at one point, vanilla ice wasn’t just a major comedic punching bag. he was the comedic punching bag. it was all everyone talked about during 1994: vanilla ice is lame. however, one comedian beat everyone to the punch. check out jim carrey doing an inspired vanilla ice parody on in living color. the irony is that carrey himself is approaching punching bag status, and gets made fun of a lot lately. is that karma? well, even if it is, carrey is being laughed at on top of a gigantic skyscraper filled with money, whereas vanilla ice scrapes by on checks from vh1. word.