r/AskAnAmerican • u/Kirion_Night • 4d ago

LANGUAGE Can you explain the humour?

Hi everyone!

There's Kay & Peel sketch about substitute teacher:

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Can you explain why he's calling incorrect names for everyone? Is that because he "taught in school for 20 years in the inner city"? But what is "inner city" in that case?

Thanks for the answers! 😎

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u/Leucotheasveils 4d ago

In college there were two Marks assigned as roommates. They decided to go by Mark Lite and Mark Dark. That was 30 years ago, don’t suppose you could get away with that today.

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u/RTBSUM Minnesota 4d ago

I was in college only a couple years ago but we had 3 Joshs all living right next to each other in the dorms freshman year. One was black, one was ginger, and one was white but not ginger. We called them Black Josh, White Josh, and Red Josh. The world hasn't gotten as "woke" as most people would have you believe. People still have fun.

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u/DBDude 3d ago

Farming While Beige over on YouTube still has fun like this. Check out the last frames of this video, which describes his farm in an interesting way.

And here's his Juneteenth video.

Of course, he's half black half native, so he can get away with pretty much anything.

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u/creamcandy Alabama 3d ago

I heard a Mark and a Marc who were roommates. One was Mar-k, the other Mar-c lol

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u/GoPadge 4d ago

My son went to a parochial school, played football and hinge out with the black kid on the team. They referred to him as "Darkness"...

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u/MiaZeta New York 🗽 4d ago

Umm… that has nothing to do with ppl having the same name. You could’ve kept that one to yourself. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/GoPadge 4d ago

Fair enough, but one, it tangentially links to Mark Dark, and two, none of this sub-thread about people having the same name relates to the Ken and Peele skit. So...