The next oppressed minority group: hipsters
Now we're supposed to feel guilty for laughing at Portlandia.
The preciousness here is moving way too fast for us to follow.
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Comments (12)
As one blogger asked:
Do they realize that Portlandia is a documentary, not a parody?
Thanks
JK
Posted by jim karlock | January 22, 2012 2:38 AM
The comments to the article are priceless. Like this one:
"I don't know why this doesn't make sense to you people? Portlandia is just like a minstrel show. Just like how when you miss the bus, it's exactly like finding out you have AIDS."
Posted by jmh | January 22, 2012 6:42 AM
Check out this story written in Salon. You can't make this stuff up.
You can fill an entire season of Portlandia with it ...
Posted by Garage Wine | January 22, 2012 6:57 AM
"With tight editing, clever writing and a total lack of fear in its satire, Portlandia can be funny. Very, very funny. But when laughing, it's important to stop and ask yourself if you're laughing for the right reasons. And there's a good chance you aren't."
Just like when eating chicken, it's important to ask yourself if you are eating the right kind of chicken.
Posted by Harry | January 22, 2012 7:59 AM
People who lack a sense of humor should be shipped to their own island with a lot of camera surveillance infrastructure. Reams of footage, when seen by the rest of the world, will cause people to extol, and frequently fertilize, all things funny.
Posted by Gaye harris | January 22, 2012 10:07 AM
"from SNL alum Fred Armisen"
I thought he was still on SNL.
Posted by Bill McDonald | January 22, 2012 11:57 AM
"from SNL alum Fred Armisen"
He's still on SNL. "alum" is just a typo. The a is right there next to the s.
Posted by Allan L. | January 22, 2012 12:15 PM
How did a writer with so little capacity to get it, ever land a gig with a prestigious publication like the Boise Weekly?
P.S. The blue football field looks stupid.
Posted by Bill McDonald | January 22, 2012 1:13 PM
My favorite comment on that post:
This is pricelessly Meta. If they could have an episode of Portlandia (highly overrated, btw) *about* Portlandia, the characters on Portlandia would respond exactly like this: Humorless, overwrought and full of hyperbolic victimhood. (A minstrel show??? Part of me thinks you’re putting us all on. If so, bravo.)
Posted by Sarah Ames | January 22, 2012 11:50 PM
As I've noted before, "Portlandia" does for hipsters what William Shatner's "Get a life!" speech did for Trekkies. Namely, half of the audience is laughing itself sick because they all know SOMEONE ELSE who needs to hear the message being imparted, and the the other half are whining "Well, I don't think that's funny AT ALL."
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | January 23, 2012 6:07 AM
Yes, Boise "culture" would never accomodate hipsters or the mocking thereof. With a couple of trendy brew pubs and endless suburbs occupied by 5000 sf snout houses, the denizens of which sally forth in their Carhart jackets, sequined jeans, and Romeos to quaf hefewiesen with orange slices, they certainly are qualified to mock our mocking. We can outmock these rubes any day! I would not take them on in football however.
Posted by dean | January 23, 2012 12:46 PM
It sounds like someone is upset it is not called Boiseville.
Posted by George | January 24, 2012 11:42 AM