Is anyone here even gen z? Obsequious comedy is boring imo regardless of age.
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Not just a myth, but also an insidious marketing ploy and a divisionary tactic…
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This is as stale as week old bread. I think he needs to learn how to find something that works cause throwing slang around without much context really doesn’t work.
And I say this as someone with more friends south of 30 than I’d like to admit (apparently it’s just the way things are now with the Internet at least on Discord) that this just doesn’t mesh well as comedy that works. Also, trying to work off of generational/timely issues fails and often is dated by the time it goes out. He doesn’t have to do slapstick humor but do something more closer to absurd than not.
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Comedian? Says who?
And… What comes after Gen-Z?
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Not very likely; that’s my teenager’s demographic.
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I mean, that’s just every 60s/70s joke about hippies or Beatles fans or stoners, so yeah, that definitely existed
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So just to make my position on this kind of humor clear: I think this is a millennial projecting their own self-loathing about their own long-passed youth culture onto kids. And that’s bad comedy unless you lean into it and make it grotesque enough to take focus, or at least semi self-aware, which he’s failing to do. That’s like meta-bad. It can’t even close the loop to pass for self-parody.
Everyone’s a critic I know, but that’s why I think this isn’t very good comedy.
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He’s 28, though. Isn’t that Gen Z? Asking @TornPaperNapkin as well.
This reminds me of a Norm MacDonald bit on Weekend Update. He makes some weird joke about women and the audience boos. He then says “Hey, cut it out, that was funny, that joke was written by a woman.” The audience makes another noise and he says “yeah, see. (Pause) Actually it wasn’t, I lied. Now you don’t know what to think.” It was a great bit of improv skewering our ideas about who can make a joke at whose expense.
The whole thing is him making fun of the stereotypes of his generation. While he’s no Eddie Murphy, it’s not far off from Murphy’s old routines about his family and his neighborhood.
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My kid is 16. Generations are allegedly ‘supposed to be’ every 15-20 years. He’s damn near 30, so that makes him a bitter millennial by my personal standards.
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Gen-Z is pretty much getting out of college at the old end. Mostly they are in high school. They are basically the post 9/11 kids. This guy remembers Ren and Stimpy and dial-up internet.
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Generations are a rough classification. Generation X is between 1965 and 1980 as the more used subdivision, but of course the changes aren’t abrupt, and more important the subdivision is USA-centric.
Now there are world wide events that are almost equal for all the world, like the end of WWII in 1945, the building of Berlin wall in 1961, the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the crash of 2008, but other events are different for every nation. A Gen Xer in USA didn’t have to fear for the Troubles like in UK or the Strategy of Tension in Italy with a terrorist putting bombs in stations an the like.
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So this is part of it to me.
A self-roast of gen z tropes would need to be coming from some one who [is able to embody/portray] the part. For me it’s less about the fact that he technically falls into the millennial group and more about that [comes across to me in my perception based on his performance] as being 30 at least which is just too damned old to be doing a self-roast of a teenage culture that’s reputed to exist somewhere. So I don’t see it as a self-roast so much as an attempt at generational humor. Except it’s all stereotypes that basically gen z is inheriting from millennials so it’s kind of… stale.
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Understanding that we’re talking about a comedian, I think that’s a dangerous path to go down. If he’s the right age, and identifies as Gen-Z, I’m not sure it’s up to us to say that he “doesn’t look the part.” I say this in a totally non-personalized way (because I just read through Orenwolf’s latest ban note and want to be sure you understand I’m not personalizing this towards you or anyone else in particular), but if we start saying “they don’t look like X, so I’m not going to refer to them as X,” then we’re doing harm to whoever we say that to. The guy seems to be Gen Z, and he seems to be making fun of his own generation. Take it on its face.
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Fair point, what I’m trying to say is that he is a millennial who is doing a bad job of looking like, acting like, or pretending to be gen z… for clarification. He’s not acting out “Gen Z” so much as acting out tropes about young people that old people can relate to.
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Punching down is always lazy humor, anyways…
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If he’s a millennial (which at 28 he is?) he’s as good as any comedian who ever made fun of the generation before him by highlighting stereotypes.
That, yes.
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Sure, but I find this kind of humor sad and boring. That’s my subjective opinion on it. Like I’d rather watch some one just make balloon animals with farts.
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Me too…
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From the details to one of his shows (Emphasis mine):
While attending college at Oklahoma State University, Trey found fame on the mobile app Vine,
Definitely not his generation.
What I’m not saying: You should not find this funny.
What I am saying: The comedian, having aimed at Gen Z, missed. A lack of understanding of who we group as Gen Z is essential if you want to poke fun, even harmless fun.
From the video:
“We’re warriors for justice, if you said something disparaging 10 years ago ,we’ll find it… canceled”
Only certain people think this is a stereotype of gen-z, only certain people use “cancelled” as a verb.
Talking with his mother on the phone:
“Tell me you’re a boomer without tellin’ me you’re a boomer?”
By all generational logic, Gen-Z’s parents are not boomers.
“I’m just trying to look under his shell so I don’t misgender him”
Who finds this remotely funny? So much to unpack but to cut to the heart of it, only reactionary types think this is a thing. It betrays the worldview that this is both generational and humorous in the observing.
This guy isn’t Gen Z and he isn’t being self effacing. He shows an alt-right worldview in a lot of his jokes and is oblivious to the fact that his target isn’t Gen Z but certain demographics ideas of what passes for Gen Z
Edited for spelling and grammar.
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Yeah actually the more I think of it it’s just like an excuse to make fun of kids for thinking “stupid things” and also making sure that people understand these things are stupid because “stupid kids” say them.
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