This is a great description. Out of curiosity, where is it that Downey said this?

Oh Christ. I love Douglas Adams too, but when he says he just picked 42 arbitrarily as a funny random number, he is correct. If he’d picked some other number instead, 23 or what have you, you’d be talking about all the spooky coincidences and hidden meanings to that just as well.

“The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’. I typed it out. End of story.” —Douglas Adams

Not sure if it’s specific to comedy or just a general phenomenon of rich people having an easier time getting to achieve the careers they want, but for what it’s worth, Nick Kroll is another big name in comedy who grew up with the benefit of rich parents.

It is absolutely incredible how much better Clerks: The Animated Series was than all the Kevin Smith movies. Was it the involvement of additional writers, or what? (It’s also possible these are just my decades-old memories and will not hold up to rewatch)

This is exactly my experience as well.

Welcome to wordplay in title construction. Now that you are armed with the concept, I think you may also enjoy the challenge of tackling “Mad Men”, “Transparent”, “Arrested Development”, and the holy grail of the field (still unsolved and contentious among experts) “Good Will Hunting”.

I mean, he already did “The Good Guys”...

I, too, extremely hate this. Say “I didn’t find his jokes that funny...” if you like, that’s a subjective individual judgement everyone can make for themselves, but what the fuck is this “Of course, his tweets WERE problematic...” framing? Joking about bad things isn’t endorsing bad things, and buying into this…

It’s not clear if you’re saying Martinet also voiced Mario in the cartoons, but he definitely didn’t. Indeed, in the cartoons, Mario didn’t have that “It’s-a-me” voice; he had a New York accent (in keeping with his Brooklyn origins), voiced by Lou Albano (who also played him in the live-action segments).

No worries, I was just confused by the white husband mention. All good now.

Yeah, but, uh, this thing is. Her husband is Asian: Justin Hakuta, half-Filipino, half-Japanese, the son of Ken Hakuta, a semi-notable figure in his own right. All of this is easily confirmed; many articles about Ali Wong mention these details about him as well, there are many photos of the two together, etc. Where…

This kind of resenting-the-lazy-poor-with-too-many-kids-etc-etc talk is disgusting, no matter which subgroup of poor people it is aimed at.

“I blame the powerless. They deserve their circumstance, it’s all their fault, why don’t they just NOT be poor? Now I’m not saying all poor people are bad, there are good ones, but…

Wait, are you suggesting Ali Wong’s husband is white? He is Asian, a fact which has come up in her standup.

I think I speak for us all when I ask: Do you know more specifics about the behavior your friend witnessed? Give us the deets!

What’d Adam Sandler do to land among this company?

(I suppose this comes across as a slam on Ethics professors, but I just mean this as a fact about humans; everyone expert in any area just has more tools to do the things they want, to the point of self-delusion. Mathematicians when thinking about non-math spin mathy stories to convince themselves the things they want…

The general phenomenon, of which this is a specific illustration, is probably that anyone who has received prestige as an Ethics professor knows a million fancy ways to rationalize to themselves whatever they want to do anyway, under this or that alternative argument (and also a million fancy ways to condemn the…

You can’t buy the extremely culturally well-established premise of dead characters experiencing an afterlife, even in a fictional comedy? That’s a... severe lack of imagination.

Who claimed it was unique, a once in history occurrence? It’s bad every time it happens. Part of the point of discussing it publicly is that this unacceptable behavior is ubiquitous in our world, and needs to be challenged and changed everywhere.