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Improv Everywhere was at it again recently. Their latest mission? Protesting Wendy's "racist logo" with over 50 redheads, numerous protest signs and some catchy chants on hand. ”Biggie Size Bigotry!, Value Menu Us! and Where’s Our Beef? In Your Logo!” are some of our faves.
Head over to the site for more on the "protest" as well as a look at what it's like to ride the subway and suddenly realize you're surrounded by ginger kids. Improv Everywhere points out "redheads only make up 1% of the world’s population, and with the racial diversity of the New York subway system, it’s probably an even smaller percentage." And yes, they took the 1/red line.
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Ironic, considering Improv Everywhere's logo is a Mohawked man in black face with a hatchet in one hand and a piece of fried chicken in the other.
I for one don't feel safe drinking from the same fountain as an improv comedian. It's like they're putting Unfunny back into the water.
Everyone knows Gingers have no soul.
Hate to say it, but this one comes off as mean. A bunch of silly white folks harassing the (mostly) black folks while they are having lunch.
bklynd, why does it have to be all about race? i'm pretty sure it wasn't their intention to harrass the "(mostly) black folks" and that it was all in fun. which is more probable: "let's go harrass some black folk" or "let's go stage a fake protest for shits and giggles"?
Also, I love how they all start cheering once the black dude starts pumping his fists. its like "YAY VALIDATION!"
Haw Haw Haw!
Seriously though, this was pretty cute.
-Ph
I think their U2 stunt was the best.
bklynd did you see the pics?? It doesn't look that way at all.
Viva gingers!
Yeah, I watched the video. And, while I agree that improv's intention is nothing of the sort, that's the way it plays for me. Virtually everybody in the restaurant is a minority, looking out confusedly at the protest, and (by definition) everybody in the group is white (since its a gag about redheads).
The guy towards the end of the video seems to get that its a joke and he plays along, but frankly I'd be pretty irritated to have to listen to people shouting marginally funny crap while I'm on my half-hour break from a shitty midtown job.
I've liked some of their other gags, but this one bombs, IMO.
stunts like this always come off as making fun of protests and protesters. what's the point? there -are- racist logos that should be protested. and while i'm not saying the wendy's logo shouldn't be protested, maybe it should be, the fact remains that this is a joke, and it's making fun of people who are actually upset when a stereotype of people like them (in whatever sense) is used to advertise something.
really, what was improv everywhere getting at with this?
Don't these people have lives or jobs or anything? Acting like a 16 year old when you're pushing 40 is just sad and pathetic.
I thought the prank was great. Whats with all the buzzkills in this thread? You people need to relax a bit, mabye have some fun yourself, instead of snarking others.
We should come up with some new tag lines for the "movement" of redheaded liberation.
Bothe(RED)
Hat(RED)
Ginge(RED)
???
definitely not as cruel as the 'Best Gig Ever' prank....
and by cruel, i mean hilarious.
Adroable, as usual for IE.
i don't mean to be a buzzkill and i enjoy most of IE's other pranks, but this was loud, unfunny and rude. Come on, you spend all this time coming up with a prank in NYC and THIS is the best you could do? Yelling at folks eating at Wendy's?? A clever idea? Maybe. But more like a too-long-SNL sketch than a prank. The punchline was over in two seconds and then all you have is a bunch of people screaming and annoying people trying to get a cheap bite to eat. Next.
jaunty_joker@hotmail.com
Offended is the new black. Next time, just use the Identity Politics Outrage Generator:
http://www.i-am-outraged.com/
I was at the "protest."
There actually was a conscious effort by some in the crowd to keep the chants from becoming too mocking of legitimate protests and grievances. Therefore the "Hey hey ho ho, racist logo's got to go" was quickly replaced by "hey hey ho ho, Wendy's logo's got to go." And nobody really joined in with the one overenthusiastic guy who tried to get everybody to sing "We shall overcome." Because the point (for most of us) most certainly wasn't to mock other protests, but simply to do something silly that would either make people laugh or at least weird them out a little.
Also, we weren't all white. There was one Asian chick with dyed red hair. And I believe that gives us the Moral High Ground, doesn't it? ;)
Many of you people are ignorant. Redheads are not necessarily "white." I am Puerto Rican and have red hair.
Red hair comes from a mutated gene.
Irish and Scottish people tend to have red hair simply by chance, it literally happened to have been bred over there. The gene simply got passed around in that particular spot of the world.
Read about it and learn:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair
So redheads are mutants? Thanks for clearing that up.
And all of IE stunts give me the douche chills. It's like watching a mentally challenged guy tell a joke - you want to laugh, but you end up just feeling embarrassed for him.
I suppose they're happier with Ronald McDonald's status as a redhead?
I never even thought of that, why the hell didnt they pick on Ronald McDonald? they might have gotten more press...over all, not very funny anyway....
Wow, major "douche chills". Way to make a difference guys!
Wait, so it's wrong to make fun of protesters? They aren't just placed on earth for my amusement? Hmmm... rethinking... nope, still funny.
#19, red heads may be mutants, but at least we know how to look things up! Try reading a book sometime. ;-)
The USA was started by a red head. That's right, as a young man, George Washington was ginger-haired.
Red heads also fuck the best. Ask around. That's why people always want to know if the 'carpet matches the drapes'.
cool :)
but we have more gingers! look at www.roodharigen.nl for a 500 ginger meeting in the Netherlands on september 2nd.
and drop by if you are a true ginger..
kind regards,
Bart