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Marlon Wayans Defends Free Speech: 'The Only Thing That's Going to Bring Us Together Is Humor'
Independent Journal Review ^
| August 10, 2023 at 11:20am
| By Jessica Marie Baumgartner
Posted on 08/10/2023 11:24:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Comedian Marlon Wayans is defending comedy, free speech, and laughter.
Jalen Rose wrote for the New York Post detailing his “Renaissance Man” interview and the “comedic genius” of Wayans.
Wayans told him, “I’m raised to tell jokes and I will never fear telling my jokes.”
“Most of the people on social media with these [negative] opinions aren’t even real people …They’re trying to strip us of the very thing that makes our country special: the freedom of speech,” he added.
Rose addressed the angry responses Wayans received after joking about a recent brawl on an Alabama dock.
He posted a video of the incident to his Instagram account on Monday, stating, “How ‘bout we NOT “try that in a small town”…. Sh*t silly bro… let’s all just be love NOT war.”
This led to a series of angry comments aimed at the comedian.
On Wednesday, Wayans defended himself in another post. He noted that those offended by his comments were “misinterpreting my entire post.”
“Nobody knows irony anymore, huh?” he asked.
Then he said, “I guess that just went out the window. It’s the irony of the song.”
Wayans also noted in his interview with Rose, “I think social media messed up socializing and we’ve got to get back to laughing and finding reasons to laugh and stop being so d**m sensitive.”
“All we’re doing is filling our airwaves, feeling out our kids with fear and hate – there’s no laughter and love. The only thing that’s going to bring us together is humor,” he went on.
He then stated, “It’s OK to laugh at things. I laugh my way through life and those that want to live in drama, y’all can find the drama and the tears while I find these jokes.”
Wayans also pointed out how comedians think. He said, “Our goal is always to make our jokes bring people together …The people we make fun of laugh the loudest.”
“We all live here in this country – mostly in harmony – laughing and making fun of each other,” he concluded.
TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: comedy; freespeech
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The Wayans brothers are comic geniuses.
The left has no sense of humor..............
Their 'memes' really suck...................
To: Red Badger
I just posted their “Hour Of Power” skit on another thread with Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey playing crooked Tele-Evangelists.
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:25:43 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:27:36 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: Red Badger
How do you re-teach humor to an entire segment of human society that has wilfully lost any understanding or appreciation of it?
They’ve traded it for a completely illegitimate self-righteousness.
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:28:26 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Red Badger
Love the Wayans. Very talented. Oh, and I’m a cracker. Just a little off pure white.
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:30:48 AM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
To: Red Badger
He should ask his brother Damon if he thinks this skit could be made today:
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:35:11 AM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: Tench_Coxe
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:37:41 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
To: dfwgator
‘Major Payne’ was pretty good.
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:44:48 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Tench_Coxe
That would be called 'Hate Speech' today..................
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:46:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Tench_Coxe
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:50:06 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
I every now and then watch the Conservative Twins. I'm surprised their youtube videos aren't blocked.
https://www.youtube.com/@ConservativeTwins
Two you black men talking to each other about current events. One sounds like a young James Golden (Bo Snerdley) and the other talks more like Golden's OOC persona. LOL
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:56:37 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/10/2023 11:58:50 AM PDT
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Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: Red Badger
Although, there was controversy over their ‘Men on Football” sketch if I remember.
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posted on
08/10/2023 12:00:09 PM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: All
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posted on
08/10/2023 12:02:57 PM PDT
by
Liz
(More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
To: Tench_Coxe
Although, there was controversy over their ‘Men on Football” sketch if I remember. Well, look what happened...
What's funny is there is one 'Out' NFL player right now, Carl Nassib, and since he said he was a Trump supporter, it's like he doesn't even exist.
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posted on
08/10/2023 12:17:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Jamestown1630
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posted on
08/10/2023 1:01:14 PM PDT
by
31R1O
(The people who can control themselves ought to be able to defend themselves from those who can't.)
To: Tench_Coxe
"First of all, we must internalize the 'flatulation' of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the 'Indianisian' proximity in order to further segregate the crux of my venereal infection. Now, if I may retain my liquids here for one moment. I'd like to continue the 'redundance' of my quote, unquote 'intestinal tract', you see because to preclude on the issue of world domination would only circumvent - excuse me, circumcise the revelation that reflects the 'Afro-disiatic' symptoms which now perpetrates the Jheri Curis activation. Allow me to expose my colon once again. The ramification inflicted on the incision placed within the Fallopian cavities serves to be holistic taken from the Latin word 'jalapeno'."
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posted on
08/10/2023 1:03:35 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: 31R1O
An underappreciated gem of a film.
“You don’t bring your ***** to the Waffle Hut!”
To: 31R1O
LOL! I’ll have to watch that; we haven’t seen it.
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posted on
08/10/2023 1:47:22 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: TribalPrincess2U
Funniest shit ever and im a white sob
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posted on
08/10/2023 1:58:31 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Sarcasm )
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