Damn. There were a couple times where I laughed my ass off, mainly the spoilered joke below, but damn dude a lot of it I could not believe he said and they televised. Seemed a little over the top, maybe that’s just me getting older or because I’m a parent now? Second spoiler below.
regarding 2nd amendment gun rights and gun violence and stronger gun control: “The only way to make a difference is for every able bodied black person to get out there and register ..... for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.”
regarding 2nd amendment gun rights and gun violence and stronger gun control: “The only way to make a difference is for every able bodied black person to get out there and register ..... for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.”
He’s got a point.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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regarding 2nd amendment gun rights and gun violence and stronger gun control: “The only way to make a difference is for every able bodied black person to get out there and register ..... for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.”
He’s got a point.
I mean, that's what the gov't did after Black Panther's started showing up armed in California.
On the one hand, we have people freaking out over Chappelle's latest show. On the other, we have people foaming at the mouth for Eddie Murphy's return. Delirious recently came to Netflix as well, but I don't recall an outcry over the rampant homophobia on display in it. I didn't see a Vice opinion piece calling for us all to cancel our subscriptions over that. Did they not realize that about ten seconds after he takes the stage he lets everyone know that "faggots aren't allowed to look at my ass onstage?" Is Eddie off the hook because it was a different time? I'm sure back then there were plenty of people complaining about his material, they just didn't have a platform like Twitter to express their outrage.
I found myself agreeing a lot with Dave in Sticks & Stones...the Michael Jackson stuff, the Louis CK stuff. Some of it is a little uncomfortable, and not really funny to me (like the Chris Brown/Rhianna "What did she do?" bit). Looking back at Delirious, there's a lot to be uncomfortable about too. He never refers to gay men as anything other than "faggots," something that continues in Raw as well. None of that hurt Eddie Murphy...he went on to have a major movie career and is considered one of the great stand-up comics of all time.
I don't know, I'm kinda rambling here. Just hoping to start a discussion because comedy is definitely in the crosshairs of today's "woke" culture. But I'm starting to think that it's getting a little out of hand. Nobody can stand to have their feelings hurt. No one can stand to have their beliefs questioned. Nobody can disagree anymore, or make a mistake. Comedy has always had an element of slaughtering sacred cows...how does an art form like that move forward considering the outrage culture we've ended up in?
meatwad wrote: But I'm starting to think that it's getting a little out of hand. Nobody can stand to have their feelings hurt. No one can stand to have their beliefs questioned. Nobody can disagree anymore
Are you sure about this? Because it sounds like Dave Chappelle just released a massively successful Netflix special doing exactly this and no one's coming to drag him to jail, internet opinion pieces notwithstanding.
It's not a particularly brave or interesting stance -- sooner or later we all turn into "old men yelling at clouds" -- but this whole "nobody gets to be provocative anymore!!!" thing doesn't ring true for me; there's still a big market for edgelord shit.
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Depends on who you work for or what your shtick is. Some are bulletproof, others aren't. And there are definitely some trying to ruin careers over it, often in the media. Hopefully they'll continue to be laughably unsuccessful.
It's not old men yelling at clouds. It's pointing out stupid bullshit being pushed by new age puritans who think they still get to play gate keeper.
I was not offended by Chappelle's special. I just don't think it was funny.
That being said, I think some people defending him are trying to bury their dislike of the Me Too/rape and molestation allegations movement under the guise of PC culture bashing.
