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02/18/2008


Totally Gay for America

A music video by the Whitest Kids U'Know for their show of the same name on the IFC channel.

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  1. Ironic on so many levels... The Florida bit was hilarious. :)

    Posted by: Aman Chaudhary | Feb 18, 2008 6:15:25 PM


  2. I don't get it! What is this video trying to say? Is he slamming the USA? Pro gay? Anti Gay? Seems to me he is making fun of gays.... What do you think? I an not sure at all...

    Posted by: Sam | Feb 18, 2008 6:58:21 PM


  3. This kind of humor is so played out, and at this point it comes across as "homophobia lite" for liberals. Oh, yes, ultranationalists are all so "gay," and that makes them...a big joke.

    Bleh

    Posted by: nuflux | Feb 18, 2008 7:02:24 PM


  4. Leaving aside the muddled political message, my ears were offended by that awful attempt at singing.

    I've heard better from drunk Japanese businessmen at the Karaoke Bar. And that ain't a good sign.

    Posted by: John | Feb 18, 2008 7:17:45 PM


  5. Oh, lighten up guys. I thought it was a pretty hilarious spoof of all of those hyper-patriotic country songs set against the normal homophobia of red-state-land.

    Posted by: freddie | Feb 18, 2008 7:29:12 PM


  6. This is a a very talented sketch group. Their sketch "Glory Hole" @ TouTube is fucking HILARIOUS.

    Posted by: chandler in lasvegas | Feb 18, 2008 7:44:43 PM


  7. This actually put a smile on my face. I thought it was funny, and good for a laugh. Maybe my sense of humor differs from everyone else's?

    Posted by: Jester Of Fire | Feb 18, 2008 7:47:17 PM


  8. Lite'n up faggots!! It was totally hilarious...

    Posted by: alan brickman | Feb 18, 2008 8:53:40 PM


  9. I thought it was hilarious. Subversively taking the adolescent "that's so gay" and making it ironically literal in terms of patriotism.

    I'm totally gay for the US of A as well.

    Posted by: Chris | Feb 18, 2008 11:40:47 PM


  10. I thought it was hilarious. Subversively taking the adolescent "that's so gay" and making it ironically literal in terms of patriotism.

    I'm totally gay for the US of A as well.

    Posted by: Chris | Feb 18, 2008 11:41:20 PM


  11. the first thing the "whitest kids..." should have done was a song about straight men being gay for jesus. now that would have been even more ironic. this vid was a hoot anyway.

    Posted by: nic | Feb 19, 2008 12:28:09 AM


  12. "take the Washington Monument to its base"

    These guys are great. I am so glad that they switched over to IFC where they are appreciated.

    Posted by: Fat Queer | Feb 19, 2008 4:31:27 AM


  13. Brilliant satire and frickin hillarious.

    I can't believe that so many people from so many angles could miss the point of the spoof so completely.

    Try watching it again without so many preconceived notions.

    It's certainly not anti-gay. Pay close attention to the marriage part and to the part where he says (with a video of the military in the background), "and I'd be faithful and loyal 'til he threw me away".

    He even gets in a jab that he would be against getting married but he would be OK with "keeping it a secret" (with a bathroom stall in the background).

    Does no one understand political satire and its power anymore?

    I suggest that some of you go back to high school English literature and study the Canterbury Tales for a lesson in satire 101.

    Posted by: Zeke | Feb 19, 2008 12:58:28 PM


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