As a black man, Robert Downey Jrs black face in tropic Thunder was some of the funniest shit I ever saw, this was the only acceptable black face I’ve ever seen 😂

@dennyshawyer1993

Жыл бұрын

Its allwase sunny in Philadelphia nailed it perfectly

@TheNewSchoolGamer

Жыл бұрын

💯 Tropic Thunder is one of my favourite comedies of all time

@lawlietriver8869

Жыл бұрын

Minstrelsi will always be fucked up. Actually trying to look black is dicey as hell, but it can work under the right conditions. Tropic Thunder is the right condition.

@TDS1108Gaming

Жыл бұрын

The fact that Ben Stiller also played a full-blown special needs kid proves that the movie is a great big self-aware joke. The Lazarus character literally says he’s “a white guy playing a black guy”. Meanwhile, there’s real life human beings “converting to black” by getting melanin therapy and hijacking black culture, but no one bats an eyelash.

@silent_partner_pa9917

Жыл бұрын

Blackface leaves the makeup off the eyes and mouth. It's very distinct looking and actually offensive. This is not blackface. Jimmy K as Karl Malone...same thing. Not blackface

As a black man I started liking Robert Downey Jr. because of this movie. I was like man he sound like one of my uncles.

@SelfMadeCulture

Жыл бұрын

I’m Mexican/Italian, people make fun of the stupid shit we do or say in a ghetto accent all the time. I don’t get offended, though you can tell when someone is trying to. I think malicious racist behavior is so small that anyone who is really that would be embarrassing. Don’t read into it, just laught!

@breakwoodhopper6739

Жыл бұрын

Usually it feels like white people get more upset about this movie than black people like they are trying to prove something

@jimmytaylor4102

Жыл бұрын

As a young black man born in 1994 all I gotta say is fuck whoever hating this man is a legend n he killed the role n the only ppl who mad is ppl who never saw the movie cus if I watch the movie 10 mins into it they explain y he black n plus it's a movie lol

@Bando-fx4mf

Жыл бұрын

@@SelfMadeCulture lies no Italian mafia dude is touching a Mexican unless it was a baddy and he got it for free. No body is Mexican and Italian.

@millasboo

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

People hating on it don’t realize Robert Downey Jr’s Kirk Lazarus was “A DUDE PLAYING A DUDE DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE!”

@patriciaredmond3996

Жыл бұрын

The comment I was looking for 💯

@ninekindzo3569

Жыл бұрын

That's the exact quote that went through my mind. 👏✌️

@nmonye01

Жыл бұрын

At least you quoted the movie. Did not laugh once during it though.

@listener84

Жыл бұрын

Yep, because everyone talking about it is 16 and hasn’t seen the movie. Typical today ish

@loveroffilms6436

Жыл бұрын

If you realized how stupid that sounds you'd most likely have the urge to delete your comment. An actor playing an actor as another person?? No duh!! That isn't some groundbreaking observation. Might as well say tom holland is playing peter is playing spider-man. I swear y'all will resort to the lowest degrees of idiocy to justify blatant conveyances of racism

Charlemagne has no idea what he's talking about 90% of the time, it's wild.

@wickkidda

Жыл бұрын

You’d think a god would be teaching them stuff but it’s the other way around. Weird.

@anFy81

Жыл бұрын

difficult to listen to for sure

@IronPunkVids

Жыл бұрын

That's why I don't like him

@AmazingJayB51

Жыл бұрын

Hence his podcast Brilliant Idiots

@STSGuitar16

Жыл бұрын

He’s so fuckin smug too. Can’t stand the guy.

“What do you mean you people?” “What do YOU mean you people?” 😂

@tesseract4056

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment 😂🤣

What's even better is that RDJ was playing an Australian actor to begin with.

@natechenry

Жыл бұрын

A dude playing a dude disguised as another dude 😂

@logicrules5793

Жыл бұрын

@@natechenry Single best line in the entire movie hands down!

@milescoleman910

Жыл бұрын

It was clearly Russell Crowe. Hahaha

@matthewstafford2542

Жыл бұрын

​@@natechenry 💯 bro 😂😂😂😂😂

@crewchief5144

Жыл бұрын

So, he was in "cuhnt face" first.

“Your ability to have a passionate opinion about something you know nothing about” 😂😂😂 -Shulz calling out CTG

@Peprahism

Жыл бұрын

Thats how CTG is. Angela rye calls him out about the same thing. CTG just be chattin and dont research anything

@DropSet_Nicky

Жыл бұрын

Legit everyone in 2022

@weresic

Жыл бұрын

He is just reflecting his fans, loudmouthed retards flock around this king moron.

@LornaMoz

Жыл бұрын

I feel like that comment really exposed Charlemagne.

@jmodyrts25

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much everyone that is offended by this movie has not seen it or worse has seen it and still do not understand the context.

"im just a dude playing a dude , disquised as another dude" lol love tropic thunder

@DirtMaguirk

Жыл бұрын

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@Turtleturtle0420

Жыл бұрын

@@DirtMaguirk Well thats fucking fantastic! Thank you good sir.

@TheNewMexican78

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean you people 😂🤣

@bryanhisenberg

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNewMexican78 what do YOU mean you people

@Golgi-Gyges

Жыл бұрын

Not really. He was just playing a dude.

Tropic thunder was my introduction to Robert Downey Jr. I literally thought he was black until he took off the makeup and I started crying 😭. It all made sense afterwards. It was some funny shit.

@Q_StangGT3000

Жыл бұрын

Bra..... I was thinking that was a black actor my dam self. And my brother kept saying, no that's Robert Downey Jr. And I'm like ok, then he said no that's iron man. Then I started laughing like no wayyyyyyyy. Then I bust out laughing when I really started looking 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂

@mikhanch1228

Жыл бұрын

How did you think he was black? Did you not see the movie? They showed his as a white man (himself) prepping for surgery to become black. Smooth brain activities

@ivanthegreat4665

Жыл бұрын

@@mikhanch1228, I thought he was black because it was my first time seeing the movie.

@jacobfromallstate4963

Жыл бұрын

​@@mikhanch1228 I saw scenes of the movie when I was 11 and thought it was a black actor. Maybe it's the same for him. No need to show the internet how big of a dbag you are.

@sunofabob

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I didn't know my first watch either. 😂

As a black man, who watched this back in the day, I'm 50 now, and I laughed my ass off at RDJ's role. I thought he did a great job.

A white brunette American playing a white blond Australian playing an black afro-wearing American was hilarious to the majority of white Americans, black Americans, and white Australians. It brought people together. The few who were offended either didn't get the hypocrisy of the joke or need to champion a crusade for their boring lives.

@ac2395

Жыл бұрын

Maybe these are sheltered autistic people. They don’t understand context, follow the “new” social rules to a T, and are completely clueless.

@patrickbateman7802

Жыл бұрын

💯

@alus992

Жыл бұрын

@ReanuKeevesAustropic thunder my man

@TheLittleSpoon1982

Жыл бұрын

@Reanu Keeves dude Tropic Thunder, and it’s a gotta see movie. So damn funny.

@jujuliolezesuiglaz1780

Жыл бұрын

"I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!" kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXp7l8akYarfgtI.html

“I never saw Tropic Thunder” 😂

remember when chappelle did white face? hilarious af

@benjaminjameskreger

Жыл бұрын

Which he did in a parody of trading spouses, lol

@casualcausalityy

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminjameskreger he did it a few times like the newscaster too

@imyoursuperbeast8220

Жыл бұрын

​@Casual Causality don't forget the racial draft 😂

@casualcausalityy

Жыл бұрын

@I'm your Superbeast his white guy voice always killed me, I think his name was Chuck haha

@brianwardenful

Жыл бұрын

Eddie Murphy did it as well on SNL. Hilarious

He shouldn't apologize. He did a satirical comedy.

As a black man it's still one of my favorite characters shit was hilarious and he wasn't disrespectful with it

Tropic Thunder is one of the greatest works of comedic genius in history

Literaly one of the funniest movies ever

@mcconvillert

Жыл бұрын

Name a funnier movie that has come out since Tropic Thunder.

Who hasn’t seen tropic Thunder lol 😂

@Captain_Insano_nomercy

Жыл бұрын

The guy with a strong opinion about it

The “you people” line in Tropic Thunder is hilarious

You can get away with blackface. It just has to be undeniably funny. Robert Downey Jr was undeniably funny as hell in that movie.

@leeharrison8222

Жыл бұрын

I agree: it is possible for a white person to get a pass on playing a Black character. If they can do it with a lot of care and respect to give the character proper treatment, we may just give you that Eminem pass. Just don't get too comfortable and make a habit out of it please or you run the risk of wearing the pass out LOL.

Tom Cruise stole the Show with the terrorist negotiations😂😂 "All right. Flaming Dragon. First take a step back and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FAAAAACEEEE!!!!"☠☠☠

Robert Downey Jr. is a Australian actor who is playing a black character in Tropic thunder. Clearly not Black Face…. It’s an actor playing an actor playing as a black character in a war story lol….

And as a black man.... he will never be canceled.... that was comedic genius!

This is a case of people not being able to think critically and just saying they’re upset because they’ve been told to be upset

When this movie came out, the blackface was edgy, but no one was offended by it that I recall. It was hilarious, people understood they were ridiculing it.

@aaronhedick4355

Жыл бұрын

When it came out it was en vogue for actors to do body transformations in order to hopefully win awards. They were taking that to the farthest extreme to show how dumb those actors can often look. The intention of the joke wasn’t to make fun of black people it was to make fun of actors. People were definitely offended, but the people who are offended are offended because they believe it’s not okay to do blackface under any circumstances. The question on if you think it’s okay pr not really boils down to if you think intention matters or not.

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

Of course it was edgy. That was part of the joke.

DVD Commentary the best homie didn’t drop the character once the entire time just like he promised!! Legend!!

@jacobharris954

Жыл бұрын

Yep, even mentions tobey Maguire and him by saying Spider-Man meets iron man

RDJ consulted Jamie Fox on how to play the character. So the performance was even pre approved by one of the most talented black men of all time!

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

That's exactly what Kirk Lazarus would have done. It's perfect.

The good thing about the movie is Brandon T Jackson character kept Robert Downey Jr character in check the whole time about being in black face..

Charlemagne just showed us how you can have an opinion these days without knowing a fkn thing about what your talking about

Can't trust a person that never seen Tropic Thunder. If he'd did this wouldn't even be a convo. The movie is comedic genius

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

Never trust a person who doesn't like Tropic Thunder or Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They aren't human.

“A dude playing a dude disguised as another dude”

As a black man i think this movie is one of the funniest movies ever.

@Raphell28

Жыл бұрын

When I realized it Robert Downey Jr, I couldn't stop laughing 😂 He should have won an the Oscar for that role that year. But he lost the oscar to Heather Ledger Joker that year. If it had been the year before, he definitely would have won

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

"What do YOU mean, you people?"

Honestly the only people who should be offended by RDJ's character in Tropic Thunder are method actors... that's who they were roasting the shit out of lol

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

And Harvey Weinstein, but nobody cares if he's offended.

As a black man I found RDJ performance hilarious and really good at the same time. He played a better black guy than a black guy lol

Best character there has ever been in a movie. So much gold came from that character.

As a black man I see no problem with it. That movie was funny AF, and there was a point behind it. It also wasn't done distastefully. The problem with people today is that they act like their too dumb to understand context.

@spartangoku7610

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean, it’s not like they painted him jet black with big red lips.

“Im just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude” RDJ done a great job

2008 was a great summer for film. Iron Man, Dark Night Returns, and Tropic Thunder.

I always find it interesting that people, consistently, bring up RDJ and his role in Tropic Thunder asking if it was offensive, yet not one person has an issue with the Wayans Brothers doing White Chicks. Both were extremely funny, essentially identical in scenario, but are viewed entirely different.

@davy209

10 ай бұрын

I found both movies funny and thoroughly entertaining. I get why some people will view White Chicks, especially now, as incredibly offensive and a double standard for black face. But in regards to White Chicks for me personally, the jokes were more about how Marlon and Shawn’s characters view white woken based on their own personal and cultural biases but it’s when they started to bond with their new white friends was when their undercover personas slowly start to become less stereotypical and stronger motivation to solve the cases and protect all of the girls. But that’s just my personal opinion on the movie, other people have the right to disagree with me and find the movie personal offensive.

When Tropic Thunder came out, People had a sense of humor and didn't take everything to seriously, its a great movie move on.

The movie was self-aware and making fun of the character doing it, that’s why it was funny and people were able to go along with it

Context matters with everything. The whole world needs to grow up and learn that. It's all part of being a mature individual.

Tropic Thunder is 15 years old; thank you lefties for making it relevant again. Ironman and Tropic Thunder both came out in 2008.

@andrewbaskett8581

Жыл бұрын

I honestly haven’t see where anyone actually said anything wrong with the movie? I feel like we as a society do this where we just assume something is happening, or a few morons on Twitter say something and we react as if a pending UN resolution is coming to ban a thing…

@Pyramanager

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewbaskett8581 thats cuz nowadays, those few morons on twitter have the power to make companies do what they want by complaining and making it seem like everybody agrees with them. Its how we came to having transwomen being the head figures of womens rights and womens day

@TheNewMexican78

Жыл бұрын

Oooh please Trump wish he was black 🤣

@TP-pq9xx

Жыл бұрын

Ben stiller is a lefty so…the movie wouldn’t even exist without lefties. Just like every other good comedy in the history of filmmaking.

@ceekay4649

Жыл бұрын

@@TP-pq9xx yep, Ben Stiller is politically on the left. The left is not a monolith, the biggest defenders of free speech traditionally have been on the left.

Brandon Jackson's character calls Robert's character out a few times and gets in his face great scenes.

@imyoursuperbeast8220

Жыл бұрын

"Excuse me, kangaroo jack"

Completely ignore the fact he went into pigment surgery to become black for the movie. You had a blonde, blue eye Australian method actor undergoing a pigment surgery to be black in a war movie. It's so ridiculous, yet hysterical. One of my favorite comedies of all time..

I love the simple jack character 😂

Bro why would he need to apologize , it was a joke and all black ppl at the time loved it including me . I rewatched that movie so many times . It’s meta . Hope to see one more w/ Robert and Tom cruise reprising those roles .

basically Tropic Thunder is them making fun of actors that do the absolute unnecessary most for a role, I remember watching for the first time and right off the bat thought about some of the actors they were talking about 🤣

Tropic thunder is one of the funniest movie of all time and RDJ killed it

RDJ is a genius actor who played a crazy method actor. The crazy part, I think we should have found a way to keep him black. We almost had a Black Iron Man.

As a kid this was the first time I ever seen Robert Downey jr and I really thought he was black for a few years 😭😭

Classic comedy, tropic thunder is comedy gold

Jamie Foxx on The JRE explained it perfectly

All of a sudden it's a problem to make fun of people in films. Because a handful of people say so...

Context is everything, I don't get upset anymore till I hear the whole story from as many sides as I can! Then I decide how I feel, to many times I flew off the handle about something only knowing one side and made a ass of myself, not anymore! It is annoying but sometimes you just got to take the extra time to hear and see everything out for yourself before handing out judgements.

@kurovader4078

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to maturity

I didn't even know he was Robert Downy Junior until the end of the movie 😂😂😂

There is a big difference between lighthearted jokes and those with cruel intentions. The people who were offended by this are either incapable of telling the difference or are offended for the sake of being offended. If we can't poke fun based on our differences how can we expect to bond based on our similarities?

Benn stiller actually directed tropic thunder.

Everyone needs to watch Tropic thunder! They should make it part of the CRT taught in schools.😂

He was not blackfacing... the character believed he was black... nowadays people pretend to be women while having dks and balls... THAT is offensive.

@scaryjoker

Жыл бұрын

Mental retardation

@benjaminjameskreger

Жыл бұрын

That's dated too, we've been over White Chicks.

Really hoping they bring up Dave Shappel doing white face. That shit was funny as hell! Lol

Legendary performance by RDJ! Absolutely hilarious

Big thing they’re forgetting is that RDJ isn’t “playing a black guy”. The genuis is that RDJ is playing a white guy PLAYING a black guy. Some inception type shit. Idk I’m high af.

@stuartsilvagomez6495

Жыл бұрын

And they are filming a movie inside of a movie, mary be hitting hard homie

best rdj role ever

Tropic thunder is a classic, because it's offensive.... Against Hollywood.

Tropic Thunder was great

Tropic Thunder was one of the Greatest Comedies we have seen in Years !!

The End got me lol

Every couple of years they bring this up!!!! WHAT SELECTIVE ANGER!!!!!!

The sensitivity with 1 race who act the toughest..lmfao😂😂😅

Great discussion

I never knew it was robert downey jr till the end of the movie😂

One of the funniest films ever made and this dude has no idea what it is smh 😆.

Charlamagne should really watch it because they weren't really explaining the dynamic of RDJ's role, yes they were making fun at how far method actors will go, but more importantly they were calling out how far Hollywood was going in order to not cast black actors in prominent roles which is exampled in the scenes between RDJ and Brandon T Jackson's character. BTJ straight up tells RDJ, "Maybe I felt like I had to represent? Because they had 1 good part in for a black guy and they gave it to Crocodile Dundee!" Like take they comedy away and that was actually a really good social commentary for this film.

RDJ wasn't pretending to be black in Tropic Thunder. He was mocking intense actors and was pretending to be an Australian actor trying to pretend to be a caricature of a stereotypical black character from 80s movies. They were making fun of the stereotypes. The actual black character in the movie calls him out for it repeatedly. They shouldn't apologize for anything, it was clearly satire

Until he said he didnt see it, I thought he was crazy for that take.

Tropic Thunder one of the funniest movies ever

That's a shame they never seen this classic 🤣🤣

My mans was ready to bounce at the end haha

Im mixed amd ill says this, He had me laughing so hard in the theater he gets a pass. He's my favorite actor period

We loveeeee the long podcasts

Tropic thunder is a masterpiece

NGL I saw RDJ in Tropic Thunder 1st and it was my first time watching RDJ, I legit thought he was black, and had vitiligo like Michael Jackson when he did Iron man 😅.

Charlemagne is all it takes for me to take a couple week break from this 🤣

This was a great conversation

I honestly didn't realize I wasn't watching Brilliant Idiots until Charlemagne complained about the time.

If they "cNcel" this...I'm storing copies on multiple drives. It's a classic.

@TP-pq9xx

Жыл бұрын

Can you name even one movie that’s ever been “cancelled” ? (No)

Charlamagne is the definition of “never go full r3t4rd”.

I didn’t even know it was RDJ the first time I saw the movie until towards the end. Tom Cruise was also great! 😂

Greatest character ever

Downey killed it!!! Amazing

"I refuse to get mad at a photograph because it wasn't taken today." -Dave Chappelle

CTG has to stop saying nineteen hundreds 😂😂😂

One of the funniest roles of all time

Tom Segura’s mom plays simple jack sometimes

"Never go full retard" is a reference to Leonardo DiCaprio in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"

I will never forget the way Charlamagne said "Nineteen hundred and nineties Oprah." This is definitely the best way to invoke the 90s.

Al & Charlemagne need to watch Tropic Thunder asap

They didn't even play one second of the clip 😂

Look im sorry but blackface Robert Downey Jr is hilarious lmaoooooo