Former journalist too. It’s also about getting as many eyes/ears on your outlet, so you work hard at trying not to “offend” anyone, even the ones saying the dumbest shit possible. So “dumb shit” is not “dumb shit” any longer, it’s “an alternative view.” Seriously, I remember when stuff like shooting bleach up your…

The crack was opened when everyone looked at Trump and said, “Hey, if that uninformed buffoon can spew BS and no one challenges him on it. there’s room for me.”

We had 10 days to write this monologue.

You got me. No, I just meant the “disappointing” part. However, any inclusion of any of those elements would have been an improvement.

I think, like he hinted, he wrote them fast as hell and didn’t have time to develop them. I kept wondering why he didn’t incorporate his tried and true stand up bits and work them into the monologue. 

Yeah, the fact that they never even said their names... It was a third-tier show that got a weird rebirth on a streaming service. For them to expect that everyone knows who they are was weird.

Unpopular opinion(?): The Holdovers sucked. So much so that I couldn’t focus on the quality of the acting, which was apparently good enough to get two awards last night.

Yeah, it was pretty bad and he’s a pretty good standup. The jokes were lame or not fully formed - just the idea of the joke. I kept wondering why he didn’t just use some of his regular standup and maybe craft it for the crowd. He had to have had SOMETHING in his holster better than what he came up with. And I do…

Who’s Jo Koy?

I have similar disappointing thoughts on The Holdovers... yeesh.

“Speaking of The Holdovers...”

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Danke.

Ist das ein sandwich?

Have you tried Superdawg? If you have the time, it’s not that far from O’Hare but would require a stop. They do it pretty dang good.

That pickle seems a big bigger than most, but, yeah, it’s not hard. You just cram it in. The same way you do an Italian beef with gardinera (sp?). It can be a tasty mess.

So, Dave isn’t a champion of black people, yet the same jokes he says are heard in every black barber by your own admission.

Only if there are a lot of Dems on it. I mean, we just saw Trump’s fucking name on it and it’s not even the top thing on the news. I mean, a major presidential candidate, who has a good chance to take office again, is on the flight logs of a plane that goes to “Pedo island” and ... nothing.

...said the guy who can’t stop himself from responding to EVERY fucking comment.

Rickles always ended his bits with “but I kid...”. Whether he actually believed it or not is debatable but at least that part was said.