Brian Williams' Brooklyn Shtick: Now for Cabs
Back in December, Brian Williams poked fun at the New York Times’ coverage of Brooklyn, saying on “Morning Joe” that the media story of 2010 was the paper’s “discovery” of the borough. Now, via Huffington Post, we learn that Williams has brought an abbreviated version of the routine to taxi TVs. The spot isn’t about…
Back in December, Brian Williams poked fun at the New York Times‘ coverage of Brooklyn, saying on “Morning Joe” that the media story of 2010 was the paper’s “discovery” of the borough. Now, via Huffington Post, we learn that Williams has brought an abbreviated version of the routine to taxi TVs. The spot isn’t about the paper of record’s coverage this time around but a riff on the “people watching” Brooklyn affords via its “hipsters.” Gotta wonder what a tourist would make of this!
Brian Williams Ribs Brooklyn Hipsters In New Video [Huffington Post]
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Yeah, he IS funny. He does RAP NEWS on late night with Jimmy Fallon.
THAT was funny.
I wear my thick ironic glasses with un-ironic pride.
dh- a lesson dibs could learn as well.
Love it!
Rob – there’s a difference btw poking fun at something and irrationally hating something.
I’m sorry, I’m cynical as the next New Yorker, but I just saw people having fun at the Flea. The “hipster” look may be past its expiration date, but it’s a look, the way grunge was a look, and hippies, beatnicks, and James Dean bikers were once a look. Big deal. Don’t want to be identified with that group, then don’t dress that way.
I thought Williams was gently poking fun at people who see Brooklyn as the new tourist spot, populated only by the types of people who frequent the Flea, which is no more the reality than earlier stereotypes as all Brooklynites being “dese, dem and dose” white ethnic dockworkers, or rapping gun toting black thugs from the projects. I think we can all take it, and his endorsement, with the huge grain of salt that it deserves.
That was very funny. Who knew? Brian Williams is FUNNY.
*rob*, why embarrassing? If you can’t poke fun, at least a little for Crissakes, at yourself, you need to go take a nap.
(…it was poking fun in a good way. Honest.)
> I’m not a douchebag hipster stereotype
“Now don’t be sad (don’t be sad)
Cuz two out of three ain’t bad…”
– Meatloaf