Name: Ari Shaffir Reflects On Kobe Tweet
Uploaded: 2021-09-16T14:34:24.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ari Shaffir Reflects On Kobe Tweet' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ari Shaffir Reflects On Kobe Tweet' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-16. Transcript available.

so whenever you had the thing with the lakers with the kobe thing did were you
shocked at how
some comics treated you or behaved towards you or responded yeah at first but i
mean like you can't
really be upset when you try to troll people and you do troll them you know and
you get them to be
upset oh i mean like interesting i like to root against the lakers but like it's
just sports you
know i don't really care but i've been shitting on the lakers for for 20 years
since they started
killing shows in la during the playoffs i'm like fuck the lakers oh that's a
good point i started
really reveling in the fucking hatred of them oh that would be the worst too
dude that happened
to me a couple times we're like oh yeah we're not going to do it tonight
because they made it to a
game five i'm like it's it's game fucking four and they're up three nothing it's
the first round like
come on you fucking fairweather cunts come out to the comedy underground place
like the lakers i will
say it seemed like they just it's just too stacked i don't like these stacked
teams they're fucking
collusion for sure fuck them this whole bot team now that's and that's a fake
championship last year
championship nobody respects that as a real championship two years ago yeah
yeah two years
ago um but yeah it's like you've fought but then when at first i was like god
damn you guys come
on don't you know it's just a comic making a joke like what are you doing why
would you take this
stance but then you're like step back you're like no i got you i mean you you
got angry at me trying
to make people angry at a fucking easy thing yeah that's so interesting i was
thinking about that last
night like does like it's weird when you walk the line because you want to have
you want to get
people upset but you don't want to get them so upset that they're like so like
a couple line
crosses to me were like you know it's like they call like not me but like other
people they call
my manager at home like we're come fuck you up yeah god damn it was always latinos
dude yeah or blacks
or whatever but or just dumb laker fans it's like no one from london gave a
fuck about that you know
and they were like huh i mean if i'm gonna fight in front of rooney or
something they'd be like
don't do that you know but it's just like yeah i triggered you but i did enjoy
that all these comics
were like if you don't like a joke just leave the room it's not that hard and
then they got one that
triggered them and then they didn't know how to just leave the room they had to
take the stance of
some jokes go too far for the first time in their lives they were like some
jokes go too far
and i'm like yeah i feel like i exposed them into hypocrites it was great i
really enjoyed it
and that's what i was thinking yesterday because i even watched like a reaction
that i had to
when it happened and i was like
yeah i was trying to make and it's different because i i feel almost
differently now you watch
it back it doesn't even have like the same doesn't have the notch right so
people like too soon i'm
like well no if you wait too long which is always the issue with timing of
jokes just like you're
saying with chappelle like with uh dave attell and dave obviously is a big name
for good
comedians i just realized that chappelle and attell oh yeah regular name like dave
get you there
dave attell dave taylor the top three yeah there you go top three days yeah i'm
david duke also
david duke one of the great great leaders of great early troller yeah he was
like i actually love jews
and blacks i just say shit it gets me votes for sure i like wearing white what
can i do
oh yeah i even look i even put this on late september you know what i'm saying
after like yeah um um but no i that that's one thing looking back i was like
this is also fascinating
because it's like it made me wonder well what what choices am i making and
talking about because i'm
scared of repercussions what choices am i making and talking about because do
you get involved with
the mob because like the mob is like well let me go with them i might not agree
but let me just
walk the line and there's a safety in that too there's a safety in that dude i
remember they
had a news thing that came out like a few years back about me it was just about
it wasn't anything
real bad but it was just it wasn't anything bad really it was just something
about my life and it
was but it was on i remember being at the gym and seeing on the ticker on the
bottom of like
it was a slow news day yeah and they had my name on that's cool and i was like
oh my god
everybody this and but it was so scary to me well they say you had a fake mullet
they say it on
you've been clipping on your mullet for years like
sewing it in sean comes over with betsy ross and sews it in the back of my head
like we gotta get it ready i'd be like like rr you can't mention this by the
way so dude i was in
thailand at this fucking hippie place once and some lady sold tie on dreads for
white people so they
could live the life for the week that they were there yeah but here's the crazy
part so whoever
buys those and puts them on they get in trouble for cultural appropriation uh-huh
but the business
of it just keeps totally fine uh-huh oh yeah who do you think sells those black
lives matter shirts
it's just some white dude it's like i don't give a fuck i'm making this in indonesia
and i'm
fucking cashing in but yeah so how'd you feel when you saw your name in the
ticker or what happened
it may i felt overwhelmed i remember calling the publicist this guy rob greenwald
great guy
is it yeah yeah i was a great guy man great guy well rob i remember dude i just
now remember i saw
him out he went to see your jew taping of the or jew uh you were running at the
comedy store and i saw
him right after and he's like i'm jewish man and uh and i love you know he was
just saying how much
he loved your special i just remembered that um but anyway uh so yeah i just
remember just texting him
or emailing him and he's like dude i just make it stop i don't want here's what
it was it was too
much stuff that was out of my control happening at once yeah that i had no
control over like little
articles and um it was about dating i dated like a real housewives lady right
and so it was just a slow
news day so for some reason it was just but i remember being in the gym and
seeing it go on the
ticker and i'm like what isn't there a stock or something that's how you found
out about it that's
supposed to be on there yeah and then i and then it was all over and i remember
texting my manager
um eti rice and this guy and rob greenwood just being like guys can you make it
stop and it wasn't
it wasn't bad but it was just something that was so out of my control and i
feel like for me as a
comedian stuff you always want to be able to control your little world and that's
what's so
scary about the media and the way things are nowadays is that there's this
there's these other
tidal waves sometimes that you have to be willing to fucking ride yeah yeah you
have to like sit back
on like if you want to poke a bear you can't be that mad when the bear swings
back you know because
that's like and i'm too afraid i think whereas you're like a kelly slater i
feel like you're willing
to be out there on the wave like i didn't like all the negative stuff but like
the act on itself
that troll was maybe my best one i mean i brought a city to its knees you know
what i mean so like
it would have been nice if it was two weeks after my special taping instead of
two weeks before
oh yeah but like i crushed that town dude i fucking crushed that town and i
crushed all of la comedy
i exposed them for the fucking garbage hypocrites with no integrity that they
are
yeah with just a little a pinprick of negativity on my own account and you just
watch them spread it
oh it was the best one it was the best one would you do it again you think or
did you have any
yeah i mean it there's no way i can't because here's the deal man i i've
committed to to this
life and and and and by this life i don't mean offenses i mean doing the jokes
that i find funny
whenever i find them funny and that's what that's one thing i really admire
about you the most man
thanks buddy so so if you start considering the repercussions and not like
moral repercussions
like like i yeah i'm not going to go to somebody's funeral and do that that's
the wrong place right
but i'm like no i'm doing it to my audience i can't be worried about if it's
going to take anything
i have a nice life and i'm completely free yeah so i'm not going to give that
up because i might
have more money or be able to do more things and like by the way i took a lie
detector on this on
legion of skanks they're like do you regret the kobe tweet i'm like no oh i
have to go back
yeah absolutely the crushed reaction maybe but it would have been nice if
people were like hey guys
that's what a joke is you have to allow comics to make jokes right right right
and that's really i
think that's the thing that we should all be saying we should all be defending
each other because we
want to tell young comics we will get your back if the line moves behind you we're
not talking about
action we're talking about whatever you're trying to do for a joke we will have
your back young
comics yeah we will always say like it's and not to say like hey i didn't find
it funny but it's
right not leave that shit out just be like yeah guys clearly here's the joke
here's what he's going
for right well did you find it funny like what's the difference it's got
nothing to do with it there's
plenty of like specials from comics or that aren't funny that i would never
mention because it's not
offensive right so you're not like this guy's special wasn't good like you
wouldn't say that so why
would you say it when they're under attack yeah it's nutty i have had a few
people apologize to me
a couple like black comics specifically it was like hey godfrey no he's a he's
an actor he's
fine no no he did was like i told you i had to say something he's not like
actually right that is
a good that's actually a pretty good impersonation of godfrey me and samarillo
sitting there he came
up to me i thought he was gonna beat me up and he's like i told you i'm gonna
say something all
right buddy and then sam's like all right you got to respect the honesty i
guess so yeah that's true
too i think is yeah like if somebody can then say yeah everybody's playing kind
of their game or
playing the best game that they can yeah but mike yard came up to me he was
like dude when i saw that
i was like what the fuck are you doing and then somebody's like oh i get it
like you make fun of
like dead celebrities because you're poking fun at like the people who overvalue
these lives of
celebrities like i get it now i didn't get it at first no thanks or or kareem
green was like
not kareem green jimmy martinez was like uh yeah i said some shit about you man
but i shouldn't
have uh i get it now i get what you're doing i should have i should have like
defended you as a
comedian i'm like thanks for saying that yeah so a few people did but you know
now the emotions
are gone but it's also fun when you see people still mad about one of the many
like lines i've
crossed yeah i'm still angry somebody the other day was like pointing out a beyonce
tweet that i made
like what about this yeah after lemonade exactly i'll never forgive you okay
okay i'm definitely
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