Even blanks can kill people in the poorest of circumstances. Gun safety is the same whether it’s loaded with blanks, bullets, or completely unloaded.

I started to read your comment and was like “saw him open for Nine Inch Nails”... does Nine Inch Nails need his internal organs or something?

$8 million is an objectively low-budget film, especially for a film with gunplay shooting on location. The low budget is a big part of why so many safety protocols were ignored: safety costs money!

I spend most of my spare time hanging out with comedians and improvisers and I don’t know a single person who doesn’t roll their eyes at Jost and Che. They’re like... infamously reviled. But I’m glad they’re entertaining someone!

Ahhh, I see where we diverge now. WU is by far the worst part of modern SNL - Jost and Che are the absolute hackiest ones on the show. Bowen Yang’s Titanic iceberg desk piece was the best thing on WU in years.

Sounds like you only watched her first special, and you’re misrepresenting even that one. I’ve seen her live twice - she didn’t once yell at us. I’ve seen a lot of stand-up live, and her shows had the most laughs of any I’ve ever been to.

I do! It’s exactly what I was looking for - hadn’t seen the zoom-in on Yang and Sherman yet, wanted to see people fighting in the comments. A+ post.

If you know how it works, why’d you complain? Every comment is a vote for more! They don’t read the comments. They never have. So by continuing to comment, any rational person has to assume you actually love this article. Engage, engage, engage! Vote for more!

Congratulations: by commenting (and clicking in the first place), you’ve voted for more of this exact style of content. Management doesn’t care if you’re angry or happy, as long as you click.

I hardly think the cast of SNL is made up of the funniest people on TV right now, but Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman are easily the two funniest ones on the show. Sorry your taste is so bad. Thoughts and prayers, etc.

I’ll bite: Hannah Gadsby is ten times the comedian modern Dave Chappelle is. There’s absolutely nothing interesting or complex in what Chappelle puts out these days. It’s essentially just the worst parts of Twitter, but up on stage being regurgitated by a bitter, aging rich guy. Gadsby, on the other hand, is in her…

There’s a great article about this from the Copyright Alliance:

The fact that you’re too narrow-minded to imagine a reason other than greed doesn’t mean that’s the only reason that exists. You could learn more by actually listening to other people, but I kind of doubt you’re into that either.

First off: his act is copyrighted, so you (probably) can’t feed it to an AI model to create a work based on it to put in the mouth of a digital avatar that’s an exact copy of him. I don’t think the courts have ruled on this exact style of infringement yet, but they will soon.

What is it satirizing? You can’t just say everyone imitating someone is automatically satire. If your goal is to make a copy that is as close as possible to a real person / performance, you’re violating copyright, not creating a satire.

Unless you have evidence that they scaled back on artistic staff for the production, what would be the point of doing it and then lying about it? They knew that people would see it, and if this is the only AI graphic on the show, it’s not credible that they were trying to save money.

It’s a total delight! Plenty of closure at the end of the second season.

It’s bad, lazy comedy. It’s great for blog posts. The medium matters.

Tell me you didn’t read the post without telling me you didn’t read the post. Didn’t the AVClub commentariat once possess media literacy skills?

Truly a travesty. Mutant Mayhem is a stunning triumph in the same vein as the first Spider-Verse. I haven’t been that surprised by a movie in a while.