Completely agree. It’s like the backlash to some of the all-female remakes of popular movies. It could obviously get gratuitous and mean-spirited in a way that was very unfortunate, but it’s hard to blame audiences for finding repetitive a literal repeat of something

Replace the ‘r’ with an ‘n’ and you have my opinion.

JDW is, of course, a great actor

Honestly, if the “lesson” here was to not take gratuitous shots at someone who wasn’t there to defend herself, I’d respect that. But it feels like the takeaway will be, “don’t take gratuitous shots at someone who’s still famous and well-liked enough that it could come back to hurt me.”

Queen Bey Once Again Proves She’s Human, And That’s Why She Is a Literal Goddess We Don’t Deserve

I’m having fun trying to come up with a career move Beyoncé could make that a pop culture website wouldn’t overpraise wildly.

Maybe Al Franken will cameo in the episode, to deal the finishing blow to the most insufferable people on the internet.

Not attacking you--or anyone, really--just wondering out loud why he had, in fact, become the enemy of the terminally online.

Based on what, again? That he’s a member of a church that might or might not have conservative leanings, and he’s therefore MAGA? Seems weak, but it wouldn’t be like the internet to blow something like that out of proportion.

It wasn’t.

Not a conservative. Just a smart liberal.

“It was wrong of Megyn Kelly to speculate about a woman’s plastic surgery with no evidence. Now here’s some speculation about her plastic surgery.”

I don’t know. On principle, not letting the psychotic internet fan base of someone you dated 20 years ago dictate your career decisions seems healthy. 

Sure, why not; I guess I hope so too. He didn’t keep Bush out of office, or us out of Iraq, but if he can be the guy this time, then great.

Even if he could, why would he ever agree to it? He’s got a hit show that’s his own thing.

Obviously not an objective thing, but I just think that with the fractured media landscape (thank you) of today, someone like Helms associated with enormous mainstream hits that everyone was at least familiar with, whether or not they even consumed it themselves, cements a level of name recognition that more recent…

it does seem like a clear admission of defeat from Comedy Central

I don’t think he has the same name recognition as either of them, Helms in particular. He was in a hugely popular long-running broadcast sitcom (when that was still a thing) and a hugely popular studio comedy film franchise (when that was still a thing). I don’t know if “currently more visible” makes much of a…

“Being funny” is always an option for a political comedy show. In theory, at least.

Depends. Was she one of the ones defending Will Smith? There was some roundtable about that, if I remember.