There’s definitely a “doctor who’s on first?” joke to be made here, but it’s not worth the effort.

It’s going to be fun watching studios attempt to make this happen, especially when one movie is clearly superior to the other.

If she said someone one-tenth as incendiary about pretty much any other group

If it’s laid anything bare, it’s that any criticism of Israel is branded as “antisemitic” in order to stifle Palestinian perpsectives, and has been for a long time.

I think his response where he implied that if someone is offended it’s because they are “special needs” is what pushes him into that category, yeah.

i have a long-standing hatred of people - usually men - who disparage young girls that make up their core audience.
mostly because it just shows how dumb these ‘artists’ are. young girls make or break pop culture.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr. Pebbles’ reference went over your head. It’s a bit by the excellent James Acaster:

I think the important element that this explainer misses is that, since Rife came up on TikTok, a very large percentage of his audience is young girls. Rife himself has confirmed that and, from recent interviews, it seems to be something he’s not thrilled about. Hard to be taken serious by your comedy elders when half…

That’s the thing. I’ve seen some of his clips, and his work vacillates between be sophomoric and just kind of done. There’s no real *spark* there for me, which you get when a truly gifted comic is working a room. And I think it’s because ultimately his work is pretty shallow. He goes for the low-hanging fruit, whereas…

I like Maron’s view on these jokes, especially Rife's apology with the special needs helmet - it’s so fucking hack. We’re kind of doing a disservice to the shittiness of the jokes by talking about whether or not they’re “offensive.” They’re just examples of middle of the road hack comedy. That should be the story, and…

Bad luck! That’s my job! I’m a standup comedian, I’m meant to challenge people! If you don’t like being challenged, don’t watch my shows! What’s the matter, guys? Toooo challenging for yah?!?

I think the trailer was supposed to say, “These two people are conventionally attractive, and we have put them in swimwear as much as possible.”

I think it’s genuinely a shame that romcoms, especially earnest romcoms (cuz we’re all irony all the time now), have taken such a cultural beating in the last couple of decades. I’m sad that AV Club no longer features Caroline Siede’s excellent When Romance Met Comedy articles.

Yes, I’m taking 5 minutes to write a few sentences responding to a handful of comments in one article. I’m definitely spending my WHOLE night on it.

All due respect, though.

All due respect to the man and his legion of stans, I am just fucking exhausted by Fielder at this point. No, I don’t think that it IS nice to have a top notch troll working in media, even if it’s meant to be amusing. There is so much IRL fucking trolling by insane dipshits, I really can’t say I enjoy it in my…

Disagree. This is my major problem with Tim Heidecker’s version of parody as well. If something is so embarrassing that it’s hilarious, doing a 1:1 recreation is fucking pointless. Just watch the genuine article. No public access weirdness on Tim & Eric is ever going to be as interesting or amusing as the public…

I have to say though... Maybe she doesn’t see much of this in her world, and maybe it’s a less than it used to be with her generation, but people are always trying to figure out if men are gay if they exhibit even the whiff of a “telltale sign”.

I definitely don’t think that the ‘women don’t judge men’s bodies’ thing is true in any way. 

Also, I'm absolutely shocked at the, while not outright malicious; constant and baffling dumping on the show here. The show was shallow on plot? Bad animation (whatever, I'll concede it's decent at best, but how is King of the Hill badly animated)? A problem that it wasn't as high stakes as Freaks and Geeks (Which,…