“Yes, these are undeniably wretched human beings, but they’re also white men with a certain level of celebrity, so ... you get it, right?” - The Grammys

It’s baffling. People lose their celebrity all the time for doing nothing wrong - the thing they do just stops being a draw, for example - and we accept that, yet some people get up in arms about actual abusers losing something that was a privilege to begin with.

I think it says a lot about Americans and how we tie our self worth to productivity and marketability that the common refrain in these situations is “but what about his career?” CK is  fine. He has plenty of money. He’s not going to starve to death. If being a fucking monster means he doesn’t get to have the career he…

“I had everything taken away from me for a couple of mistakes! Life is so ... wait, is that the time? Shit, I got a gig to get to!”

yeah. It’s truly disappointing. when everything came out about his behavior one thing I thought and said repeatedly was that I wanted to hear his honest take on it, I wanted to hear him do what he did best, that being comedy with a an incredible degree of empathy and self reflection. I wanted to hear him discuss this…

Shitty people getting nominated for making shitty music (and comedy?!?) at a shitty awards show. Even if they win, it’s not like it’s going to boost their album sales. Literally no one is going to run out and buy Kanye and Marilyn Manson’s super edgy collaboration based on a fucking Grammy win, of all things. The type…

The Grammy’s, much like the Oscars, is just a big industry wankfest anyway. It’s literally the same as awards given out in high school that are voted on by their peers. The audience/public needs to stop treating it like a measure of prestige.

that’s the thing about comedy old comedians don’t seem to understand - there’s an unlimited inventory of new talent.

It’s a self-congratulatory industry award that only exists as an excuse to air a 3-hour commercial for their top artists. They make their own rules and they can exclude whoever they want for whatever reason they want. They don’t even need a specific rule. They could just say “this person is disqualified because they…

CK also had a really great bit about dating and what courage means to a man vs. what it means to a woman. Basically, a man had to work up the courage to ask out a woman, whereas a woman’s courage is in willingly taking a chance on going out with a man she doesn’t know, knowing full well that historically, the number…

it may actually have been AV Club that came up with the best take on cancel culture and I wish I wrote it down.  It was something like “the idea that being a celebrity means you have a lifelong entitlement to remain a celebrity”

Same here. God he was fucking good. Oh well, too bad, there are plenty of great comedians out there who don’t traumatize and assault others.

“I’ve been silenced! And I’d like to thank the academy for this award....”

Wtf, I care about grammys now

Again a reminder that “Cancel Culture”, much like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster, isn’t real.

• Yaz’s knowledge of how to organize a missing persons search is a really nice, specific use of her background as a cop.

“Village Of The Angels” dramatizes Claire’s mindscape as a double-shored beach (or maybe a split sea, if you want to get Biblical)

Mark it: This is the exact point where Flux’s success or failure has actual stakes beyond what general emotions it leaves us with at the immediate end!

I expected them to go for a companion before the Doctor. We’ve had companions become Daleks and Cybermen before, but the Doctor remains largely unchanged.

Love this one! It kept me on the edge of my seat. It felt like the “good old days” of Doctor Who. And gosh that was a while ago.