I have absolutely no problem believing that happened. And I hope you go cut and die.' Cut and die. Black said on Good Morning America that the worst comment she read once the Internet found this video on YouTube was this: 'I hope you cut yourself, and I hope you get an eating disorder so you'll look pretty. Right move! But then it went on from there, and since picking on songwriters isn't very much fun and picking on pretty, privileged young women is internet catnip, pretty soon, Rebecca - despite pretty emphatically not being the real problem with this video - became the person associated with it.Īnd, inevitably, instead of being about the song, a lot of the criticism was about her. Interestingly, the Tosh.0 post was called 'Songwriting Isn't For Everyone,' and it focused on how bad the song was. And the whole thing taken together, which is genuinely and painfully funny for all these reasons, made great fodder for The Daily What, and then the blog at Tosh.0, the Comedy Central show that's in charge of skewering the Internet. The lyrics (that she didn't write) are laughable, the audio production (that she didn't work on) is atrocious, and the video (that she didn't shoot) is incredibly weird. It's absolutely true that this is a terrible, appalling song. In other words, it seems to have a lot in common with a vanity press, where you pay to have your book published instead of the other way around. Ark Music Factory is apparently in the business of making slick, dumb music videos starring kids (mostly girls, based on a look at their web site) between the ages of 13 and 17, which their parents pony up money to have made. If you don't know Rebecca's story, here it is in a nutshell: Her mom says she paid a company called Ark Music Factory to produce a video of Rebecca singing a song called 'Friday,' which the Ark folks had written. Most times you frown your nose waiting for the broader jokes, but when one seems to be aimed specifically at your huge yellow self, it hits home big time.You can bet your sweet patootie that 13-year-old Rebecca Black didn't think that hooking up with a little-known teen-pop factory to make a video of a song about hanging out with her friends would land her on Good Morning America - as it did this morning - so that she could discuss whether she thinks she's put out the worst song in history. You’d step on the breaks, run over a few people and call that store home. But imagine being big, and tall, and… Asian. It’d be a really specific place, maybe not very profitable. Demetri thought to add “and Asian” to the name. Googled failed me again, so this is the gist of the joke: apparently there are some stores named “Big and Tall”. This reminds me of a joke by Demetri Martin (one of my favourite comedians, soon to be written about in this space).

Then he alienates the audience, either by making the jokes more offensive (albeit on the same topic) or by making more obscure references until, eventually, only a few of the crow members are laughing. He gets a broad laugh in the beginning, generic enough for the whole crowd to laugh.

The unique thing about his comedy is the way he starts from a believable and relatable premise and goes deeper and deeper into it, branching into more and more specific ways until his premise is unrecognizable. If, like most people you, didn’t think that was funny, you can see how being offensive doesn’t make you funny. Many people accuse offensiveness of being a crutch. He is offensive by any normal standards, a few notches below Anthony Jeselnik and scores above Seinfeld.

And no, I’m not his mother.ĭaniel has an aggressive style. If you’re Mary Adelaide Tosh, you know him from being his mother.Īs you figured out by the title, I know Daniel Tosh from his stand-up comedy. If you love stand-up comedy, you know him for his one hour specials “Completely serious” and “Happy Thoughts”. He was the center of a controversy thanks to a misguided rape joke. If you’re a hardcore feminist, you probably know him from the voodoo doll made in his semblance you keep poking with needles. If you’re a fan of YouTube videos you know him from his web-redemptions, where he finds famous fail-videos and gives the protagonists a shot to redeem themselves.

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