supply chain. We’ve explored the Marianas Trench, sent an LP past Pluto, and golfed on the fucking moon. Don’t tell me we can’t send grain to some other part of the earth.

If only there was some guy who built a company around logistics and getting things from one place to another in 2 days time. And if only that guy had enough money to expand those logistics worldwide, imagine the good that he would be able to accomplish.

Or you know, penis rocket. I guess they're both goals.

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You're severely underestimating how much money he has, the knowledge he's built, and the "Soft power" that amazon wields.

Its orders of magnitude more than kings of the past.

You'd say the same thing if someone was like "I want to create a logistics company that can deliver anything to you, within 2 days." In the 90s.

You'd say the same thing to someone who says "I want to create a worldwide internet accessible from anywhere." But it happened.

Eventually, someone will get tired of people saying they can't and just do it.

Money is invented by humans and is not an actual limitation.

The only thing, literally the only thing, preventing this is corruption. We can absolutely do this but we won’t. We have enough empty homes to house everyone but we won’t put the homeless on them. We can feed everyone but we won’t.

Vulcans would not even know where to begin with us.

Capitalism can't work unless there is a large underclass living in abject poverty. The middle class must aspire to be upper class (very unlikely), and be terrified of falling into the lower class (likely). Most people don't want to be rich. They just want to be comfortable, with enough income and savings to raise a family, be prepared for emergencies, not have to count pennies while shopping, provide for their children's futures, and take a nice vacation once a year. Once they have that, they won't work that much harder to get more carrots. They'd rather spend that time with their families, enjoying what they've earned. So, you need a stick to keep them motivated.

We wouldn't need to worry about supply chain management so much if people lived closer to the other end of that chain.

I mean he does propose a supply chain solution.

South Korea imports 70% of its domestic consumption of food due to unfavorable agricultural land. But that in turn makes food there expensive, if South Korea can’t get cheap food due to logistics then it would be a bigger nightmare for poorer regions.

Not in the case of US farmers who for decades were self sufficient until the federal government paid them more to not farm their land. Because of bad trade policies such as NAFTA.

More broadly the most basic reason for hunger and other kinds of systemic poverty is rent seeking, of which corruption is just one kind.

It's not justncorruption tho. You can't just will the world to all agree on whatthe best solution to a problem is, and you can't force people to make decisions in their own best interest even on a medium term. As Mao showed, you can't just order an agricultural revolution without all sorts of unforseen consequences (even if it didn't have corruption, which definitely had).

What are you, a desert-truther or something?

I'm pretty sure it's generally from colonization extracting natural resources, replacing staple crops with cash crops, deforestation, privatizing herding lands…

The world provides enough for every man's need. But not enough for every man's greed.

That’s… a lot less nerdier than I expected

So you're saying all we need to do is solve human nature? That sounds like a much easier problem to tackle!

It’s just not possible yet. Its not corruption.

Sam Kinison was also a preacher

I watched this with no sound and I heard every word loud and clear.

RIP I was glad to share our short time here together.

Now we just need some girl to solve homelessness

He was awesome in Back to school.

You can tell he cares…about what? I have no idea

Been a while since I’ve seen the triple Lindy.

Classic 💯

Soon in Arizona.

I worked at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the 80s. I saw a couple Sam Kinison shows there. So funny. So loud. So offensive. It was great.

That must have been pretty awesome.

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That was awesome lol

Food for thought, he died in the desert. Tragic, but ironic...

Pretty sure he would find that hilarious

I miss him.

This is from Rodney Dangerfield's 9th Annual Young Comedians Special. Here's a link to his full set that night.

Top notch

Most here might not know Sam Kinison was a preacher before becoming a stand up.

Fucking legend!!

Sam Kinison was such a G

How is he not sweating his ass off in that coat?

Also, if all the desert dwellers come to where the food is, racists are going to complain about an invasion.

The obvious solve is to feed the homeless to the hungry

I miss Sam...

I love how he says the word sand so calmly after screaming like crazy.

I forgot how much I missed Sam.

They got the message, they're all here in Turkey now.

He....He’s not wrong tho.

I love his point of view, but can't stand the screaming lol.

I'm the exact opposite: dumb point of view (even for a joke, I know), I love his tone of screaming. One of the few times that screaming sounds nice.

Yeah, he can front a screamo band or something.

he's only half wrong: sending food is a poor form of food aid, as noted by Thomas Sankara. his "solution" isn't a solution though

It isnt only a joke, its a truth. Allow those to migrate to areas that are sustainable and we will make a huge step to solving world hunger. The US sends aid and food to these areas in an effort to keep them away, not to help them.

Any excellent bit is grounded in truth. We laugh because we know when something hits.

His point wasn't to make migration easier for desert people. His point was to make fun of desert people for being too dumb to move of the desert.

Someone shouldn't have to move out where their cultural roots are in order to survive. Sometimes obviously they have to...millennia of human migration backs this up. But it's often human intervention (warlords, climate change, desertification, water-wars and shit) that makes it difficult.

It's phyiscally difficult to move, financially risky, emotionally devastating, and you can lose touch with your cultures. Can you imagine having to move out of, say, suburban america, to China, for similar reasons? Shit would be tough. You wouldn't even be able to speak their language.

Desertification is reaching an an alarming pace. A lot of these places just simply were not deserts historically. We cannot feasibily migrate that many people. We need to halt or reverse the course of these deserts or the consequences are going be quite severe.

Never heard of Sam Kinison, have you?

One of the best to ever do comedy

I’m a huge comedy fan and that’s a controversial take. He had a lot of good points but his style was a huge turn off to a lot of folks. He was as smart and tight as Carlin but the yelling… not for everyone

As a comedian, I would never say he was as smart and tight as carlin. His style is what made him, not his content. You're right the yelling isn't for everyone, but if he never yelled he never would have made it.

Almost everyone has heard of Kinison - doesn’t mean everyone like him

Heard of him? Hell yes! I heard that guy screaming from a few states away while I was still in my mother's womb.

Screaming doesn't make it funnier

Damn your type of funny might suck cause the way he screams is hysterical

A legend. And to think he was a minister at one point

If you listen to his comedy skits, he still was.

I did and well put…

He was a pentecostal preacher. Pretty much a lateral move with the screaming.

Yeah- it would crack me up when I’d imagine him yelling his head off at pews of blue-haireds about how god was going to fuck them up if they didn’t repent or some shit

A lot of people have a different sense of humor. Just because some don’t laugh at your type of humor doesn’t mean he/she sucks

I actually think this set was funny, but the screaming was unnecessary. It hurts my ears and makes me cringe. Some of us can't take the excessive. The screams don't make it hysterical, they make it hard to listen to

It's...really really not though

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Will Ferrell isn't funny. Elf sucks.

Will Ferrell is awful.

Ummm, yeah -- been aware of him for about 30 years lol.

What's it been like, being dead inside the last 30 years?

What's it like, being this butthurt over an opinion that doesn't coincide with yours?

Aren't we sassy. I just mentioned his name.

Also it's been two days, who gives a shit.

You apparently.

Wow you really got me. What's my line now? That's right...

No, you.

You do realize it's against ToS to use this platform if you're under 13, right?

Hold on, I'm looking it up.

I know you are, but what am I?

I'm sorry that your parents failed you. Welcome to the iggy bin.

it also has major issues. It's not like the cities have tons of food for poor people.

You might also just have corrupt governments that dont distribute food properly. And hell, that might have happened because a wealthy nation interfered in some way.

I mean, he's telling a joke. Not giving a serious suggestion for solving world hunger

and the person responding said "i love his point of view" and i'm just commenting on the POV.

He literally is talking about solving world hunger. If people were allowed to migrate to were there was abundance (United States) then they wouldnt have to starve in the desert. They are sent food to keep them in the desert. The US throws a ridiculous amount of food in the trash every day. If everyone lived where there was sustainability then no one would need to go hungry. Greed and xenophobia keep them out.

It's a comedy routine, not a TED talk

I love his point of view

It's amazing how many of you missed the reply that started this...

Just pretend the 30 million people currently in the US who are food insecure don't exist.

He was telling a joke about solving world hunger. It does not mean he was trying to offer any legitimate solutions to the problem.

I love his point of view

It's amazing how many of you missed the reply that started this...

It's amazing how you're trying to be self-righteous about a joke lol.

Is it a joke? If I scream about poor people being poor because they need to go where the money is, is that a joke because I screamed it in a funny way?

I think its indicative of an incorrect worldview.

Literally stand up comedy, so yeah a joke

The joke is that the west sends these people food so that they stay where the are. The real solution to world hunger is to allow them to migrate to sustainable areas. Problem is that green and xenophobia keep them out.

Is it a joke?

Yes

Yeah. This guy's definitely got an incorrect worldview. It's like he's been living under a rock for the last 30 years, 6 months, and 5 days.

Lol, I'm not looking to debate the finer points of an obviously absurd joke from 30 years ago. There's absolutely zero point.

Yeah this is some loud = funny type shit, it's awful

People should scream more like him. Maybe people would listen.

Or they'd just change the channel lol.

He’s extremely wrong though

The thing about absurd humor is that it does not seek to be correct.

But you said you loved his point of view...?

Thought the screaming was funny, the point of view is idiotic.

It's basically 'Americans bad at geography' personified, what does a desert have to do with anything?

A lot of regions that were experiencing hunger and receiving aid from the US at the time were in desert regions -- or similar regions where food cultivation was quite difficult due to the climate and terrain.

Technically it wasn’t a dessert 10 thousand years ago

One would assume that in case the parents of all those generations never told their kids that their home seems to have become a desert, it should have occurred to themselves at least once or so.

Learn about geography

Oh, right, i forgot that part.

I was about to say something about "how come the africans hasn't figured that if africans can't govern africa very nicely, why do they live there?".

But then i realized some don't. Some are here, behind the door next to mine. Behind 90% of the doors around mine. And one of them stole my laundry time today.

JFC, the thinly veiled racism drops its veil.

Stole what?

You know, when you rent an apartment and have a laundry room in the building where you can book a time to use it via a digital board?

Works well usually, but not when all the neighbours regularly leave the door open so the digital lock doesn't work.

Sorry I don’t know that system or how it relates to the topic

It's never been a dessert

Not with that attitude

How do you know people didn't eat it with berries and cream 10 thousand years ago??

A lot of things weren’t what they were 10,000 years ago.

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Find a newer geography book, your numbers are wrong

Carlin ‘proved’ you could joke about anything. Kinison proved it again by joking about famine.

You absolutely cannot joke about anything...

One of the greatest comedic performers ever. Dude always held the audience in the palm of his hand. His stuff aged way better than Andrew Dice Clay imo

God I miss Sam. Him and George Carlin. Two gems.

I don’t, and I wish I could go a day without Reddit lamenting the loss of such overrated comics.

Hey, they can't all be Dane Cook.

You know this person likes the most vanilla bland ass comedians too.

And when people get out of the desert and go where the food is, they are told to get back where they came from

Yup. The reason they are sent food isnt for good will... it is to keep them where they are.

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He is just saying what we've all been thinking since we were kids

because it's a little kid level problem solving skills. That's why it's funny, we all thought it but we all know it's not actually a reasonable answer. But hearing a grown man shout it as if it's the obvious solution is a funny joke.

Idk seems pretty reasonable, move ppl with little means out of drought stricken areas to a more habitable area. With as much money wasted building wells and whatnot, trying to subvert the actual unhabitable landscape problem, moving ppl might work better

Do you think people only starve in drought stricken areas and do you think drought stricken areas are always stricken with droughts?

Again, it's surface level thinking. The problem with starvation isn't that people live where food doesn't grow. That's not the problem at all. There's starving people in countries with vast amounts of agriculture.

Also, the efforts to fix starvation dont' really revolve around making uninhabitable places habitable. Yes there's scientists working on that, but it's not the large scale effort that goes on. The idea people are wasting money trying to grow plants in sand and we should just buy uhauls isn't based in any reality.

I think ur right. I am thinking surface level. I need to dig deeper to find the answers b/c it obviously is not in the top soil when there is none. Sand makes me parched, I'm gonna go grab a drink from the city municipal fountain. All the best

I'd probably stop eating sand, but have fun

Immigrants are always welcome, amiright? 😆

I'm down if it helps get those sadistic Feed the Children campaigns off the air

They're welcome in my country.

Most of us grew up and became smarter though

Not us Redditors lol

I usually despise people who shout to be funny, but I'll make an exception for this guy.

I don’t read books. “I have a slow processor”. 1.7 GPA in high school. Basically I don’t enjoy reading a book unless it’s how to build something. However I love listening to history.

Certain places thousands of years ago where not sand they where plentiful fragile ecosystems. Random human conquest or an eruption from a volcano changed history.

We don’t think about thing like this now because we are so interconnected.

So…most of the south west should move too?

Gotta’ love ol’ Sammie boy.

RIP to a legend

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Sam Kinnison was a trip. Definitely don’t want to see him when you’re on a mellow high though.

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Sam is a legend!! He revolutionized comedy as it stood in his day. He has influenced many!

One of the all time greats!

Best solution I’ve heard so far!

The most Reddit thing ever is arguing against comedy.

Could be, or, it's more Reddit to not read the article and then argue from false premise, or pedanticly nitpic a comment add go right for personal insults.

Just... Don't take it seriously is my advice.

Dude is performing screamo comedy, not engaging in statecraft. He's wrong but funny.

RIP Sam

Sam Kinnison is too funny. He use to be a preacher too before his wife cheated on him and his comedy career took off.

Sammy K was awesome. Rest In peace to a legend

Burr talks about how he learned volume cadence from watching Sam. How he used to just yell, crowds didn’t respond. Then Sam began the approach of this low delivery and leveraging anticipation. To this rocket ship volume.

This guy was also pretty funny in "back to school"

Oh man, this guy would be canceled so hard today lol. Remember all the funny shit you could put in standup and movies without someone getting triggered?

God damn I love Sam Kennison.

Former preacher turned comic.

Sam Kinison, what a genius. I believe he grew up in church, (BaptiPeniCostal 🙃) and developed his style from his experience.

Oh man I fucking love Sam Kinison.

😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂

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Man, Sam Kinison what the fucking best.

The only human I looked forward to getting yelled at by.

This is a great HolUp, especially if you aren’t familiar with Kinison.

I remember seeing this with my dad probably 25 years ago, and it is to date the hardest I have ever seen him laugh.

Americans don’t live in desert? LA and Phoenix beg to differ.

Love Sam. The SRV of comedy imo.

  • said in LA, during the droughts.

RIP Sam Kinison

No one tell Arizona

Imagine performing this at a modern college. they'd stone you to death.

Even on mute, bro.

I was lucky enough to see him perform before he passed away. It was a great show.

This guy is funny

This is hilarious.

One of the greatest of all time!

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This is funny as fuck

Low key he has a point. Unless you're making bank in the desert, sending food in with no system to sustain makes no sense.

On the other end, his solution only solved like a third of the problem, as in the urban slums of many cities around the world, people live day to day hungry as fuck as they often can't afford food everyday

I love how everybody is calling him an idiot, when we have idiots giving us a history lesson. The guy is a comedian, and a funny one at that, classic. We're going to have real problems when George Carlin is posted in here

Man I miss Kinison.

People back then found this bit funny, eh?

It was an ok bit until he rounded it off by calling starving, poor people “assholes”. That makes the whole thing collapse in on itself.

And yet Arizona is fine, probably poverty. I see the joke he's trying to make but also remember that people are racist and won't let them in to their country and they are to poor to try anyhow

Isn't Arizona only fine because we manipulated nature to get water there? Otherwise it would also be a barren desert

Yes, but doesn't that mean we can maniple water to Africa?

Sure but maybe look into the water problems in the west

There’s a fun thing called “Water Wars” if you’d like to know more

Imma look this up probably

He got a point

Has the same energy as "everyone has uno"

Why so active white boy

Every time I see this clip, it’s lauded as comedy genius. I’ve never understood why. Maybe a cultural thing (I’m not American)? It just seems like a weak punch line emphasised by way too much yelling.

Sam Kinison. Legend. He was an evangelical preacher before standup.

People in Arizona 👀

I think about this stuff when I see those ads asking for donations. Like, we'll never solve a problem we keep literally and metaphorically feeding. It's just endlessly prolonging it.

I didn't understand this until I railed a line of Brain Force.

"We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them."

I dunno, have you seen checks notes Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of California?

They dont live in a desert they live in hella good soil

The hungriest people in the world live in tropical countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. Countries which can and do grow alot of food, it just gets sold really quick.

Idk what he's on lol

Maybe when the western countries (which robbed them of their natural resources, used its people in their wars and would regularly, directly or indirectly cause mass genocides) could have also made it an initiative to educate the entirety of the subjugated population…

Let's of people in these comments analyzing this guy's joke like it's some policy announcement by a gov't official 🙄...

I saw him in Boston and I can still hear him!!

Show this to people in the mid western US but for water (Utah, Arizona)

classic Sam Kenison. Too bad he left us so young. one of the greatest comics.

Agressive Quackity isn't real he can't hurt you

Agressive Quackity:

GARY! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH YOUR DESERT! AND YOU ATE GONNA LIKE IT!

Name of comedian ?

who is this?

The plot of Dune

We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them..

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This aged so terribly

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The left would jizz themselves at how cancellable Sam Kinison was in the '80s and '90s. Outrage orgasm.

Ya, that’s probably true. Amazing when you think about how different life and culture was just a couple of decades ago.

Somewhere along the way, humanity lost its sense of humor, but more importantly, its common fucking sense.

Hes making a joke, however he is really saying something about how these people deserve to live somewhere sustainable.

If they were allowed to immigrant out of the desert then they would. The "haves" wont let them.

Greed and xenophobia keep these peoples in the desert.

Can you explain what exact greed and xenophobia keeps them there?

“The left”

Ah yes immediate tribalism flag to let you know this comment will be some top tier intellectual debate.

Sorry, you guys brought it, so own it.

“you guys”

there he goes again

Yeah! Let's make this about politics, too!!!

Christ...😑

I like the fact that he is not saying "fuck those hungry people for living in a desert", he is saying "hungry people, we need to send you a uhaul and luggage to GET YOU THE FUCK OUT OF THE DESERT!"

He was a caring man, is what I'm saying.

Don't examine the bit too closely.

Famines don't just exist in the desert, and plenty of people are starving "where the food is" for bullshit reasons like geopolitics, wars, and corruption.

The amount of people taking a stand up bit serious is alarming. Like, really alarming

It’s unfortunately the problem with jokes like this now. Goes on facebook, thousands of Barry B Racists going “hey the guy has a point!”. Fuel for the fire.

That’s not a problem with a joke. That’s a problem with people. The joke is fine and harmless. Don’t make it about the joke, it’s a fucking joke.

I don’t know, it has a narrative that people will interpret however they like. You have to understand when you tell a joke that it can be interpreted a certain way, saying it was a joke is unfortunately not a bulletproof shield.

As he is allowed to tell the joke, people are allowed to interpret it however they like too.

There’s nothing to not know. It’s a joke. If anyone takes it as anything other than that it’s on them. Or you. Period

Naive way to see it in my opinion but it is what it is.

It’s not naive at all, if you’re over analyzing a joke like this, you lack a sense of humor. Plain and simple. Cut and dry. Nothing more to add to it.

The fact that anyone would think this is funny is alarming. As if people aren't made to starve by the violent hierarchies and exploitation that subjugate them from the day they are born. It might be funny if you have the ignorance of a 3 year old and think people can just live wherever they want.

Take that stick out your ass and start enjoying things

If you don’t have a sense of humor that’s fine, don’t bring the rest of us down because you’re unfunny

I mean….he’s kinda right tho

I hope you're joking

Not really, most of the world's starving population are people living in poverty. They can't afford to just pack up and leave.

Did you miss the part where he said “send them U-Hauls”?

Most of them live on or next to perfectly arable land. 42 million food insecure people live in the states alone. People starve because others find it beneficial to let them, and we have spent just about the entirety of recorded history inventing increasingly effective systems to maximise that benefit while divesting responsibility for the harm. "JuSt mOoVE wHerE dA fOOd IS" is perhaps the most optimally retarded take one could possibly conceive of.

this is the comment that should have been upvoted the most

“Food insecure” doesn’t mean “starving to death”

Neo bullet dodging levels of missing all of the points. Well done.

Cheaper if we spent the money on moving them instead of sending food.

Yes, because when masses of desperate people travel to a wealthier nation they are always welcomed with kindness and open arms.

People forget that poor people aren't idiots.

Well if they live in a dessert....

Free trips to Martha's Vineyard

Who said send them to wealthier nations?

Arable land exists in their own countries most likely

True but they usually only have to deal with those issues for a few generations until they are considered regular citizens. And that's not a bad trade off for literally every other generation afterwards not having to worry nearly as much about food.

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Yep, about sums up everything wrong in the world.

Kinda. Look at Sweden, that went well, didn't it?

Food? Money? That's a waste of both those things! What we need is ~~mustard gas~~

What do we need? I couldn't read the end of your comment

I think it's something about them missing condiments? Maybe they just couldn't season the salad and that's why the food we sent was insufficient?

Giving them food ain’t gonna help either, at least moving them actively fixes a problem than prolonging it

It's not like being near a farm means you can just eat the shit that grows there. As slums worldwide will attest, you need more than proximity to food to have access to it.

moving them actively fixes a problem

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Moving them out of deserts they don't live in?

The premise of that joke is oldschool malinformed prejudice at its worst.

There's not a single bedouin tribe in need of food aid.

Most of the places with hunger have a corruption/war/development problem, not a ability to grow food problem.

Especially when you consider that subsaharan Africa is one of the most resource-rich places on the planet. They can grow food easily..and they do. The issue is with warlords and corruption.

I got a idea… colonisation

That way they can be too poor to buy food, but elsewhere

At least they would be closer to those donating it. Sending food to the desert is expensive. Either let evolution kill em or move em. Sending food just prolongs the problem

But they can afford to have almost 5 kids on average though 🤔 so now instead of 2 starving mouths it’s 7. And then it just multiplies from there.

Could always send some more Christian preachers telling them to fuck like rabbits and never to use contraception or do abortions!

So what about the Mexican refugees in the hundreds of thousands for political disputes or literally ANY refugee..in this case refugee would be for food instead of a dirt politician..so yes they could mobilize and go to a refugee location

And they also don't live in deserts.

Eh, not really. Tons of people live in the middle of highly productive farmland and still can’t afford food. It’s not that getting the food to them is difficult, it’s just more profitable to send it somewhere else where people will pay more for it.

He's wrong.

It's just a comedy routine. Please don't take it seriously.

People are constantly starving to death "where the food is" for completely bullshit reasons like corruption, wars, and richer countries buying out all the produce.

Also famines exist outside of desert areas.

Also people don't like when there are refugees in their country.

There's a lot of people in the US that live in the desert??? Phoenix is like the 5th largest city. Las Vegas is literally in the middle of the desert.

Developed city’s with big budgets and a water source

Water source for now

Wait long enough it will all be under water, problem solved

Wait longer and the sun explodes and we never have to hear about immigrants or poverty again.

I like your thinking

Aren’t both of those cities built along the second largest river in the USA?

Phoenix is about 170 miles from the Colorado River, which is what I think you're referring to. But California takes most of that, we have 2 smaller rivers we also pull from. But we're also in a 20+ year draught.

And it sucks here lol

Phoenix is built near a large tributary of the Colorado. Just checked

lmao no, this is a bit and it's not to be taken seriously and if it is it's incredibly uninformed.

Fun fact: If the people try to leave the desert, they're usually killed, raped, robbed, locked up or enslaved.

Woah, what? Why?

He’s being hyperbolic.

They are vulnerable and desperate and some wealthy asshole would love to exploit that. The usual.

Oh ok, I get what they were trying to say now. I thought they were saying that if a person just generally tried to leave any kind of desert all that stuff would suddenly happen.

Are... are you serious?

They can solve world hunger in their countries by not having kids. Reduce their populations. You’re telling me you and your partner are starving, yet y’all are going to have not just 1 kid but on average 4.5 kids and now you have 6.5 starving mouths to feed. Make it make sense.

When people have nothing else to do, they fuck.

Haha true. We just gotta introduce them to the internet, video games, feminism and porn to keep themselves occupied. That’s why the US population is shrinking in a nutshell.

the only part of ouyr population that is shrinking are the intelligent portions. the scum are making litters aplenty

You can fuck and not have kids

were all starving and dying!! Better not innovate, let's fuck and continue the misery!!

Great logic. I thought reddit appreciated Darwin awards?

I personally would not have kids if I was starving

Or put in cages right at the border.

Yea, better we send them to fuckin New York amirite?

Currently taking place with emigrating political asylum seeking refugees to Israel from Africa. Source: dozens of independent on location news reports on yt.

When people die because of drought related famine it's because they aren't allowed to move.

He’s not wrong.

I mean, it's a funny bit, but if you actually want to discuss the reasons of hunger and poverty, he's most definitely wrong.

He's 100% wrong. It ignores immigration policies, not to mention the fact that people starve to death "where the food is". The real reasons for hunger are complicated and varied.

It's not supposed to be true, though. It's supposed to be funny.

From the days when comedy was funny

Not the same room, but the same days, sure.

"hey native americans. we're taking your land and will march you in a desert and it will be the punchline of some coked out ignorant asshole a couple hundred years from now."

Oh my god you people are such unbelievable bores.

No wonder comedians refuse to do shows at universities anymore.

Only the the ones who aren't funny enough to appeal to all audiences do that.

No one is funny enough to appeal to all audiences.

The problem is big names like Dave Chapelle reject performances at universities because of protests, not lack of popularity

And people of the kind of humor to not get protested just aren’t funny enough to draw crowds

I can't think of anything less funny than a comedian who appeals to pretentious 19yr olds with no life experience

I saw Charlie Murphy at my university. Did an awesome job.

Charlie Murphy has been dead for half a decade. Pre and post Trump culture on universities is quite different. Not that it wasn't a sensitive environment before then but it's not the same.

Sensitive, or inclusive? Are these kids overly sensitive pansies who can't take a joke, or just more aware of inequity and demanding of respect. We cannot scorn all of that sort of behavior. A lot of it is rooted in ever expanding understanding of what is acceptable and what isn't, what is a good natured joke and what is mean spirited and dismissive. There are comedy routines that I watched so many times that I could have recited them word for word, but you go back now and some of the bits are definitely insensitive to real people and their valid and unique life experiences.

Sensitive, or inclusive?

It's both

just more aware of inequity and demanding of respect

Demanding respect is almost never funny.

what is a good natured joke and what is mean spirited and dismissive

Being mean and dismissive can be funny. Anybody who thinks making a joke no matter how mean is only trying to make someone laugh. They are trying, and possibly failing, to bring other people joy. Making a disrespectful joke does not equal being actually cruel or calling for violence.

If you're bothered by comedy, either avoid it or broaden your horizons. Don't try to prevent other people from having access to what they enjoy.

definitely insensitive to real people and their valid and unique life experiences.

Anyone whose experiences can be dismissed or invalidated by a joke don't have valid life experiences.

Are you blaming the audience for not finding a comedian's jokes funny?

No, if they didn't find it funny, they simply wouldn't go to see their shows. What I blame people for is trying to shame an audience for enjoying something that someone worked really hard on.

Who's shaming the audience? Isn't the right to speak about how much you dont like a particular act rooted in the same right the person has to perform the act?

People who campaign to say, not have certain comedians play venues at their school.

There are plenty of middle of the road, non-edgy comedians to choose from. Why would a university want to host someone who is going to piss off students and generate negative PR for the university?

Because higher education should strive to expose students to different ideas they might find objectionable to broaden their horizons. Because even if it's a minority of their overall students if the artist can sell enough tickets the students who would enjoy it should have access to it. Because the best comedians in each generation have never been the middle of the road guys but the ones who push the envelope and take people out of their comfort zone.

Anyone who tries to limit others access to an artist are always wrong, for any reason they do so.

It's an organizational decision by the university. It's not limiting anyone's access. Their job is to keep shit as non-controversial as possible.

It's a cowardly decision by an institution that's supposed to broaden its students horizons, not baby bird feed them the same Stuff they ve had all their lives

They aren't feeding them anything. That's the point. How is a comedian broadening their horizons? Isn't this entire argument totally founded on the idea that we aren't supposed to be taking anything they say seriously?

Just because something isn't serious doesn't mean it doesn't broaden their horizons. Good comedy makes people reflect on their lives. It can't hurt anyone because it's just jokes but it can make you think about things in novel ways. It's really one of the highest art forms for that reason. You have an IASIP username. Think about their blackface episodes. A weak minded person can see them as hurtful but really they are using it in the service of humor while making a point about Hollywood's nostalgia and sequel culture.

IASIP blackface is funny because it is making a spectacle of how wrong it is. The characters are terrible people and the show highlights this by pointing out the absurdity of their behavior. The gang talks about this all the time in interviews about the creative direction of the show.

There is a difference between that and, say, some vaudeville show where someone dresses up in blackface and just makes fun of black people, with no obvious objective other than making fun of black people while in blackface.

The institution isnt interested in catering to an audience of edgelords. Most of the good ones, anyway. You can find universities of lesser repute that engage in this behavior, I'm sure.

When did he mention Native Americans?

It's... A comedy routine. Played for laughs. Purposefully ridiculous. Do.. do you think it's a serious commentary?

To be fair, Carlin managed to do both. But Sam was more interested in talking about a Camel’s vaginal secretions.

And that's how he'd get my immediate, horrified, attention

I can’t remember what standup routine it was, but the actual thing he said is much, much more horrific: “a cottage cheese like vaginal secretion by a menstruating sand camel on a hot desert day”

Yum.

I'm gonna hurl, hold my hair bro

"hey native americans. we're taking your land and will march you in a desert and it will be the punchline of some ~~coked out~~ drunk ignorant asshole ~~a couple hundred years from now.~~ tomorrow"

-other Native Americans, with the blood of their rival tribes staining their teeth.

Read a fuckin book.

He has got a valid point...

Not really, food shortage ain't caused because people live in a desert. I mean there is a reason people managed to build civilization there in the first place. The real reason is mostly due to corruption and war.

But I'm sure you already know that.

Yes, really. The best way for a poor person in a poor nation to improve their life is to move to a rich country. Illegal immigration is high because it works for the immigrants.

For an individual, as in Sam K’s example, it is not a good approach to stay and try to end the corruption and war that’s kept a country poor.

You're not serious right? You have to be trolling. If it wasn't for corruption and war, Africa and South America would be one of the world's richest and most powerful continents.

For example, what about the Otoman Empire, which was once in history one of the most powerful nations despite living in a desert?

How old are you? Did you pay attention in class? This is basic shit.

You are missing the point. There is a difference between fixing the poverty of a nation and the poverty of an individual.

For most poor nations, yes, corruption and war are the major factors that make them poor, being rich in natural resources doesn’t overcome that (eg Venezuela), and nations without natural resources who avoid corruption and invest in their people can become quite rich (eg Israel). So if you interpret the video’s message as “you need to be near natural resources to be rich” then you are correct in saying the video is wrong.

But for an individual in one of those poor countries, the best path out of poverty for themselves and their families is to emigrate to a rich nation. The video has a point that emigration for an individual is much easier than trying addressing the endemic issues of a poor nation. Millions of immigrants, legal and illegal, come to the US and Europe each year and are generally better off.

Immigration is not easier. That's a whole ass issue in it of itself. The vast majority of the world's population live in poverty. Immigration is not the answer to help all of them from poverty. Unless you suggest we only help a relatively select few and ignore the rest, but I'm sure that's not what you're suggesting. Immigration is just a short term solution that cannot help everyone. And not everyone wants to leave their home country to live in a place that has vastly different cultures and ethnicities.

In general I agree with you that it’s hard to scale emigration and extra challenges appear when trying to absorb immigrants en masse. When possible, we want to remove dictators and corruption so entire countries can be free to prosper.

But you may be underestimating just how scalable emigration can be to improve lives, and how the international community might have more success (at least in the short term) with policies to help recipient nations absorb immigrants than in attempts to remove despots, corruption, and to end wars. The latter are really hard problems for external entities to solve. See this article about Venezuelan emigration. Should the World Bank be helping to absorb immigrants or should we be planning an Iraq-style invasion of Venezuela?

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/11/26/migracion-venezolana-4500-kilometros-entre-el-abandono-y-la-oportunidad#

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Furst, I said "Africa and South America would be one of the world's richest and most powerful continents." Learn to read you Farquad.

Second, literally every society ever in history started besides a river, nobody actually lives in a fucking desert. Hence, living close to natural resources is not the reason poor countries are poor, because nobody does. War and corruption is, and literally nothing else. The reason any town or society exist is because they live next to a natural resource. And the reason it becomes poor is due to war and corruption, as well as decisions made by stupidity and bad governance.

I never said that countries can become rich and powerful without access to natural resources, (that's impossible). I said the reason countries are poor is due to war and corruption, which prevents them from accessing their natural resources and become rich.

And rich countries are covered with farmland? Of course not. So it's a distribution problem.

A poor country may have a food distribution problem (or war, or corruption). But an individual in a poor nation has a “living in the wrong country problem.” It is typically far easier for an individual or family to emigrate than to fix whatever ails their nation, or wait for a fix.

I mean can you blame people for not wanting to subsidize the food and water for people stupid enough to live in a desert.

No he doesn't lmao it's a distribution problem. Food sure doesn't grow where I live but I have access to it.

He really doesn't. Still a killer bit though

Aside from the fact that millions of people in the US live in deserts and we grow food just fine.

Ah yes, I often confuse volume for humor.

I’m sure that’s not the only thing that you struggle with.

Ah yes, because no one in America goes hungry, with our great excess of food.

If I lived in a desert, and I moved to the USA, dumpsters behind grocery stores would have some gourmet shit compared to the DESERT

Is he wrong?

Almost entirely. Starvation is, for the most, part something we willfully impose on each other. Somewhere around 42 million people in the US currently face food insecurity, a country that produces so much surplus that it occasionally destroys it simply to maintain profitable supply/demand ratos.

The best socialism pill is to simply point out to people that our productive capability as a species can provide enough food to feed everyone on the planet multiple times over, as well as water, clothing, medicine, etc, but most of the wealth go into the hands of the few, and there's no particular reason why we can't redirect our efforts to just...giving the food to all those starving people...over there.

It's conceptually not at all that complicated, but we just don't do it. Same concept of how the US has all these homeless people, and also all these unoccupied homes.

its literally a comedy routine. do you think it actually matters? do you honestly think someone is gonna take that and say “So true! It’s just that simple!” without that person already being dimwitted?

……..Africa?

Yes.

Beg to differ

Tell me where a mass amount of people are that require food aid that live in a dessert.

Ughhhhh Africa 🤔

Saying Afrika is in a dessert is like saying the US is all in Death Valley.

Afrika is huge and not a single Bedouin tribe ever asked for food aid from the West.

The problem in Afrika is them being poor and under developed.

This year in Europe, we had massive droughts that endangered food production, but mostly we've come out fine as we have the money and technology to compensate.

In Afrika, even in the most fertile areas, they do not always have that advantage.

Especially not in the time period he was talking about as back then there was so much goddamn western interference and stoking of corruption, even if someone managed to keep his farmland running, some jackass would probably come around and burn it down.

And that's still the problem today with international policies and interference, sometimes not only by nations, but corporate interests.

Good example being the "Nestle baby formula" fuckery.

The number of people taking the comedian seriously is really fucking sad.

Based on what lol? Arable land and natural food supply have dwindled in previously habitable places due to climate change. Telling people to “just move” out of where they have lived for centuries ignores why the problem is happening in the first place.

Still doesn’t change the fact ..if you don’t move you die..so they sit in literal shit filth n mosquitoes..instead of jes …going somewhere else

yes, everyone who dies from starvation lives in a dessert and in shit n mosquitoes instead of simply moving to where there is a grocery store and purchasing food.

Thank you 😘

You act like thousands of years of human evolution hasn't happened lmao. Yea, get the fuck up and move.

Do you think they can afford that?

I love Sam Kinison

One of the greatest comics of all time. Not a nice guy from what I read but his comedy was so good.

If I knew this was gonna be 6k upvotes I would’ve posted it when I was watching it the other day. Sam was one of the greats.

Yo mama so fat, when she skips a meal, she ends world hunger

I mean, he’s not exactly wrong?

It's a funny joke, but of course, the people who are starving do things like work in farms in Africa. Where all the food they grow gets shipped to white people's dinner tables in Europe and other place. Just like Africa has a huge chunk of the planet's resources, but the only people getting rich off them are the affluent nations exploiting that.

Sam Kinnison was the only person who could make random screaming funny.

OH, OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

i love this mans, problem solved though

He does have a point

Does he though?

If only all the starving people in the world were living in deserts which they're not... But you know if you're an ignoramus things like facts don't really matter.

Or you could recognize the difference between humor and reality

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I didn’t know I out so much intent into it. But since I’m here the starving ones are probably near you. Because you’re hogging all the food. It shows.

It’s more fun when they foam at the mouth

No he doesn’t. Not even close

That's not how it works

They don't live in deserts. They live in slums where there's too many people that the farms can provide for, who can't afford food. There's people experiencing famine and lack of hunting/seafood because of climate change. There's people born into these places, and you can't just pack up 40 million people and move them to New Jersey.

Think outside the box: people can be food too

This man is both a visionary and a scholar

A bit funny on a surface level but unproductive and reductive when you have even just a second to think about it. It's like saying "stop using coal, oil, gas, etc... to stop global warming". We wish it was that simple.

Why are so many people taking his bit seriously

Because there is a bit of truth to it, and it bugs some people that there are some immutable things about living in the FUCKING DESERT that can’t be blamed on colonialism or global warming or capitalism.

The uhaul idea? Fricken genius. Just send like 3 or 4 out on a loop until everybody is out.

There's an inkling of "we all thought this once" to it. There isn't any actual truth to it. It's relatable on an emotional level, not an intellectual one.

Why are so many people unwilling to talk about the bigger issue that this joke is hinting at? Just because it's a silly joke doesn't mean we can't discuss the topic in a more serious manner?

If you can find a solid discussion surface in a man screaming the punchline IT'S SAAAAAND I will personally applaud you

Well then poverty and hunger. What's the cause and what can we do about it? That's a pretty good topic for a potentially endless discussion.

You have earned my applause

👏👏👏👏

Unfortunately it will take the people rising up and taking what is theirs, we all outnumber our governments. The power they hold is an illusion.

That's why he was a comedian and not a presidential candidate.

now look at all the "this is true though" comments in this thread. Yes it's a joke, but it's embarrassing how many people think it's actually a good idea. I'm sure Sam knew it wasn't and he's not responsible for idiots taking it seriously but god damn do a lot of people take a comedian for a scholar sometimes.

To be fair, I see two types of dummies in these comments; people who treat comedians like scholars, and people who treat comedians like policy makers. Neither type of person can take a joke as joke. I wish we could put them both in uhauls and MAKE THEM LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!!!!!!

It's ... it's a joke.

I... I know.

Do...you though?

Unless you know me better than I know myself

Yikes. What an idiot

It’s a joke…

It’s his job to make people laugh

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I mean it's a joke, didn't resonate with you, but realize it's an exaggeration. Like, not a serious solution....a joke per se...

A lot of people will see this and think "hah, it's funny because it's true".

And? So? Logistics is a huge issue with regards to actually getting people fed, especially those that are in food deserts, literally and figuratively. It is some what true, jokes typically have a grain of truth to them, but the absurdity of solving such a massive issue with such simple ideas makes it funny.

I dunno about you but I don't think most people take humanitarian aid advice from a dead comedian, but hey that's just my thoughts.

They can solve world hunger in their countries by not having kids. Reduce their populations. You’re telling me you and your partner are starving, yet y’all are going to have not just 1 kid but on average 4.5 kids and now you have 6.5 starving mouths to feed. Make it make sense.

Yea it’s not that deep guy

This was long before all that iirc.

You can chose to be unborn...

If he fucked a stool this would be Joe Rogan’s entire stand up career

Based. I love him, who is he, where can i more?

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn9rKK4B04oM-uZ3puPn

This is probably the one everybody remembers and is so fond of. Some of it's extremely dated, some of its timeless.

if only Kinison was still around while this all collapses.

I know it isn't nice but he does have a point.

No, he doesn't. The 2017 hunger crisis in Somalia, for example, was due to political instability, armed conflict, and climate change. The problem isn't people choosing to live in unlivable places, because of course nobody does that. The problem is places becoming unlivable due to other factors. And then, the solution isn't to help them move, because of course that's what they already do (case in point, the massive number of displaced people due to these droughts). The problem (among other things) is that these people going elsewhere overloads the infrastructure and resources there, leading to more instability and conflict.

Thank you!

Holy shit the number of people taking this comedy routine seriously is insane.

The problem is places becoming unlivable due to other factors.

I'm saying the problem is the while the places are becoming less hospitable, the population is growing too. So in the past when the land could support say 10 million and 1 million were starving, now the land can support 9 million and 4 million are starving.

People don’t live in the desert. They die in the desert.

Las Vegas: I'm a joke to you?

He is right in the context of some African countries.

Loud = Funny

The Rodney Dangerfield Young Comedians Specials on HBO was some of the best comedy I’ve ever heard.

The shouting is strong in this one

"We have deserts in America we just dont live in them" looks at Las Vegas

🖕 to whoever made the creative decision to slap the captions clear across his face

He was second only to Robin Williams. Both gone way too soon.

MARLBORO! MARLBORO! SMOKIE SMOKIE!

Haha. Good stuff.

Please stop taking the comedian seriously, people. It's screamo comedy, not a serious suggestion.

He's ignoring the real causes of hunger, where most starving people are, and the way refugees are treated.

That's ok. It's a fucking bit.

“It’s just a joke man. Sure it ignores all of the violent history that landed folks in this situation, and punches down at people who are suffering but at the same time you gotta admit it’s funny. Lighten up man.”

Great solution, America loves immigrants

We can't bro or we'd be taking your jobs.

As if you can easily move to another country. We Americans can't hardly afford to move to another city let alone another country.

Comedic god

That’s painfully unfunny

I never understood how anyone found him funny

Don’t know who that is but screaming isn’t funny.

Sam Kinison. Even when he has a good joke he ruins it.

Arent most of his jokes just thinly veiled bigotry? I couldn't get through his special and can't remember why. I just remember thinking "holy fuck this has aged poorly. Should've known Rogan worships an idiot." All I really remember is him walking on stage, throwing the mic stand on the ground, and the crowd going nuts. I almost shut it off right there because of how cringey and desperately edgy that was. I was excited to watch it, I watch a lot of comedy specials, but it just felt so lame. I think I made it about half way through.

That seems likely, except I can't even hear his jokes through his idiotic delivery.

Dude seems like a real asshole tbh….

Yeah LoUD NoIsE = CoMeDy

If ge said something you agreed with loudly it would suddenly be funny, I assume.

The World needs Sam Kinison now more than ever.

And now they are all coming here

It's funny because he's screaming. It would be funnier if it were even remotely true.

Funny but if it was that easy to move all the people lol

Don’t gotta scream

But he did. And he was known for doing it.

That's all he was known for but they called him a comedian for some reason.

Enough people found it funny I guess?

So painfully hacky.

Is it too late to cancel Sam Kinison?

Yes. His comedy is permanently enshrined in a time when people could make jokes. Like a time capsule.

But then the homo necro joke will be lost in history, we need to cancel him to bring that joke back

Lol are you trolling?

:p i think he is far too underappreciated as a comedian by the youngin's and a good cancelling would fix that. hopefully your the one person that gets the joke

Shush don't give them Ideas

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Tons of people migrate to America what are you on about. I know multiple people who come from African countries who are either first or second generation immigrants

I never liked Sam's shtick. Except this one insanely brilliant bit. He was one of the pioneers of stand up comedy on TV.

That’s a good video

Sam was the man.

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Such a great motivational speaker, second best only to Matt Foley.

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Sam is one of the G.O.A.T. ‘s of all time.

Sam Kinison is a legend

Didn't age super well but good delivery on the joke at least

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn9rKK4B04oM-uZ3puPn

This is the show I remember. Some of it's very dated and some of it is pretty timeless. When he talks about Joseph questioning Mary... Pretty funny shit.

I wonder how many he impacted with that speech

Imagine being enough of a Kinison fan to add text to this video and then needlessly censoring it.

Best comedy bit ever

looks awkwardly at the entire southwest

he was hilarious on that one episode of married with children

Classic.

"GARY YOU ARE GONNA EAT YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GOING TO O LIKE IT"

Indian famines during the colonial era go crazy (country with most arable land on earth btw)

Princess Leia had a bit too much cocaine.

This is amazing

Kinison had fathered a child with the wife of his best friend and opening act, Carl LaBove.
whoopa

Somewhere, I can hear the faint laughter of Joe Rogan

Cocaine

I took me awhile to realize he was a comedian. I was like..this man has lost his goddamn mind…

Ops face when they realize Nevada, Arizona, new mexico, some of California and Texas are deserts.

When does he hump a stool?

Laughs in Arizona

Nice performance. What’s his name? I want to search for more

His name is perry karamello

For some reason I thought that was dean Norris lmao

Leper Whore is a better bit

K den

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That land will be developed sooner than later at the rate of population growth. You look at some like Buffet and Gates and they own thousands of acres worth of desert/worthless land across the US.

What the fuck is that hair? I remember Kinison from back in the day, but Jesus, I forgot how bad that hair is. Looks like a British barrister.

Damn. Classic.

Well, he's not correct, but he is amusing

I live in a desert in America.

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classic bit

can we do this with California, except replace food with water?

Solve world hunger, tell no one

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He was funny on married with children.

Don't drink and drive. :(

It was muted…but I still heard it.

Read Ishmael

30 or more years ago... now there's complaints about them immigrating to where the food is. You want to stop them comming here? Stop global warming so they can farm down there.

What hes really saying is by sending food to the hungry we are ignoring the problem. Instead of sending food to populations that live in unsustainable environments, we should immigrate them to areas that literally throw away food... the United States. But greed and xenophobia keep this from happening.

That is one hell of a comb over Sam is rockin’ there.

Las Vegas be like: bet!

If you're wondering what "I'm funny cuz I'm loud!!" Is, this is a prime demonstration.

Boy that hair..

How to solve world hunger:

Step 1: eat

I can solve both world hunger and terrorism. It just requires overcoming some deeply rooted social taboos.

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Just don't give em food... Dead people won't count right??

/S

Astagfirullah

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Loud == funny

Desertification is a thing and it's ahead of his time.

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I literally live in a desert in the US

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Does he think it just the Sahara desert out there and nothing else?

It is ok until you hear

Go back to where you come from

This isn’t even close to his most shocking/amazing bit. Find the clip where he talks about what Jesus’s last words were. Sam’s dad was a revivalist preacher, so he knows … well, knew the soft underbelly of the church.

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"We have deserts in America. We just don't live in them."

Las Vegas and Phoenix say hi.

"We have deserts in America! We just don't live in them, asshole!"

AHEM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona

my friend who was a huge fan is now a super religious MAGA, after Sam died all he did was listen to Rush limbaugh

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Huh? You're telling me that people don't actually live in Ohio?

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"Oh you're from sand-land"? Nah you cant come here."

Phoenix AZ:

"Am I a joke to you?"

He’s a Peoria original. Hard to believe that Richard Pryor was also an emerging comic from the same town at the same time.

The bit where he’s talking about breakups is golden.

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This man is a copy of scary perry karavello.

If you’re gonna miss heaven, why do it by two inches?

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Yo, I tried to look other comments or whatever. Someone's gonna be lmgtfy right there. But can someone pin point the date when this was recorded ?

What in princess leia haircut is that??

This would unironicly solve world hunger but for whatever reason the people with the food don't want the people without the food where the food is.

how would we employ all of them if they all came here? Surely you don't expect us to pay for their food too, do you?

We slow drip them in when theres enough jobs for them to work, that's how my family came and it took half a decade.

Well, there is enough food for everyone in the world, so in theory it should work perfectly fine.

They still need to live somewhere and pay taxes and be productive members of society, we have enough homeless people here now, we don't need anymore rn

We don't have home less people in europe because everyone will be taken care of by the state. That way they can become productive members of society.

The state doesn't take care of anybody. Private citizens pay taxes that take care of people, and it's a really tricky balance to get right.

That's...what a social state means. Remember, the state is the people that live in it.

Brilliant, bRiLliAnT, chap

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Deez Nuts

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Kinison would've been cancelled in a split second these days.

Every. Single. Comedian.

Do people like this because he’s inviting immigration or because he’s shouty?

Nothing is growing under that comb over either

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God damn it's been YEARS since I listened/watched Kinison but I heard the whole bit in his voice with the sound off. Watched it again with the sound on and just laughed my ass off.

He was way before my time but god damn he was such a funny dude.

Now it's more like "stay the fuck in your desert and don't expect to see any more trucks"

Kinison was the Fkn realist. We weren't even ready for this man.

God i miss ol' Sam

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My uncle used to tell me this man's joke all the time when I was younger. I'm getting teary-eyed thinking of those days.

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Stop sending them food so they can figure out how to make food

Teach em to make food and tell them no fighting amongst each other or you're all getting a timeout.

He's never been to a country where the government will literally kill you if you try to escape.

Boy would he love to see Las Vegas today

Las Vegas and Phoenix want a word

lol

Bingo.

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I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU

PUSHED AS FAR AS I CAN GO

FOR ALL THIS THERE'S ONLY ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOWWWWWW

Guess where the food went after all.

He’s got a fair point you know…

Watching from Phoenix, yup, makes sense. Can someone bring me somewhere else.

Just watched a Vox video on water consumption in the southwest United States. I always thought it was crazy seeing the amount of water they use like Vegas water fountains. But over 80% of water is used for agricultural needs. Too much time spent fighting Mother Nature when we should be living with her. Also one of my best friends has an older sister that looks just like Sam Kinison.

This was one of George Carlin's favorite bits from Sam Kinison. He absolutely loved it and said he wished he thought of it.

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/) Life hack: World hunger actually goes down if you stop sending food

His lip patterns remind me of that dude who rants in the car about the guvment and not freezing the loans/mortgages during covid.

He was funny too. 😊

Lately every time I hear about water problems in Arizona I think of this bit and how Sam was wrong.

Agreed

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SDG fight hunger and eliminate food security solved.

I know that this is a bit, but if you think that world hunger is caused by people living in deserts, then you are one of the top 5 dumbest people in the world.

Who is he? Where can I get the full video..?

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It's funny because he's loud.

Not 100% true. Tel aviv was a desert and now its a thriving city

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Frontex sagt nein.

Gone too soon. I often wonder what he, Bill Hicks and George Carlin would make of life in today's world.

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Well, he does have a point-

Get that sandwich outta here, it doesn't work unless he looks hungry!!

Funnily enough, this is also the solution to the Southwest’s water insecurity.

To the good samaritan who might see this

Can anyone point me to that one particular stand up sketch around that joked about screwing young kids or something. His jokes were misleading for the most part, like he would occasionally throw a curveball during the sketch. That sketch had me wheezing and this reminded me of that. And if it matters, it was performed by a tall white guy in a coat and tie with thick hair and happened around this video's time period. Thanks in advance!!!!

Except we do live in deserts in America, but we are able to pump enough water to them to turn them into farm land... Look at California and why they are always demanding water... Or Nevada most of the time... Heck, Colorado is literally a plains desert. It gets just under the amount of rainfall to allow it to be classified a desert.

Seems like he needs to smoke a j and relax

Rather stay where the oil is.

and then the refugee crisis happens

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Pretty sure Americans do live in the middle of deserts. Ever hear of Las Vegas?

I read somewhere that Sam Kinison was the first choice to play Al Bundy in Married with children.

But then when the ppl actually wanna go where the food is its also not ok

LMAOOO so true

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Los Angeles was, and still is, a desert.

This is hilarious, but let's not pretend the issue is that they live in deserts.

Chuck Norris once tried to mute this guy but could still hear him...

This is hilarious!

Isn't Las Vegas in the middle of a desert?

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United Africa when?

Also don’t have 7 kids when you can only realistically feed 2 🤨

I was just watching a Vice video on a part of Iraq that just a few years ago what a massive river and lakes region. And now it’s turning into a desert. People who used to tend farms in the area have tried to hold on but are finally giving up and leaving.

You live in a desert? So does everyone in Phoenix and Las Vegas. I mean much of the southwest is desert so…yeah…why is anyone living there?

Mr. Sam pointing out the obvious

as an Ethiopian I do take offense to this I know this isn't supposed to be taken seriously and it is just an exaggeration for comedic effect and stuff but I can't help it when I see this it only makes me mad and it makes me wonder about all the dark jokes I laughed at in the past

Corrupt governments who don't probably disperse food says what?

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I think this is louder than hell late 80s I was a kid This bitch cracked me up so much and I would rewind the bit I was like a 10-year-old kid and I thought it was the funniest shit ever. Like this dude makes sense. Wore that tape out Sam’s voice was warbling.

Where’s that magic land where people from another place are welcome and make a new home?

This guy is uhm.. what’s the right word passionate?

Insane 😂 tho he is right lol

Yeah and the desert people know this as well but than US: let’s build a wall!

Discovery science: 'this young girl need to walk 10km to get water for the whole family otherwise they wont have anything to drink today' Me: 'why the fuck they wont move closer to water?'

I thought there'd be links

Man. Glad he got his

I thought this was Hank from Breaking Bad

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His haircut tho

Except California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona…..

Meanwhile California farmers are out there growing rice in the desert.

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SAND

Sam Kinison was awesome! Miss him today.

There aren’t plants but there’s tons of animals, surely enough to sustain a whole continent. The real reason they are poor is because all of history everyone has worked to keep them down

Grew up in travelling christian evangelical preacher family. He talked about how they would scam people.

Is he right?

Also people when massive amount of people come to their country: "Fu**ing immigration"

Loud is funny

His best contribution to comedy was his part in back to school

My sound like spongebob when he yellin

What were Sam Kinisons last words? Oh! Oh! OHHHHHHH!

Yelling =funny

I mean, the problem has been solved

Kinnison was a great Howard Stern guest when Howard was in his prime

I'll never forget in high school, I got super high for the first time in a while and a friend of mine put on a Sam Kinison CD. It was mind numbingly confusing. It was funny but it was less funny and more like "woah dude" and I ended up just riding it out. Good times.

Ahh, good old Sam Kinison.
Made a career with comedy skits about never getting married again and substance abuse.. killed on the way to his honeymoon by a drunk driver.. after going sober.

Punk POS got off with probation and community service.

I died laughing when I saw this today. Not that I had not seen it before I just couldn't remember the outcome. Gold!!!🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

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Strong valid point he makes

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This now applies to the entire southwest of the USA.

He was a huge inspiration to my standup. Him, Murphy, Pryor, etc. back in early 90s standup paid for my college years. However, my inspiration is also why I find humor in everything and I’m probably going straight to hell.

Appreciate the humor, HATE the screaming.

I could never stand Sam Kinison

I hate sand it gets everywhere

I never found him funny. Just personally

The thing I always loved about Sam Kinison was his subtle humor.

Americans certainly live in the desert lol

Man I miss this guy. Nobody can scream a joke like Sam did

I miss Sam

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This man has never been to California

Sam Kinison lived in California and died in a car crash in the desert (for real)…he died near a small desert town called Needles…..I’ve been there a few times passing through on the highway - Needles is appropriately named.

That’s wild lol. There’s a ton of agriculture in the desert near Bakersfield

Other way is uranium

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Really going for that Howard Beale mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves look

Hydroponics go brrr

Well there are zones with the food in Africa too... They are called presidential houses

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Kineson the GOAT

Warning! Don't click the audio on.

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I miss Sam's comedy. He was awesome.

I still remember this HBO skit like it was yesterday.

He has a point you know

the best … keeping it real

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Can someone PLEASE send me this video💀😭

Imagine those mundane commercials during daytime tv asking for donations of one quarter or some BS like that for kids starving in Africa and that man's voice is the spokesperson of the commercial lmfao

He's not wrong

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I have the feeling that this guy might say "You know where you are?! You're in the Jungle baby!"... Sending Axl Rose vibes ngl

Never heard of him, but I'm gonna find out more

G.O.A.T

That man was absolute genius.

And he died in a car accident driving to Vegas or Reno. I'm guessing he was getting a hummer.

I was heartbroken when I found out that he died.

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Who is this guy? He is my type of comedy.

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He's right though

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Dude is weird as fuck and not funny

this guy must not have visited California or Arizona or any other desert in the US :D

Fatass has never been to Vegas

Then when they come to your country for said food you flip the fuck out.

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He reminds me of Josh Gad

Classic Sam Kinison

Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Throw fish at a man, he will no longer like fish

That voice. As a former Pentecostal preacher, he made his bones in front of the congregation.

Me: Scratches head while looking at Las Vegas.

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I trust this man when it comes to food

YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?! YOU IN THE DESERT BABY.

This is Axl doing standup right?

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Until google earth was released, I thought Africa was a just a huge desert. In my schoolbooks, practicaly every picture about Africa showed some desert places.

Well Las Vegas is in the Desert. It brings in so much Money to compensate though.

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Saw him perform live and my face hurt for two days from laughing so hard. He was the best and taken way too soon.

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He was awesome. Sad day when he died.

He sounds like an angry spongebob

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Sounds like Spongebob shouting

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People in Las Vegas like 🫣

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The legend, the prophet. Reverend Sam, everyone.

People living in Arizona and parts of California: We are being hit by a drought! Send help!

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Absolutely 💯 amazing 👏 😍 🙌 individual 🥰💖💘💟💌💝

Sam the GOAT.

I live in a desert in the US :(

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This is how i feel about people who live in the desert in the US complaining about no water

RIP Sam

That’s pretty racist

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Modern problems...

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Fact lol

What a valuable lesson

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Proof you can punch down.

When he yells he sounds like SpongeBob can't tell if I'm just dumb or if he played SpongeBob once help

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I mean. He’s got a point

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Mf sounds like cursed SpongeBob

Now they go to where the food is

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Had me in the first half ngl

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Sam kinnison lol

I fucking love him … RIP !! Funniest t skit I’ve heard him do and if you havnt heard it look it up … he’s talking about women during sex and how they want more …. Basically
funny as shit

Bro sounds like Brennan Lee mulligan

*inserts Drake laptop meme

Ah ye bro all of Africa is a DESEEEERT, it's all SAAAAAND

God he reminds me of my dad

God I hate comedians like this so much. His jokes are so funny he has to shout them at the top of his lungs for us all to hear.

As the guy who invented that style, you can blame current comedians for copying it poorly leading to your current distaste.

Someone suggested to me once that I would really like this guy's comedy. Why? Its like how when they say its loud so it must be funny? I'm sure the dude was revered bigly in his time but it don't gel with me. Also this joke is Ass. HAHA STUPID HUNGRY PEOPLE GO LIVE WHERE FOOD IS LOL

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More like, 2 tons of saliva

Are you kidding so fucking racist and wrong. The southwest is a fucking desert.

No wonder he died of a heart attack

He was killed by a drunk driver.

Was he?!? Dang i must've gotten him mixed up with somebody else

Ah yes, poverty and hunger is exclusive to desert climates. Nowhere else in the world experiences these problems. What a racist and dumb fucking take, fuck this guy.

Lol calm down.

Calm down sir. Don't take it so seariously

Yeah the jap did that in the 40s, they ran out of land to used so they decided to go around asia and they got nuked twice

When you can’t be funny. Scream.

Being funny is all about delivery, the things you say doesn't matter all too much.

What a cunt

because conservatives are famously profreedom of movement.

Wait until this guy learns about borders

They’re not even in business anymore, they went bankrupt and were bought out by Barnes & Noble.

christ his voice is insufferable

Um, that was the point of his schtick

well it's good comedy is subjective then I suppose

This guy is a joke, americans would never let you just drive into their country and LIVE. Are you kidding me, that food is for the 1 percent.

Literally Joe Rogan.

What an obnoxious ass.

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Show us on the doll where Ackmed hurt you...

I'm sorry but was he trying to be funny in this routine?

Is this funny?

Enter Republicans who don't want them here though ..

Yeah, thats called immigration, and Republicans get big mad about that.

Immigration is just fine, LEGALLY. Leftists always gotta be political lol

This guys strikes me as the kinda person that would be very up set of people tried to leave the desert and come to his country.

Obnoxious and unfunny, no wonder reddit eats this shit up

Which starving people is he talking about?

Ignorant, but funny.

His point is irritatingly simplistic (desertification? borders?) and his yelling is annoying too.

I classify this as ignorant boomer humor.

Don't live in the desert .. what do you call Vegas? Or New Mexico for that matter?

Reminds me of Chris Farley... he gotta be on coke or some kind of drug.

He prollie died young like Chris too.

He was hit by a car

I can tell it’s funny because he’s yelling

What a shit head. Never once made me laugh

Not sure why people found this idiot funny tbh. Never appealed to me. Yelling isn't a punch line....

Different strokes. He's far from an idiot

Like you said different strokes, different folks. To me, his humour/comedy was idiotic.

Yelling makes things funny /s

It is and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Tell everyone you don't understand why there's world hunger....

I hate Sam Kinison so much. Garbage comic. "Whoah look out! Is this guy a comedian? He's way too cool and edgy. He must be some sort of Rockstar." Yell more, asshole

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I mean….

There is some irony to this JOKE. Analysis of world food production finds that we have more than enough food to feed everyone alive with excess. Even supporting current consumption (we don't really need to share). We just can't get it where the mouths are economically. Logistics are the problem, not production.

That of course completely ignores politics, war, and enslavement.

Never really got the appeal of this guy. Funny, but his yelling schtick got so old so fast. Just became annoying. Much like ADC

God how I hated Sam Kennison. Not funny, just offensive.

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I remember people used to think he was funny. That schtick got old pretty quick

His comb-over is on Trump levels

I probably used to think this was funny. :(

This might work if there were open borders and governments willing to take in people from other countries/cultures. Sometimes people don't have much choice in where they live.

People in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas do be living in deserts tho

This is the kind of stupid take that thinks the Irish Famine was because of a potato blight.

Alex jones

Because developed countries with food are so well known for letting in immigrants…

Lmao what about the homeless people living in developed cities right now?

Never like him. He was a overrated screaming babbling Fuck.

What a racist

Why is it when i went to share this on FB it only showed the "free real estate" meme??

pov : ur a genz

Las Vegas

"We don't live in desert in America"

Neveda, New Mexico and Arizona have entered the chat

The funniest thing is that he didn't even have to mention he's American; I immediately guessed from his geographic knowledge.

The video player didn't work and I saw the title says we've solved world hunger with a fat man on the cover. I thought we were eating the fat man.

All jokes aside, a lot of parts in Africa has circular climate change. A place could be really ok and fertile, but in a few years it will dry up and people have to move. That's one of the reasons sub-saharan Africa remained undeveloped for a long time, if you can't stay in a place, you can't build big cities and advance the civilization.

There’s also the century of violent and aggressive resource extraction by European regimes.

So Sam was always for Immigration. He said come to America where all the food is. Love the message