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Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/saltmag/public_html/display.php on line 24 A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Salt Contributor -- 03/27/2005 KR: Well, we worked with three, sort of. Three editors had control of the project at different times. SALT: That's an interesting phrasing, "had control of the project." What was it like working with them? Were they good relationships? KR: We've definitely been extremely annoying at certain times. SALT: To them? AB: Yeah. KR: Because, you know, we really care about it, so we call them hyperventilating about whatever. I think, overall, the final product is very much like we wanted it to be, and that could not have happened without them working with us. AB: I would agree with that. Kent, you were saying that we had three editors. You're talking about the one that was just for a week? KR: Yeah. That was my favorite one. She was great. AB: [laughs] In that period where our original editor, who was the editor who, we could say, bought the book, when he left [Crown] I think there were some major drawbacks to that. I think that may have been the main reason our book was delayed for a while. If you take each editor as its own experience, I think we were very fortunate to have each editor that we had. SALT: Let me ask you a couple of questions about the book itself. I'm gonna ask you about wolves. AB: Okay. SALT: I've always been curious, and I asked Kent about six months ago and never got a straight answer. So, Andrew: jokes about wolves. Was there a childhood trauma? AB: I think that stared with the word "lupine," which I guess I just like. I think it's fair to say that a lot of the jokes in here started with us playing around with words, and the reason I came to "lupine" was that Yo Mama jokes are typically about exaggerations and most of them use the wording, "Yo mama's so..." I thought "lupine" was a really funny adjective to be suggesting degrees of. SALT: I'm generalizing to some extent, but Yo Mama jokes have a reputation as African-American humor. Did you have any worries about how it would be perceived, two white guys writing a book like yours? KR: Andrew and I have no anxiety whatsoever. AB: In other words, yes. We had some fairly long email exchanges in the first year, where I think we started to have anxiety about what we were doing, because we are co-opting black culture to a great extent. In a good way, though. KR: I don't know, the connotations of stuff . . . "co-opting." I think we're doing something pretty different than the original. AB: I would say so. I think that was maybe the big bottom-line for us, I know it was for me. We're not doing the dozens. I don't think anyone is going to confuse what we're doing for the dozens. KR: We definitely had some misgivings about using the language, "Yo mama." I know I did. Andrew grew up saying Yo Mama jokes. AB: I did. KR: I grew up with, "Your mom." end of page 4 [ 4 ] read more ... [ 5 ][ 6 ] |
