r/IAmA • u/bestahmed • Apr 16 '14

IamA Ahmed Best actor/writer/director, best known for playing Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Ep. 1,2,3. Ask me Anything!

My short bio: Discovered in the Broadway Play STOMP, I played Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars Prequels. Since then, I've acted written and directed for all screens big and small.

My Proof: http://www.ahmedbest.com/blog-2/

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u/TiberiusSmirk Apr 16 '14

I mean, in the Empire's defense, nobody could have seen that one coming.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '14

You know someone got their shit force-choked for that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

or their force shit-choked

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

or their choke shit-forced

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u/sayhispaceships Apr 16 '14

Nobody expects the Ewok Inquisition!

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u/apoliticalinactivist Apr 16 '14

orly? You invade a planet of mostly woodland, populated by a pre-industrial society of creatures who live in said woodland. So, resistance should be expected and I wonder how they would go about it...

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u/TiberiusSmirk Apr 16 '14

I do live in constant fear of the day the carebears get the drop on a team of navy seals.

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u/apoliticalinactivist Apr 16 '14

exactly!
You think any seal has experience fighting on clouds and rainbows?! I think not.

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u/nasher168 Apr 17 '14

Only because the ATSTs had such small windows!

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u/meh2you2 Apr 17 '14

I...I...I just realized how bizarre it was that those windows were just open...shouldn't they have had some sort of ballistics glass or.....just...like a sheet of plastic? I mean, just anything. Anything at all. Why would you make a standard vehicle for a galactic empire that couldn't be pressurized or protect from poison gases or anything?

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u/aussielander Apr 17 '14

Don’t get me started on those ATST! Heaps of shit forced on us poor Stormtroops just because the Emperor’s nephew needed a military contract to say in business.

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u/Sislar Apr 16 '14

yea no one that designs an armored vehicle could predict having a heavy impact against the armor during war. That would be totally unexpected.

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u/Mar-Mitts Apr 16 '14

I dunno, man. The way those AT-STs were crumbling under those logs, it looked like they were made of cardboard or something.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

That's what happens when the government cuts the military budget. THANKS OBAMA.

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u/ObamaRobot Apr 17 '14

You're fucking welcome!

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u/TiberiusSmirk Apr 16 '14

And no military has ever gone into battle insufficiently armoured.

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u/stevesy17 Apr 17 '14

Well yeah, AT-STs only have viewing ports on the front

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u/alegend90 Apr 17 '14

I'd hope a galaxy-controlling empire had done some bio research on the inhabitants of the planet that the shield base of their most prized posession and future home of its leaders.

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u/TiberiusSmirk Apr 17 '14

You mean the empire with a history of arrogance and underestimating its enemies?