An excellent interview, though I’m slightly curious as to why his role in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man was not discussed.

I wonder if that might have something to with how people have totally changed the way they watch TV shows. I’ll need to look that up on Alta Vista later.

Its silly, but I was legit excited when I heard him in that Diabetes Monitor commercial. He’s such an underappreciated treasure as an actor and seems like a genuinely nice guy that I wish him all the success, the second I heard his voice I thought “Good for him!”

This just in: individual shows have lower ratings in a time where we have nigh-limitless options for entertainment.

It’s always a delight when celebrities are exactly how you’d imagine them to be.

I literally said out loud “But her surname was fucking Ginsburg?!”

how the fuck did you not know RBG was Jewish? Come talk about representation when you actually know about jewish people.

The names “Ruth,” “Bader,” and “Ginsburg” didn’t give you a clue? Or her accent, or every single photo or video of her ever taken?

[Spoken as someone who is Jewish, looks it, has a very Jewish name, and whose grandmother was nearly a dead ringer for RBG]

So to answer the Internet Geniuses who respond with tired shit like “should Catholics only be played by Catholics, THEN?” There’s a difference between the role Catholicism plays in the world and the role Jews and Judaism play. One is the richest most powerful church on earth and has been for centuries. The others were…

She’s what we call “the exception that proves the shul”.

But is the opposite a problem? Let’s take for example Dick Miller, a Jewish actor who, out of maybe two hundred roles, played exactly two Jews. And if this IS a problem, is the problem a) Hollywood’s tendency to tamp down “otherness” in a quest to reach the broadest audience possible, or b) a Jewish actor playing a…

You are making the assumption that “New Yorkish” is independent of Jewishness, though. It isn’t. The ancestral language of many Jews (and among many Hasidic Jews their current language) is Yiddish. Much of the “New Yorkish” accent and vocabulary used even by non-Jews in NYC is derived from Yiddish. Outside NYC with a…

That doesn’t actually disprove her point. It supports it, more than anything. All these celebrities are Jewish (either whole or part) yet they basically had to be in the “Jewish closet” for years.

I think it’s fine Silverman questions this, I don’t think she’s being overly sensitive for pondering it. Anti-semitism is still going strong.

Seriously? A lot of people with Jewish ancestry don’t necessarily look it (myself, for example, although I’m mixed), but Ruth was pretty obviously. Speaking of RBG, take a look at On The Basis of Sex — I don’t know if an actual prosthetic was used, but the makeup sure exaggerated Felicity Jones’ nose. I’m not one…

I find it weird that the actor portraying Mrs Maisel is not Jewish when the character herself is very Jewish. I wouldn’t go out of my way to argue it has to be a Jewish person, but I’m also not Jewish. I could definitely understand an argument that the portrayal is borderline offensive especially because it’s not a…

On the other hand, just because I was watching Impeachment last night, I will point out that Beanie Feldstein is playing Monica Lewinsky.

Followed by a weak semi-excuse for his actions: “She also adds that she doesn’t believe Thicke ‘would have done this had he been sober.’”

“Blurred Lines” came out almost a decade ago, and Robin Thicke hasn’t had another hit since. It’s amazing that something new pops up every couple of months that stomps his career back out with a big fat boot. I’ve never seen a career ruined so thoroughly. 

This dude had the nerve to claim this song was about feminism and female empowerment. That is all.