How DARE this comedian make a joke about FARMERS!

Unless you live under a rock, you have seen the latest video the farming community is upset about. A comedian does a bit about Daylight Savings time and makes some jabs at farmers. If you haven't seen it, watch it here and then try to keep up with all of us a little better next time, OK?


So, are you offended? Most people (from what I have seen) in the farming community sure are! How DARE he make jokes about the people who put food on his table every day!

Personally, I disagree with most of my peers on this one. He is a comedian, people. He literally makes a living out of writing jokes. How many comedians have you heard make fun of different races, religions, stereotypes, old people, young people, men, women... the list goes on. But when one of them makes a joke about farming??? Oh, no you didn't.

Seriously, farm kids aren't raised to be so darned sensitive, lets all just "cowboy up" a little bit here, shall we? Let's take a real good look at what this guy is saying:

Joke #1: "300 million of us set our clocks back 1 hour for, what 6? Is it 6, I'll give ya 7 farmers tops?"

• How many of you have read, or even used, the statistic that 1% of us are in charge of feeding the entire population? We know less than 2% of the population are farmers. In fact, we use this fact to explain to people why we need to use the best technology available to increase our yields! Let's not get offended when someone else points it out. We pride ourselves on being able to accomplish such a feat.

Joke #2: It's too long to quote, but lets address the bit where a farmer calls the government to request the time change.

• This is a joke. A reason for the comedian to use a funny voice to make people laugh and at a silly scenario. We all know that everyone used to be a farmer so the time change was a benefit for everyone at the time. And you know what? No one likes getting up for work at 6:30am when it's still dark outside, even if you just have an office job. Lets just take this bit for what it was, a joke.

Joke #3: "Did you know that the idea of the 8 hour work day is also based on farmers? Because it takes them 8 hours of day light to pick cabbages... You don't need 8 hours to do office work, you need 20 minutes. So now we're all in offices for 7 hours and 40 minutes pretending to be busy."

• See what he did there? He is also picking on non-farmers. People who only really work for 20 minutes a day. Everyone knows farmers work from sun up to sun down. Actually, he is pointing out that farmers work harder than a lot of other professions here, so we can all be friends now, right?

Joke #4: "I want to know why we're accommodating farmers anyway. I  mean, they already have perfect lives if I'm picturing it correctly."

• Here, he says we are lucky because we get to enjoy the outdoors, he points out the overall good character of people from rural towns, paints the picture of a beautiful sunset glowing on our crops... we all love these things about our farm life, don't we? I don't understand why we are so mad about this.

At the end of the day, can't we all appreciate that he is a comedian and he is just doing his job here? Essentially, he is mad because our lives are so great. And, heck, I think they are! Don't you? I don't think there are many people that would truly question the kind of hard work and dedication it takes to be a farmer. We all take pride in what we do, and that is probably the reason everyone got so worked up about this video. But at the end of the day, we love what we do and there aren't many people who are as lucky as we are to have a job like this. Go ahead, let them be jealous!