I think there’s truth in what you say, but that saying characters and ideas work well in one context and fail in another is no aspersion on Pullman’s work. It’s not a problem if an author’s apparatus works in the way he used it but not when rearranged. The test of the quality of a piece is not whether you can use its…

I would agree if they had a chance at a goodbye, but due to the abrupt production shutdown they never did. We saw the characters grow for 4 years (and this season was the strongest yet, after a very uneven season 3) - I want to get that finale and I feel like it’s deserved. In the case of this show it had to fight for…

This. People here already trying to whitesplain what a fucking contract is to the guy signing 8 digit ones regularly.

CBS/Viacom sold those fuckin’ streaming rights to take *more* bites outta the work he’s been doing on Netflix, and absolutely woulda leveraged that in that particular business deal.

They came to his…

Those people likely don’t make highly profitable comedy specials that exclusively stream on Netflix. This isn’t Netflix being nice or standing up for artistic rights, it’s them trying to keep someone in the fold for profit’s sake.

If we’re going to pretend that it’s just business, and he willingly signed a legal contract, etc. then it should be equally fair, from a business perspective, to point out that Chappelle would be a fool not to use the impressive levers he has at his disposal to facilitate a better deal for himself, however…

I mean he acknowledges in the monologue that yeah they have the right to do so, but that it’s also not quite right that they do so. He even said he appreciates Netflix because they went above and beyond by fulfilling his request, even though they could have told him to fuck off.

I don’t know why of all the items here the one that makes me most laugh is that Sturgill Simpson was nominated for best rock album a few weeks after he (again) shifted gears radically and released a very good all-out blue grass album. I get the nom for Sound & Fury in rock, but it’s still kind of funny that the…

Has Ben Shapiro given himself credit for the WAP exclusion yet?

I will never understand Best New Artist; both Kaytranada and Phoebe Bridgers released sophomore albums in addition to pretty solid careers collaborating with others long before this year.

I think the interpretation and implication of the word “woke” probably varies. To some people it means “concerned with human rights and social justice” in which case yeah the people you cite qualify, to others it means very concerned with enforcing a strict standard of thought, language and expression in which case…

The A.V.Club

Sam Barsanti is the kind of person most people would climb a tree to get away from.

There’s a massive difference between comedy from a liberal or left-wing perspective, and “woke” comedy. For instance, Frankie Boyle is, by no stretch of the imagination, remotely “woke”, even though he’s staunchly left-wing. This is a man who, after all, joked that the receptionists at the British War Office answered…

You won’t find anyone who hates Trump more than me, but people like Sam Barsanti almost (almost!) make me wish I could hop in a time machine and change my vote, just to spite him. That’s how much his peevish, self-righteous attitude pisses me off.

Yes, by Sam barsanti. I'm no cleese fan, but this article is toxic and awful. I wonder why I do it to myself. I used to like av club.

I had taken a lot of time off of a large swath of the internet until recently, and it's articles like this that were the catalyst for that; the opinion of Cleese is disappointing, yes, but the tone of this article is just...toxic. If this is how Barsanti is in person, he must be an absolutely exhausting and awful…

I dunno, maybe I’m just a huge cynic, but dude is 80+ years old. I’d be WAY more surprised to see an article reading “rando anonymous octogenarian supports trans rights” than one citing some old ass celeb who doesn’t.

Drop your panties. I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Isn’t the narration from the book, though?

Man, I loved this show. Such a breath of fresh air.