Hans Teeuwen

[_EAllusion]

Great comic. Great bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDtisgnSZCc

[_MrStakhanovite]

That is some extremely dry humor.

[_LDSToronto]

I get the parody, but that looks more like a train wreck than a comedy routine.

[_EAllusion]

The person who moved this clearly doesn't understand why it was posted.

[_asbestosman]

The person who moved this clearly doesn't understand why it was posted.

You have the power. Just move it back. ;)

[_Dr. Shades]

The person who moved this clearly doesn't understand why it was posted.

That's correct.

[_EAllusion]

By the way, I posted it because what Hans does is take the superficial positivity given to women in fundamentalist, patriarchal cultures and lead it, quite naturally, to a dark and abhorrent place. He was a good friend of Theo van Gogh, and he's specifically mocking fundamentalist Islam's treatment of women and how it is defended, but his piece can be aimed at any religious culture's use of placing women on a pedestal to suppress them. I think what he was saying very aptly applied to how Mormons treat and defend gender roles, showing how small a leap it is from that to even uglier things.

Stak -

Hans Teeuwen is all over the place in his style. He goes from extremely dry sarcasm to cabaret to absurdist jokes. It's because the Dutch don't have stand-up comedy per se, but rather something more Vaudevillian.

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I caught this from my above youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRLJp-n ... re=related

It's kinda awesome, if only because the fact that the TV show seems to exist in a parallel universe.