It’s amazing that the fandom of Swift, one of the most popular, rich, and powerful people in pop-culture, relies almost entirely on seeing her as a victim or at least constantly in danger of being victimized. 

Doesn’t look like Hader’s involved in the series, thankfully.

Sounds like white collar crime.

Yet looking at this you could basically never see Kang again and it would be fine. 

Thank you. There is no reason to recast Majors and mess up their “plan.” Did he witness Feige kill a guy or something? Just recast, you have a clear opening.

It’s such a fundamental aspect of modern capitalism that people refuse to believe things have a shelf life, and that no matter how popular or god forbid profitable something is, one day, even if everything goes perfectly to plan, that thing will stop being both. It’s happened in broad public view thousands of times…

OMG this is not that complicated. Is there some kind phenomenon going on where you immediately start losing brain cells when you enter the C-suite? 1) Just recast Kang. The world is not gonna end if another person plays the character. 2) The Avengers aren’t at their peak? No shit. People are gonna get burned out…

That definitely felt like a series finale to me, and not just a season finale.

The best critique of South Park and one that’s come the closest to explaining why it rubs me the wrong way is that they always take the side of “not caring”. The end result is always that caring about anything is dumb and “both sides” are bad if either of them actually care. 

Listen, if anyone can be trusted to deliver a script about media pandering, it’s South Park, the ancient franchise that’s been pandering nonstop to mediocre edgy white dudebros for a quarter century.

Can we finally add South Park to the list of overly long running adult animated shows that need to die already?

Okay yes that is actually pretty shitty.

Breakup revenge taken to a new level.

Holy FUCK that’s odd.

The problem with Minhaj is that his fabrications go into very creepy, manipulative places.

Hannah Gadsby explicitly states the point in Nanette when she starts talking seriously about what happened to her, and also warns the audience earlier that it’s coming up and going to happen. And she also makes it pretty clear what’s actually happened to her in any preceding jokes.

In general terms perhaps, but I think the situation does become greyer when it comes to the kind of Nanette-eseque “this is My Truth” autobiographical-confessional-didactical strain of stand-up comedy which has become a lot more common of late, where the whole point is that the comedian is supposed to be expounding…

I think people are missing some of the nuance here. Obviously, no one expects a comedian to tell the 100% truth during their sets. We know there’s a level of deception. But there’s a big difference between telling a fake story for a laugh and telling a fake story that hurts real people.

I remember listening to his WTF interview with Maron and there was something really off and performative about him, whereas the parts of him that felt real were his ambition and his self-centeredness bordering on narcissism. This is just what he admitted on the record in the a New Yorker interview - given the…

Not quite sure what’s sadder: the angry nerds who review bomb the movie without seeing it, or the angry nerds like Ben Shapiro and Critical Drinker who sit through the entire movie and spend a day putting together a 40-minute video about why they didn’t like a movie that wasn’t marketed to them.