I think that was a fair point, though.

You didn’t listen to his response, did you?

From you:

I don’t know much about how actual lawyers were in those times, but I thought it was kind of how “old timey” lawyers were, overly dramatic to make their points across and loud so everybody in the court can hear them.

And I think Fraser played well with the idea that the character here is a slimy lawyer too, the kind…

It’s a clash of expectations. The stand-up comedian thinks he should be playing by comedy rules. The journalist thinks he should be playing by journalism rules.

I cannot believe that standup comedy is not a completely accurate retelling of actual events that occurred in real life! What is next, sitcoms not being true? Are they going to start making movies about things that didn’t happen??

Waiting on the article now debunking that Rodney Dangerfield actually did get respect. But unfortunately he is no longer around to back up his claim.

I disagree. John Oliver, Bill Maher, Trevor Noah are still doing stand ups right now. And there is no way a 100% of their stand up shows are true stories.

This Hasan Minhaj story will blow over and he will probably adjust the kind of stories he tells. This whole debacle was not something started by the public, it was…

“embellishing a victimhood situation for sympathy” has been like 90% of all stand-up comedy since it was invented

“standup comedian embellishes details for sake of comedy.” News at 11.

This is just an attack on comedians who are also working on news shows.

Basically it’s a big “you’re going to have to choose between the two, either you are acomedic news show host or you’re a comedic storyteller, but you can’t be both.”

Really sucks that he lost the Daily Show gig over this :/ I hadn’t read the original article so I didn’t really understand why everyone was so upset but it does sound like they went out of their way to make him sound more insincere and less trustworthy than he is. Leaving out all the additional context around…

Can the New Yorker investigate whether Steven Wright ever actually had a pony?

One of the big advantages of Facebook is the Memories feed which is a daily reminder of a). how adorable your children were on this day 8 years ago, and b). that REALLY dumb thing you said 10 years ago and should probably delete like right the fuck now.

Most people are idiots at sixteen.

Or she just forgot she did it? Who remembers every single thing they tweeted or posted on Facebook 10 years ago? I certainly don’t.

Stories like this always make me happy there was no social media (as we know it today!) when I was in high school (late-90s/early-00s); I may not have been out there spewing racial epithets, but I definitely held some “edgy” teen opinions that I am glad I wasn’t able to announce to the world, or immortalize digitally.

“Around the time she was 16 or 17, it seems, Lunden was in the habit of tweeting the N-word. A lot.”

Changing from Openly racist behaviors and even changing perspective is a radically different thing that openly working towards equity and antiracism.

I think it comes down to what has a white person used their privilege or opportunities for once they’ve realized that their prior attitude was racist or wrong.

16, on…

Mediocre white dudes trying to gatekeep adaptations of books they have clearly never read is one of the most ridiculous things ever. I’ve seen so many comments about how this adaptation of three characters who have been super popular for a super long time (Kamala less, but still) is somehow pandering to an outside…