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The Playa Haters' Ball
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Framed as an HBO America Undercover documentary, the sketch visits the annual Playa Haters' Ball, where flamboyantly dressed haters introduce themselves in confessional interviews before the party. Silky Johnson sweeps in wearing a fur coat and immediately tears into the outfits and looks of his fellow nominees Buc Nasty, Beautiful and Pit Bull, and the guests play a photo game in which they ridicule pictures of celebrities. Ice-T hosts the ceremony and reads out each nominee's spiteful deed, from Buc Nasty tricking his best friend into raising a child that isn't his to Pit Bull reporting his neighbours out of envy, before Silky wins Playa Hater of the Year for phoning in a bomb threat to the Special Olympics. His acceptance speech is a list of grievances against everyone in the room. The sketch spoofs the Players Ball, a long-running annual gathering of pimps in Chicago.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 9
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
What can I say about that suit that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed out and depleted.
First off, I would like to thank God almighty for giving everybody so much and me so little.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go home and put some water in Buc Nasty's mama's dish.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Wikipedia describes the celebrity photo segment, in which the haters mock pictures of famous people, as ad-libbed.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Speaker 1
HBO, the greatest network of our time, has brought you compelling documentaries about pimps, hoes, players, johns, tricks, marks, mark-ass tricks, trick-ass marks, skeezers, skanks, skig-skags, and scallywops.
- 00:15
Speaker 1
Now, America's most incredible network gives you another side of the story as we go into the world of the haters. America Undercover presents The Player Hater's Ball.
- 00:29
Ice-T
Yeah, you know, I'm saying like real hate man. That's like an art form man You know, it's like you like a born a hater, you know, like myself man, you know a lot of cats They could hate but man, I mean I'm mad, you know, I'm mad at everything man, you know brother got a nice car, man Why you got a car man?
- 00:41
Ice-T
I only got one car. Why you got why you got three cars or a wife or all that man? I mean that's played out man. I hate on it till he's totally broke It ain't got nothing like me. You know I'm saying cuz uh, yeah, that's what real hating is all about man
- 00:54
Star
Hey, what's poppin everybody the evil star here want to welcome you to the fifth annual player haters award ceremony this gala affair We we host this once a year. We honor the most prestigious verbal abusers on the planet
- 01:07
Korean Playa Hater
I'm top player hater from Korea your bitches better recognize
- 01:17
Again, I'm hating on all them Korean sheep out of my dog mother. Uh, yeah, I can't talk about
- 01:22
He looks like a broke-ass
- 01:24
That's sexual chocolate. Is that a cut in here?
- 01:28
Silky Johnson
the player The Player Haters Ball gives us an opportunity to hate on a diverse array of mock-ass mocks, trick-ass mocks, punk, bitches, and skip-skap skanks and scallywags, hoes, heifers, hee-hawes, and hoolie-hoos.
- 01:49
Buc Nasty
Man, you oughta take that cane and beat whoever made that suit to death.
- 01:55
Pit Bull
Don't you vacuum that coat, man.
- 01:57
Silky Johnson
Well, well, well. The most diabolical haters this side of the Mississippi. But, Nancy, what can I say about that suit? That hasn't already been said about Afghanistan. It looks bombed out and depleted.
- 02:13
Silky Johnson
And, of course, the so-called beautiful. Why don't you click your heels together three times and go back to Africa? And as for you, boss hoe, very insulting what you said about my coat. It's made out of your mother's pubic hair.
- 02:30
Silky Johnson
Quite silly.
- 02:31
Silky Johnson
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go take my throne, cause I'm a shoo-in for hater of the year.
- 02:40
Silky Johnson
The Player Haters Ball is not always about hating on one another. We play games with these other tools like our annual photo flip.
- 02:50
Oh Little ass teeth got dolphin teeth
- 02:55
He always says he doesn't want anyone to see him shine but the looks shiny to me
- 03:02
Looks like Malcolm X before converted to his name
- 03:08
Thank you, Miss Emory good lord almighty so shall have been let
- 03:12
That can pump my gas in my car on the way over here.
- 03:16
That's ironic because I take yoga classes from him.
- 03:19
Next picture, please.
- 03:21
I like the song the girl sings, Papa Don't Preach. I got a song for you too, bitch. It's called Daughter Don't Sing.
- 03:29
Next picture, please.
- 03:32
It's Boy George.
- 03:33
Now, that man right there, I'd hate to fight.
- 03:36
She wears underwear with dick holes in them.
- 03:43
Star
And now to present the award for Player Hater of the Year, Ice-T!
- 03:48
Ice-T
I'd I like to welcome all you ignorant ass bitches, critics, complainers, disgruntled rappers, and racists especially, to the 9th annual International Player Haters Ball.
- 04:07
Oh man, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
- 04:13
Buc Nasty
Hey, hey, man, you corny!
- 04:16
Ice-T
Next say something while I'm talking is getting shot. Please believe that.
- 04:20
Ice-T
Please, please, please, please,
- 04:22
Ice-T
So without further ado, let me give you the nominations for Player Hater of the Year. Y'all ready?
- 04:30
Ice-T
First up, Buck Nasty. Buck Nasty is nominated for getting his best friend's wife pregnant, then tricking his best friend into raising the little mother .
- 04:46
Buc Nasty
Yeah, holler at your boy.
- 04:48
April.
- 04:51
Ice-T
The next nominee is Pitbull. Pitbull is nominated for calling the police on the drug dealers that moved next door to his house, not because it was the right thing to do, just because he was jealous of all the money they was making.
- 05:08
Ice-T
Pitbull!
- 05:09
Ice-T
Finally, the one and only Silky Johnson. silky johnson is nominated for calling in a bomb threat to the special olympics
- 05:23
Ice-T
man the winner of the ninth annual player hater of the year award is silky silky johnston
- 05:34
100
- 05:37
Silky Johnson
Kiss my ass I'm the biggest hater
- 05:46
Beautiful
Silky Mink made out of% rat ass hit me baby
- 05:51
Silky Johnson
that of course was beautiful talking beautiful on the weekends does stunts for Little Richard in gay movies.
- 06:02
Silky Johnson
First off, I would like to thank God Almighty for giving everybody so much and me so little.
- 06:11
Silky Johnson
I hate you. I hate you. I don't even know you, and I hate your guts.
- 06:17
Silky Johnson
I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you.
- 06:22
Silky Johnson
And And as I sip my soda that I'm sure somebody spit in, I just would like to say to all of you, kiss my ass you rotten
- 06:36
Silky Johnson
now if you'll excuse me i'm gonna go home and put some water in buck nasty's mama's dish good evening
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