The great, missed media commentary show infoMania had a segment called “Same Joke” where they’d call out late night shows for making the same joke about the same news item. I’m pretty sure those weren’t the results of an effective corporate espionage effort among late night shows, but just a matter of picking the…

From elsewhere in the comments, Patrice O’Neal’s widow commented on the accusations and said O’Neal did not consier those jokes as ones he created and would not have accused someone of stealing them from him.

It would be pretty awesome for her to tell someone off with a “Lick a bag of clits!”

Thanks. The O’Neal stuff was what bothered me because I’m a bit sheltered from this kind of talk. (My middle and high school friends were too pretentious to talk about sex that way, now it feels misogynistic.) Thus, it sounded original enough to me that I thought Schumer could be guilty of joke theft there.

Thanks for adding context. Still, this is one of those cases where if Liebman thinks her joke was so original no one could have come up with it unless they copied her, she’s not good at comedy.

I used to be Truly Undecided. Now I’m Mostly Undecided but I, too, haven’t really felt much bias. Both candidates have gotten positive and negative coverage. However, I do think people are quick to find bias now that the Clinton/Sanders race has gotten really polarized. My husband is a strong Sanders supporter. The…

So far, in all the articles I read, people talk as if PoC= black people. I guess the rest of the minorities are now delegated to lesser tokens in terms of the movie business. No mention of Asians, Latinos (two of the year’s strongest performances were from Latinos, yet no one mentions them in this debate) or…

Whew. I thought I was alone in the sentiment. When I read there was blowback to this release (much like the criticsm over Same Love) I kinda understood the frustration but I remember thinking “You’re not the audience for this.” Sure, it would be nice to have gay and PoC artists getting that kind of attention but there…

Sometimes when Gawker Media turns over the staff and the people I really enjoy are gone, I think about how I mostly come here for the comments and wonder if we could just make ourselves a nice message board to entertain each other so that we don’t have to deal with the constant cycle of getting attached to a writer…

Clearly Canada needs some Charles Shaw to come to town.

No, I feel similar discomfort dispite my strong dislike for the whole family.

I’m in the grey and this post is a few days old so I’m mostly shouting in the void but here’s what drives me crazy about this attack — LGBT activists have been attacking the HRC for at least a decade. The thing you’ll hear most often is that they’re a group that’s mostly rich and white gays who spend more time putting…

Okay, in discussing The X-Files pay gap, Katherine Trendacosta makes my point for me a lot better:

From what I hear The Martian is beautifully diverse but it probably didn’t come easy. They are helped that it’s based on a book with a diverse cast but I understand some of the characters ethnicties are changed to maintain diversity, that requires that someone track those changes. Nonwhite actors have repeatedly…

Part of the protest is the idea that the Academy includes a lot of people who greenlight movies and decide if there will be good roles for PoC actors.

As I recall, there was a study in the 80s that said that non-porn movies that depict a “rapemance” (to take the term from soap fandom — “The Getaway*” was the movie specified by the study) are more damaging than porn that depicts two people enjoying sex together.

Yeah, I’m an outsider to straight porn. Most of what I know comes from discussions of straight porn but gay porn is a topic I know.

Looking at her IMDb page, she doesn’t get a lot of acting work. She’s currently got a voice acting job and there was that short-lived ABC Family sitcom but it looks like she doesn’t get a lot of acting work.

Okay, the Patrice O’Neal jokes are suspicious. That may be the first time I felt that way, but maybe that’s because I don’t want to think that kind of misogynistic viewpoint is common.

I just remember Joe Rogan leading a big comedian pile-on against Ant. Since I don’t like Ant, I was ready to get outraged... and then it turned out they were claiming Ant stole a joke about how we’d build a border wall to keep out undocumented immigrants with cheap labor from undocumented immigrants.