In class today, I found it funny that the subject of the chappelle show was briefly brought up for making fun of racial stereotypes because it connected somewhat personally for me to Margaret Cho talking about how she was not "Asian" enough for the media. A few years ago there was a sketch done on the chapelle show called "white people cant dance". This sketch basically went to different places and played into the stereotypes about what types of music white, black and latino people would dance to. They made the joke that the latino people only danced to the electric piano played by a latino man, in this is where my connection to Margaret Cho"s not being "Asian" enough comes in. The piano player was actually played by my cousin Jon. Jon is 100% Spanish and definitely could be a representation of a latino man. However the show did not feel he looked latino enough so they darkened his skin with make-up, greased back his hair, gave him a colorful silk shirt and called him Sanchez. I just found it funny that even this comedy show did exactly what Margaret Cho talked about, when she was told she needed to be more "Asian". I know that the point of the sketch was to make fun of stereotypes and they wanted to play up my cousins "latino" features to make a stronger point. I just found this connection to Margaret Cho's experience to be funny because she as a comedian makes fun of the media pushing for stereotypes and Dave Chappelle as a comedian in a way is taking part in creating the push for stereotypes.
- I tried to find a video clip of this sketch but the only one I could find was really poor quality
-Ryan Fleming blog#12
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