kokonut
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Hmmmm. The name "Deaf Karaoke" is lame. Whether a hearing person would find the humor funny or not would depend a lot on how the hearing person feels about the basic concept which is "I can get away with miming and gesturing things that would get me tossed out of here for obscenity if I said them."
I find parts of it funny but the humor is never more than one step above potty humor. It never approaches the subtly of Keith Wann's humor.
One thing I find of interest is that parts of the skit does follow one axiom of translating English to ASL: Keep to the meaning, not the words. The song itself is not funny and some of the miming lays bare its more vulgar meanings. Why this is funny to many I am not sure.
Fact: I have shown some of Keith Wann's videos to hearing people who have no knowledge of ASL -- And most of them find him hilarious and encourages them to at least think about learning a few signs.
Not hilarious to the extent that most hearing audience would be able to understand David Armand's comedy mime act with the music and not Wann's. Armand's is replete with visual mime sight gags and expression. Not much "potty" humor but how he expresses those gestures or "signs," if you will.