28 Days of Black People - Day 07
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you think today’s update in my highly-respected and much-publicized series “28 Days of Black People” is going to be another hilarious gut-buster, then prepare for disappointment. First of all, I’ve never explicitly called this a comedy blog, so I don’t know why you expect every entry to be “funny”. I live with a world-view darkened by depression and anxiety. I float through a life that I consider to have no purpose, and it shows no signs of changing in the foreseeable future. I am not your fucking jester, and the fact that people come to my Tumblr for a quick laugh is borderline perverse, in my opinion.
Of course, I was totally fucking around with that last paragraph. Still, there’s no reason I can’t feature a legitimately awesome person instead of some has-been like Wanda Sykes. For those who don’t know, Tyson is an astrophysicist who also hosts PBS’ “Nova”, and has been featured on “The Colbert Report”, “The Daily Show”, and “Jeopardy”. If you’re a hip, young liberal such as myself, then this guy should already be A-OK with you based on nothing but the previous sentence. Man, you know a guy is smart when he’s featured on “Jeopardy”. Even the dumbest contestant on that show could beat the fuck out of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” The last time I answered Final Jeopardy correctly, none of the contestants on the show did. I yelled, grabbed my brother, and proceeded to shake him violently until the blows he laid upon my skull sent me into a mild concussive state. I think the point to today’s entry is that I really enjoy “Jeopardy”.
