Classic Opie & Anthony: Acting Out VA Tech Shooter's Plays, NY Times Outrage (04/18-20/07)

[@E101ification]

Erock fucking sold this. His 'British woman' voice had me in stitches.

[@jaykova100]

3:02 "John chews on the scenery angrily."

[@edwardvelasquez2965]

Jaykova praise the sun er sumthin’, tss

[@johnarmand2324]

That guy sure loves cereal bars.

[@psychicandice]

I mean...you think this guy...uhhh...likes cereal bars?

[@timd2544]

​@@psychicandicehe LOVES em!

[@TheRaptorPope]

These plays are an even bigger travesty than the murders.

[@MrNickeh]

How dare these comedians try to extract humour from something?

[@Uberlight2]

I know, I am outraged!

[@Messyman16]

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

[@thekavestation]

they're communists!!

[@cuddlepartyatmyhouse]

How dare they not turn Cho into an all powerful super villain like the news! How dare they make a school shooter look like an ass! They might discourage people from doing it! Then what will the media exploit? These assholes need to think of the consequences of their actions!

[@PapaLeonesPizza]

"u"?

[@helioseismology]

Somebody give Erock a Tony.

[@unclesporkums]

Rex Yolo Without them, he'd be around a LOT longer.

[@charlest5604]

Yeah a box of Tony the Tigers frosted flakes

[@M3GTR]

Around the 29 min mark when they start singing Mr Brownstone i had tears rolling down my face I was laughing so hard. Fucking Anthony and Erock..

[@HackBennys]

Holy crap, his writings sound like something a 13 year old emo kid would put on paper. Asians should stick to math.

[@HackBennys]

I wanna see that! Sounds like a laugh riot.

[@chattingesque372]

XD

[@jenller]

I want to see The Opie and Anthony Show the Musical!!!

[@E101ification]

"He's a terrible giver-of-directions...." So, a 'director' in other words, eh Jimmy? :)

[@B__r_BbbB]

Great video as always Steven

[@MattMonk]

You can tell by this trash that Cho was completely out of touch with reality.

[@WrightOnTarget]

Not really. It's shitty, but doesn't bely any real homicidal tendencies. It's just childish garbage, more fitting of a middle-schooler with a vocabulary and love for family guy than a college student. I don't even think it hints at a shitty home life, it's just what the guy thought was funny.

[@E101ification]

@@WrightOnTarget Firstly, MattMonk didn't say it belied homicidal tendencies. He said it belied the fact Cho was out of touch with reality. And it does. Secondly, these 'plays' weren't meant to be comedies. Cho wasn't going for funny when he wrote these, he was going for serious drama. He wanted these plays to be taken seriously. I don't know why you'd assume these were intended to be comedies, there's no jokes or gags, failed or otherwise, and if there were O&A&J would be remarking on how much they bombed. The plays were intended as serious drama. That right there absolutely indicates this cunt was out of touch with reality.

[@WrightOnTarget]

@@E101ification your first point is completely solid, I put words in OP's post where I shouldn't have. However, as someone who has experience with this sense of humor, they are quite obviously supposed to be comedies. Is there any source that Cho intended these as dramas? Because the dialogue is written like a particularly shitty family Guy episode.

[@E101ification]

@@WrightOnTarget Sorry but I don't see it. I don't see any attempt at humour in those 'plays'. They seem to me to be Cho's attempts at semi-autobiography, he's clearly meant to be one of the characters in each play - someone who is the victim of injustice who we're all supposed to feel sorry for etc. They sound way more like whining in play form to me.

[@JAKECUB100]

The play itself was almost impossible to listen to. And the NYT can't understand what they were getting at.

[@E101ification]

The NYT is the biggest horseshit rag ever, nothing but insanely left-wing bias and propaganda. Honest to god, the history of the NYT's bullshit over the last century is staggering, it's not just recently. When Charles Milgram did his famous obedience to authority experiment in the 60s he received a torrent of abuse from both the media and academia by people who either didn't understand the importance of his findings, or didn't want to. The purpose of Milgram's experiment was to determine how so many ordinary people could have committed such atrocities under the Nazis, and whether there was a real risk that this could happen again (if it wasn't already happening) in Communist Russia. This torrent of hostility started with a New York Times article and snowballed from there. The New Times declared his findings pointless and his experiment 'unethical'. Why? Because his findings had profound relevance to what was going on in the Soviet Union at the time. The Soviet Union was a Communist, deeply Left Wing state and the NYT were, and still are, deeply sympathetic to the Soviets, Communism and anything Left in general. Mass torture and murder are fine to the NYT so long as it's in the name of Leftism, and they resented Charles Milgram's experiment for drawing attention to what was going on there. That's just one in a very long list of shitbag antics committed by the New York Times over the years. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Opie sucks.

[@microbial2007]

Proto Cancel Culture.

[@andrewschuschu3499]

Brands become crap long before they become bankrupt. The NYT is just another example of that. They failed to see that by mocking and ridiculing this sociopaths “works” they were actually revealing how much of a childish unemotionally intelligent narcissist he was. One could say that the NYT lacks emotional intelligence, or just regular intelligence, for that matter.

[@HappyFaceLee]

34:17 is when they finish the O&A dinner theatre

[@N01Dad]

Thanks

[@ronaldcatullus]

That’s literally the best part

[@reillyobrien4372]

I think Chip Chipperson should have read the main character

[@fenfaso]

Alright.... erock is THE best ever. When the boys start singing mr brownstone it's fantastic!!!! And E steals the show!!!

[@E101ification]

'Eeee won' leave me alaaaaooowne...!!!

[@craig3.0]

Yeah... there's no way in hell that weirdo kid whose mom called in went to jail for what she said he went to jail for. First of all, it doesn't matter how much you've distanced yourself from him, if you have a son who's serving 35 years to life, you fucking remember exactly what charge got him thrown in there. Second, 35 years is a fucking long jail sentence, and, unless you were caught running a major manufacturing/trafficking operation, it's really hard to get that much jail time for drug offenses alone. Third, his mom not only gave up on him, but now has to take medication to even deal with the knowledge that she raised him, which are usually only things that a parent does after their child does something extraordinarily evil, and are definitely not things a parent of a drug offender would do. I say he definitely killed someone, rape was probably involved, and that it's very possible one or more of his victims were children. God, I wish one of the boys picked up on that so we could know the real story.

[@tenfootpollable]

jesus you're a fucking sociopath

[@E101ification]

+Craig Blanton Lol, yeah, you seem to be putting a _lot_ of energy into conjuring up vivid imagery of what his crime could have _possibly_ been. :P

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

Craig Blanton that’s not necessarily true... depending on what state she’s in. If he had multiple drug and violent priors he could definitely get hit with a heavy sentence like that. Also, that may just be the initial charges before lawyers get involved. If he had enough felony weight of coke/speed/dope for distribution they can try to nail him on x amount of years per x amount of weight. And if he doesn’t lawyer up properly he could get stuck with that sentence.

[@drunkNbored9]

E-rock plays da leading lady perfectly. He also did a gr8 job as robin, when da boys had to reenact some stern transcripts

[@BalloonSage]

He was also fantastic as “Jenny” in the Charisma Creator.

[@Godblessamerica2012]

Even though I love VA Tech, Opie and Anthony found a way to make fun of this situation in a funny way....hilarious

[@E101ification]

+Dennis Bowen They weren't making fun of the situation, they were making fun of the piece-of-shit killer. It's funny the way some people think that even laughing at the killers in these situations is somehow 'offensive' to the victims or their families.

[@cuddlepartyatmyhouse]

This is way more entertaining then every play I ever read in English class. He could of been the William Hung of literature. Had he not been such an asshole.

[@E101ification]

"He could _have,"*_ not "He could of." Obviously your English class was pretty shitty.

[@TomSmith-gw6fn]

Opie laid out exactly the pattern for cancellation in this clip going through the Jacques Steinberg article. Credit where it’s due, pretty impressive for ‘07. Sometimes you have to wonder what the hell his aptitude really was. Clearly had a decent feel for the media industry, which would eventually become blue check mark twitter.

[@superchunkylover23]

Jimmy's improve is spot on with this one!

[@phendformyself]

The plays are very poor writing, but at least the show made them entertaining

[@minesisbigger]

I was skeptical of this bit at first... and then I fucking died. Tears.

[@lindinle]

so the story is just, teen throws hissy fit. and had such a glass jaw one pop killed him?

[@sdm1568]

29:05 lmao

[@majoraustin8727]

Ugh. What a deuschy writer..... I had Horshack as my acting coach and he said the best way to always get a call back was to do the exact opposite when ever you saw bullshit like the mood written for you. Yuck

[@randommanwill802]

This is really awful. This writing is just horrendous.

[@E101ification]

How dare you, this is Oscar worthy.

[@microbial2007]

Add more crying scenes while screaming about identity politics and it's your standard post-Covid Hollywood production.

[@BrothersCinco]

A Steinberg writing a hit piece on a media figure...shocking

[@sadketchupg]

boy this guy really knows how to stick it to his dad.

[@Zappappappappa]

That Metallica song is actually a cover of "Last Caress" by The Misfits.

[@phanatic215]

His writing is too wordy. I've never seen a scene where every character has a monologue

[@E101ification]

Isn't all writing 'wordy', technically?

[@BorisBalkan2010]

Does anybody know the name of that classical piece they play as the main theme of the first "play"? You know, the non-dramatic one?

[@TheDaveBloom]

BorisBalkan2010 They’re all from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but I don’t know which movement it is. I think it’s from Spring.

[@Cheka__]

@@TheDaveBloom classical music is awesome. That's cool that you know what the pieces are called. I only know it sounds good.

[@Capybaraism]

Erock sounds like a castrato!

[@dorpth]

More like a Tonner

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

27:25 Kenny does the best part

[@jungshin87]

kenny when he lowers the voice is 10/10 also fuck opie

[@BrianStyleDeath]

I almost wanna try and analyze the first play I mean the main character eats cereal bars and the other character is Named mcbeef and his bigness was emphasized... I dunno lol. I don't like glamorizing or spreading the fame of shooters but these were kinda interesting.

[@jungshin87]

They do have depth. Mr brownstone obviously has a concept of youth oppression and the powerlessness of yourh

[@ShamRock1938]

I hate to keep 'going on' about opie.. But the Only power he holds is his fans (& he has No control the fans, what-so-ever)

[@E101ification]

Opie actually didn't bother me in this one. His sound board clips were all actually appropriate here and he knew enough to keep his mouth shut during the 'plays' for the most part, and his few interjections were actually funny ("Just lying around...?"). A rare clip where Opie was actually good.

[@randymarsh9089]

@@E101ification I think Shamrock passed away

[@MartKencuda]

What fans?

[@BoOgEdYmAn]

The government took charge in Pennsylvania. Sorry

[@superchunkylover23]

Jimmy is on-form with this one!

[@TheorizingWithBen]

18:06 I'm thinking it's Metallica - Killing Time.

[@kylemaccraig3850]

Misfits- One Last Caress

[@coconuthead1055]

Metallica covering one last caress by the misfits 👍

[@Zappappappappa]

Last Caress by one of the greatest punk bands covered by one of the most washed up bands.

[@MelBee128]

Ugh Opie being the hole and putting the brakes on Ant for the gunshot noise. "Careful now." Ugh

[@doobledeeschmoobledee2211]

Just think if Seth MacFarlane had not gotten his shit on the air, he might have gone shooting up shit too. Terrible style.

[@rakuencallisto]

Opie is insufferable sometimes.

[@helioseismology]

***** Sometimes?

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

If Opie were only "sometimes" insufferable, he wouldn't be as hated as he is.

[@jabberman3000]

"The massacre situation"

[@Hilder78]

7:53 6:47

[@GhostUK99]

And extremely cringe

[@kazoshay]

RamCho!! excellent shooter, terrible fucking writer.

[@Misty8097]

Why is Opie singing so aggressively

[@okiedouk]

Duble gunnsth!

[@fuxobama9989]

GOD BLESS MR. TRUMP

[@XxXsupacloveXxX]

Hugh Munguss hilariously inaccurate.

[@psychicandice]

Ramooooooone bring me a sniveling conservative who wants to be a victim

[@BoldBoyFilms]

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