I always love the people who brag about doing Crossfit while 8.5 months pregnant, and then you see their videos, and their form is ruined and dangerous trying to accommodate a round, protruding belly. I am ALL for working out while pregnant if they so desire, but being not willing to account for your loosening…

Thank you! I gained a lot of weight after I quit smoking and then the holidays and a couple of vacations. I wasn’t going to go all: I’M JOINING A GYM! I knew that would be doomed to failure. So I’m walking 2-3 miles several days a week, taking a beginners belly dance class, a couple of other dance based classes and…

if it meets your goals, sure!

Though I do find at some point most athletic people can squat with much more weight on a barbell, than a single leg would lift on a pistol. If you want leg strength probably continue with the more traditional stuff and lift heavy.

But added stability from unilateral movements is always a…

Have never done pistol squats. Except years ago when I used to ice skate I did them but they were on ice skates and we called it shoot the duck, I believe. It is a challenge on ice skates but it helped me prepare for sit spins. 

Also a lot of these “fun and challenging” moves can actually be quite risky. They can put a lot of stress on joints and connective tissue. Once people start accumulating injuries, the intention to continue an active lifestyle disappears fast.

Do people actually do pistol squats for exercise? I can do it (purely as a result of doing other, better exercises), but I always thought it was more like a cool party trick or something you do to prove you can do it rather than something people actually do for exercise.

That’s a take I’d expect from Quinn. I’m glad actual funny comedians like Key and Peele are out there to push back on that mentality.

Fellow Gen-Xer here. Nobody I knew ever gave a shit about her or her book. Yes, we heard her name and heard plenty of discussion about her book in mainstream media, but none of my clique ever bothered to read it.

And let’s be honest with ourselves here - all the best late in life memoirs come from the batshit crazy…

And Oprah is the most powerful woman in America. It’s still racist to imply she loves eating fried chicken and watermelon. Just because a person wields power in one way doesn’t mean it’s OK to be racist toward them.

Punching down implies, that the person punching down is in a superior position to the subject(s) of his joke. Do you really believe that Ricky Gervais is more powerful than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association?

I was diagnosed with mets dec 31st last week, after eight years cancer free. I know I should feel sorry for her, but I’m just scared for myself

Cardi B, who has made trans-phobic and racist comments still queen here at Jez. I am willing to be grayed again for life throwing this out there...

It already isn’t a thing with any real, meaningful consequences. That is my point. Saying someone is “canceled” is just a hyperbolic way of expressing fatigue over dealing with a person or group of people. It doesn’t actually mean anything beyond that.  

I was more impressed that he not only punched up, but punched up at the right targets: people who’ve benefited from relationships with Epstein and Weinstein, and people making profits by partnering with ethically questionable super-companies like Amazon and Apple. The jokes weren’t that funny, but the targets were…

“Don’t be like Jay Leno”

I came here to say the same thing regarding “punching down” and “don’t do it.”

If you turn off the lights and say “Ricky Gervais” three times on twitter, even if you don’t @ him, he’ll appear in your mentions.

That Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes in 2020 is ironclad proof that the supposed excesses of “cancel culture” are not actually a thing, but only exist in the fever dreams of people who desperately want to shout the n-word and use “gay” as an insult. 

But this year, Gervais decided that if he was going to be criticized for punching down with his jokes, then he wasn’t going to be funny at all.

More accurately, Ricky Gervais is simply playing himself in The Office but with Stephen Merchant having sanded off the worst corners.