Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Haha v. funny sort of like a DJ version of Ali G

i hate to name names.. but he reminds me of alot of djs by my area…

(check out my mixes .. click my link) peace

Only in America is stuff like this even slightly funny. The rest of the world just laughs at the people who laugh at this. Thanks for reminding me.

@the Brooklyn Knockout

You’re absolutely right ! Im from Germany and I can’t laugh about this at all. Strange peeps out there in the US …

HAHA! It TOTALLY reminds me of one of my friends… He needs a musical abortion… No rythm, no skill and all he does is route pandora through VDJ… *sigh*… And I’m the one looking for work, hooray! :-)

JAJAJAJAJ, There’s a lot of people just playing mixed sets here in my country, and the fact is that they call themselves DJs. I think I’ll call the guys from DJ intervention in this case we need something like a group therapy jejeje, greetings from Mexico

It’s probably a matter of taste, but, this is not funny to me.

The idea is certainly not bad, but I find its execution is slow, boring, bland, amateurish, cheap, not clever, not so dumb its funny again, …

And unlike djjc I don’t find ppl, who find this funny, funny. I rather get bored by them than anything else.

Not trying to be negative here :), sry, but that’s just how I feel.

To comment on the issue: don’t feel frustrated/jealous by the recognition shit djs get. It’s a fact that always has been, and always will be, for al performing arts, just accept it.
Remember it’s mostly recognition from ppl who don’t know music, and that shouldn’t be valuable to you.

Funny! Mocks DJs, hipsters, reality shows, all in one swing. Gonna stay tuned for the next installments.

A W E S O M E

+1 on ejac’s reply

Not funny per se, but dead on the mark with its message. I’d like to show this to all the wannabes who only think they’re spinning.

“We’re all goin’ skateboarding?” EPIC.

weird maybe delete this whole post

not funny

+1 on ejac’s reply
Delete this post, it’s not funny

Wow…what a laugh :D

I looove playing premixed sets. I just never have time to prepare any before I go out there….to skateboard, ya’know.

I feel like every college, small town Dj should watch this. I left my college campus and there was an influx of horrible iPod Djs.

Considering the amount of disapproval for the video, I probably shouldn’t say what I’m about to say, but here goes:
I have a weekly residency that I split with another DJ. He opens, I close. He uses Serato, I use Traktor. Needless to say, switching setups in a small booth with only one open electrical outlet to plug a laptop into is difficult. To ease the transition and ensure no abrupt pause in music I will plug in my iPod and let a pre-mixed album play for a few minutes so he can clear his gear and I can get setup properly. (The HORROR!)

its funny.. W E S T S I D E !

[quote comment="29207"]its funny.. W E S T S I D E ![/quote]

Nope, dude, it’s not. I’m a foreigner so I can tell :-p

LOL.
he has his own headphones and doesnt even use them hahahahaha

Funny as shit. I love it when he skateboards to his gig lol.

[quote comment="29206"]Considering the amount of disapproval for the video, I probably shouldn’t say what I’m about to say, but here goes:
I have a weekly residency that I split with another DJ. He opens, I close. He uses Serato, I use Traktor. Needless to say, switching setups in a small booth with only one open electrical outlet to plug a laptop into is difficult. To ease the transition and ensure no abrupt pause in music I will plug in my iPod and let a pre-mixed album play for a few minutes so he can clear his gear and I can get setup properly. (The HORROR!)[/quote]
I’m sure nobody has a problem with that. Its more about the DJ’s who use their ipod for a large portion of their time.
I also didn’t find it particularly funny, but being British I wouldn’t, would I?

agreed the video posted not that funny and too long; check the following video much funnier and true life :)
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Get-Into-Any-Club-14234755

uhhhh. as i understand it the job of a DJ is to rock a party and make people dance. if kool herc had an ipod, he probably would have used it. however, he didn’t have an access to an ipod. so he used what he had. if you can rock a party and make people dance with an ipod, then i don’t care what your definition of DJing is, and if that doesn’t fit into your definition, then fuck DJing.

It’s not great admittedly but i think it still has humour in there somewhere, if I’m honest I have never heard of anyone being this stupid (using an ipod when supposed to be DJing). Can all my american peeps tell me if this is a common problem over there hence the humour? Or is this just a tragic bit of comedy that has no basis?

no lol but a slightly chuckle somewhere. It’s like this HBO show Funny or Die Presents. I saw a clip about Nicola Tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSpi8GwDZfY and found it funny. I then got a hold of 5 episodes and watched them with a friend. He was laughing like it was the funniest shit ever. I was changing cold stares between him and the show. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

* A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR *

Its safe to say that our good friends east of the Atlantic dont get why this show may be funny to those in America. In hind-sight, that makes sense, as the elements it mocks are largely US centered. Given the global nature of this site, we try and pick universal topics but sometimes regional fair slips through the cracks. I will try and be more sensitive to that in the future.

*Why is it funny to us? *

The show is not mocking Ipod djs, or technology at all. In reality he should have been using serato, which would have been more accurate but less politically “correct”. Its making fun of the celebrity turned dj culture that emerged over the past 5 years in the states. They all basically fit the stereotypes thrown out there, which are disturbing and hilarious at the same time:

*personal photographer following them around
*hipster girlfriend that models for american apparel
*excessive use of neon
*really dumb entourage of fame seekers.
*lack of interest in the actual craft of djing.

Im not going to name any names but….

I want more! This is awesome!

Pretty funny, loved the skateboard haha.

btw, no need to hate on the post or vid. if you can’t show some props or respect or don’t want to, probably better to spend the time clickin the mouse to another site and let everyone else enjoy it. yeah, you could leave a neg comment, but, well, you know, you could just not say anything too, and not spread the hate. no one’s ever thought, “too bad i didn’t get to read more negative opinions on something today.” if you don’t have anything nice to say…

anyway, loved the vid/post, i really get the drift. i wonder what it’s like in europe… i need to get over there when i get some money!

After seeing Ean’s comment I can see the “wanna be” in the vid and now understand. While I have no doubt in my mind that there are people in the business like that here in europe I just don’t think anyone would be able to blag (get away with) being like this, hence probably why people didn’t find it as funny. I just don’t think we get the exposure to the Entourage mentallity here as much.
Did love the skateboarding though……

i´m from germany and i can laugh about it :D

waaay to much analysis going on here!
its just meant to be a tongue in cheek skit on something!
Comedy shows here in the UK do it to everything all the time!

I found it amusing :)

that looks/sounds exactly like Steve Aoki although he may have a bit more “technical skill”. when you spend most of your set jumping off speakers or feeding vodka to the people in the front row instead of actually mixing, you know theres something wrong.

Going to Berlin is a total re-education, you see the most awesome djs spinning vinyl in clubs and they are just average guys that love music, no vip bottle service crap, just good beats.

Im from England I thought it was ok,its usually the Americans who dont get irony and stuff,
Not suprised the guy from Germany didnt get it, not many famous German comedians are there! lol only joking.
We had an ex boxer Nigel Ben who turned to Djing I also see Will I Am is getting some pocket money from djing.

funny that someone mentioned aoki. thats who i had in mind….but i stand by my first point, that it doenst matter how much he sucks at DJing (which he does), it matters that he can rock a party.

…..fucking animal collective did a DJ set once =(

i think the poeple who dont find this funny are the I pod DJs…. ha hahahahhah.

I found this extremely amusing. Thanks for posting.

i’m from the UK and I can think of quite a few ‘celeb’ djs with no more talent than the shuffle feature on my iPod.. thankfully there’s plenty of great djs and live artists too!
i liked this post, although i can understand why european readers (particularly us british) didn’t.. our taste in humour can be very different, and often US comedy doesn’t relate as we don’t have the same stereotypes over here.

Am I the only one, or does anyone else think Funny or Die lacks in the funny department? Obviously, they picked a really potentially funny topic, but I just didn’t laugh that much. I find the same thing when I watch Funny Or Die on HBO. Anyone else?

By the way, I’m from SF like Ean, so I should think this is pretty funny.

I saw the Video the day that it came out and Ive watched reactions to it for the last couple of weeks. Played it for my friends and we all agreed. Dj Rich Kid is for real. In part two he is confronted by two ‘real’ djs and pretty much pwns them with the shazam and neon routine. The video is interesting because even though it mocks a style and a norm that is becoming. It goes so far as to say .. its still real. Rightous Its happening. You would only realize the humor and Irony in this Video or think its funny if you thought that the next level of djing is wrong. Djing is becoming this and people still love it. This complete dork is getting paid. And underneath the dorkiness, underneath the skit, the guy is probably head-#1 and knows that this means annihilation. Is this our sad real Dj culture coming to a close and eating itself .. I think so. The video makes me happy cause I think Djing needs a change — the real fact that a stupid Ipod or pre-corded set in mix miester or LIVE arrangement can upstage any veteran is just a fact. All the veterans all the effort is MOOT. Honestly .. because djing has graduated into mass acceptance and mass marketing. A flashing a controller that isn’t doing anything and 60 foot LED screen on stage makes sense to 10k people who are dipping off for thier first time. Deal with it. The Djs that were coming up ten years ago and saying about Cds or digital…. “this is cheating”… or whatever.. ha.. your fiendish energy and trying to get your foot in. Its all useless. Sceneism is what it is. Your parties are corrupt and fake. And its Ok … people are still getting laid.

Im sorry for those that dont find this funny cuz I was rollin, especially when his hipster-ass Gf makes the Photog take a pic of them after he agrees to get help. ….. Actually i envy those that dont find this funny cuz it prolly means that you dont know people like this, consider yourself blessed. For all us real Djs out there that have to open for or not even get booked due to douches like this Please keep working hard and do it for yourself and for the integrity of the craft. Not for the photos, cute girls, or facebook friends.
much love to all

[quote comment="29316"]i think the poeple who dont find this funny are the I pod DJs…. ha hahahahhah.[/quote]

LOL, agreed.

And, is this reeealllly something worth getting up in arms about? Fo-real, get over yourselfs.

[quote comment="29223"]* A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR *

Its safe to say that our good friends east of the Atlantic dont get why this show may be funny to those in America. In hind-sight, that makes sense, as the elements it mocks are largely US centred. Given the global nature of this site, we try and pick universal topics but sometimes regional fair slips through the cracks. I will try and be more sensitive to that in the future.

*Why is it funny to us? *

The show is not mocking Ipod djs, or technology at all. In reality he should have been using serato, which would have been more accurate but less politically “correct”. Its making fun of the celebrity turned dj culture that emerged over the past 5 years in the states. They all basically fit the stereotypes thrown out there, which are disturbing and hilarious at the same time:

*personal photographer following them around
*hipster girlfriend that models for American apparel
*excessive use of neon
*really dumb entourage of fame seekers.
*lack of interest in the actual craft of djing.

I’m not going to name any names but….[/quote]
This probably explains the controversy of this article a bit besides personal different tastes of humour of course. From a European perspective (is there one Europe perspective at all when it comes to humour?) this is probably mostly considered as NOT funny

Let me just say that unless you 1) Have no sense of humor, 2) have never actually experienced a horrible/wanna-be dj in your area or 3) are actually one of the dj’s this video describes, I can NOT understand how you don’t see this is being funny! This is humorous on many levels. It pokes fun at people who should not be dj’ing in the first place. Plain and simple…

“So we’re all going skateboarding?” <———– EPIC

Why would this be controversial? My girlfriend can mix better than this guy. If all you are doing is pushing play on an ipod and you are in no way shape or form arranging and mixing music in some way, you AREN’T a dj..