Familiar with comedian Jaboukie Young-White? If not, you’re living a futile and empty existence in which every step is another desperate lunge towards eternal shrieking nothingness.
The 23-year-old comedian has been delicately assembling thousands of fans and followers on social media, due in no small part to his understated wit and superior meme-making abilities.
Now, he just made his television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and he wasted no time in delivering the goods:
“I’ve been traveling a lot recently,” he began, “which is fun but it’s weird.”
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“Like, I’ve noticed that my race changes city to city? Like when I’m in Chicago people just think that I’m half black, half white. When I’m in New York people think that I’m Puerto Rican? But when I’m in CVS everyone just thinks I’m stealing. Which you know is really frustrating because I am and I don’t want them to catch me.”
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Unsurprisingly, he has some words about our current president:
“I kind of feel like ever since Trump won everything I do is radical just because I’m a minority. Like I wake up in the morning: revolutionary. I ask the cashier for a cup of water but I low-key get some Sprite: anti-capitalist.”
And though we never thought we’d live to see a time when labels like “masc” are mentioned on national television — not to mention war stories about having gay sex with Uber drivers — Young-White offered up both, and in abundance:
“I can be kind of an awkward flirt sometimes,” he says.
“I could have a hard time flirting just because people don’t always read me as queer when they first meet me because I’ve been told that I can come across as ‘masc’ and if you don’t know what that means it’s basically just gay for ‘I’m not like other girls. It’s like a little weird but I actually really like whiskey. I’m kinda quirky.’
I’m just fully trying to hook up with Uber drivers and like the other day y’all like I got so close. I get in the car. The guy’s cute. He’s like, ‘Oh, where you coming from?’ And I was like, ‘I was at a show. I do stand-up or whatever,’ and I say, ‘Or whatever’ so he knows that I’m humble. And then he goes, ‘Oh my god. I love stand-up.'”
And that’s when things get truly bizarre.
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WillParkinson
That headline really needs fixing.
galileo
Indeed, and quite relieved to see that the poor chap wasn’t actually murdered on the show in the end. What a difference an ‘it’ makes eh?!
BigG
Terrible headline and that performance had no energy. Wasn’t funny at all. I think he said “like” in every sentence like seriously like yeah like totally like. Millennial comedy = flat
OzJosh
The only line that made me laugh was “I’m told I can come across masc.”
willji
Same here…
Paco
I laughed when he said that “masc” was gay for “I’m not like other girls”.
Hilariously true.
Kangol
I thought he was pretty funny, and liked his deadpan, low-key manner. The comment about being somewhere between not as attractive as a model but cute enough to bring down a “Republican” Congressman was a perfect way to end.
irbaboon
He looks like one of the child actors that used to have a show on Disney channel
Danny595
– Calls himself “queer”
– Refers to gay men as “girls”
– Boasts about having loveless sex with a stranger
Gee, it’s no wonder Queerty likes him. He hits the twin pillars of Queerty’s religion – gender deviance and promiscuity. His lines are not as cringe-inducing when you actually hear him deliver them, but he’s still awful. Fallon’s ratings are plummeting and he must be getting desperate.
Lookyloo
He didn’t refer to gay men as “girls” – You missed the joke.
He BGB
I know I’m old when killed doesn’t mean murdered. I know the new “slay” meaning though because my drag queen neighbor uses it alot to describe her performances……
tham
I laughed when he said “it needs work”.
It’s just weird how Millennial “shock” comedy is so short bus safety mittens.
Oh course Millennials shoplift, they justify it because they they got screwed by a system that “forces” them to work for a living. It’s not shocking to admit it.
Lookyloo
@tham – Regarding his shoplifting joke: If a comic made a joke about murdering someone would you think they actually murder people – and would you also think all people in the age range of that comic murder people regularly?
If you want to talk about “shortbus” commentary – Yelling at Millennials to get off your lawn is about as dimwitted and played out as it can get.
niles
Wow, someone using feminization as a tool to put gay men in their place. This is really groundbreaking.
Xzamilloh
Using your gayness as a punchline is funny for a limited time… Amy Schumer had her weight and gross vagina bits and ran it into the ground because it’s ALL she can do, when she’s not being offended by men not finding her sexually attractive.
This was cute, but like most things on this site pushing as funny, it didn’t match the overhyped title
Tanengrin
I loved it
justyouandi
He’s not that good.
rob7young
I’m a boomer who loved every minute, every line. Hope to see much more of him.
taborsmind
I agree. There sure are a lot of straights trolling Queerty don’t you think? I can tell because they don’t understand Gay humor. Oh and they are ASSHOLES. 😉
tomk1of1
Killed it. I’d go see him for sure.
nobeast
A few good lines, but he laughs constantly at his own jokes – which is really irritating.
readycarlos
Very funny and cute. Nice relaxed delivery. HATERS: If you can’t do better STFU!
taborsmind
Yes! Thanks. Too many straight troller on this site.