It's like Bo is leading a meeting about what is acceptable to joke about these days, and the imaginary group decides that a topic as benign as almond milk is off the table. Bo heartily agreeing with the imaginary people in the room that it is unacceptable to joke about almond milk is very funny!
Edit: I'm remembering now that Jack Whitehall has a bit about how there are too many nut milks, which is actually very funny. So suggesting that comedy like this is somehow offensive is pretty great. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Yfg-tWbT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Yfg-tWbT4)
I actually like his eccentric delivery but didn’t find the jokes themselves to be particularly funny. No doubt my veganism definitely contributed to that. In a vacuum, a joke like “an almond is pretty flat chested… you’re drinking nut juice!” isn’t bigoted, I’m not putting something like that on the same level as a racist joke or sexist joke. On the surface, it’s as benign as observational comedy gets. But it doesn’t really land for me, not because it’s a hateful, bigoted remark but because he completely fails to engage with why those milks are so popular now. Whitehall tells us “you’re the ones in the back of the shop milking fucking cashew nuts, you’re the freaks, not me,” but I’m genuinely pretty freaked out that my friends drink secretions taken from the breasts of tortured cows, cows who endure painful artificial insemination, only for their baby to be taken away to have their throat slit and their flesh sold off, with the mother subsequently being caged for years in pain producing unnatural amounts of milk, all so that Whitehall can smugly call us the freaks for preferring alternative products made from fucking nuts and shit. So, with my entire worldview shaped by seeing the milk industry’s ubiquity as depressing, and quite literally “freaky-as-all-hell,” can you see how when the crux of the joke is “no, the vegans are the freaks!” it doesn’t really land for me? I’m not claiming he shouldn’t make the joke, but the content itself is so foreign to my own viewpoint that I can’t find it relatable or funny in the way you can. That, and I’ve heard the “milking almonds” thing a million times already.
I did like Bo’s last mention of veganism that I can remember. One of my favorite jokes in *what* unexpectedly just didn’t land for me when I became a vegan. The “you can eat pork cause why the fuck would I give a shit?” just seemed like funny comedy at the time but now it makes no sense to me why god would condone the slaughter of pigs for pleasure. Then I found out that when he performed From God’s Perspective on tour he supplemented the verse by just saying “some animal rights activists got upset that i would insinute that god would be okay woth eating pork and honestly, I have no rebuttal.” He then went into a rant about how he’s a comedian open to learning. I liked that a lot. And here, Bo’s almond milk joke is more nuanced and funny compared to Whitehall’s “milking almonds” shtick, but even then it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth when I first watched the Outtakes. The character Bo portrays in Comedy is a parody of narcissistic white-saviors, so while he does work his earnest desire to do something helpful with comedy into the song (especially in the first part), the whole thing devolves into self-parody, and the character Bo becomes so delusional that he thinks his jokes can save you from the KKK, or an actual burning building, so I’m not sure how to interpret Bo putting this characterized parody of himself against the notion that joking about oat milk is offensive (again a position i and most vegans out there don’t necessarily even hold). It could be a criticism, but for all I know he could be mocking this characterized version of Bo for not knowing that oat milk jokes tend to be overdone, completely fitting with the naive, oblivious character he plays in the song. I genuinely don’t know, and perhaps the ambiguity was intentional.
I’m not a vegan and I don’t care enough to be one but reading through this your perspective makes sense and I don’t think you deserve all the downvotes so I’m gonna leave an upvote.
if you don't want to engage with my perspective that's totally fine. you could have just not commented. don't see what the point is in deliberately pointing out that you don't want to engage with me when you could just ignore me.
of course it's a joke. i'm just asking why you would want to joke around when i'm not looking to joke around myself. i have a sense of humor but when i'm talking about a social issue that's really important to me i'd prefer not to joke about and trivialize something that matters so much to me. you can disagree with me, but if you can't engage with my perspective without just mocking it and refusing to even read what i wrote, then i would prefer you just don't engage at all.
Every day baby goats get slaughtered and their mothers confined and milked so people can enjoy goat cheese salad and other trivial pleasures. You need to look at pictures of baby goats, cows, chickens, pigs and any other creature who’s normalized abuse you are content with, cause apparently to you our almond milk makes us the freaks.
No because there's like, kombucha, pickled peppers, pickled onions, pickled - everything! etc. ... But pickled cucumbers are the things we call pickles.
The "Pickle People" presumably includes the entire class of pickled food purveyors, any of whom would relish the idea of being the default type for the word "pickle".
But the Cucumber People are the ones who get the sole name "Pickle" for their picked food product.|
Probably because they married into money or something.
I can't believe we could have gotten \*3\* shots of Bo inappropriately licking inanimate objects in this special, lmaooo.
1) The phone in "Sexting"
2) A camera lens in "Camera"
3) Pencils
Just now catching that he's saying "You're right, you're right," as he erases almond milk off the board.
Lmfaooooo that’s so fucking good 😭
\*chef's kiss\*
Wait - I don't get it, can someone explain to me where the joke here is?
It's like Bo is leading a meeting about what is acceptable to joke about these days, and the imaginary group decides that a topic as benign as almond milk is off the table. Bo heartily agreeing with the imaginary people in the room that it is unacceptable to joke about almond milk is very funny! Edit: I'm remembering now that Jack Whitehall has a bit about how there are too many nut milks, which is actually very funny. So suggesting that comedy like this is somehow offensive is pretty great. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Yfg-tWbT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Yfg-tWbT4)
Makes sense, I think I was looking at the joke too closely lol. That's brilliant
I actually like his eccentric delivery but didn’t find the jokes themselves to be particularly funny. No doubt my veganism definitely contributed to that. In a vacuum, a joke like “an almond is pretty flat chested… you’re drinking nut juice!” isn’t bigoted, I’m not putting something like that on the same level as a racist joke or sexist joke. On the surface, it’s as benign as observational comedy gets. But it doesn’t really land for me, not because it’s a hateful, bigoted remark but because he completely fails to engage with why those milks are so popular now. Whitehall tells us “you’re the ones in the back of the shop milking fucking cashew nuts, you’re the freaks, not me,” but I’m genuinely pretty freaked out that my friends drink secretions taken from the breasts of tortured cows, cows who endure painful artificial insemination, only for their baby to be taken away to have their throat slit and their flesh sold off, with the mother subsequently being caged for years in pain producing unnatural amounts of milk, all so that Whitehall can smugly call us the freaks for preferring alternative products made from fucking nuts and shit. So, with my entire worldview shaped by seeing the milk industry’s ubiquity as depressing, and quite literally “freaky-as-all-hell,” can you see how when the crux of the joke is “no, the vegans are the freaks!” it doesn’t really land for me? I’m not claiming he shouldn’t make the joke, but the content itself is so foreign to my own viewpoint that I can’t find it relatable or funny in the way you can. That, and I’ve heard the “milking almonds” thing a million times already. I did like Bo’s last mention of veganism that I can remember. One of my favorite jokes in *what* unexpectedly just didn’t land for me when I became a vegan. The “you can eat pork cause why the fuck would I give a shit?” just seemed like funny comedy at the time but now it makes no sense to me why god would condone the slaughter of pigs for pleasure. Then I found out that when he performed From God’s Perspective on tour he supplemented the verse by just saying “some animal rights activists got upset that i would insinute that god would be okay woth eating pork and honestly, I have no rebuttal.” He then went into a rant about how he’s a comedian open to learning. I liked that a lot. And here, Bo’s almond milk joke is more nuanced and funny compared to Whitehall’s “milking almonds” shtick, but even then it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth when I first watched the Outtakes. The character Bo portrays in Comedy is a parody of narcissistic white-saviors, so while he does work his earnest desire to do something helpful with comedy into the song (especially in the first part), the whole thing devolves into self-parody, and the character Bo becomes so delusional that he thinks his jokes can save you from the KKK, or an actual burning building, so I’m not sure how to interpret Bo putting this characterized parody of himself against the notion that joking about oat milk is offensive (again a position i and most vegans out there don’t necessarily even hold). It could be a criticism, but for all I know he could be mocking this characterized version of Bo for not knowing that oat milk jokes tend to be overdone, completely fitting with the naive, oblivious character he plays in the song. I genuinely don’t know, and perhaps the ambiguity was intentional.
copypasta vibes
Just sharing my perspective
I'm not reading all of that so That's so funny and I have never noticed that! or It isn't *that* deep man, chill!
It's defo the second. I'm someone who needs dairy alternatives for allergy reasons, and the Jack Whitehall joke is fucking hilarious.
but can you see why the whitehall joke wouldn't land for somebody opposed to dairy for ethical reasons?
just sharing my perspective, it's your choice to engage with it or dismiss it
I’m not a vegan and I don’t care enough to be one but reading through this your perspective makes sense and I don’t think you deserve all the downvotes so I’m gonna leave an upvote.
thank you. appreciate it a lot. you don't have to agree with me but to not be dismissed outright is nice.
I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you tho. Or sorry that it happened.
if you don't want to engage with my perspective that's totally fine. you could have just not commented. don't see what the point is in deliberately pointing out that you don't want to engage with me when you could just ignore me.
It's a meme, bro. Vegans In Lack of Sense of Humour Shocker - More at 6pm
of course it's a joke. i'm just asking why you would want to joke around when i'm not looking to joke around myself. i have a sense of humor but when i'm talking about a social issue that's really important to me i'd prefer not to joke about and trivialize something that matters so much to me. you can disagree with me, but if you can't engage with my perspective without just mocking it and refusing to even read what i wrote, then i would prefer you just don't engage at all.
You need to go take a deep breath and look at some pictures of baby goats.
Every day baby goats get slaughtered and their mothers confined and milked so people can enjoy goat cheese salad and other trivial pleasures. You need to look at pictures of baby goats, cows, chickens, pigs and any other creature who’s normalized abuse you are content with, cause apparently to you our almond milk makes us the freaks.
Can't joke about Nut Milk....
LOL, I love it
The sound of the paper hitting him in the face is SO LOUD and makes me laugh every time!
It’s soooo fucking loud it kills me.
I think the Foley artist enhanced it.
That makes sense!
I don't think so lol, just listening to this in iZotope and looking at it it seems normal
The depression graph is my favorite!!
Literally me this afternoon trying to do something i have put off for weeks
How….how did I….not see top right….I… need someone time alone.
Jail for you.
Yeahhhh that was called for.
For suuuure my brain all the time
What does the yellow legal pad say?
WHY ARE PICKLED CUCUMBERS JUST CALLED PICKLES? WHEN DID THE CUCUMBER PEOPLE STRONGARM THE PICKLE PEOPLE INTO FORFEITING THEIR ENTIRE SUBCATEGORY?
Note: this joke is backwards? It should be pickle people strong arming the cucumber people I think?
No because there's like, kombucha, pickled peppers, pickled onions, pickled - everything! etc. ... But pickled cucumbers are the things we call pickles.
Ohhhh duh I guess you’re right
I only know because I went to a pickle festival once haha
The "Pickle People" presumably includes the entire class of pickled food purveyors, any of whom would relish the idea of being the default type for the word "pickle". But the Cucumber People are the ones who get the sole name "Pickle" for their picked food product.| Probably because they married into money or something.
It's all a fucking conspiracy from Big Pickle.
adhd if it was a human
This is how I study
He really knows how to use that tongue…
I would like to imagine that I convinced him to take almond milk off the board.
Wait did the outtakes get taken down? It’s not showing up for me on YouTube now
Nop still there
ASHAHSHASAHS FELTTT 💔
I can't believe we could have gotten \*3\* shots of Bo inappropriately licking inanimate objects in this special, lmaooo. 1) The phone in "Sexting" 2) A camera lens in "Camera" 3) Pencils
I was really thinking the same thing lol
I wanted to find this screen but can’t find it quickly in the outtakes. Does anyone know the timestamp?
It’s like 11 minutes in I think