Jon Stewart and Wyatt Cenac tear apart Rick Perry's poorly named ranch
By Carlos CabreraOctober 4th, 2011, 11:30 amComments (17)As if wasn't enough that Rick Perry's fellow GOP candidates are turning on him, Jon Stewart's been giving him a hell of a time. Most of Stewart's jokes have been about his poor debate performances, as well as any other time the Republican hopeful has opened his mouth. But once news broke about Perry's questionably named hunting camp (it's called "Niggerhead Ranch"), the jokes practically wrote themselves.
Stewart talks about his shock that this bit of information is just coming to light now, after Perry's eleven years as Governor (as well as Herman Cain's eagerness to drop the N-bomb as a courtesy to squeamish news pundits). Wyatt Cenac then weighs in on the situation from the shores of Nigger Lake, NY — one of the 100+ locations in America that contain the N-word. Cenac then concludes with a few facts of his own — black people don't make enough maps, Rand McNally was a racist, and even "That fucking lake over there" sounds better than anything with the N-word in it.
Take a look at the clips below to hear even more, including a modified rendition of the national anthem, reflecting our history of giving beautiful places terrible names.
Commentarium (17 Comments)
Wyatt Cenac has a hell of a singing voice!
One would think that some sort of advisor or consultant, or even a friend or acquaintance, would have cautioned Mr Perry that the name of his ranch might not go over well in the media. Maybe someone did so caution him, and he didn't listen? I don't care for him as a candidate, but this minor issue shouldn't be potentially the defining moment of his campaign.
His father leased it in 1983. the name wasn't official, it was a local place name (also painte don a rock by one of the entrances. Perry joined the lease in '97, but left it in 2007.
Oh John, they all love how you read what's written for you off of the teleprompter ... you are so talented and funny!
I wish Perry could read half as well. Maybe he would be less funny?
I like it when an argument is so baseless it resorts to mocking people's tech.
As opposed to ah, Bill O'Reilly who, um, never uses a teleprompter right?
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Good work, guys.
It would have been so much funnier if Stewart did the story in his Herman Cain voice. Nothing like racists preaching to the rest of us on the dangers of, well, racism.
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Thgouht it wouldn't to give it a shot. I was right.
Now you say something