Or on a promotional poster: “Not very funny. — Arbitrator [name]”
My favorite part is probably when the arbiter explains how "the use of the word “fuckable” when applied to elderly women approaching their grave can be interpreted as mildly inflammatory"
First, the transcript of the routine:
Believe me, even woke people kind of hate Muslims don’t they? Yup. “Refugees are welcome…to start treating their women a little better.” Wait, it is true that like women are treated a little better in the west for a while. After like 35, 40 it gets pretty brutal, doesn’t it? There’s no retirement age for looking hot in the west. That’s why you see American grandmas wearing makeup and shit. American women have to be as fuckable as possible until they’re dead, which I don’t think is fair. Y'all I want to start a rescue charity that helps women of a certain age move to Saudi Arabia. They’re gonna be like, “What, I don’t gotta to do botox or dye my hair?” I’m like, “Lady, you don’t even gotta drive. In fact, yeah, they prefer you didn’t.”
And here's the analysis:
The first half is hardly inflammatory, suggesting that Americans encourage Muslim refugees to treat their women better, and that women in the west are generally treated better than in Muslim countries, at least for a while. Grievant then opines that after a woman in the U.S. becomes 35 or 40, it gets “pretty brutal,” which is provocative but cannot be interpreted as inflammatory. He then states that older women in America are expected to continue looking “hot,” resulting in American grandmothers wearing “makeup and shit.” So far, it cannot be interpreted as inflammatory. He then states: “American women have to be as fuckable as possible until they’re dead, which I don’t think is fair.” Although the first clause is debatable and grossly articulated, the second clause plainly states that Grievant believes it to be unfair, so any claim that the clip shows him to be demeaning women in the clip, as charged by management, is patently unfair and untrue. On the other hand, the use of the word “fuckable” when applied to elderly women approaching their grave can be interpreted as mildly inflammatory.
The final few sentences in which he proposes starting a charity to help women move to Saudi Arabia, where they do not have to use botox or dye their hair and they are encouraged not to drive cannot be interpreted as inflammatory and are simply funny.
I also love how the analyst is trying to be objective as possible and their own dry delivery makes it all twice as funny.
> I have gotten questions from HR - in terms of “How come Jad can do stand up but he can’t work in the office?”
Probably why the attacks on the clips are so weak. High up guy was being petty. But they couldn't fired him for not being in the office.
I hope someone here has a valid link...
> The arbitrator was not a fan across the board. They found that one joke was “insightful, principled and serious, but not very funny.” Sleiman said he was disappointed by this review.