Netflix makes WAY more stand up specials these days than the other streaming services/premium channels. HBO & Showtime only make like 4 or 5 per year and Comedy Central doesn’t offer anywhere near the same kind of money as the other places. Many big comedians have self-released in the last several years (Louis C.K.…

Netflix makes the VAST majority of comedy specials these days. The other premium cable services only do about 5 a year. Comedians can also self-release a special. Louis CK and Aziz Ansari have both done that and it seems like that may be a good option for Mo’Nique if she can’t find another service or channel willing…

I think what I’ve read is that Netflix had to come up with that kind of money to get Rock/Chappelle/Seinfeld to agree to even make a special at all since none of them are as active anymore as Schumer and Mo’Nique are.

They can use their own internal data regarding how often subscribers have searched for a performer or watched something that they are in. It sucks for the person who wants the contract because they don’t have access to the same data and can’t negotiate with the same amount of information. I don’t think you can say…

Buy some! they are not expensive but really pretty to look at. I use mine to serve soft cheeses.

Mother of pearl spoons aren’t even expensive. You can get one for all of $7 on amazon.

Based on the facebook postings of my far-left friends who are supporting Chelsea’s candidacy based on everyone being too transphobic to see how great she is, the primary issue with Ben Cardin is the pro-Israel legislation that he sponsored and that at 74, he is too emblematic of the “status quo.”

Oh yeah sorry, to clarify, I meant that there are not a lot of different chains represented. I think the GBA is seen as requiring a place serving extra cheap food to sell a lot more of it than in many other locations. McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts definitely have their built-in audiences and do brisk business.

I think the Greater Boston Area has fairly few fast food franchises. In the ‘90s my family visited a Sizzler in the Southwest and my mom thought it’d do well locally so she tried to buy a franchise. She learned that the land in and around Boston is typically so expensive that it’s hard to keep open a business that…

My friend won an Olympic medal and he has confirmed that kneeling during the anthem is simply not an option for them. Responding to potential questions about it is part of their media training. If they knelt, they would likely be banned from their sport’s Olympic organization and could never compete again. Being…

Based on what was excerpted here from Caitlin Flanagan’s piece, it sounds like she took her own personal anecdotal experience of never being coerced into sex acts and has painted her entire generation with a broad brush to imply that these things simply did not happen to any of THEM. As someone her age, do you have an…

I give celebrities some leeway for that stuff. It’s not necessarily that they want to release a line of child backpacks or whatever, but they want to make sure that other people don’t trademark troll them or sell products implying a connection to their child. I think it’s an OK way to protect your kid if that is a…

Same. George W. at least governed in the direction he thought was best for the country. I strongly disagreed with it, but I can at least recognize that HE thought he was fostering positive change. He also didn’t say things that were offensive to the vast majority of the country multiple times every single week. Trump…

Yep, I was just thinking about that. I posted a comment on that piece just asking if anyone who worked in child protective services could tell me if it was normal for a kid to be taken away for years because they were hit with a belt one time. The mother herself replied to me but seemed to actually be responding to…

Agreed. I was more trying to respond to someone implying that people wouldn’t care about her lack of experience because she’s white by pointing out that there is actual precedent for Senators with a lack of specifically political experience and that it’s not necessarily what should disqualify the person. Trump is our…

I think perhaps the fashion industry is just reacting to the wave of accusations and the loud call for corporations/people in power to hold accusers accountable. These stories are reaching a wider audience right now and it could financially hurt any business seen as protecting abusers. I didn’t know about…

It was published yesterday. AV club broke the story and Jez cross posted.

Look up her swamp tour groupon story. She told it on one of the late night shows and it’s one of the most charming things to come out of 2017.

Oh absolutely. Senator Warren is both brilliant and had actual policy experience as well as life experience (Chelsea is 30, the minimum age for a Senator). I was trying to respond in a diplomatic way to someone who (I think) was saying that people won’t care about Chelsea’s lack of experience because she’s white by…

Being a Senator is a serious job but it’s definitely not the same as running for President or even Governor. Elizabeth Warren didn’t have any political experience before being elected to the Senate. Neither did Al Franken, Susan Colins, Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. I think people are less concerned with her lack of…