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[Icyflamez96]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9KmXwrA5Y

I lot of people seem to hate this (as shown by the like/dislikes), but I dunno, It's largely inconsequential and I thought it was a fairly humorous skit. Preeeetty sure I'll be in the minority here though.

 

[Beelzebufo]

Does he break into tears in this video too?

 

[pizzacat]

Haha gottem

 

[Broken Joystick]

*mentions quarters*
*applauds*
lol

 

[paulogy]

Funny man laughs at cloud

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Eh I like Kimmel but that wasn't very funny.

 

[plasmawave]

Conan embraces gamers.
Jimmy doesn't.

 

[Kayant]

Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of Livestreaming

FTFY

 

[Cheat Code]

This gag is about 5 years out of date.

 

[Odrion]

why is he bearded now

 

[Ralemont]

Jimmy's right. It's like watching other people eat something delicious. Or watching other people have sex. That doesn't sound fun at all. Right?

 

[Icyflamez96]

Conan embraces gamers.
Jimmy doesn't.

Conan stay winning

 

[EightBitNate]

Pretty harmless joke, but I think Jimmy is wrong here.

 

[Exploratory]

Haha he's old as fuck and doesn't understand what he's talking about. There really isn't much else to say. Old man yells at cloud move on.

 

[Dominator]

why is he bearded now

He looks way better with scruff I must say.

 

[Clairvoyance]

Jimmy's right. It's like watching other people eat something delicious. Or watching other people have sex. That doesn't sound fun at all. Right?

Nobody watches The Food Network or porn confirmed.

 

[Einchy]

Conan embraces gamers.
Jimmy doesn't.

Team Coco even has a Twitch channel.

http://www.twitch.tv/teamcoco

 

[shinobi602]

why is he bearded now

Why not?

 

[JeffG]

Haha he's old as fuck and doesn't understand what he's talking about. There really isn't much else to say. Old man yells at cloud move on.

lol

 

[Real Hero]

I mean, he's not wrong really.

 

[GoldandBlue]

Old man doesn't understand the kids today, news at 11.

 

[Monochromaticx]

so its basically a "gamers are losers lol" skit

 

[ScatheZombie]

Nobody watches The Food Network or porn confirmed.

LOL, I was gonna say "Has he never seen the Food Network? That's basically an entire network dedicated to 'going into a restaurant and watching someone else eat your food.'"

 

[pastrami]

Nobody watches The Food Network or porn confirmed.

Watching people eat gets weirder than Food Network.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...ble-appetite-for-watching-strangers-binge-eat

 

[Shinrin]

Conan embraces gamers.
Jimmy doesn't.

The other Jimmy does but mostly around E3. (Jimmy Fallon)

 

[Beelzebufo]

Jimmy's right. It's like watching other people eat something delicious. Or watching other people have sex. That doesn't sound fun at all. Right?

Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of the Food Network

"Back when I was a kid you only watched other people eat when you ran out of lunch money"
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

 

[mdargis]

Funny thing is, is that Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. At all.

But I do agree that watching someone else playing video games is about as fun as watching paint dry.

 

[braves01]

LOL, I was gonna say "Has he never seen the Food Network? That's basically an entire network dedicated to 'going into a restaurant and watching someone else eat your food.'"

Imagine how shocked he'd be to discover people post grocery hauls on youtube.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of the Food Network

"Back when I was a kid you only watched other people eat when you ran out of lunch money"
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The hand icons really made this post lol

 

[Murugo]

"But I guess I'm getting old"

Yes, Jimmy.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

Jimmy's right. It's like watching other people eat something delicious. Or watching other people have sex. That doesn't sound fun at all. Right?

Hes late to the joke though, should have had this when twitch came out.

Imagine how shocked he'd be to discover people post grocery hauls on youtube.

Thats kinda shocking.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of audiences.

The audience approves.

*mentions quarters*
*applauds*
lol

Wow, you weren't joking.

 

[OnionPowder]

Watching people play games is fucking stupid. I don't get why the international has so many viewers.

Side note super excited for the NFL to get out of pre-season

 

[Troy]

Conan embraces gamers.
Jimmy doesn't.

Conan mocks gamers every chance he gets. He'd also mock people for watching people play games. The difference is he's funnier.

 

[The Lone Courier]

Lots of salt in this thread.

 

[ScaryShark]

Nothing he says here offends/annoys me or is surprising. I wouldn't expect a nearly 50 year old guy to understand or like or care about new trends in gaming and how we consume games in 2015.

The negative reaction, going by the dislikes and comments, are hilarious to me. Relax.

 

[Sesha]

I feel about watching racing and most organized sports.

Jimmy's right. It's like watching other people eat something delicious. Or watching other people have sex. That doesn't sound fun at all. Right?

Or watching other people play sports. Or play chess. Or talk about movies.

 

[Acquiescence]

why is he bearded now

Because he hasn't been shaving.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Hes late to the joke though, should have had this when twitch came out.

That's what I thought before I even watched the video.

 

[ZhugeEX]

why is he bearded now

The real question is when did God buy McDonalds?

 

[Savitar]

Goes to show why Conan is superior.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

The gaming community is so defensive holy shit. Get some humor internet.

Edit: I like his beard.

 

[SummitAve]

Funny thing is, is that Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. At all.

At all? Dude has had a very long comedy career that you can't subjectively dismiss.

 

[boinx]

watch other people shill their latest crap on my show instead pls

 

[CrazyHorse]

Some of the responses on Youtube are laughable. Instead of explaining why they do it, they just abuse him.

 

[OnionPowder]

The gaming community is so defensive holy shit. Get some humor internet.

Maybe we have humor and this joke was a lazy and boring attempt.

 

[BluenoseGames]

The gaming community is so defensive holy shit. Get some humor internet.

Yup .

I don't really get the whole watching people play games thing tbh . I only watch like Gameplay from yet to be released games, Trailers, Gaming news and stuff like that.

 

[Zabant]

Man whose sole job is to cover other interesting peoples lives for entertainment doesn't understand why gamers might want to watch interesting people as they talk and play games.

Just another old media personality ignorant and possibly scared of new media as it's probably going to replace his ancient late night TV format show in the following decade.

It's no different than traditional games journos who shit on youtubers covering games because they are afraid they'll lose their audience and job because they can't adapt.

 

[Spukc]

that first 30 seconds is EXACTLY WHAT I THINK

when i was a wee lad only losers and bums looked at people playing games.
the cool kids got to play.

fighting games ? loser passes on controller. winner stays.
people that watch streamers are losers

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Man, gamers are such a fickle bunch. A harmless joke and it somehow comes across as an attack.