Colbert and the Late Show are in a SUPER weird state. He took over the Late Show and the whole idea seemed to be to just do the same sort of easygoing, general comedy that it was under Letterman, and that all the other talk shows still were at the time. Sure, current events comes up, but it isn’t the only thing.

Bill Maher tries, at least. If nothing else, you won’t find him repeating the same word-for-word narrative that every other one of these people will.

The point I tuned out was an early episode where she was talking with a bunch of real migrants about the real struggles they were going through, but in order to make it “funny” her whole bit was to say GOP talking points to their faces in a bad sitcom voice then mug to the cheap seats when they disagreed. It just felt…

Well by golly, I guess I’m wrong. Silly me. It seems you know my ethical priorities better than I do! What else should I know about myself?

I won’t claim I caught more than a handful of episodes, but from what little I saw she fell into the trap of thinking her show needed to be the Deliverer of Truth rather than, first and foremost, entertaining. The same problem that pretty much ruined most of late night during the Trump era (including Colbert). I was…

Getting mad at things doesn’t strike me as a very relaxing activity.

good, i thought she was an idiot

No. It was a TRA who found his routine “triggering”

I honestly think his heart is in the right place on that issue and that he’s really just pushing some “anti-PC” point. Badly, excessively, and offensively in my opinion and so he’s getting what he deserves. He’s in fact asking for it. That’s why his complaints are weird. It seems to me he WANTS this conflict to prove…

“getting very angry at people suggesting that transphobic material by one of the most well-known and popular comedians on the planet might go some way toward propagating harmful attitudes towards trans people.”

Sounds like firing them would be reasonable.

Going to a comedy show at First Ave is like going to a Podcast recording at CBGB.

Grooming! Don’t forget the grooming! I’m sure he was grooming.

So the only specific accusation here is “regularly teasing her accent on set.”

I wish this article had more detail about what misconduct we’re actually talking about here, rather than people characterizing how they felt about it. The only specific accusation I see here is Jackson making fun of a dancer’s accent and then firing her in an inconsiderate way. None of that speaks well of him, but it …

> But identity politics aside, what about trans people just telling stories, not necessarily even trans stories? Why is that still such a far-fetched idea for the mainstream?

Okay, Mary Kate, so now how do you feel that Gawker had at least three articles calling him an incestual rapist? Will your earlier posts be appended with corrections? What to do about the hundreds of comments of homophobia that built up during your ridiculous misinformation campaign? (Meanwhile, in other unrelated piec…

“A safe adult is someone who makes you feel happy and safe,”

i like turtles

7.753 billion people in the world. Sorry, all life is not precious.