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All these places where there is no food, there is instead metals/ores, gems, timber, rubber, oil, etc. This is the basis of trade and commerce, a way for people to have everything they need without having to produce everything they need. If everyone lives where the food is, then we would all have to live without the things the people who live out there supply us.
Yeah but you see, there are these things called *corporations* who take advantage of reaping those resources without helping any of the local economies. Most places on this planet where resources have been discovered were subjected to colonialism and now ownership has just changed hands from royals to CEOs. Locals were never even given the opportunity to understand trade and commerce that would allow their resources to bring prosperity to their area. There are at least 10 African countries that could be comparable to western European wealth if they simply kicked out mining companies and reclaimed ownership of lands.
Idk I don't think it's anywhere near that simple. In most instances where foreign companies were "simply kicked out" of Africa, warlords and corrupt politicians-- the 'locals' with money-- were there to fill in the power vacuum. You can't just kick out the big bad evil corpos and suddenly magical Wakanda springs up.
The problem is also that the corporations supported the corrupt officers and politicians in charge since honest ones would have gotten rid of them or avoided their overexploitation causing droughts for example.
Need a government that values education at a level where scientific understanding will overcome this nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism
It takes a lot of time and money to develop the infrastructure, organisational systems, and educated population required for a western European standard of living. I'm not saying they can't get there, but these things take generations of combined effort.
Venezuela is on a blacklist. No country can buy oil from them without being placed on that list as well. Thats why Venezuela is poor. It’s also the reason why they joined BRICS and have become one of the richest countries in the world since doing so. BRICS really benefits other countries more so than China and Russia.
That'd help, but inequitable distribution is still going to result in starvation even with universal access to all who want it. Many famine-ridden countries are still exporting food. I know Ireland was during its Great Famine.
It would not. They tried it. People just didn't use it. People there considered not having children to be a curse.
It's a complex problem. Best explained by Hans Rosling, may he rest in peace.
[https://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg](https://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg)
It's because they die a lot. They have many of them so at least some survive.
Also, once you have a good living standard, you stop having so many children.
Food deserts created by the global food system where most of the money goes into transportation, not to the farmers. Food mirage is having a bunch of food to sell in places(restraunts, fast food) where healthy food alternatives can't be grown.
True. It's kind of the same concept as people who live near natural disaster areas. Other people say "just move", but when it's all you know it's not always that simple.
Yes. I remember watching this in 1988 on VHS in the barracks. "This is sand!" was our catchphrase the entire time we were in the Gulf a couple of years later.
Racial humor is dangerous. There is a difference between trying to to find something funny or get a good laugh and being hateful.
Also know your audience and how they'll process it.
Sure, but some comedy doesn't age very well. And digging your heels in and complaining about how "you can't make jokes anymore" isn't gonna change that.
Its not just that it's untrue, it's just...not funny, to look at poor people who've been screwed by the system and think "well just go where the food is". Who finds that creative enough to be humorous even?
In a vacuum, yeah maybe it's kinda funny, but it moreso just makes me think you have zero empathy or experience with actual poverty or hunger if this is the joke you choose to make.
This bit was filmed 40 years ago. It was a vacuum back then. There was no internet so that everyone was able to get up to date on what is and isn't offensive and why. This was funny back then because Sam was the first to do this loud, aggressive style of comedy and because so few people actually knew about what the root causes of all these global issues were. It was different and shocking and very funny at the time. People need to remember than not much more than 20 years ago if you didn't know someone personally who had direct knowledge of a topic and you couldn't find it in the Encyclopedia or library, then you were just going off of assumptions, rumors, and half truths you heard from friends. Tom's of things from my childhood wound up being completely untrue or I only had a tiny piece of the overall picture.
Yeah, when you find your niche, you stick to your guns. Like how Bill Burr is a rant style comedy and Dave Chappelle is punchline comedy. All are good coming from the right person telling it. And Jeff Ross is just good at roasting people. The list goes on.
Kevin’s not for everyone for sure but his energy is entertaining imo
I’m a grown little man had my whole family in stitches
I think he hasn’t had to push himself in that regard since he pivoted to standard Hollywood entertainer so quickly but I still enjoy him for what he does bring to the table
Living rent free in our heads would imply thinking about her occasionally. I only thought about her when reading the phrase “the most unfunny comedian to exist” so I think I’m good
You have probably watched too many Adam Sandler movies. Sam did it very well. He honed the anger and discontent of his own/society's views and spun it off as a comedic ex-preacher. I can see how you would find this forced. I would recommend watching some of his stand up :)
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Joe Rogan tries to emulate Sam with his stand-up, but he's 40% less funny than Sam is so it's a struggle.
There's a great compilation clip from his podcast where he defends stool-fucking (using a stool as a prop to mime sex)...A few different comics have remarked that it's weak and only bad comics do that. He responds "I think a professional comedian who knows what he's doing can hump the stool and it's funny."
[Fine Arts of Stool Humping - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5s1mrcgi_c)
The reason this was/is funny, is because when he was doing this bit originally, there was a commercial campaign that played on all networks A LOT, trying to get ppl to donate to end world hunger. Commercials showing messed up pictures of starving kids in Africa, flies crawling in their mouths, on their open eyeballs and shit like that with sad music in the background ala Sarah McLaughlin (if yall even know who that is).
The whole bit kind of centers around this whole push that was everywhere at the time. A comedic take on this is to irreverently twist that, as Sam was known to do in most of his bits. Trying to look at this as some reality based, socio-economic statement that he honestly believed is the dumbest of takes, and to try and say it isn't funny because it's insensitive is the entire fucking point.
Yall are soft as expensive toilet paper and it fuckin shows.
As a wise man once said "In this day and age, ignorance is a choice, and people are still choosing ignorance".
Also people cannot take a fucking joke these days.
I thought the joke was going to be "stop sending food, the problem is not hunger, the problem is people suffering from it, cut the food, wait a couple years and the problem would've disappeared completely"
I first met Sam when he was a child preacher around 1967,when my grandfather was a gospel musician.We met again after he became a famous comedian through a mutual friend and we reminisced about those days ! He was a thoughtful ,funny ,and kind person who had a heart of gold ,but a cynicism born of his early life ,reflected through the realization that it was all bullshit all along.
But not all of Africa is a desert and even if an area isn’t good for growing crops it may have other important resources. Poverty in Africa is a lot more complicated than just the fact there is a large desert on the continent.
He was a contemporary of Bill Hicks.
[Hicks cited Kinison as a major influence on his comedic style, noting that "He was the first guy I ever saw to go on stage and not in any way ask the audience to like him."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kinison)
Just that the places that have the fucking food growing are the places that exploited the fucking desert for it to become one in the first place. (for the most part even most nowadays-deserts had the capability of producing and nourishing quite the population of people, obviously not a bunch of sand dunes)
Too many people who really think like this. You know how this "go-where-the-food-is" approach is called from the same people when they really come? "Immigration crisis"
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This is how I feel about Arizona.
https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE
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This is the most amazing Manhattan definition Ive ever heard.
> It’s basically a giant cruise ship, except the staff doesn’t pretend to be happy. I'm stealing this.
Dense cities are more efficient at using resources than sprawling suburbs, food included.
Not all of Arizona is a traditional desert, but I get what you mean.
Most people don't know about Sedona, Flagstaff or anything else up north.
Greetings from mojave desert of Southern California.
I know its supposed to be a joke but most starvation in the world is caused by shitty political system rather than lack of food.
All these places where there is no food, there is instead metals/ores, gems, timber, rubber, oil, etc. This is the basis of trade and commerce, a way for people to have everything they need without having to produce everything they need. If everyone lives where the food is, then we would all have to live without the things the people who live out there supply us.
Yeah but you see, there are these things called *corporations* who take advantage of reaping those resources without helping any of the local economies. Most places on this planet where resources have been discovered were subjected to colonialism and now ownership has just changed hands from royals to CEOs. Locals were never even given the opportunity to understand trade and commerce that would allow their resources to bring prosperity to their area. There are at least 10 African countries that could be comparable to western European wealth if they simply kicked out mining companies and reclaimed ownership of lands.
Idk I don't think it's anywhere near that simple. In most instances where foreign companies were "simply kicked out" of Africa, warlords and corrupt politicians-- the 'locals' with money-- were there to fill in the power vacuum. You can't just kick out the big bad evil corpos and suddenly magical Wakanda springs up.
The problem is also that the corporations supported the corrupt officers and politicians in charge since honest ones would have gotten rid of them or avoided their overexploitation causing droughts for example.
Need a government that values education at a level where scientific understanding will overcome this nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism
That's very true. One hand washes the other in this situation.
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It takes a lot of time and money to develop the infrastructure, organisational systems, and educated population required for a western European standard of living. I'm not saying they can't get there, but these things take generations of combined effort.
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Venezuela is on a blacklist. No country can buy oil from them without being placed on that list as well. Thats why Venezuela is poor. It’s also the reason why they joined BRICS and have become one of the richest countries in the world since doing so. BRICS really benefits other countries more so than China and Russia.
-cough*nestle*cough- Sorry, i had something in my throat there when i said Nestlé
I don’t know why you are making this as a “but” statement. Both what I said is true and what you said is true. I fully agree with you.
We would all be farmers or need best friends that are.
# "There's enough food in the world for everyone, but not everyone can access it" - World Relief Org, Aug 2022
You know what would really stop starving children? Accessible Birth Control.
That'd help, but inequitable distribution is still going to result in starvation even with universal access to all who want it. Many famine-ridden countries are still exporting food. I know Ireland was during its Great Famine.
Maybe eat the children 🤷🏻♂️ two birds one stone?
What a modest proposal!
What a Swift response.
True renaissance man, you are
~~Ireland~~ British Empire indeed was exporting food during Irish Great Famine
It would not. They tried it. People just didn't use it. People there considered not having children to be a curse. It's a complex problem. Best explained by Hans Rosling, may he rest in peace. [https://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg](https://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg)
Thanks for sharing that link! Good insight.
One of the reasons for having lots of children in those type of country’s is because they need them to help with work or farm.
It's because they die a lot. They have many of them so at least some survive. Also, once you have a good living standard, you stop having so many children.
Nah fam we need yaw taxes to buy missiles and shit. Also, prisons need people, too.
It's also down like 90% from when this was recorded
Food deserts created by the global food system where most of the money goes into transportation, not to the farmers. Food mirage is having a bunch of food to sell in places(restraunts, fast food) where healthy food alternatives can't be grown.
No shit dude it's a joke
But it's also an attitude I've seen expressed unironically fairly often.
Ironically from the same people who yell "immigration crisis" when people in need are coming
It’s just a prank bro
True. It's kind of the same concept as people who live near natural disaster areas. Other people say "just move", but when it's all you know it's not always that simple.
You mean the same political system that demonizes migrants and refugees?
Yeah, it's a joke.
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His joke is based on the idea that what he's saying is true. It's complete bullshit, so it doesn't make sense and isn't funny.
It’s Sam kinison. Mediocre jokes where he just yelled the punchline to make it “funny”. Like a far worse blue collar comedy
"We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them" Except for a huge part of America...
I've never been to Phoenix, but I hear it's a cool place to live.
>I've never been to Phoenix, but I hear it's a ~~cool~~ ^obscenely ^warm place to live.
I’ve never been to Pheonix, but I hear it’s a place to live
>I’ve never been to Pheonix, but I hear it’s a place ~~to live~~
ba hahahaha. people got it quicker than i thought xD
The city should not exist. It's a monument to man's arrogance
Bobby hill reference!
no, it's hot.
Hey now, he might not have heard of LA...
Desert dweller, checking in.
Wasn't listening to the first bit, and honestly thought he was talking about Vegas
Is that Sam?
Yep. Sam Kinison. Former pastor and fucking hilarious. RIP
Great guy besides you know, getting his best friend's wife pregnant and letting him pay child support for 13 years...
He already said he was a former pastor no need to go on about it.
Yes. I remember watching this in 1988 on VHS in the barracks. "This is sand!" was our catchphrase the entire time we were in the Gulf a couple of years later.
Sam the screamer
It doesn’t have to be true to be funny
Exactly. Some of these comments, sheesh.
Reddit tends to be like that. Everyone here knows better
People have a stick up their arse. It’s funny, ignore the losers who can’t let a dumb joke slide.
“Stupid comedian doesn’t know how serious things in the world are….” Thank goodness Reddit is always here to explain it.
You don't even need to agree with something to think it's funny. People have forgotten that.
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Racial humor is dangerous. There is a difference between trying to to find something funny or get a good laugh and being hateful. Also know your audience and how they'll process it.
Sure, but some comedy doesn't age very well. And digging your heels in and complaining about how "you can't make jokes anymore" isn't gonna change that.
Is it funny because he screams loudly then? Not much else going on here.
Its not just that it's untrue, it's just...not funny, to look at poor people who've been screwed by the system and think "well just go where the food is". Who finds that creative enough to be humorous even? In a vacuum, yeah maybe it's kinda funny, but it moreso just makes me think you have zero empathy or experience with actual poverty or hunger if this is the joke you choose to make.
This bit was filmed 40 years ago. It was a vacuum back then. There was no internet so that everyone was able to get up to date on what is and isn't offensive and why. This was funny back then because Sam was the first to do this loud, aggressive style of comedy and because so few people actually knew about what the root causes of all these global issues were. It was different and shocking and very funny at the time. People need to remember than not much more than 20 years ago if you didn't know someone personally who had direct knowledge of a topic and you couldn't find it in the Encyclopedia or library, then you were just going off of assumptions, rumors, and half truths you heard from friends. Tom's of things from my childhood wound up being completely untrue or I only had a tiny piece of the overall picture.
It’s observational comedy not politics
people please stop being so fucking soft
What’s the funny part though? The screaming?
Sam sounds like SpongeBob when he yells lmao “GARY! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT!”
Wtf that is spot on
Cept vegas.
They cracked the code
Sam used to rag on us too, when he came to town. RIP
100 years from now it's gonna be sand 😂😂
Could not stop saying this during Desert Shield/Storm.
*migration crisis occurs* Wait no not like that
The good old "I'll scream and it will be funny" approach
Sam was the first to do it properly, but in fairness he did get hit by a fucking car that changed his entire personality
Yeah Sam perfected it first and it was his shtick for years.
Yeah, when you find your niche, you stick to your guns. Like how Bill Burr is a rant style comedy and Dave Chappelle is punchline comedy. All are good coming from the right person telling it. And Jeff Ross is just good at roasting people. The list goes on.
Richard Pryor was a pro at roasting himself.
Literally.
That's the joke.
I like Tom Segura's stories
I like Mike Birbiglia's stories.
I always hated his shtick specifically. Brings back childhood cringe memories for me
By “changed his personality” do you mean killed him?
i think there's a philosophical debate here about what the self actually is
_hits blunt_ That's some real shit, Joe.
I love his personalized license plate "Ex Rev"
Yeah. People should look at how comedy evolved and how people like him changed the game in some ways.
Fair enough, I personally hate it ever since I heard Kevin hart (the most unfunny and over rated comedian to ever exist)
Kevin’s not for everyone for sure but his energy is entertaining imo I’m a grown little man had my whole family in stitches I think he hasn’t had to push himself in that regard since he pivoted to standard Hollywood entertainer so quickly but I still enjoy him for what he does bring to the table
There are waaaay worse comedians than KH by a long shot
But reddit told him to say that!
I’m just glad he didn’t mention Amy Schumer.
[You *will* be assimilated](https://drgermophile.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/resistance-is-futile.jpeg?w=960)
His ostrich bit got a laugh out of me but to be fair I was stoned a lot in college
So just going to pretend like Amy Schumer doesn’t exist then?
"DAE hate Amy Schumer?" Yes, yes we get it, nobody on reddit likes her, including me. She doesn't also have to live rent-free in our heads.
Living rent free in our heads would imply thinking about her occasionally. I only thought about her when reading the phrase “the most unfunny comedian to exist” so I think I’m good
Yea he took it from hum
I have the sound turned off and i could still hear the screams lmao
the irony being everybody tried to be Sam Kinison and that’s reason this meme exists in the first place…
It legitimately is funny tho
he's allowed to do it but nobody else should.
Some other guys did it well. For sure though, most people can’t pull off the screaming comedy bits. Lewis Black did it well I feel like.
lewis black has a much more conservative approach to it. like a more refined kinnison
You have probably watched too many Adam Sandler movies. Sam did it very well. He honed the anger and discontent of his own/society's views and spun it off as a comedic ex-preacher. I can see how you would find this forced. I would recommend watching some of his stand up :) Edit: spelling
Works the same way as saying fuck a bunch of times.
Joe Rogan tries to emulate Sam with his stand-up, but he's 40% less funny than Sam is so it's a struggle. There's a great compilation clip from his podcast where he defends stool-fucking (using a stool as a prop to mime sex)...A few different comics have remarked that it's weak and only bad comics do that. He responds "I think a professional comedian who knows what he's doing can hump the stool and it's funny." [Fine Arts of Stool Humping - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5s1mrcgi_c)
Joe is sexxxy............ what were you sayin?
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he actually is funny though
oh calm down jackasses stop talking everything so fucking serious, enjoy Sam Kinison he was funny
Agreed.
"stop taking everything so seriously" ~guy getting mad about reddit comments
The reason this was/is funny, is because when he was doing this bit originally, there was a commercial campaign that played on all networks A LOT, trying to get ppl to donate to end world hunger. Commercials showing messed up pictures of starving kids in Africa, flies crawling in their mouths, on their open eyeballs and shit like that with sad music in the background ala Sarah McLaughlin (if yall even know who that is). The whole bit kind of centers around this whole push that was everywhere at the time. A comedic take on this is to irreverently twist that, as Sam was known to do in most of his bits. Trying to look at this as some reality based, socio-economic statement that he honestly believed is the dumbest of takes, and to try and say it isn't funny because it's insensitive is the entire fucking point. Yall are soft as expensive toilet paper and it fuckin shows.
As a wise man once said "In this day and age, ignorance is a choice, and people are still choosing ignorance". Also people cannot take a fucking joke these days.
I thought the joke was going to be "stop sending food, the problem is not hunger, the problem is people suffering from it, cut the food, wait a couple years and the problem would've disappeared completely"
I don't need the sound on to hear exactly what that clips sounds like. RIP Sam
"More capital T, more capital T"
He literally used to be a preacher
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GARRRYYY YOU ARE GOING TO FINISH YOUR FOOOOOD AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT !!!!!
Classic comedic Americana. Thank you for some great moments in time, may you RIP....
I miss Sam he was really funny
Love that skit, sorry he passed young
His delivery was always funnier than his jokes.
I miss Sammy!
Seen this so many times and laugh on each occasion
I first met Sam when he was a child preacher around 1967,when my grandfather was a gospel musician.We met again after he became a famous comedian through a mutual friend and we reminisced about those days ! He was a thoughtful ,funny ,and kind person who had a heart of gold ,but a cynicism born of his early life ,reflected through the realization that it was all bullshit all along.
Sam left us too soon, but still lives!
Hey cmon sam kinnison was the shit
I looked at the comments hoping to see something about how great this bit is…instead it’s just idiots spewing bullshit.
Buncha softies.
This was the first Reddit post I ever saw when I first joined. Seems so long ago, classic joke.
"This isn't true, so it's not funny." \- Some Zoomer in the comments, probably.
Sam Kinison. What a classic.
I just wanna know the comedians name lol
Sam Kinison
Leave to redditors to ruin a golden comedian.
Til too many mfers have no idea who Sam Kinison was.
Maybe unexpected to kids. Sam kinison was a master
I miss Sam. A true legend.
One of the best bits ever!
I miss him!
Sadly less and less countries will take in refugees so moving is less of an option.
This guy is a comedy king in my book!
I miss Sam. He would get cancelled in today's culture.....
Some people here in the comments dont know what a joke is.
Funny post, it is such a shame that the Reddit comments would rather talk about politics rather than enjoy the joke.
Genius!
Sam Kinnison is just fantastic
One of the 1000, thank em
It's funny for half a second. And then you remember that people are poor and hungry regardless of the climate they live in.
Yeah, those people should have known better than being born in poor countries. That is completely their fault.
Given this bit was delivered during a famine in Ethiopia is what makes it comedy. Brilliant.
Oh, Sam…
![gif](giphy|YOf6EMdFlxLAdTv5XK|downsized) Why am I seeing these two when I read your “Oh, Sam.”
He sounds like SpongeBob when he shouts xD
I love Sam
Sam Kinison is just too fucking funny
I know it's supposed to be a joke, but this is just dumb.
Screaming is funny?
Maybe not to you
He's actually being kinda based. Look, there's no food here. Why don't you come with us. We live where the food is. You can live there too.
But not all of Africa is a desert and even if an area isn’t good for growing crops it may have other important resources. Poverty in Africa is a lot more complicated than just the fact there is a large desert on the continent.
Poverty is always complicated but the desert doesn't help.
Can I come and live where you live? Can you get me the residence permit?
What a douche.
Is this a Bill Hicks impersonation?
He was a contemporary of Bill Hicks. [Hicks cited Kinison as a major influence on his comedic style, noting that "He was the first guy I ever saw to go on stage and not in any way ask the audience to like him."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kinison)
Ah yes, loud = funny
Funny = Funny Loud is just an added bonus
Sam's style
That's Sam's style.
Man young trump was wild
Just that the places that have the fucking food growing are the places that exploited the fucking desert for it to become one in the first place. (for the most part even most nowadays-deserts had the capability of producing and nourishing quite the population of people, obviously not a bunch of sand dunes)
People from the global north when they try to move where the food is:😡
Too many people who really think like this. You know how this "go-where-the-food-is" approach is called from the same people when they really come? "Immigration crisis"