I don’t know how well Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are known outside the UK, but they made a big point of pulling Gervais up for this kind of shit.
I don’t know how well Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are known outside the UK, but they made a big point of pulling Gervais up for this kind of shit.
Everyone who worked with Kricfalusi knew he was an abusive asshole. I was low level employee at Viacom in the 90s, and the stories about his bad behavior were rampant. It’s possible that management didn’t know he was a predatory sexual harasser at the time, but they knew he treated people like shit. Nobody reported…
This was not a good episode of Drag Race. The challenge was one of the worst-written in series history, ‘fashion’ on the runway was mostly a mess, there was no real runway breakdown from the judges. If it wasn’t for Shangela’s bonkers lip-sync choices, this would have been a real snooze.
I would recommend against taking sensationalist journalism at face value (aren’t we supposed to be past “fake news” by now?) but if out-of-context quotes are your jam then, go ahead, crucify the guy with a black wife for being a nazi.
My personal problem with the piece is that the article doesn’t acknowledge at all the numerous times Fantano has identified himself as a feminist and his reviews that generally indicate leftwing ideology. Also, thatistheplan may indulge in some lowbrow humor but to indicate that it “endorses” racism is a faaaaar…
As a follower of Fantano’s for years. I’m just going to have to point out how much of a reach this article is. To cite one video and two podcasts from a body of work including close to one thousand videos, it can be quite easy to cherry pick a few key problematic moments to build a reactionary article off of. The…
I don’t know... thisistheplan was terrible, but that article, and specially this headline, feels like an overreach.