A comedian tears into modern art's absurd prices, pointing to a $10 million rock and untitled wooden slabs sold for thousands. He mocks abstract paintings that look like Microsoft Paint doodles yet somehow fetch tens of millions, while joking about selling his own rock to get rich.
I don't know how your school does things, but where I go to school, if you get in trouble a lot, you have Saturday school. And being the rebellious and edgy kid I am, I had Saturday school today. And it was really crappy, like, I really did not want to get up that early. And as I said, it was just super crappy. But speaking of things that are crappy, no, not your car, modern art. Now I know most of you heard the word "art" and are gonna click off this video because you hear enough about that at school and honestly could care less. But have you ever looked at modern art and just realized how stupid it is? I really don't know how popular this thing is, but did you know a rock was sold for over $10 million to a museum? $10 million for a rock. They didn't go Leonardo mode and, you know, sculpt something out of it. Some guy just found a rock, sold it to a museum for $10 million. Sadly, I don't even know if that's the worst thing I found when I was going through the internet looking for things to make fun of in this video. I came across a piece of artwork that was called Untitled. The name of it was Untitled, and it was literally just a piece of wood. Some dude in the United States went to Home Depot or Lowe's— I don't know which one is better— bought a piece of wood, put a title above it that says "Untitled," sold it for thousands of dollars, and is now bragging to his friends how he ripped off a museum. This next painting was made in the 1900s, so I don't know if it's considered modern art, but just look at it. Give me 10 minutes and Microsoft Paint, and I could recreate this artwork. I couldn't find how much this is worth, so I'm not gonna throw out a number, but apparently it's worth a lot of money, and I literally could make this in Microsoft Paint in like 5 seconds.
It's stupid.
The sad thing is someone out there is gonna be watching this video and wanna kill me because they're saying, That looks so beautiful. Those are the best paintings ever. Why are you critiquing them? And I'm just like, what the heck, dude? They're ugly as crap. They make no sense. Honestly, when I was looking at modern art earlier, I felt like I was watching porn, not looking at art. But I'm not just gonna run around and, you know, call everything stupid and be completely one-sided. I am gonna say artwork like this, I actually appreciate. I think it actually looks cool. Even though it sold for $40 million, which is just ridiculous, I could understand why this is modern art. The things that piss me off are when artworks that look like my little sister made it sell for $21 million like this, or sell for $32 million like this. Like, it literally looks like a bunch of preschoolers did this. I just— I don't get it. But that's pretty much the video. I gotta go, guys. I'm gonna go grab a rock and, uh, try to sell it for some money. I'm not gonna sell for $10 million. I felt like that was a little high. I think I'll settle for around, you know, $9 million.
