Same reason you saw more prominent women in positions of power during the silent era: not a proven industry yet.

Say what you will about Seinfeld’s dating practices (and hoo boy, there sure is a lot to say there) but Jerry seems to have a decent head on his shoulders for most other things. I remember seeing a roundtable discussion a while back with him, Louis CK, Chris Rock, and maybe one other comedian. Rock gave Louis…

I agree with some of this. BUT:

As someone clearly to *your* left, you need to go back to reading theory and drop this bullshit "boo hoo the left is why the fascists are coming" bullshit because no one is buying it

You are coming off like a dick, and moreover a dick who is completely removed from the consequences and doesn’t care enough to look into it while still feeling like you need to put your uninformed 2 cents in on a game you have no skin in.

I get what these guys mean with all the dialogue talk, it’s well meaning and seems reasonable on the surface. But I think a problem they have, and the reason they get confused by pushback, is an unwillingness or inability to see that things have degraded substantially compared to even just 10 years ago. So…

As if instead of telling jokes the comedian is simply giving an impassioned speech.

I just wish people would stop categorizing appropriate criticism as “censorship and penalties.”  

Exactly, people often think that there are these big watershed moments that precede prejudice but really it’s slow and insidious. The proof of that is literally what we are seeing right now. I think people may not remember or realize that even just 15 years ago these kinds of comments that your inappropriate uncle…

This is shitty and uninformed. There are many levels of orthodoxy, from ultra to modern.

It needs context though. My understanding is that entertainment has so many Jewish people in it because Jews were prevented from holding many occupations throughout Europe before they came here. Barred from working in some places, some turned to entertainment, making careers and communities in theater music. When…

Just wait until he produces an Oscar contender about an overrated actor who strangles his wife on a private jet in front of their kids.

How do you think antisemitic ideas spread?

I actually found most of the aerial scenes to be pretty inert and uninvolving, not to mention hard to follow spatially. Closeup of actor in cockpit. Closeup of another actor in identical-looking cockpit. Rinse repeat. The climactic mission was exciting, I’ll give you that, but also incredibly stupid.

1. “I think I’m 20% black and 80% comedian” *really* sums Chappelle up, doesn’t it?

I like that his two choices for great movies from this allegedly shitty era were ones that were sprung from movies that could not be more of the other two eras he found shitty.

Yeah, that’s incredibly dismaying to hear from him (not that I hold his opinions in that high regard anyway). Top Gun: Maverick is really no better than your average warmed-over Hollywood schlock coming out today.

You are talking to a boring Marvel superfan asshole. He’s only mad at Tarantino and Scorsese because he knows they are 100% right about his shitty baby brained movies.

They’re not looking for him to solve it...they’re simply looking for a reaction from one of the most prominent Jewish comedians.

Particularly in this case. I’m not sure that anyone credited as “Girl Clerk #2" ever got as much media attention as she (and Smith’s daughter) got for their roles in Tusk (and later Yoga hosers), or had been photographed so much at fashion shows and galas before actually having done much substantive work in…