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Friday, October 11, 2013
Comedian Crashes Ted Talks
"Comedian Sam Hyde took advantage of some pretty lax vetting last weekend at Drexel University’s independently organized TEDx speaker series. Posing as a documentary filmmaker and journalist fresh off a trip from war-torn Mogadishu, Hyde hijacked the conference and delivered what is basically an amazing 20 minute indictment of the popular thought leadership lecture series."
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I need someone to guarantee this is funny, and I mean really funny, not Bill Maher "funny".
Otherwise, I refuse to click on it.
Full disclosure...
I didn't watch it.
I just want a one or two sentence summary. The one TED talk I watched contained warmed-over educrat pablum filtered through the egos of billionaires.
So the TED talk thing doesn't impress me all that much. Therefore I just want a summary of the takedown. Also, what kind of take down was it? Single leg? Double leg?
I watched five or so minutes, clicked off then.
Lax vetting was mentioned. You might think about that concept, Lem.
I used to do this thing were I'd shoot right from the whistle. The right knee goes down in between the two feet -- like you're going in straight -- but then you drop the left knee as deep as you can to the outside, and pivot, so you have a base to take the guy's right leg.
You expect him to sprawl and you've still got hold of his right leg and you can drive with your right leg and take it from there.
If he's really fast and strong it's okay because his sprawl will just shove you out to the side and you can let go and start anew with something else.
Sometimes you'd shoot in and pivot and the guy'd just stand there totally confused and you'd get both legs. A special treat.
But that crap only worked because it was high school.
I wish I could finish this comment by saying "good times" but they weren't.
There was the Goffman lecture on lectures.
The point of a lecture is to affirm the importance of lectures.
If a speaker tells you that he's torn up his prepared speech in order to speak to you directly, he's torn up the wrong speech.
I wish I could finish this comment by saying "good times" but they weren't.
You were chained to that other guy at the time.
Very true, Icepick. So very, very true.
The Soda Stream line was funny.
@ the very end when his answer to a serious sounding question was that it was all a bunch of nonsense -that was funny.
I laughed a lot. The guy has balls like Andy Kaufman. The humor would pass by most here as the fella is young.
Some laugh lines "Let's look at the data." I like the mockery.
"We are thinkers and brilliant and innovators yes innovators and we drive the commerce of the world because of our ideas" or something like that.
Give it a shot. Realize you lack the fortitude to withstand scrutiny such as this young man, even though he didn't really accomplish all that.
I salute him.
This is no "Bam Bam Bam King of the One-liners" Rupert Pumpkin display but worthy nonetheless.
Maybe Chip could add canned laughter for the eldest amongst us.
The most philistine they should be if my logic that becoming less tolerant of poop as one ages indeed allows one to in fact continue aging.
Ugh, let's clean up that phone mess:
NQUB, note that a lot of Kaufman's stuff is funnier to hear ABOUT than it would have been to experience. The reading of The Great Gatsby, for example.
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