Re: Ralphie a question please?

Date: 9 Jul 2003 13:57:40 -0700
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.standup
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email-address-deleted (Ian Salmon) wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> Ralphie do you consider your act to be def jam and if not why?
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> Not digging on you just wondering because I really don't see much of a
> difference in your act and let's say Kool Bubba Ice and he is
> condiderd Def Jam.
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> Thanks
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> Ian
I personally consider my act, my act. Just an extension of what I
think. I don't by the way consider my appearance on Last Comic
Standing my act, I was chopped, diced, and manipulated to look average
or below average. Again last night the editors of the show took away
another standing O.
I love hip hop and have always identified with the outcast point of
view that is a lot of hip hop music and culture. The truth is the
only group of people that never really judge me on appearance are
black and latino. They just care about funny. I am not a wannabe, I
am just what I am. Some people get it and some people don't. I think
I am an eventuallity just like Eminem was, the largest driving force
in American culture is hip hop. I am just the first to hit of the
white hip hop comics, trust me A LOT MORE ARE COMING. Now some will
say that is the death nail of comedy. I don't, I think its just an
evolution, change isn't bad, its just change.
A lot of my opinions were too politically incorrect for NBC to show, I
am really surprised that they showed the rainbow joke. That is more
of an example of my comedy than the Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown joke.
They didn't show my sniper piece, too controversial. I push buttons
and say what I want to say and I really don't care what people think.
I can't control that. And you know I can't seem to win, I have
recieved 34 e mails(all spelled incorrectly) with death threats how
they want to kill me cause I am a race traitor. I also oddly enough
recieved an e mail from the LA Black Panthers asking if I need
protection. So again, the black community doesn't mind me and in fact
offered help and some people who claim to be white want to kill me.
But Ian you can infer what you want to, everybody that watches me has
an opinion. Love or Hate I am just a comic from Houston, that now
lives in Los Angeles. I was raised in comedy by the Comedy
Showcase(owned by Danny Martinez) and the Hip Hop Comedy Stop(Now
defunct, it was owned by Rushion McDonald, I was the only white comic
that would perform there for almost a year then Caroline Picard came
too, thats why she is awesome now. She has balls, white and a woman,
God Damn!)
I hope that answers your question with a little more of my
perspective.
Ralphie May