Name: Theo Von & TJ Miller on the Ari Shaffir Aftermath
Uploaded: 2020-03-16T16:00:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & TJ Miller on the Ari Shaffir Aftermath' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & TJ Miller on the Ari Shaffir Aftermath' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-16. Transcript available.

But what I'm telling you is, yeah, I've seen it every three months and I've
really enjoyed it.
Ari Shafir let me stay at his place for a little while.
He's great. I run into him a lot. And Kate loves him. She loves his energy.
He is such a sweet dude and he's very present.
And almost every time I have a conversation with him,
I walk away from it with sort of a little bit more perspective on things.
We presently not welcome the Staples Center to in Los Angeles.
Is that true?
Oh yeah, that's right.
He had that falling out with Kobe Bryant.
That would make perfect sense.
At first I was like, what did he do with the Staples Center?
And then I was like, oh, I see. Yes, yes.
No, he's a sweet guy.
But he also had that falling out with Kobe Bryant or, you know, with that whole
deal.
And so he...
But that, coming from a positive, nihilistic viewpoint, and I talked to him.
We saw him after that.
Kate and I were just walking home and he was headed downtown, I think to do the
cellar.
Yeah, do the fat black.
And we sort of stopped him and we talked a little bit.
And then I said, you know, with the Mark Norman stuff, Mark Norman sort of
spoke about how the people calling in death threats, like why are we not
focusing our anger on those people?
Those people, yeah.
That's really...
And Ari said, yeah, I heard that he said something kind of interesting about
that.
And he said, well, you know what it's like.
It's like, you know, you just...
Because you've had the media go after you.
And I was like, yeah.
And I do want to say, because I wanted to say this to him.
I said, and my thing is, I didn't think it was a funny joke.
I didn't think it was funny what you did.
And he's like, then that's fine.
That's fine.
That's not the point of it.
And I was like, but I don't think it's wrong.
If that was your thing, and that's what you do, then I don't think you did
anything wrong.
I think you got the reaction that you were going to get by doing that.
Yeah, that's how you learn whatever it is.
And you don't expect that people are not going to react.
If you're being a provocateur, then you expect people to feel provoked and to
react in that way.
Which is a form of art to a lot of people.
And it's something a lot of artists are.
Harmony Corrine is one of my favorite directors.
Yeah, man.
And he did Kids and Gumbo.
I thought I saw him the other day.
Really?
And I was so afraid.
Yeah, I met a guy.
Well, somebody introduced me to somebody through.
I met someone.
Yeah.
Somebody introduced me to that person.
And their name was Harmony.
And it really, really looked like him.
But I was so afraid to ask him.
God, he's so great.
Gumbo, I think, is one of the great.
But those films are so viscerally provocative.
Yeah.
He's always been provocative.
He's always been really.
Yeah, that's his thing.
And he gets on stage, and he'll talk shit about Jewish people.
And he's Jewish.
And he had, the first thing I ever saw him in.
He's a Jewish supremacist, really, almost.
Yeah, yeah.
And the first thing I saw him in is The Amazing Racist.
Oh, yeah.
And so that was so long ago.
But from the get-go, he was walking around like an Asian geisha and just being
like so racist.
And he had a fake slave ship going back to Africa.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
So it's like, obviously, the guy is into jarring types of humor.
Really, really pushing, pushing, pushing.
I think the problem is a lot of people had never seen.
You get a whole new group of people who had never heard of Ari.
And this is how the first time they hear about him.
So that's an easy picking for a lame person.
That's an easy picking to hate.
You know what's weird, too?
It's like, oh, I got to hate somebody today.
This is the easiest, the lowest hanging fruit.
Right, right.
I'm going to hate him.
But I think they probably also said, you know, it's just that was-
But he should be able to say what he wants.
Yeah, I mean, Kate said he should have known better.
And I was like, he did know just fine.
Like, he knew that.
And what I said to him was, I was like, so how are you doing?
You're fine, right?
And he goes, yeah, you know, you realize you get all this hatred, all this
stuff.
He's like, then you close the laptop and you look around like, birds are
chirping.
I live in New York.
It's beautiful outside.
He said, the problem was is that his family, you know, kind of think about this
in the
context of the hate that he got.
He said, you know, the problem was with my family, I realized, oh, they're
taking this
seriously and it's on a national level.
And so I had to say to them, I'm okay.
Nobody's going to kill me.
I'm being safe.
So that's what's really interesting is nobody really thinks behind all of that
online
hatred is a family that is really scared for their-
For their son or their brother, yeah.
I think if the Knicks had been doing better, I think he would have had more
support out of
New York.
I'm serious.
I love that.
But I do.
But yeah, it was just, look, we've all told jokes that have bad timing.
Wow.
You know what's crazy is my sister can't even read.
But what does it have to do with us right now?
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you one option, not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.