You’d think an article about how to tell what poison ivy looks like, would have a bunch of photos explaining each point in the article....

Great article. There’s absolutely nothing in here that I disagree with, and if people want to view either Luca or TFATWS as gay that’s completely fine.

My teen job was at a movie theater and this was the required way to do it. 

it’s typically flavored palm oil

Well, yeah, but this is about what to do at a movie theater.

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I’m not him (that you know of), but in re: your question:

On the nose needle drops are a tradition with this show, plus it was a callback to the pilot.

Why though?!

Every word of what you wrote, same here. Also no one seems to notice (or care).

Appraisal in itself is a bullshit. 3 years in a row I got the highest level of the rating ladder, and yet got peanuts for hike. So what’s the f-ing point of appraisal?

He’s saying that people defending offensive remarks which didn’t age well are immature and don’t understand what being a performer is all about.

Remember that whole “I f—ked up” interview? Hart has actually apologized and realized he was being immature. If anything, still pointing to him as some example, just proves that for some folks, for one reason or another, apologies aren’t going to matter anyway.

Yes, context matters, a lot, and especially with comedy. But arguing about context always becomes a micro argument about a macro problem. That’s exactly how the cancel stuff can go too far, but also how our eyes always get taken off the real problems.

Okay, I guess that’s a definition of harmful, but it goes back to what we expect from comics, and whether we’re owed an apology when we hear a joke we don’t like, or one we unilaterally deem harmful.

There’s just a real sense of “if you follow the script we wrote for you, then we’ll let you off” to a lot of this that I’d imagine feels extremely patronizing. This idea that Kevin Hart or whoever giving a rote apology that checks all the boxes is helping anyone, whether or not he actually means it.

This right here, folks. There is no amount of apologizing and moving on that cancel culture warriors will accept. Half the people will be mad you apologized and half the people will say your apology is not good enough.

that’s the thing, right? Can I watch that now and just not find it (or parts of it) not funny and leave it at that? Or do I have to boycott Eddie Murphy of today for his jokes from 35 years ago?

I agree, but he’s not defending people getting fired or losing opportunities based on things that haven’t “aged well,” and I imagine if someone were to suggest that he lose those things because there were homophobic jokes in a film he wrote from 2007, he’d have a problem with that.

Hey AVC — a well meaning suggestion that I think it’s time to update that Covid boilerplate.