Name: The Problem with Anansi the African Spider | The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Problem with Anansi the African Spider | The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-03. Transcript available.

so all right someone is someone's threatening your life no no no no come on
Nick Nick we've
got to play the long con on this let me run point okay all right can I ask you
a question right
you you can't go all guns a-blazing on in a situation like this so this is this
is the one
thing I excel at okay I am an ordinary person if not unimpressive human being
when it comes to most
things but there's one thing that I excel at and that is this type of scenario
mm-hmm because you
already see they're already on the ropes mm-hmm you know and and what you do is
you don't you don't
bulldoze you know you're not a bull in a China shop you bug them out dude you
persist you love the bug
style you have to you're finding your crevices it's not even a bug thing it
what it is is it
the bug no it is an Anasazi I guess I mean if a spider is a bug I'll accept
that Anansi
the spider Anansi yeah Anansi Anansi the spider Anansi Anansi Anansi but Anansi
the spider wasn't
like an African-style spider I know he's African so he wasn't like was he like
sneaky and stuff and
backhanded that's not what he would do I I don't I don't know what the I don't
remember I remember as
a kid like having a problem with Anansi the spider because it's like it's
actually kind of fucked up
that they teach white kids about Anansi you know because it's sort of everyone
hates spiders and then
this one's like he's African and then you can be like oh well this one's
actually good you know what
I mean like if you're like if you're predisposed to maybe being racist and you
deserve assume a third
grader is yes you think that I don't think it's a good idea to tell kids to go
to a group of white
kids and say I know you think spiders are pretty bad and scary but this one's
from Africa and go
off yeah and he's actually a pretty good guy so you were in second grade and
you were like this
I'm saying that it'd be like well this one's was he a good guy this is what
spiders would be like they
still lived in Africa you know what I mean they should you know what I mean it
kind of comes off
that way I did I thought it was a I thought what they were teaching us was that
um fables come from
Africa I obviously I get it you're not you gotta back me up here on this I
think it's true I think
he's a goddamn I I don't want Anansi I love not living in my neighborhood I
loved Anansi it made me wish
as a kid I was like I wish I could get what did he do he did with real spiders
like this and they
weren't just they didn't scare me but the other spider from when you're a kid
is giving messages
to a pig Charlotte Charlotte Webb yeah but it's a fucking bitch yeah what's
that do for the boys
yeah yeah it's a girl thing yeah I'm not interesting I'm not I don't care about
it they did the same
thing with James and the giant peach in fact that's half the reason why I didn't
like spiders
it's because in my mind they were French women trying to bite me while I'm
asleep just leave the
fucking kid alone yeah yeah it's true let him have his big peach and go to New
York
he made it he did he made it good for him yeah good for him and his aunts get
their comeuppance
he had bad aunts is that why he left