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2020-05-06

Ben Bazuna

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Watch Ben Bazuna's Kill Tony episode 182 set with a timestamped video, full transcript, and line-by-line joke breakdown. This set has 2 bits, 2 joke beats, 0.15 punch density, 1.00 tag density.

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You guys ready for some urban comedy?

I'm just playing, my voice sounds like this.

[Bit 1]

I've always wondered why I sound like Chappelle

doing an impression of a white person.

And I realized it's 'cause of my parents.

Most people learn to speak from their parents,

they kinda sound like their parents,

but my parents are African,

and when they talk they sound really African.

So at a young age I made a conscious choice.

I was like, not gonna sound like you foreigners.

And instead I learned to talk

from watching children's television.

So that's why I sound exactly like Arthur the Art Bark.

Just like, "Hey, DW, I just sound like that."

Like I'm not even trying.

[Bit 2]

Multiple people throughout my life have felt the need

to come up to me and tell me I sound white.

Like they'll come up to me and say,

"Ben, you are hands down the whitest black dude I know."

Like they might as well be saying like,

"Props on your whiteness, bro."

Like it's a compliment.

It's not, it's like a really shitty thing to say.

You're calling me the most opposite of what I physically am?

That'd be like if I went up to a girl

and I was like, Jenny.

- Oh, finish it, all right, finish it, Ben, finish it.

- That'd be like if I went up to a girl

and I was like, Jenny, you are hands down

the man-laced woman I know.

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setupI've always wondered why I sound like Chappelle

setupdoing an impression of a white person.

setupAnd I realized it's 'cause of my parents.

setupMost people learn to speak from their parents,

setupthey kinda sound like their parents,

setupbut my parents are African,

setupand when they talk they sound really African.

setupSo at a young age I made a conscious choice.

setupI was like, not gonna sound like you foreigners.

setupAnd instead I learned to talk

setupfrom watching children's television.

punchlineSo that's why I sound exactly like Arthur the Art Bark.

tagJust like, "Hey, DW, I just sound like that."

tagLike I'm not even trying.