I love this guy. Ever since i was in 5th grade, he has inspired my writing in lengths greater than i can describe. He has a special place in my heart, litterature and all. But ouch, this video breaks my heart...Handler, why do you do shupid stunts like these? Ive seen the many other eays that you can make people laugh. This is not a good resort.
Woodson stated that Handlers' perspective comes from ignorance. Handlers' joke came from what Woodson herself said, at age 11 she found watermelon repulsive. Handlers' perspective is no more skewed than Woodsons'.
I always admired how smart his writing was. In a sea of mediocrity, his stood out as truly unique. THIS is the guy I've thought highly of? I've read interviews with him, but never seen him talk. This is the brilliant children's writer I imagined? This is a schlubby racist dude, giggling manically like a cartoon villain. I wish I could unsee this, but sometimes it's best to learn the truth, no matter how much it hurts.
The saddest part is that I desperately want to take his side, to say "Stop lashing out at the man who is the very building block of my childhood! He did nothing wrong." But I can't. This was clearly racist and Mr. Handler was clearly out of line. He is one of the funniest people I know, he could've picked any good thing out of his hat to say to an audience. Why this? Lemony Snicket, love ya man, but come on...
I feel you, it sucks when someone you like and admire does something not-okay because your first instinct is to make excuses for them, like when Patton Oswalt made a public joke about child actor Finn Wolfehard having 'the best porn name ever'. It was like 'ugh I know you were trying to be funny, but come on man, you're better than that' As long as someone admits to the mistake, apologises, and makes a genuine effort to see why it was a mistake, and as long as it doesn't come from a place of hatred and aggression, I don't think we have to demonise him. We just acknowledge that it's not okay. I've said some uncool stuff thinking it was funny (largely because society makes certain jokes again and again and not everyone receives the 'this is no longer okay' memo at the same time) the difference is I didn't have the whole world watching and recording. At the end of the day, he's a human being and human beings make mistakes, and when it's something as simple as a tasteless comment (as opposed to say, physically attacking or psychologically manipulating another human being as some famous/powerful white men are now being revealed to have done) it's pretty easy to forgive and continue admiring, albeit with the added knowledge that your hero isn't flawless.
I was honestly expecting something worse. Totally tasteless and offensive, but on when you hear "middle aged fat white guy saying racist stuff" was fully expecting a hard "er" or something like that
The audience was full of old farts so I see how the joke fell flat. Are people this sensitive? I go to a very diverse, multilingual high school and we freely laugh and make racist jokes of each other's race as humoring something is sort of a way of belittling it. And since he was friends with the person in the joke, it makes it even more obvious that it's just a fucking joke and not to be taken so seriously. Calm down people.
leilocked That’s because you’re 14 years old and go to a school. You’re not old enough to know better. You’re also probably white, seeing as no person of color would ever not take offense to things like this. You’ve never been oppressed a day in your life, you’ve never had micro-aggressions pile up little by little until you can’t stand even one more person asking to touch your hair or refer to you as “my one black friend.” No one is “over sensitive”, you’re just a fucking privileged child who doesn’t know better.
Lemony Snickett ... 👠 The audience laughed ... They've got this covered *Tommy* ... *behavior expected from them not from "your own" ... ⬅ 10 times unacceptable ...
Right in the childhood...
The moment he said "watermelon" I audibly said "Oh no."
You shouldn’t have.
I love this guy. Ever since i was in 5th grade, he has inspired my writing in lengths greater than i can describe. He has a special place in my heart, litterature and all. But ouch, this video breaks my heart...Handler, why do you do shupid stunts like these? Ive seen the many other eays that you can make people laugh. This is not a good resort.
I feel like your typos spell "Curdled Cave."
He sounds like Lumpy Space Princess.
How unfortunate.
I told him not to say it.....
What a series of unfortunate events..
i fucking love this video's name
That's GOLD JERRY, GOLD!🤣🤣🤣
Woodson stated that Handlers' perspective comes from ignorance. Handlers' joke came from what Woodson herself said, at age 11 she found watermelon repulsive. Handlers' perspective is no more skewed than Woodsons'.
That awkward silence from the audience when his racist joke falls flat
That's stereotyping, not racism 🤦🏼♂️
Where was the silence? I heard the audience audibly laugh after he told the joke. They aren't even mic'd and you can still hear the laughing.
@@markus7166 What's the stereotype based on
@@roundabout468 partial truths.. that's why stereotyping is funny in certain situations.
It was not a joke. It was a real occurance.
"I'll write a book about a black girl allergic to watermelon as soon as you write a book about a irish boy allergic to potatoes"
would've been a much more coherent, slightly less racist thing to say, yeah
@@cranialtoxicity4434was coherent the first time and wasn’t racist at all
I always admired how smart his writing was. In a sea of mediocrity, his stood out as truly unique. THIS is the guy I've thought highly of? I've read interviews with him, but never seen him talk. This is the brilliant children's writer I imagined? This is a schlubby racist dude, giggling manically like a cartoon villain. I wish I could unsee this, but sometimes it's best to learn the truth, no matter how much it hurts.
The saddest part is that I desperately want to take his side, to say "Stop lashing out at the man who is the very building block of my childhood! He did nothing wrong." But I can't. This was clearly racist and Mr. Handler was clearly out of line. He is one of the funniest people I know, he could've picked any good thing out of his hat to say to an audience. Why this? Lemony Snicket, love ya man, but come on...
Well...I did hear that Handler apologized for the racist joke.
Eh, it wasn't that racist. But I guess it did take place in America, where people would actually cry over something like this.
Very true
Olivia Campion it's not racist, it's not something that negatively effects a race or holds them back from equality. Tf.
I feel you, it sucks when someone you like and admire does something not-okay because your first instinct is to make excuses for them, like when Patton Oswalt made a public joke about child actor Finn Wolfehard having 'the best porn name ever'. It was like 'ugh I know you were trying to be funny, but come on man, you're better than that'
As long as someone admits to the mistake, apologises, and makes a genuine effort to see why it was a mistake, and as long as it doesn't come from a place of hatred and aggression, I don't think we have to demonise him. We just acknowledge that it's not okay.
I've said some uncool stuff thinking it was funny (largely because society makes certain jokes again and again and not everyone receives the 'this is no longer okay' memo at the same time) the difference is I didn't have the whole world watching and recording.
At the end of the day, he's a human being and human beings make mistakes, and when it's something as simple as a tasteless comment (as opposed to say, physically attacking or psychologically manipulating another human being as some famous/powerful white men are now being revealed to have done) it's pretty easy to forgive and continue admiring, albeit with the added knowledge that your hero isn't flawless.
If you are the host hold back on the Jack Daniels. Awkward!
I was honestly expecting something worse. Totally tasteless and offensive, but on when you hear "middle aged fat white guy saying racist stuff" was fully expecting a hard "er" or something like that
The audience was full of old farts so I see how the joke fell flat. Are people this sensitive? I go to a very diverse, multilingual high school and we freely laugh and make racist jokes of each other's race as humoring something is sort of a way of belittling it. And since he was friends with the person in the joke, it makes it even more obvious that it's just a fucking joke and not to be taken so seriously. Calm down people.
leilocked That’s because you’re 14 years old and go to a school. You’re not old enough to know better. You’re also probably white, seeing as no person of color would ever not take offense to things like this.
You’ve never been oppressed a day in your life, you’ve never had micro-aggressions pile up little by little until you can’t stand even one more person asking to touch your hair or refer to you as “my one black friend.”
No one is “over sensitive”, you’re just a fucking privileged child who doesn’t know better.
Lemony Snickett ... 👠
The audience laughed ...
They've got this covered *Tommy* ...
*behavior expected from them not from "your own" ... ⬅ 10 times unacceptable ...
His NAME is 'Lemony Snicket???'
No, his name is Daniel if you actually watched the video
Oof
What's a lemony snicket?
Not much, what's a lemony snicket with you
Why does he pronounce "book" "beuk"?
it was only offensive if you dont know his personality
* Daniel Handler
How was this a series? It was one joke
Nothing offensive about it