Jokes about M. Night Shyamalan's name

Odradek · 2015-04-28 21:35:28

They always go for the racism angle.

The fact that he adopted the word "night" as his middle name in college, and never stopped goes by without comment.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-04-28 21:36:38

You could probably populate a small city with people who have called him "M Night Shalamadamadingdong" and found it hilarious.

Calica · 2015-04-28 21:37:17

the happening

plants come to life and kill us all

Odradek · 2015-04-28 21:43:17

It's funny because Indians have names that don't sound like ours.

lee4hmz · 2015-04-28 21:43:44

Calica said:
the happening

plants come to life and kill us all

wasn't there a bad Italian horror movie about that

Odradek · 2015-04-28 21:45:53

lee4hmz said:

Calica said:
the happening

plants come to life and kill us all

wasn't there a bad Italian horror movie about that

They're eating her

and then they're going to eat me

oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

Yarrun XIX · 2015-04-28 21:55:05

Planet Jane said:
You could probably populate a small city with people who have called him "M Night Shalamadamadingdong" and found it hilarious.

A walled city with the locks on the outside

Obā-san · 2015-04-28 22:12:26

i think that the jokes are more a function of "celebrity with a name outside of the norm = i should make an unfunny joke about it" than "person who is foreign = i should make an unfunny joke about their name"

not to say that there arent definite implications of those jokes that arent in the jokes about other celebrities, but i think that the implications are an unintentional thing, not the main point

Obā-san · 2015-04-28 22:27:01

now that i think about it i seem to be quite out of step with most people on the internet in terms of the consideration of the importance of intent in things in general

Salix Babylonika · 2015-04-28 22:27:51

A lot of times intent doesn't matter very much at all.

Like, it can, but in stuff like this, you've made a racist joke whether you "meant to" or not.

MetaFour · 2015-04-28 22:53:54

As someone who actually did it, almost a decade ago, it was more out of laziness than anything else. "I don't remember how to actually spell Shyamalan. Either I can look it up, or I make a joke about it and not bother." I was still a fan of his, back then. Before The Happening happeninged.

Klinotaxis · 2015-04-28 23:10:04

birdy the mighty had a rich media-friendly villain named shyamalan and i'm still not sure if it's a reference or whatevs

Calica · 2015-04-29 00:04:22

shyamalan redirects to m night so probably

Imipolex G · 2015-04-29 00:22:23

I'm pretty sure I once saw someone on another forum make fun of the "Night" part.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-04-29 00:23:18

I am vengeance, etc.

glennmagusharvey · 2015-04-29 00:40:53

I've misspelled intentionally his surname mostly to make fun of myself for not knowing celebrities.

Princess Alice · 2015-04-29 00:43:42

If you're gonna intentionally misspell any celebrity's name, make it Benedict Cumberbatch

He's a rich white European male, he can take abuse from twits on the internet

Klinotaxis · 2015-04-29 00:45:42

i do like "m night shammy", though

not like meaning he's a "sham" or anything clever like that. just the sound "shammy"

glennmagusharvey · 2015-04-29 05:21:35

Benedicted Cummerbund

glennmagusharvey · 2015-04-29 05:22:31

hey that's probablywhat he wears LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL #yolo #swag #420blazeit #mlg720noscope #brony4life #twerking #evafags #hashtag #hashtaghashtag

lee4hmz · 2015-04-29 16:23:36

Light purple cummerbund, you know you're my only one, can't get a date to the prom cuz I got a light purple cummerbund on

Corvina · 2015-04-30 05:47:07

To be honest, North Indians (such as myself, though I don't tell these jokes) often tell these jokes about South Indians

Odradek · 2015-05-17 01:00:54

Do you ever wonder about the alternate universe where Apichatpong Weerasethakul became a major Hollywood director?

Obā-san · 2015-05-17 01:02:43

"we are the skull"

not sure how you make a joke out of that

Obā-san · 2015-05-17 01:04:01

it is a much cooler name that m night shyamalan

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 01:06:06

M. Nightpolex G

glennmagusharvey · 2015-05-17 02:44:09

Panurge said:
Do you ever wonder about the alternate universe where Apichatpong Weerasethakul became a major Hollywood director?

what about the alternate universe where Adlai Stevenson becomes president and Richard Nixon makes a cameo in Final Fantasy VI

Aliroz · 2015-05-17 02:49:55

My mom knows an indian doctor named Dixhit Bhushit, pronounced exactly as would make a middle-schooler giggle.

Yarrun XIX · 2015-05-17 02:52:17

unfortunate

Haven · 2015-05-17 02:54:21

Central Avenue said:
If you're gonna intentionally misspell any celebrity's name, make it Benedict Cumberbatch

He's a rich white European male, he can take abuse from twits on the internet

You know, Shyamalan would've been a better choice to play Khan

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 03:07:54

I once saw some dude's name that was Mehboob

I giggled

Alduin · 2015-05-17 03:12:20

I can't get over how Devil was called the first installment in "The Night Chronicles"

PlutoniumFist · 2015-05-17 03:31:43

Devil was not called Hellevator and that gets me STEAMED, I tells ya.

Yarrun XIX · 2015-05-17 03:35:01

Oh, hey Seamus

You think that's bad? Night wanted to do a movie about Hellephant next, and he was going to call it Pachyderm

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 03:37:36

Hellevator, lolz

PlutoniumFist · 2015-05-17 03:38:06

He didn't even have the decency to call it Attackyderm. That bastard.

Anonus · 2015-05-17 03:48:36

hey there

it's been a while

Yarrun XIX · 2015-05-17 03:49:40

How is the old smoke demon doing anyways?

Did I ever show you the commemorative Magic card I made?

Miss Miko Mayonegg · 2015-05-17 03:51:28

He's gone. He's never coming back.

PlutoniumFist · 2015-05-17 04:01:27

I don't think you did. I'd be interested in seeing it, unless it isn't a flying fatty with haste, annihilator 2 and horsemanship 7 suitable for Grixis aggro-mill, and in that case there's just no point.

Hellephant finally went up to that great big elephant graveyard in the sky. He's in charge of it now. He said something about how "nothing has changed; I will have my kingdom" and apparently the pope has a problem with that.

Anonus · 2015-05-17 04:04:36

RIP Hellephant

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 04:10:35

Hellephant is dead; long live Hellephant.

eriophora zia · 2015-05-17 04:16:40

Aliroz said:
My mom knows an indian doctor named Dixhit Bhushit, pronounced exactly as would make a middle-schooler giggle.

I knew at my first high school named Shane Spinus. Pronounced like Shane's Penis. I will never totally understand why his parents didn't take the other potential last name, unless it was somehow worse.

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 04:18:42

One time at work I printed some birthday invitations for a kid with the last name Titler.

I kinda felt bad for him

Obā-san · 2015-05-17 04:28:49

Imipolex G-cup said:
One time at work I printed some birthday invitations for a kid with the last name Titler.

I kinda felt bad for him

it's imi's fascist doppelganger

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 04:30:16

right, see

PlutoniumFist · 2015-05-17 04:37:39

One time at work I met a guy named DJ Deatherager III.

I was impressed.

Imipolex G · 2015-05-17 04:47:33

now that is a Badass McCoolname

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