White Comedian Gets CALLED OUT For Disrespecting Black Characters

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]The wire slander will not be tolerated.

[00:00:02]the character is one dimensional in The Wire.

[00:00:04]That's that's.

[00:00:05]Tell me. Someone tell me.

[00:00:07]Somewhere in The wire is hands down one of the greatest TV shows ever.

[00:00:11]And personally one of my brought to life some of the most legendary characters we've ever seen, like Avon, Omar, Stringer, Bell, McNulty, Kima, Chris, Snoop, bubbles, prop, Joe, Michael and the list goes on.

[00:00:24]I was just as shocked as Monty Jones here and outright hate against The Wire and his black characters.

[00:00:29]what do we know about Omar, like, as a character?

[00:00:32]Like in a human way?

[00:00:34]Besides, he's just getting especially from somebody outside the black community, trying to downplay the richness of some of the most iconic not only black characters, but characters.

[00:00:43]Period to ever be put on thing is, you only got to fuck up once.

[00:00:48]It's funny.

[00:00:49]Be little slow.

[00:00:51]Be a little late just once.

[00:00:55]And how you ain't going to never be slow, never be late.

[00:01:00]doing all that just to prop up another series of white Are you serious?

[00:01:04]It's not like Sopranos is a meditation on the concept of American fast.

[00:01:08]You think The now I'm not trying to say this take was but She.

[00:01:14]I'm ju welcome to the channel.

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[00:01:18]Now let's get Did you just watch the spread?

[00:01:23]I don't do it.

[00:01:24]The second president told me this this week actually.

[00:01:26]So it's just there's nothing but even Adam.

[00:01:28]Did you watch The Wire? Yeah.

[00:01:30]And you think The Sopranos is better than The Wire?

[00:01:32]I think that The Sopranos, the character is one dimensional in The Wire.

[00:01:36]That's that's. Tell me.

[00:01:38]Someone tell me.

[00:01:39]Somewhere in my life that's the crazy shit I've ever heard.

[00:01:41]Every character, every character in The Wire is one dimensional.

[00:01:45]really hard to take race out of a statement like I watched The Sopranos, I watched Breaking Bad, I watched The Wire from start to I love The Wire.

[00:01:53]It's my favorite show.

[00:01:54]I relate way more to The Wire and the characters in The Wire than I do The Sopranos or Breaking Bad.

[00:01:59]didn't really connect with Tony Sopranos whiny ass family.

[00:02:02]I love Breaking Bad, but I didn't connect to Walter White's life either.

[00:02:05]so. I can say personally, I like The Wire more.

[00:02:08]I related more to those characters without shitting on The Sopranos or Breaking Bad and saying their characters were terrible or they didn't have any depth.

[00:02:15]I feel like that statement is crazy and laced with racism, whether it's intentional or Actually, they're kind of like everyone's kind of like a, like kind of a cartoon character of a of of a cop or of a.

[00:02:26]Yeah, yeah. Are you serious?

[00:02:28]It's not like Sopranos is a meditation on the concept of American fast.

[00:02:32]You think The Sopranos has all this level of depth depth in the.

[00:02:36]Show about a bunch of dumb dudes.

[00:02:38]Every single dude is dumb.

[00:02:41]that's the crazy statement.

[00:02:42]A lot of Tony's crew and the older gangsters that got out of jail throughout the show were all like stereotypical Italian mafioso tough They were stereotypes, basically.

[00:02:52]And The Sopranos had, I want to say, seven where The Wire only had four seasons.

[00:02:56]I think with more characters, that would kind change throughout the seasons as they were telling different stories there was so much depth to every season, to every character, to what they were dealing with and going through All the way from season one.

[00:03:07]If we talk about those guys in the pit, their lives and what they were going all the way through the school season, where we got to see their lives with their home lives were with their struggles with like what they had to go through to even get to school and try to be good saying there's no depth when talking about black people in black stories, there's so much depth when talking about white stories, is Every single dude is dumb.

[00:03:27]Well, it's about a bunch of cavemen interacting with the with the moderators that they did for us to each other.

[00:03:33]Big pussy. So many levels, right? Yeah.

[00:03:35]Of course, with that, Freddie betrayed his best friends.

[00:03:38]Oh, that never happened on the Wire.

[00:03:39]Thank you.

[00:03:40]Pussy bump and Sarah, I think that was his was Tony's best friend who was in and out of the seasons.

[00:03:44]He disappeared for a while, came back and basically they found out he was a rat.

[00:03:48]Spoiler then Tony and I think it was Pauline Kill Big Puss on the boat.

[00:03:52]Right.

[00:03:52]that's what he's praising is so much depth and storytelling.

[00:03:55]when really the relationship, the growth, the deterioration between Avon and Stringer Bell has way more depth and emotion to then pushes story These are two dudes that came up from the street together that held each other down, even though they had opposing views on things that got to a point where they were in their lives and careers, where one of them had to go because both of them couldn't run the organization together.

[00:04:15]and there's so much context around them making the decisions to turn on each other, whether that was Stringer Bell giving up Avon to be arrested or whether that was Avon setting up Stringer Bell to be killed by Omar and Brother Mouzon.

[00:04:27]and Stringer Bell looking around and finally realizing he was out of options.

[00:04:30]He couldn't talk his way out of something that happened in the streets, which he always tried to do, like approach it like a business and finally just lashed out and was like, do it It's one of the most iconic moments from that show.

[00:04:40]this is pissing me Sad about guy with the choo choo trains.

[00:04:43]I don't feel like none of them do.

[00:04:44]Really, the two two trains.

[00:04:46]Bobby, But he got killed during the war with New York because he was out looking at choo choo trades and not watching his I don't feel like none of them dudes really had levels like bars.

[00:04:55]Depth. He's these gay.

[00:04:57]I mean, like, what is the.

[00:04:58]Just tell me.

[00:04:59]It's. He's an amazing character, right?

[00:05:00]He's so scary. Right?

[00:05:02]But, like, what is like, what's the conflict in Omar?

[00:05:04]The depth of Omar is at once his rigidity to a particular code of the way that you were supposed to live, though fairly consistently fudging on that a little bit as it mattered to what the life was that he nailed, or the people that he felt had been done wrong.

[00:05:17]His willingness to adapt, to go to the people rather than the code sticking to himself.

[00:05:21]right throughout The Wire.

[00:05:22]Omar was one of the only people that had a code that 100% stuck with You can put Avon in there too, because Avon definitely believed in the street cold rules that apply and Omar really stuck to that code, even though he was in the dealing with a bunch of different people that really didn't have codes or beliefs or principles that made him stand out as a character.

[00:05:40]Him being gay is not why everybody remembers It's what he did in the street, how feared he was, how respected he was, and how every gangster in Baltimore knew who Omar was, and not to mess with or else they were going to have to deal with Omar terrorizing them for the rest of their lives.

[00:05:54]just some him up the gay character is crazy, word is a significant part.

[00:05:58]Why do we know you?

[00:05:59]Sure that's that's that's what do we know about Omar, like, as a character?

[00:06:03]Like in a human way? Like.

[00:06:05]So what do we know about what's motivating him in that capacity?

[00:06:08]Besides, he's just getting what we know about Omar is that he he he traffics it.

[00:06:12]He travels in a space of a very consistent empathy.

[00:06:15]And that was amazing.

[00:06:17]I'm just trying to think of, like, the problem you would have getting into the wire.

[00:06:20]Is it the wire, the wires, amazing wires.

[00:06:23]The wire does purposely start slow.

[00:06:26]Yeah. You have to get past reading.

[00:06:28]They weed you out for sure.

[00:06:29]I need the first episode to hit and the first episode hits in its way, but you need to, like The Wire in Euphoria, are not set up completely.

[00:06:37]You see, bro, the the character.

[00:06:39]As much as I hate Stringer Bell, you're saying there's no nuance to Stringer Bell.

[00:06:44]Well, he goes to community college.

[00:06:47]Don't get me wrong, I'm a big critic.

[00:06:49]No, but the nuance is the strong desire to be anything other than what he is and the attempt to try to cleanse himself and make himself a member of legitimate society, that was so well said.

[00:06:59]That's why I really like Beaumont simply put how Avon said it.

[00:07:02]Stringer Bell was a man without a country.

[00:07:03]was from the street, but really wasn't about the street.

[00:07:05]Life didn't really want to be from the street.

[00:07:07]He wanted to be a businessman.

[00:07:08]he went in the business world and found out he wasn't good enough for the business world, that they wouldn't accept him.

[00:07:13]They were playing him still in his money, he wasn't as smart as he thought he was.

[00:07:17]So he wasn't hard enough for the street wasn't smart enough for the business world.

[00:07:21]that's the conflict that Stringer Bell found himself He thought he was smarter than he was, he got played by the street dudes like Prop Joe and Marlowe, and he got played by the business people.

[00:07:29]that's context. That's layers, that's experience.

[00:07:32]You cannot say people like that do not have depth or when you're saying people like Paulie and Puss bump and Sarah will only to learn that truly, he exists in the caste system that will never allow him to get to the next level of the place that he wants to be.

[00:07:45]Yeah, that the smugness.

[00:07:47]Yeah. As the nuance there.

[00:07:49]I don't think you got to watch any more because that was, that was just top, top of the dome.

[00:07:54]That was incredible. Thank you. See you work.

[00:07:56]It was just unbelievable.

[00:07:58]I appreciate that. Okay.

[00:07:59]But have you have you.

[00:08:01]No no no no no no no no no no.

[00:08:03]Austin white boy selling dope.

[00:08:05]Who think they somehow better than the black people who watch snowfall?

[00:08:08]I did you like it I did no, that was good.

[00:08:12]You went about character dev, character development, snowfall.

[00:08:15]I can tell you that's a good bit of the year.

[00:08:18]He was no guy.

[00:08:19]I mean, he's someone. Character development, that is.

[00:08:21]Oh, yeah. Yeah. No.

[00:08:23]Did you ever.

[00:08:23]Did you ever watch Oz?

[00:08:24]Farrell was an incredibly horrible, dismissive take.

[00:08:27]And even his response after Beaumont explained all of that was and like, come on, his inability to see depth and nuance in any character from The Wire is directly tied to his inability to identify and empathize with anyone.

[00:08:39]Black.

[00:08:39]This man literally cannot see the humanity in black characters of one of the greatest shows ever made.

[00:08:45]Well Things like this is why I truly don't believe in white people reviewing black art, specifically in the case of rap music, Because it becomes clear.

[00:08:52]Most do not have the ability to properly connect with black art, because they do not see the trials of blackness as being universal.

[00:08:59]And I just wanted to see somebody, not a race guy.

[00:09:02]But this is normally the take I hear from people who can't process expressions of emotional depth and agency from nonmembers of their don't care about white people's opinions or black shows.

[00:09:12]I don't expect them to understand most of them are capable.

[00:09:15]Again, his take was absolutely insane and dismissive, especially after Beaumont explained the character depth of somebody like Omar or Stringer Bell.

[00:09:23]For him just to be like and not really have any counterpoints to how The Sopranos characterizations are better than The Wire, definitely seemed like it came from a place of not caring about or understanding other and just not really liking black media for I'm glad Beaumont stood on business, though.

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