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NSFW: Give This Man An Award

by TaMara|  September 18, 20203:30 pm| 50 Comments

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A post shared by Andrew Joseph Duffer (@andrewjduffer) on Sep 16, 2020 at 5:27pm PDT

I swear, I needed a cigarette after that…fortunately, all I have to do is step outside to breathe in the equivalent of two today.

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    September 18, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    Impressive!

  2. 2.

    japa21

    September 18, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    That was great.

  3. 3.

    knittingbull

    September 18, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    holy shit! I’m in love

  4. 4.

    Chief Oshkosh

    September 18, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    Now THAT was funny.

  5. 5.

    Kent

    September 18, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    OT…is this an open thread?

    My “woke” LGBT daughter (and maybe wannabe filmmaker) and I had a conversation about toxic masculinity last night while walking the dog.  She shared with me her concept for her first reality TV show.

    The concept.  Get a houseful of gay men, nine of whom are gay and one of whom is secretly straight.  Every week they have to vote, Survival style, to try to pick the one straight guy and vote him off the island so to speak.  The last one standing wins the $1 million.  Or maybe the audience votes.  Either way.

    The secret kicker?    None of them are actually gay but they don’t know that.

    She says that she and her friends would be all over a show like that.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    September 18, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    That was good.  The beard surprised me when he took off his masked.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    September 18, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    Trump’s response:

    When Trump pulls out his accordion hands, you know he’s lyin’#ConstitutionDay #TrumpIsALoserpic.twitter.com/nNcWyXSzKK
    — Lindy Li (@lindyli) September 17, 2020

  8. 8.

    Leto

    September 18, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    Beep beep motherfucker, indeed ?????

  9. 9.

    Baud

    September 18, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    @Kent:

    None of them are were actually gay 

    Like.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    September 18, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    @Kent:  I was with you until this part.

    None of them are actually gay but they don’t know that.

    None of the 10 men are guy, but who doesn’t know that?  The men have to know whether they are gay or not, right?

    edit: is it the audience that doesn’t know that none of them are gay?

  11. 11.

    MisterForkbeard

    September 18, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    @Kent: I think I’ve heard this pitch (or similar) before, but I’ll be damned if I don’t really like it.

    I don’t watch reality TV though, so my opinion isn’t worth much. I also think they’d probably get some fights and so on in, and you can only do this show ONCE or the secret’s out. Unless you film several seasons concurrently.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    September 18, 2020 at 3:56 pm

    Loved it!

  13. 13.

    Miss Bianca

    September 18, 2020 at 3:56 pm

    @debbie:

    Tired: Jazz Hands

    Wired: Accordion Hands

  14. 14.

    debbie

    September 18, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    Watching that, I realized I’d only seen tiny snippets of him and so hadn’t realized just how much he does wave his hands around. I don’t even understand how that became a gesture.

  15. 15.

    Kent

    September 18, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:None of the 10 men are guy, but who doesn’t know that?  The men have to know whether they are gay or not, right?

    They all think they are the only straight guy living in a house full of gay men and have to blend to fit in to earn the $1 million.  None of them know that no one in the house is actually gay.

    My daughter is just tired of straight men ruining the world and wants to laugh at them get conflicted over their straight macho masculinity or something

    The audience is in on the joke.  Only the participants don’t know.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack

    September 18, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Each one of the guys knows that he’s straight but doesn’t know the others are not gay.

  17. 17.

    Sab

    September 18, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    I am very dizzy from watching him go around in that house

  18. 18.

    Baud

    September 18, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    @Sab: 
    Yes, that too.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    September 18, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    @Kent: That makes total sense.  Duh.  I like it!

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    September 18, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    @Sab: I kept wondering how how they did the special effects to make it look like he was moving through the house.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    September 18, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    @Kent:

    I’d imagine that show could only run for one season.

  22. 22.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    September 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Mask it or cask it bitch! That made my day.

  23. 23.

    Kent

    September 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    @Baud: Yeah.  Sequels are over-rated.   Unless they did 5 simultaneous filmings and then showed them one by one.

  24. 24.

    Oklahomo

    September 18, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    @WaterGirl: I guess that’s one way of throwing off Rate My Room…

  25. 25.

    japa21

    September 18, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: He was moving. He would walk into a room, walk around the room and back into the hallway, then into another room, etc. He did the same walk several times. The ceiling vent is the clue.

  26. 26.

    Mike in Oly

    September 18, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    I love Andrew! His videos are sooo funny. Seriously, go watch them all. He’s on Youtube as well.

  27. 27.

    prostratedragon

    September 18, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    @debbie:  What’s the control? (I guess accordion is the instrument.)

  28. 28.

    Miss Bianca

    September 18, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    @Mike in Oly: 

    Yeah, this is really funny.

  29. 29.

    prostratedragon

    September 18, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    The video is great, both writing and delivery.

  30. 30.

    HinTN

    September 18, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    @Leto: Ya beat me to it!

    That made my day.

  31. 31.

    Aleta

    September 18, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    Here’s one:  Each week a member or two of the TrumpPence administration defect and tell stories of the dysfunction and lies they’ve witnessed, sitting around a ridiculously fake boardroom table with previous defectors who contribute ridicule and outrage.    Ongoing audience voting until Nov. 4 determines who gets witness protection, who gets to dance on TV the night the election is over,  who gets to sit behind plexiglass on a float in one of the parades, etc.

  32. 32.

    Citizen Alan

    September 18, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    @Kent:

    Get a houseful of gay men, nine of whom are gay and one of whom is secretly straight.  Every week they have to vote, Survival style, to try to pick the one straight guy and vote him off the island so to speak.  The last one standing wins the $1 million.

    Believe it or not, but they actually had that show. I can’t remember the name, but it was presented as a rip-off of The Bachelor with a gay guy who was trying to find a “love connection” or whatever by dating from a pool of 12 gay competitors. He was not informed until halfway thru that half of the “gays” were straight and would win a large prize if they could act gay enough for the gaychelor to pick him. It was kind of horrible.

  33. 33.

    Subsole

    September 18, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    @Miss Bianca: 

    Polka hands??

  34. 34.

    SWMBO

    September 18, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    @Tamara  You can smoke that cigarette but not in public.
    He’s done lots of videos where he starts out with an opening and then puts it in terms of today’s news. He’s a talented writer and he’s almost always walking through his apartment. I think to emphasize that he’s still in lockdown for everyone’s sake. He lives in Texass where he’s definitely in a minority. I find it easier to listen to him than watch (at least at first).

  35. 35.

    Subsole

    September 18, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    @Citizen Alan:  Yeah, that sounds kind of…cruel.

  36. 36.

    Miss Bianca

    September 18, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    @Subsole: LOL!! You got me!

  37. 37.

    Jess

    September 18, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    @Aleta: This could be made into a Reality TV version of the Prisoners Dilemma. Each is told that the others are confessing all and blaming everyone else, and that to get a deal from the DA, they need to spill the beans on someone above them, and top whatever damaging info the others are offering. Tick tock, MoFos.

  38. 38.

    Jess

    September 18, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    We need to start comparing going maskless to drunk driving. I think that would get through to more people.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    September 18, 2020 at 4:49 pm

    @WaterGirl: 

    I was with you until this part.

    The way you sell it to the actors is you tell each of them ( separately) that they are the secretly straight one.

    Of course, that means you actually know what they are.
    and actually, actors can… act like things they are not.

  40. 40.

    A Ghost to Most

    September 18, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    Meh, the air quality is not that bad today; I can see the first foothills from ~2 miles off. When it’s really bad, it’s hard to see the mesa ~250 yards away.

  41. 41.

    SWMBO

    September 18, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    Here’s another recent video.
    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFAqS9HhJM0/?igshid=19xuqnteeglj0

  42. 42.

    SWMBO

    September 18, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    This was after the republican convention. He wants everyone to vote blue. Not third party protest vote for Riding with Biden.
    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEccYrzBr6T/?igshid=qznmprdz1bzo

  43. 43.

    Miss Bianca

    September 18, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    @Aleta: Now, I’d watch *that* show!

  44. 44.

    SWMBO

    September 18, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    Last one. His prose reminds me of Betty Cracker.  Elderly Cabbage Patch Doll. Lol
    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEZ3mjShJgB/?igshid=bcnik8bg962q

  45. 45.

    Richard

    September 18, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    @Chief Oshkosh:  Hell yes that was funny. And true , too. I’m a big fan of his rants. Also he does it in “dialect ” which makes it even better , funnier and truer. I hope he makes more of these. Beep beep motherf***ers.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    September 18, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    @japa21: It just felt odd, kind of like he wasn’t walking, but was on some sort of conveyor belt!

  47. 47.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    September 18, 2020 at 7:21 pm

     

    @Subsole:  Polka Hands??

    Ha, Perfect!  Permission to steal this?

  48. 48.

    Mike in Pasadena

    September 18, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.

  49. 49.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 18, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    I hate to be the one to say it, but ….. I guess I understand people using FB and IG …. no, I don’t actually.  FB promotes Fascism, and I DGAF how many nice recipes or community whatevers people get out of it, it’s a malign force that is destroying democracy in our country and everywhere on the Earth, promoting genocide everywhere on Earth.

    It’s not the same as Twitter or Youtube in this regard.

    Concretely, I wish people would refrain from posting FB/IG links.

  50. 50.

    Sister Golden Bear

    September 19, 2020 at 3:14 am

    @Kent: I’ve toyed with a similar idea. Put a bunch of TERFs in a house together and tell them one of them is secretly a trans woman. Each week they try to identify and kick out the trans woman. The kicker: all of them are actually cisgender.

    Given all the inevitable paranoia, backbiting and gender policing, I’d watch the fuck out of that.

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