Sht Said By New Yorkers Who Made 'Sht New Yorkers Say'

We really, really thought we were done with the "Sh*t People Say" meme once we saw Sh*t Trebek Says, but yesterday, "Sh*t New Yorkers Say" made us click one more time (and it wasn't just because we were lovingly mentioned). Creator and comedian Eliot Glazer spoke with Metro Focus about why he name-checked Pat Keirnan three times in the video: "He’s just a perfectly cherubic, endlessly charming gentleman, and I would love to have dinner with him."

Glazer, who grew up at Smithtown on Long Island and went to NYU, said people have really responded to him threatening to report the cabbie for not driving to Brooklyn, in particular. He described some outtakes ("Bloomberg is so tiny in person!”) and also explained the inspiration behind the video:

We are a clever, weird people and our neuroses deserves to be celebrated. I think a lot of what made New York so special through Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld got lost in the saccharine way New York was portrayed in “Sex and the City,” and that cultural residue has really neutered how many people see New York, in my opinion. So, hopefully, this will remind New Yorkers (and those who like us) to take pride in our eccentricities.

Glazer, who co-made the video with his sister and fellow comedian Ilana Gazer, gave an even simpler description to the News: “It's a satirical take on what it means to be a young, semiprofessional, spoiled city dweller in 2012." He also wanted to make it clear that they have nothing against Queens: “It's not supposed to be taken literally. I like Queens. My sister likes Queens. Our mom is from Queens. We have nothing against Queens.”

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By Ben Yakas in Arts & Entertainment on January 20, 2012 11:52 AM

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bigfoot_lives

the video was entertaining, their point is these are things most likely to be heard in NYC rather than in cownutts, Montana for example. the title isn't "Shit ALL New Yorkers say" some, mostly young and i hate to say it but, yeah... Jewish/Hipster affiliated people can relate more to this than Joe in waste management can. so in conclusion the video is entertaining and reached it's goal of getting noticed and getting people to talk about it. so everyone bad-mouthing it.....FUCK OFF!

bigtimegeek

The comments here just make me realize that "real" New Yorkers (at least one Gothamist) are a bunch of humorless, pretentious jerkoffs. Newsflash: This city is made up of MOSTLY transplants or people who grew up a few minutes outside of the city. Lighten the fuck up.

The video isn't hilarious but it's amusing and well done. Could they have done better? Sure. Could there be about 100 different videos from 100 different segments of the NY population made? Yes. If you "real" New Yorkers want a funny video that accurately depicts you, get off your ass and make one and stop bitching. But let's face it, a bunch of "yo" and "fuck" blah blah would just have a bunch of people bitching about how it makes New Yorkers sound like a bunch of borderline illiterate tough-guy douchebags.

ciaobella2

Yeah! These comments are perfect examples of New Yorkers: lazy-ass pretentious whiners who think they can do better than someone who got off their lazy ass and actually did something.
Both of the Glazers are actually very, very funny. And I think this video had the best production of all of the "Sh*t People Say Videos." So shut the fuck up, tools, and go back to sucking back $13 micheladas at Pulqueria. Oh, wait! Here's a real thing a real New Yorker said this weekend within a foot from me: "There's not enough chorizo in my gordita, bitch."

birdtird

are you one of the glazers?

ciaobella2

no asshole, i'm not one of the Glazers. i'm a real new yorker and not some dumb girl from connecticut spending my parents' allowance in the east village. i follow eliot glazer's stuff on xojane.com. he is really funny.

birdtird

you like it cause you're a geek

UWS_CA

Could you people whine any more? You could do a million of these videos, New Yorkers say a lot of things. If you think it's funny, great. If not, who cares. Everyone's NYC experience is different.

Starry Gordon

I think many people are curious as to why the video was made, how it could be so bad, and why Gothamist is so fascinated with it.

birdtird

But do you think the video sucks or what?

forspec

I watched this video and immediately knew it was made by someone from NJ or LI. I wish these people would poke fun at themselves instead of poking fun of what they want to be. Why didn't he make "shit long islanders say" for gods sake? That would have been hilarious and genuine. instead he made "shit nyers say" and it's so clearly more about how he lusted over manhattan his entire childhood with his overprotective crazy low-class mother taking him to see a broadway show on the LIRR or through the fuckin tunnel and keeping him close to her, away from the old times sq XXX shops. Great, you're hear now, you took the LIRR and now you live in manhattan, get over it. Go to a gym, loose the baby-fat, and become a bit more blase. then you'll be a real NYer and not some guy who took a limo from Masapequwa to The Tunnel when you were 15 - still reliving the excitement of that fateful trip. See you at the Penn Station Sbarro

Helpful_Hints

You wrote "hear", but in this context it should be spelled "here".

Sentences begin with capital letters.

DrSysz

Too high to reply correctly to HappilyBookish - but right on re the 1000 real NYs.....

The funny part I don't know about though....

HappilyBookish

Ha! We don't have to agree on the humor, but yeah, there are thousands of ways to talk like a New Yorker. This is just one.

beigeinside

Thank you to everyone who chimed in already for writing the predictable script for "Shit Gothamist Commenters Say" video.

HappilyBookish

All this carping about whether the video shows the "real New York" is silly. The real New York is thousands of different types of experience (let's say young Dominicans, Russian emigres, UES wasps, Fujian garment workers). There are a thousand possible videos.

This video works because it satirizes--affectionately and effectively--one little slice of New York. And it's really funny!

smorrebrod

"Merde!", "Ta ma de ni!", "Putacon!", "Piece of Fucking shit!", That's just if we just miss the train.

Peanut_Butter

Way to take the fun out by posting a sensible comment.

Norik

Worth a chuckle.

wonderchimp5

i knew this meme was dead when my mom emailed this to me this morning, "Have you seen this!", "yes mom...and it sucks."

horsechoker

Shit Hipsters in New York say.

birdtird

The demographic for this video is nerds

Peanut_Butter

Funniest thing I found was he said "It's the laah." It ain't the fuckin' laah, you dickhead, it's the law. Go back west.

edgie168

"laah"? what is this, bostonist?

MaseInYourFace

Test

MaseInYourFace

I'm not gay and I like Pat Keirnan too. Dude's awesome.

smorrebrod

I hate that I have to have Time Warner Cable to have NY1 because of him.

ohmygodshutup

+1

I really want to give him a high-five for some reason...

ktinnyc

It's the picture of Anthony Mason. Every good New Yorker wants to high five, Mase. St. Johns and then a Knick? This should have happened to Artest too but I digress.

MaseInYourFace

Actually Anthony Mason Sr didn't go to St. Johns, his son Jr. did though...

ktinnyc

Damn, you're right. My bad.

Peanut_Butter

My Knick-fan friend and I saw Mason at Carmine's one time many years ago. Like a good NYer, we left him alone.

wobblesmith

i'm surrounded by a very particular brand of asshole.

janazzle

i am indifferent to this video, I sort of don't care i found it mildly amusing. however what i really found hilarious is the comments on this site which are rather comparable to the comments on the you tube video about how this Eliot Glazer guy is 'gay' and a transplant and blah blah blah, 'make a video about real new yorkers' and ' he didn't mention the Yankees'
OK - I have lived in NY my whole life, I DO NOT CARE- WHY DO PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT WHETHER THIS PORTRAYAL IS ACCURATE OR NOT? ITS JUST A STUPID VIDEO!
but........
on the other hand I am sort of inspired to make my own video called
"shit new yorkers say about the 'shit new yorkers say' video"

Roger_the_Shrubber

People who are snobby towards Queens are insecure transplants. May they all have to move to Elmhurst.

smorrebrod

Fuck! Going to become a slumlord. Can I get away with 2000 on a two bed in Elmhurst if I convince them it's a brisk ten minute walk to Roosevelt which is farther from Elmhurst Ave?

Gepap

Nonsense. There are lots of true born and bred Manhattanites that think going to Queens outside of the sporting complexes is like going overseas. This notion that"real" New Yorkers travel the whole City and have no borough based biases is absurd. Lots of people in brooklyn wouldn't travel to the Bronx (save the Zoo or yankee stadium) for any reason, and who many people in the 4 big boroughs ever go to Staten Island?

NYC is rife with provincialism.

TeddyNYC

Some of us have evolved.

Gepap

Your point? I traveled extensively through all five boroughs, though having grown up in Manhattan I know it the best, and in my travels I have noticed that the majority of people are relatively provincial, in the outer boroughs just as much as in Manhattan. Yes, some people are willing to go to Bay Ridge, the North Shore, Tremont Avenue, Corona, or to Inwood, but most aren't, and claiming otherwise isn't true.

Peanut_Butter

But since so many different ethnicities are represented in NYC, provincialism in NYC is by definition, having a worldly attitude.

luke_1

There's nothing wrong with provincialism. Sheesh. I guess anyone who doesn't have the money to go somewhere they do not live is a waste of a human being. New Yorkers are just snooty. I grew up in Queens. I went to high school in the Bronx. I still complain about going to both places.

Gepap

Ah. NO. A Dominican who spends all their time in the dominican parts of the Heights and never travels to other neighborhoods is no less unworldly that someone from a small town. Being worldly involves actually taking the time to go experience those other cultures, and a lot of people in NYC do NOT do that.

Peanut_Butter

I'll betchu dollars to donuts that the typical NYC Dominican flies more international miles between NYC and the DR than some typical small town hick.

Anubhav Kumar

So they know two places. Awesome.

Detex

It's FUCKING SATIRE! wow.

Peanut_Butter

F**k that! Satirize Staten Island, not Queens!

thenab

SH** New Yorkers who don't fit the demo of the SH** New Yorkers say video:

"who gives a sh**...F*** that guy."
"F*** that mother fuc***."
"screw this sh**."
"what the f***...who cares...f*** it."

jisnotused

"He’s just a perfectly cherubic, endlessly charming gentleman, and I would love to have dinner with him."
Maybe you do, but please don't pretend to speak for everyone by making a video like this. Not everyone is gay.

RobNYC

He didn't

whitecastlerock

Fuck this Shit! Shove your meme up your candy ass...

splicernyc

Shit gay actors say.

HughGass

Shit gay actor/waiters say.

H.e. Pennypacker

can you motherfuckers just say "shit?" what are you, 9?

PFOOMA

and not a single "Yo"?

Eric Luke

I'd say it's an excellent caricature of a Gothamist reader.

PE News

On first blush, yes, it's S*** New Yorkers Say.
On second view, it's S*** New New Yorkers Say.

I hope there's a S*** Real New Yorkers Say...

neps

Yes please.

ButtPlugs

Yes I think the best candidate is a rude goomba from brooklyn.

WZA

Ay yo, o Ay, easy there big fella!

DazzleThemAll

Queens...so sensitive.

Peanut_Butter

Queens has some of the best diners and Chinese food, not to mention the inspiration for Goodfellas. 'Nuff said.

Detex

I really didn't care until this:

It's not supposed to be taken literally. I like Queens. My sister likes
Queens. Our mom is from Queens. We have nothing against Queens.”

If you need to appologize in a satire vieo but need to never do satire again.

Sara Smith

Very. Queens is a very sensitive subject, especially when you are trying to get borough snobs to visit.

TK41c

Queens. Sounds like one of the main participants in that video.

MaseInYourFace

Test

MaseInYourFace

That's nothing. What about if you live in the BX? People act like it's going to upstate or something to visit you. Or even worse people who act like going there is beneath them...

Tim Osman

They should call it "Sh*t wanna be New Yorkers say"

Stephen Jochem

As soon as anyone says, "This is what a New Yorker is/does/or acts like, it instantly becomes bogus and bullshit.
A New Yorker, by definition, can never be really defined. NYC is far too vast and constantly changing and comprising of so many different cultures that at most, one can only get a glimpse at what a NYer is or does at a specific period in time.

Pinkiesout

Please can I be in your club? Pretty please? Gimme a break. A little too close to home? Has your identity been challenged? Care to give us "wanna be's" a tip or two on what it is like to be authentic? I promise we don't wish to continue offending. I'm sure the rest of the real New Yorkers who read this would be in full agreement of your assessments on what it is to be "Real." To think in all the time that I've lived here to just discover someone who can boil it all down. And on Gothamist of all places! It's my lucky day.

Samantha Nicholson

They're just mad the transplants are taking over their neighborhood and they can't afford to live there anymore. NYC Darwinism.

RobNYC

Wanna be NYers don't live in NY, that's why they're called wannabes. If they don't live here they wouldn't be saying 90% of that shit.

TeddyNYC

You mean all of those transplant wanna be New Yorkers I see walking around acting like douchebags is just my imagination?

MaseInYourFace

Yeah the funny thing is you can have about a thousand versions of this just for new york. But all these people who don't know any better watch this and think all New York is like this. It's funny though, just could be better titled.