THERE’S ONLY ONE CANADIAN MC I RECOGNISE. THE OG:

Drake is still the dork who practiced rapping in his trailer between filming scenes on Degrassi. Then he got signed to Young Money and people in the US decided that was good enough for them.

Is the whole “your existence is a light 1" an insult that has more cache in the hip-hop world or something? I don’t feel one way or the other about Drake, but that “burn” reads like it was written by someone who has been surrounded by syncophants that laugh at his every joke for years.

Uh, Zendaya’s mom is white. Here she is with both her parents.

While it does seem weird that the first scene she read was a sex scene, I imagine it’s fairly important to gauge actresses’ (and actors’) ability in such scenes if they’re going to be a frequent occurrence for years to come.

Yeah, fair or not, I feel like the joke is mostly that the rest of the country views Cleveland as a largely featureless big city that would never make a list of the top forty places to visit in the U.S., and Liz is totally in love with it. The joke doesn’t quite work with, say, New Orleans, Miami, or San Francisco…

Yes, because GE owned NBC (30 Rock, IRL).

Okay, but... all of that was a hot take about how lame city based tribalism was and that some people never want to really accept or recognize that different places for differences in how people want to live are perfectly fine. Plus, it was all about making fun of the “New York Elite” and that no matter how “Liberal”…

Isn’t it funny how the people who are the first to complain that nobody considers the context of their racist jokes (when that context is not exculpatory at all) are also the first to ignore context and jump on anyone they perceive as a liberal telling jokes where the butt of the joke is clearly racism?

Out of frame: Tracy Morgan playing an established black actor with a look of consternation on his face as, because of old-Hollywood racism, the best role he can muster is playing straight man to a minstrel character.

She shouldn't. That bit was a brilliant skewering of some shameless shit in broadcast history. I thought that was pretty obvious. 

Now do the part immediately following that where Tracy’s character says “Sir, I am asking you as a human being to please stop talking like that. This is debasing to both of us.”

The set up of the joke is about the indignity black actors of that era having to endure bullshit like that just to find work.

I think the other post is about the Two Black Swans episode and it’s was a pretty consistent characterization that Jenna was a terrible, insensitive person. This one is even more layered as a joke considering the Amos & Andy Show was a real thing and one of the most popular TV shows of it’s time. The set up of the…

Yes, that’s from the scene specifically calling it out as thoughtless and insensitive and wrong.

I mean love brokers

Joke-for-joke, 30 Rock might be the closest we’ve gotten to a live action cartoon. I know there are nits to pick but I don’t care. On the whole it’s still a great achievement.

It is easily one of the best ensemble sitcoms of all time.  

But like a lot of shows that got unfairly pulled, they did Blackface literally for the joke that it was thoughtless and insensitive and wrong.   Its at least not as bad as Community having what may be its best episode pulled because of a Drow joke

“Calls Senate candidate J.D. Vance a “rich twat....I mean, I’m a rich twat, but I’m not running for office pretending that I’m not.””