A few things.

1) If Dave was frustrated he lost gigs, did he forget that he’s...Dave-fucking-Chappelle? He has enough juice to where a cancelled gig in City A on Night B can easily be replaced with a gig in City B on Night C. Just like most of us, if we say some stupid shit at our jobs, we might end up being…

1) I’d answer that for many people, depending on your various group identifiers, it’s either very hard or very easy to tell when a comedian is making fun of you and your people, or trying to have people laugh at you, not with you, or whether they’re simply using the group as a sort of foundation for a joke. With Dave,…

It’s ironic that a person as rich and powerful as Dave Chapelle, who has gotten to that position because he’s talented at what he does and lives in a capitalist country that allows his talent to be paid handsomely, is framing the response from people as a “punishment”.

It’s not a punishment: it’s the free market at…

It’s interesting.

I know I’m biased because I’m a Florida boy and I love the 80s, so Vice City and the map instantly had me hooked.

Conversely, I enjoy Liberty City in IV, and don’t particularly care for either San Andreas or V, so I think for me, how I view the map is heavily influenced by the gameplay and story, not…

Yeah. That ending brought me straight to tears.

This.

As I responded to someone above, people can maintain and foster close, personal relationships with others in groups they are bigoted towards, with seemingly no cognitive dissonance. Plenty of white racists fathered children with black people. Plenty of Nazi’s lusted after Jewish people. Most misogynists, after…

I love Dave. He’s arguably my favorite comedian of all-time. I agree with your first point, in theory, however it doesn’t necessarily hold water in practice.

There’s a long and storied history of people in minority groups who receive preferential treatment by those in the majority and those in power, seemingly in spite…

BP2 might not lose money at the box office, but delays or shutdowns on a $300m+ production costs a fuckton of money that Disney/Marvel will have to either write-down, or recoup.

Tom Cruise is a loon, but he was absolutely right during his tirade when it came to mask wearing and vaccines. Shutting down a production not…

I think we’re both getting to the same point.

There’s plenty of characters where a certain group identifier isn’t particularly relevant to how the character is written. The script might call for a Jewish woman, but unless being Jewish is instrumental to how the character is written or portrayed (and you can replace…

I should have clarified. By behind the camera, I didn’t mean specifically directors and/or cinematographers, but anyone involved in the production of movies or TV, so crew members, makeup artists, stylists, management, writers, and the like.

As I responded to someone else, just looking at the end credits to a…

Serialization was due to the fact that printing an individual novel was very expensive, and thus limited the potential purchases to the rich and very wealthy. So, if you were someone who wanted to be a writer, and also wanted to earn a living, you couldn’t risk working years on a novel just to get the door slammed in…

That form of release had more to do with the fact that printing individual books was an expensive undertaking, made all the more expensive by the fact that most people couldn’t afford books. However, a newspaper publisher had the money and machinery to do printing, writers could certainly use the work, and readers…

I hate to use the same response I used to you on another comment, but the movie industry is more than just actors, so while you’re right that Hollywood has a lot of Jewish people in the industry, if they are disproportionately non-actors, you can’t simply throw people in front of the camera simply because they’re…

You brought up something I touched on awhile back (the centrality of a group identity to the character) on an article about gay actors and the roles being written and offered.

As much as we talk about representation (I’m black and gay myself), the reality is that historically, there aren’t that many notable people…

I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the issues is that, for many Americans, there’s not a clear understanding that being Jewish isn’t merely a religious belief or affiliation, but for many people, an ethnic one. So you have a lot of people making these decisions who think that being Jewish is a much more fungible…

Not to get needlessly political, but it’s a bit naive to think that all of the billions of aid sent to Israel ostensibly for Iron Dome went to Iron Dome. Not only that, but the aid also functions as backdoor funding for companies such as Raytheon who are part of the co-operation agreement(s) that are baked into the…

You’re right about the pacing.

One thing I hate in TV shows is when there’s a bad or utter lack of transparency into how much time has passed in between events, particularly when these events are significant.

Hell, the first episode had Yaya’s family moving to MV, meeting up with their friend, the Franklin-DuPont’s…

Unless I’m completely misreading and misinterpreting your statement (in which case, I apologize), aside from the fact that Jewish descent in most Jewish communities is conferred matrilineally, Martha Wayne is Kate’s aunt, so Martha being Jewish would have no bearing on Kate being Jewish by birth (unless she’s a part…

Raising Kanan started slow, I can admit that, but it really picked up in the later episodes although it was difficult to get an exact sense of when the story took place. I enjoyed Emprie for the first two seasons, but it was clear that none of the characters were actually going to grow and change, and it made all of…

I think what Dave, and a lot of other stand up comedians, are facing is a demographic and technological shift that’s resulting in pure stand-up comedy just not being as popular as it once was.

Looking back at the last 15-20, all of the highest earning stand-up comics at one point or another shifted between stand-up and…