Looks like I will be part of the very few that agree with you. I have been saying this for months, and louder since the passing of tv god Normal Lear.

He was FUNNY

The thing about fuckers like Gervais, Chapelle, John Cleese, Rob Schneider, Tim Allen, and others that are always spouting this bullshit about “cancel culture” and “wokeness”, is that their whole schtick is “We should be allowed to joke and mock anything, everything, all the things, without limits”. And then they the…

The venn diagram of people who thought that was hysterical and who say stuff like trump derangement syndrome or gender ideology is close to a circle.

Rickles was actually clever and funny.

The person Garvais reminds me of more than anyone these days is Finch, the ultimate villain of ‘The Office’. A pseudo-intellectual thug who expects everyone to find him funny and charmingly transgressive, then retaliates with cruelty if they don’t.

People were so laudatory of his Golden Globes monologue a few years back, treating his digs at streaming services (which he works with) like some huge truth-to-power moment; as though he hadn’t been invited and the monologue certainly vetted by the network beforehand.

The best part is always when they say “The network will never put that one on the air.” Except you just heard the joke, so clearly they did.

It’s really shocking that this famous person is polite to that other famous person.

He is literally the #2 guy in one of the overtly damaging cults of the 21st century.

It’s not just that he’s proselytising it, he’s been the de facto number 2 after Miscavige. He’s not just aware of the abuse, harassment, blackmail and borderline slavery of lower ranking Sea Org members, he’s responsible.

I think it’s also fair to consider how he may or may not treat people he sees as “on his level” (e.g. costars) differently from those “beneath him” (e.g. low-level scientologists)

You would really be surprised at the cases that juries convict on. That’s why the Innocence Project is so busy. Jurors tend to believe cops even when they are caught lying. That’s why Leonard Peltier has been in jail for over 40 years even though, in an earlier trial, two others were cleared by reason of…

I don’t know what kind of evidence her defense presented during her trial, but reading about the case earlier today, I can’t imagine voting to convict had I been on the jury.

There are a lot of people out there who don’t know the shit that Scientology has pulled and continues to pull. Though anyone in the acting business is doing themselves a disservice if they don’t look into it, if only to save themselves a lot of time and money.

That’s why you have to go to court to get them and it is difficult to do, or should be. As you say, people in the US have a right to make bad decisions and it is (usually) very hard to take away decision making capacity from them. You have to show that they are incapable of making decisions or are actively a danger to…

Sir the is the A.V. Club. They haven’t trained Chat GPT to do that.

That, plus the inclusion of help hotlines and the like for people who suffer from suicidal thoughts.

“What is a scab?”