During a stage performance, the comic/musical duo Garfunkel and Oates (real names Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome) play a game with their audience called "Kanye or Hitler." Lindhome reads a series of quotes, allows the audience to guess who said them, and Micucci then reveals whether or not it was rapper Kanye West or dictator Adolf Hitler.
The joke plays on West's reputation for bizarre, out of place and hyperbolic public speaking.
Kanye vs. Hitler quotes
"When a man is starving in the streets, he's not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne."
"I stand here as a revolutionary. It is as a revolutionary against the revolution."
"I might have to go back to war. I just might have to."
"Nothing in life is promised except death."
"I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade. That I will be the loudest voice."
"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"
"I could design something for Obama to go to the club in."
Who Said It: Kanye or Hitler?
LA comedy/folk duo Garfunkel and Oates play "Kanye or Hitler" during an October, 2009, show. Quotes are read and the audience is then asked to guess who first spoke them: Kanye West, or Adolf Hitler?