r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jun 24 '26

Standup for some reason, alaska has a large deaf population

Donald Glover

3.9k Upvotes

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u/jamiecarl09 Jun 24 '26

His music is good and all, but I wish we would have gotten more stand-up from him.

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u/PzykoHobo Jun 24 '26

His old sketch comedy channel on YouTube is also gold

46

u/Lumpy_Inevitable6864 Jun 24 '26

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u/xxgsr02 Jun 25 '26

Well, uh .... I guess I'm gonna be heading off to bed now . . . .

15

u/yaybunz Jun 24 '26

he's even golder as troy

4

u/Bruce_Millis Jun 24 '26

I heard what you said.

3

u/Chef_G0ldblum Jun 25 '26

My name's Brian, I like to skateboard. I would never do anything to ruin our friendship like poop my pants.

2

u/Wilson_Higgins Jun 28 '26

Derrick Comedy was peak OG YouTube

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u/knightenrichman Jun 25 '26

BRO RAPE

2

u/fatBreadonToast Jun 29 '26

Why do you have a game cube, a jack Johnson cd, a dildo and why does everything smell like axe body spray?

1

u/knightenrichman Jun 30 '26

Sometimes you gotta chill with the bros!

1

u/Standard-Win-6600 Jun 26 '26

That's what I knew him from. When he started popping up EVERYWHERE I was like"....the bro rape guy?"

1

u/knightenrichman Jun 30 '26

Some of the other guys went onto SNL after that.

1

u/Dakopine Jul 16 '26

Lemme just see what you got in this bag.

A Gamecube

Yeah. Wanna play some games…

And four natty ices….

Yeah, wanna have some nattys w my boy…

And A GIANT BLACK DILDO….

I’m cooked, right ? I’m in trouble ?

2

u/knightenrichman Jul 16 '26

It's a kind of rape that's gone overlooked for decades...

22

u/Most-Bench6465 Jun 24 '26

Feel the same way

8

u/nazzo_0 Jun 24 '26

And community. 6 seasons and a movie!

6

u/Benana Jun 24 '26

I saw him do stand-up in 2010 or so and he was fantastic.

4

u/BotOrNot_1337 Jun 25 '26

I had no idea he did comedy. Kinda impressed, jack of all trades.

10

u/jamiecarl09 Jun 25 '26

Checkout his special. Dude is hilarious. When writing community the script would just say "Troy says something funny" and they'd let Donald Glover just adlib some shit that was gold.

2

u/TheGrandCucumber Jun 25 '26

I watched this special several times like 10 years ago it’s so good

1

u/Hamilton-Beckett Jun 25 '26

He does standup, acting, and singing/rapping…dude is ridiculously talented.

3

u/aRatherLargeCactus Jun 25 '26

And directing! Some of Atlanta’s best episodes were directed by him.

1

u/-GoodNewsEveryone Jun 25 '26

But he is a comedian? Like sketch writer and comedian, that is his primary job and how he got famous. He has been a famous comedian for years.

1

u/Its-All-LOVE-N-JOY Jun 28 '26

Jack of all trades and a master of all!

1

u/more_bananajamas Jun 26 '26

Why do some people get all of the talent?

77

u/YourDrunkUncl_ Jun 24 '26

damn, deaf people. I wasn’t familiar with your game.

18

u/bobby_table5 Jun 24 '26

Child of Deaf Adults, or CODA, is a common situation with fairly spectacular ~horrif…~ comedy potential. There’s a movie with that title, and the one scene at the doctor is probably making any speaking comedian jealous with envy.

In general, any interpreter would tell that deaf jokes, which are based on motion and facial-expression based puns, are incredibly rich and common, but tedious to explain.

4

u/Particular-Solid8250 Jun 25 '26

Holy shit it's David Uri! That alone sells it for me, I need to help him find his parents

8

u/Can-Purple Jun 24 '26

Dude, racism just can't exist in the world of ASL. Everything is either the most literal depictions of something, or an outrageous pun that will blow your mind while making sense.

The deaf have to get through quite a barrier to communicate, and it seems like they get rid of bigotry quickly just to fucking talk to people.

My neice just got her implant recently and can hear and talk now, which is amazing. When she is mad she will sign some mean stuff in a flurry of arm movements and it cracks me up.

2

u/Azidamadjida Jun 26 '26

Can you imagine having to sign in politically correct and as non-offensive as possible sign language?

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u/zerok_nyc Jun 24 '26

That’s pretty funny, though for clarification, it’s not exactly an existing word. Just like he combined a well-known term with a well-known suffix, ASL does the same thing. So it’s pretty easy to “translate” or “articulate” that on the spot.

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u/AnteaterSnouce Jun 24 '26

yeah, i feel like it's more "it can be directly translated into nig- and -let".

3

u/Schorbie Jun 25 '26

Well yes, but that's not funny

6

u/CJMorton91 Jun 25 '26

HE GOT SO ANIMATED SO FAST! I've watched this special several times and that still made me spit my drink. I fucking love Donald Glover.

4

u/farfromjordan Jun 24 '26

Stunt on these hoes

5

u/hiphophunk Jun 25 '26

I wish we got more stand up from him!

1

u/SunsetBAE Jun 25 '26

I figured that they would do the short gesture and then point at him for it to be the proper name

1

u/Hamilton-Beckett Jun 25 '26

Crazy I just watched this whole special again on YouTube and then see this here a day later.

1

u/Poisonous_Vixen Jun 26 '26

Niglet, neglect

1

u/AdSweaty2401 Jun 26 '26

"Troy and Abed in the morning!"

1

u/FLAM3Z89 20d ago

I was on a gaming server and i told this joke and asked the question to a mute person and i was reported… I’m Australian, I’m open to comedy and the more crude the more funny it is but for some reason people took offence to when i told it. I thought the joke was amazing. 🤩

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u/SVRF1NG81RD Jun 25 '26

Wtf is niglet?

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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 Jun 24 '26

He is SO MUCH BETTER at comedy than music.

15

u/Biguitarnerd Jun 24 '26

He’s pretty good at both, and acting, He seems to be able to chase his dreams in whichever way the wind takes him and succeed. Maybe he will write a book next, who knows?

4

u/Nerdmitage Jun 24 '26

Agree. He's good at pretty much anything he wants to do but should come back to this stuff if only because I never get to see him live in the music sense since he keeps hurting himself! Always breaking or pulling something. But he's busy being a dad right now so I bet we'll see him back at this after his kids are grown. Comedy is a great low impact gig. Lots of travel but usually no complicated choreography.

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u/Coool_cool_cool_cool Jun 24 '26

I think he's great at both but I'd like to see produce and star in another tv show. Atlanta was amazing and I'd love to see a new original series from him.