Yup, that’s Roger Sterling (John Slattery) in blackface on last night’s episode of “Mad Men.” Why? Well, a bunch of rich white people went to the Hamptons for a Derby Day party, and when else are you gonna break out the blackface if not at a rich white people party in the Hamptons? (It’s a tradition that continues today, I believe.) Anyway, inexcusable racial insensitivity aside, Slattery has a lovely baritone. Suck on that, Al Jolson.
But that wasn’t all for the musical performances last night. Not only did Paul Kinsey and his drug-dealing friend from Princeton get high and relive their a cappella days, but Joan (Christina Hendricks) and her dickbag fiancé husband hosted a dinner party, and the dickbag pressured Joan into performing. “Play a little,” he said, and immediately every red-blooded male wanted to know what she played. The clarinet? The flute? Something phallic! Something she has to blow! Yeah, high-five!
Nope:
It may look like an accordion, but it sounds like this.
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Never go full blackface.
Everybody knows that.
Looks like poo butter.
Way too much singing in this episode
Joan is the only woman that can make an accordion look sexy. Hopefully one day, I can get her to play my bagpipes…….and by bagpipes, I mean my penis and nutsack.
Nothing like a fine lookin’ broad playing the accordion… seriously though, huge wtf moment, and the singing was so blatantly dubbed the whole scene left me reaching for the fast forward dvr button… only it was live so I had to deal with it.
……or maybe she’d like to play with my “organ”.
//holds up hand for high-five
I am confused, because Joan’s fiance, was wearing a wedding band. Did they get married, and just skip over it, like Joan and Roger? Or did I get a contact high from the weed from my downstairs neighbors and miss something?
Mama’s got a squeezebox.
I found the blackface hilarious but at the same time questioned if it was truly necessary. I mean, does Slattery sing better while being racist?
I am confused, because Joan’s fiance, was wearing a wedding band. Did they get married, and just skip over it, like Joan and Roger?
Yes, they got married.
From Sepinwall’s review of the season premiere :
Since the episode doesn’t entirely spell it out (you could assume Peggy and Joan are discussing her engagement ring), I want to clarify, as Weiner did in the interview, that both Joan (to Greg the rapist) and Roger (to Jane) have gotten married in the ensuing six months.
“Suck on that, Al Jolson.”
You take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock, Then I’ll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my fucking fist. Then, every time I hear something that I don’t like – which will be every time that something comes on – I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls.
@Bobman – Thanks
So then it should read “and her dickbag husband”
Why are all the hot guys gay, priests, married or dickbags?
Somehow the blackface wasn’t nearly as sad as Campbell’s desperate attempt at social acceptance with the Charleston. Talk about pageant queen in training.
It may not be her blowing a phallus, but she is fingering a red box.
Without a doubt, the worst thing the German people have ever done was introduce the accordion to Mexico.
C’mon Panty Man, what about the holo…no, you’re right.
^^ And that’s not a knock against Jewish people at all, simply a testament to how bad ranchero music really is.
That’s it, I’m not watching this show if people are rocking blackface.
@La Schmoove — you know, a joke’s usually much funnier if you don’t elbow someone in the ribs as you’re telling it.
You really think we had no clue what you really meant by “play my bagpipes”?
at least it isn’t sheep’s blood this time. Wait. Is sheep’s blood better or worse than blackface?
@YAB
I’ll just let this explain itself.
Sarcasm
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Sarcasm is a form of humor that uses sharp, cutting remarks or language intended to mock, wound, or subject to contempt or ridicule.
@Jamie
Thank you for making me cum.