Name: Theo Von Reacts to Ari Shaffir's Kobe Bryant Video
Uploaded: 2020-01-28T22:05:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Reacts to Ari Shaffir's Kobe Bryant Video' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Reacts to Ari Shaffir's Kobe Bryant Video' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available.

We had, in the comedy world, there's a comedian, Ari Shafir, and he, you know,
he had some wild thoughts on the Kobe situation, and some people were not
excited about that.
I want to play this video that Ari Shafir put out, you can, if you haven't
already heard it, and this was after the plane, the helicopter crash, onward.
There's always a lot of, like, hate and pain in the world, and there's always a
bunch of terrible stories, and every once in a while, there's a good story.
A good story comes out.
The guy who got away with rape got his today.
Kobe Bryant is a god.
I'm here in Charlotte, the home of the team that originally drafted him.
Maybe he wouldn't have raped that chick in Denver if he had stayed in Charlotte
with the Hornets.
But anyway, the point is, dude, it's like...
People, that didn't go over well.
I mean, I'll put that right there.
It just didn't go over well with people.
Ari also had a tweet.
Kobe Bryant died 23 years too late today.
He got away with rape because all the Hollywood liberals who attack comedy
enjoy rooting for the Lakers more than they dislike rape.
Big ups to the hero who forgot to gas up his chopper.
I hate the Lakers.
What a great day.
Hashtag fuck the Lakers.
It's a lot to unpack, I think, in all of that.
You know, I mean, I personally, I went through a gamut of like thoughts and
emotions with it.
Just like a regular dude, man.
Like, and it's funny because the way I thought yesterday about it and the way I
thought today about it have adjusted.
I mean, I mean, at first I was just like, man, this is crazy.
Like, is it, is he joking?
Is he serious?
You know, there were children.
There were children that died.
And so, you know, it's just, that's too much to joke about.
It's too much.
You know, I was like, it's just, it's too much.
There was also part of me that was, you know, I had the thought too, whenever,
you know, when a lot of people were, you know, really lamenting Kobe, right?
I was like, yeah, did he rape someone, you know, that came into my head.
I could never, I couldn't remember exactly how that had played out in the court
system and stuff.
But here's a guy that was accused of that.
And it, you know, it went to court and then there was a settlement.
So those are just things that kind of popped into my head, you know.
And then once you, I learned that his daughters and, you know, that there was
more people involved, his daughter and other young people.
And just, I mean, it just, for me, it landed in a whole different spot.
Now for Ari Shaffir, I mean, he's an edgy comedian.
That's his whole thing.
You know, he's, he is, he's harsh.
He is vulgar at times, maybe.
I mean, and I'm not, you know, I'm not like.
He's denouncing Ari.
I don't believe in this cancel culture stuff.
At first, I was just shocked.
I was like, wow, what?
Is he trying to get attention?
Is he, you know, is he, the video, it had like, he has like a little bit of a
smirk in it.
So it came, it for sure was going to make people irate.
I mean, it was just, there was too much.
He was doing it in front of a picture of other basketball players in Charlotte.
There's just so many elements that make it bad or that make it tough to digest.
Let me say that.
Especially on a day when so many people, when he was just beloved by so many
people.
And then it's interesting because then today, like last time I'm looking at
different tweets.
Like Michael Rappaport took, took Ari to the woodshed, really.
He, what did he say?
He goes, I want people to see who this piece of shit is.
I think it's disgusting.
Rappaport went in hard on the dude.
He said, meet comedian Ari Shafir.
This is a professional comedian.
Hashtag Ari Shafir, at Ari Shafir.
He was not stoked.
Ari got also referred to as a white supremacist.
Their racist piece of shit.
You know, people went at him.
I mean, it was funny how, it was interesting.
It was interesting to see online how the hatred online just started to build
and turn over itself.
And how it got, people called Joe Rogan into it.
Like just how it just kind of became this, like an avalanche.
It's like a hay bale that somebody pushed over a levee, you know.
It became this building thing, this nominable snowman.
And then today I'm like, well, I mean, it's tough because if you want to
believe in freedom of speech, which we have to have it, then some people are
just going to say what they want to say.
You know, I don't know, you know, I don't know Ari's intent on this.
I don't know if he's trying to sell tickets in Charlotte.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, people also say this is a character that he does where he does a lot
about like when people die.
He'll make like a funny video or a funny tweet or make a tweet trying to make
light of a situation under a certain like dirty character that he has.
Honestly, it's interesting because if Ari walked into the room yesterday, if he
walked in, I'd have been like, dude, what the fuck?
What's going on?
And I think that's how most people would have been if he in human, in human
form would have walked into the room after you had seen the video and read this
tweet.
But online, it's like this other thing.
You can be, you know, people are like saying I'm going to knock him out right
when I see him at the comedy store.
People are saying black people go get this guy.
There was definitely a lot of black racial hatred towards him and from
everybody.
I mean, it was from all directions.
It wasn't just black for sure.
But, you know, there was like some, you know, black Twitter can be wild.
But, yeah, I just thought it definitely was just it was some rough timing.
It was definitely rough timing.
But that had to be what he's going for.
I mean, that's what he's doing.
There's some people that, you know, there's like whatever that sinus, the
insult dog.
Remember that guy?
The little dog, the puppet.
And then there's Ari, the freaking, the death wish Doberman, you know.
I mean, he, he wanted all the smoke.
And he got it, man.
He definitely got it.
So, I just end up thinking that if we're going to, people can say what they
want and they should be able to say what they want.
And the repercussions of it are other people are going to react the way they
want to.
You can't say that people can't say something even if you don't agree with it.
I can't say, oh, he can't say that.
And I don't think that Twitter or any, you know, any of these platforms should
be able to say someone can't say something.
The way you learn what works and what doesn't is by trying things out.
Now, I don't think that, I mean, I don't know if this is him trying something.
I mean, I'm not, I'm not saying any of that.
But I'm just saying you have to still have that, you know.
Now, he knows how people feel.
And that, you know, people get to react the way they want to to certain things.
That's what it's all about.
But I just think it was interesting when I thought to myself, okay, well, he's
online saying this, this stuff.
But if you see him in person, I would probably be a lot more human.
Like, you know, I'm thinking I'd be like, oh, dude, what was going on, man?
Jeez.
I think you freaking, you know, is it tough to take a nap because so many,
because your phone is just burning with the hatred of so many people towards
you?
I guess that's my thoughts on it.
You know, you say what you want and you can suffer the repercussions of it or
you can see how people, other people feel about it.
But to say this guy, screw, then you just don't go buy it, then don't buy a
ticket if you don't want to see him.
Now, some people who's into the dark arts and stuff, they're going to really
thrive on this.
They might buy a new kitten or something and name it Ari Shafir.
I mean, I don't think Michael Rappaport's going to buy one.
But, you know, just like anybody, he can say what he wants to and then people
get to react to it.
And then that's how you get to say what you want back.
So that's really my thoughts on it.
I mean, I just, the part that scares me is when they start saying that, oh,
take this guy's account away and take this sort of thing.
Like, um, that just, that, because that's never going to help anything.
People still have to be able to say what they want.
That's how you learn.
You know, that's how you learn.
Uh, but man, that was a ballsy fucking move, huh?
That was just a ballsy, just like, I don't know if I could take all that heat
online.
I just don't know if I could take all that heat.
Thank you guys for checking out this clip.
And if you want to see another clip, then you can look at this clip or this
clip, either one of these.
So did you pick one or are you still just watching me do this?
Because this is alarming.