It’s a game where the stakes are life and death, and the end result is the joke. Sort of like, “the cake is a lie,” you get the mind-blowing surprise, then you get to laugh about it with your friends after turning the console off. (If you’re not familiar with the cake, look up the game Portal. Spoilers.) In turn, the strategic use and circulation of racist jokes during the post-civil-rights era, via equal opportunity offender rhetoric, contributed to the articulation, reproduction, and acceptability of racist humor during the emergence of a “color-blind” racial ideology. In this new clip from the upcoming comedy, things get even more awkward when Emily’s father (Ray Romano) decides that he’d like to “have a conversation” with the Pakistan-born Kumail about Vay Tiền Nhanh Ggads.

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