But why would mentioning him have been an edgelord thing to do at the time?

One thing I find ironic about TMP is that it was inspired by the success of Star Wars but ended up being more like 2001.

One interview is enough to make them unforgivable?

My problem with Peacock is that the volume control resets to the middle every time you watch a new video, so if you want it, say, all the way up, you have to set it that way every time.

How so? I don’t see how merely mentioning that he once had a different attitude is somehow a coded way of saying he still has that attitude. I think a lot of times people use the “dog-whistle” idea to infer things that aren’t actually there.

I prefer TMP To WoK.

I’m guessing false accusations are more than one in a million.

In my experience people who complain about “cancel culture” don’t do it in a wink-wink manner.

For Americans in general, I’d say that we eat stuff like the KFC Double Down or the Doritos Locos Tacos. For white people, I’d guess the stereotype would be that our food is bland.

Funny you should say that considering how much we make fun of the crap Americans eat.

OK, but the OP also said I don’t get to forgive Leno.

Being a member of Group X doesn’t make you a Ph.D. in Group X Studies.

False accusations are a thing.

I think “it was the times” was an explanation, not a justification or an excuse. Also, I don’t see where he was all “I wasn’t going to give in to cancel culture!”

OK, but I’d like to know why you thought it was “barely an apology.” I know we’ve become used to disingenuous apologies by celebrities, but that doesn’t mean we should dismiss all public apologies as insincere.

One funny thing about that, though, is that I read in Live From New York... that his Mickey Rooney impression, which seems like one of his looser impressions, was based on Mickey’s actual behavior when he and Dana were on the cast of a sitcom.

How do you expect people to know someone’s telling the truth if they don’t give convincing evidence?

Funny you should mention that group in order to bash him considering they accepted his apology.

So we should never make jokes about any group until prejudice against them has been eliminated entirely?

I doubt they’d have made so many Lewinsky jokes if people didn’t laugh at them, so maybe the viewers should apologize too.