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March 4, 2008

Human Giant Respond To Your Stereogum Comments

We admit we're impressed by the level of discourse in the comments on Stereogum: mostly you guys are funny, knowledgeable, and collectively perfect at playing our fact checking cuz. Also you guys are excellent anonymous comment writers -- that's where your questionable displays of taste, rampant vulgarity, and misplaced aggression really shine. Although we aim to elevate discourse here, we also wanted to memorialize our appreciation for said moments of anonymous absurdity ... and for that we called on the most absurd friends we have: Aziz, Paul, and Rob. The guys took a few minutes to respond to some of your finer postings between takes on set filming Human Giant's second season (hence Aziz and Rob's old man makeup) which premieres one week from today on MTV. In addition, we have HG's latest short about a homicidal carpet monkey, and how said short involves both Will Ferrell and Summer Roberts. Now, let's see if your comment made the cut.

Poor Craig Finn, poor Aziz. So, lots of Human Giant stuff happening lately: Season Two starts in a week, as of today Season One is available on DVD, and Rachel Bilson feels sorry for acting monkeys. Huh? Here, let Gawker explain:

Former O.C. and current Jumper actress Rachel Bilson is complaining in Nylon about the chimp dressed as a Santa for website College Humor's last Christmas party: "Maybe I overreacted because I was too tired, but it made me so mad! All these people were drunk and taking pictures, and it was horrible!" It was a pretty white-trashy stunt, but it's hard to come up with new ways to throw money around sometimes. A December Page Six item says that Bilson actually "jumped the half-hour line" to get her picture taken with the chimp, but College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen says, "She didn't cut the line. She and her friend were leaving the party, so i brought them to the front of the line for a quick look. She was really nice to everybody." The chimp, who goes by the name of Louie, was unavailable for comment.
How this relates to Human Giant: In an attempt to ease Summer's mind, Aziz responded:
Louie's appearance at the CollegeHumor party actually led to a starring role in this Human Giant sketch ... Don't worry Rachel, Louie is gonna be a star!
He's right. This is one funny monkey.

Will Ferrell listed this as his fave video of the week and distilled its humor with his keen insight:

Holy shit...holy got damn shit. This is pure F'd up goodness.
Ferrell's got a point! Somewhere in there. Wonder if Will saw the guys' other recent bit of F'd up viral goodness:

That last minute is classic.

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love me some human giant but that first video was seriously unfunny

Posted by: boo at 03/04/08 4:49 PM  | Reply
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what a buncha nozzles, those guys should stop making records

Posted by: anonymous at 03/04/08 5:13 PM  | Reply
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goddammit, i hate human giant. especially paul scheerererer.

Posted by: jdubs at 03/04/08 5:45 PM  | Reply
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here's a comment for them to dissect - they are not funny. never have been, never will.

Posted by: annie onymous at 03/04/08 5:50 PM  | Reply
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Sweet Pavement reference, gents.

Posted by: stephen at 03/04/08 5:51 PM  | Reply
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okay confession? i love these guys more than i care to admit in a public and non-anonymous space. seriously i would lick them up and down and i'm only partially saying that to see them act out my comment one day. also i'm very good looking so make that part of the skit.

Posted by: peensy at 03/04/08 5:52 PM  | Reply
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these guys are a rip off of Mega64.
www.mega64.com

Posted by: Rich at 03/04/08 5:56 PM  | Reply
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uh..yeah that HAS been done before. These guys obviously haven't seen "HATCHET VS GENITALS". If you want to see a guy hack his dick off and pop his balls out, Google it!! Oh yeah! It's great.

Posted by: stephen at 03/04/08 6:31 PM  | Reply
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Maybe you should go to amazon.com and get the new Human Giant DVD! jokesmiths

Posted by: anonymous at 03/04/08 6:31 PM  | Reply
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What about the voice of Aziz Ansari? How did it get so queer? I wonder if he puts his wang into Paul Scheer.

Posted by: kurt at 03/04/08 6:48 PM  | Reply
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stereogum shows HG. audience reacts horrifyingly. aziz quits showbiz. paul robs local grocery store. rob kicks a cat.

ian closes internet window.

Posted by: ian g at 03/04/08 7:19 PM  | Reply
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I think some people are a little bit bitter. Human Giant is hilarious. Although if you don't like them, it's understandable. Everyone has different tastes in humor.

But you have to be a real idiot to call them a rip-off of Mega64. Seriously.

Posted by: Elliot at 03/04/08 8:42 PM  | Reply
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That's cool how they got Lee Ranaldo to speak in the video, he didn't tell me that he reads Stereogum.

Posted by: Thurston Moore at 03/04/08 8:51 PM  | Reply
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They do for sarcasm what Emeril Lagasse did for loud noises.

They're the Hillary Clintons of irony.

And if you don't like that or respect that, I do believe you're at least obligated to give props to that.
Word.

Posted by: studly roberts at 03/04/08 11:02 PM  | Reply
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this is so shitty. They remind me of one of my friends who is really unfunny and quotes movies all the time. Then when he tries to make his own jokes they sound like this.
First guy makes awful unfunny joke about Nelly Furtado, even if your improvising, a good comedian should be able to come up with something better on the spot

Second dudes like some lame VJ on MTV canada or something, this is the worst form of sarcasm, its SO commonly used, this is like the major scale of sarcasm what you just did, everybody fucking does that with their friends, you didn't add anything new dhghfgsjFUCK you did nothing with it you shitbag,

any money you both were watching that after you filmed it, grinning, thinking you were the shit, just waiting for the comments to give you approval, well i completely and utterly reject you: that really backfired didn't it?

SERIOUSLY: i know you are insecure, i can tell by your lack of confidence in presenting those jokes, so i KNOW you are reading this, GET FUNNIER or become an accountant...

Posted by: Constructive Crit at 03/05/08 1:23 AM  | Reply
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As a black man, I am impressed with Human Giant.

Posted by: Jonny Q at 03/05/08 3:42 AM  | Reply
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As a hispanic man, I am quite impressed with Human Giant.

Posted by: Horacio at 03/05/08 7:55 AM  | Reply
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As a hispanic man, I am quite impressed with Human Giant

Posted by: Horacio at 03/05/08 7:56 AM  | Reply
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i'm going to go buy the human giant dvd set sometime today

Posted by: msiggggg at 03/05/08 9:09 AM  | Reply
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Good stuff!!

hey kids everyone can't be Kids in the Hall!!!

Posted by: sarahk66 at 03/05/08 10:28 AM  | Reply
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that "constructive criticism" post is the funniest shit i've read this week. how's high school going, douche?

Posted by: nick at 03/05/08 11:57 AM  | Reply
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Oh man. I didn't think anything was gonna make me LOL any harder than watching that Carpet Monkey thing again, but you just did, Nick. 2 Thumbs way up.

I love Human Giant they're hilarious and I want to pyartee with them all the time. <3, Anonymous.

Posted by: Blondie profile link  in reply to nick's comment at 03/20/09 2:58 PM  | Reply
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okay human giant, you clearly made all those fake posts to make it look like somebody would actually stand up for you, however it was entirely unconvincing, you still are worthless talentless hacks

Posted by: Constructive Crit at 03/05/08 1:17 PM  | Reply
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youre the b.e.double n i g an apostrphe z!!!!

Posted by: adrienne at 03/05/08 5:02 PM  | Reply
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Holy shit, I could NOT stop laughing. Stop the hate crimes and recognize greatness when you see it. The brilliance of Human Giant is the juxtaposition of obviously outlandish or over-the-top scenarios with real-life drama and emotion. The new season is gonna be AMAZING. I fuckin' love these guys.

And no, this isn't Aziz.

Posted by: internet gangsta at 03/05/08 7:55 PM  | Reply
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As a primatologist I feel the need to point out that a chimp is not a monkey, it's an ape

Posted by: Jasmine at 03/06/08 1:17 AM  | Reply
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Corn Maze

Posted by: Corn Maze at 03/06/08 10:57 AM  | Reply
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blehh

in principle this is very funny.

in reality it was poorly executed. but I still laughed.

Posted by: anonymous post #1 at 03/06/08 4:57 PM  | Reply
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I like these kinds of anonymous comments better.

Posted by: My name is John and I live at 1312 Burlington Rd., St. Louis, MO 63017 at 03/06/08 7:30 PM  | Reply
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Yikes! I bet that 'constructive crit' is a future school shooter.

Can't wait for the 2nd season to start,

Posted by: juano at 03/06/08 7:35 PM  | Reply
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i have a feeling human giant will end up on "stuff white people like." Everything i like ends up on that damn blog.

Posted by: Fact Checking Cuz at 03/07/08 3:48 AM  | Reply
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As a Hispanic Female, I am quite impressed with Human Giant.

Posted by: Melina at 03/07/08 10:32 AM  | Reply
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wow there's more than one hispanic female that reads stereogum!

Posted by: ??? at 03/08/08 3:26 AM  | Reply
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i'd seriously be embarassed if i were them. it just all seems so pathetic.

I know i know, a show on MTV = "man don't you wish you had that??!?"/"what are you doing with YOUR life?!?!?" retorts

but seriously
it's all kinda sad

I've seen Aziz "mc" a bunch of "indie" events and he was just entirely retarded

The only come back I could agree with is that yeah, it's pretty lame of me to even waste my time dissing these guys, I COULD have way more of a life

but they just suck that hard I had to...


Posted by: ugh at 03/09/08 4:37 AM  | Reply
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What a bunch of cunt-fucks! Please stop making shitty, not funny videos.

Posted by: anonymous at 03/09/08 12:46 PM  | Reply
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As a latino, I know not identify myself as Hispanic.

As a intelligent person, I noticed that Human Giant is a water-downed version of Tim and Eric: Awesome Show, Good Job!How hasn't anybody noticed this?

Finally, how can we respect any show on MTV. Stereogum certainly does not respect many band, if it all that have been used by MTV, why would it entrust a comedy show on MTV to post it's own response video.

¡AMA!

Posted by: ¡AMA te AMA! at 03/15/08 5:51 PM  | Reply
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Careful, they may steal your work.

Human Giant Pinatas:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XJoXbF9kiCM

Posted last Halloween:

http://holamun2.com/candy/ids/id-pinatas-revenge/

coincidence?

Posted by: HG at 04/16/08 2:51 PM  | Reply
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Very funny

Posted by: Greg at 06/26/08 4:54 PM  | Reply
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kitchen yes look sun

Posted by: uglycube at 07/30/08 10:57 AM  | Reply
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