Yeah, the COVID era turned a LOT of brains into fucking pudding. People on the online right went from swallowing a red pill to deep throating the entire fucking bottle.

Hello Ladies was one of the most painfully awkward shows I have ever seen. 

They completely glossed over the fact that the outrage bait isn’t what’s bad, it’s that he’s just so fucking unfunny and desperate for people to approve of him it’s beyond cringey. Anyone who genuinely enjoys his work should be listened to with a full pound of salt

..and weirdly it applies in the opposite direction as well? “Hello Ladies” was terrible, and “Outlaws” is too. The only thing I’ve really liked from them since The Office (and Extras) was the podcast/HBO show.

Beyond the people in the room, yes. The morning after, reddit and facebook were falling over themselves to praise him for showing those Hollywood bigwigs what’s what. Heck, Tom Hanks’ grimace was the thumbnail for the very popular youtube clip of the monologue.

Heck, when the black employee says he knows what joke Brent is telling, Brent backtracks and shames the employee for making the joke. Brent helps steal Tim’s shoes and throw them on a pub. He witnesses his employees pantsing another employee and starts cackling “tickle him! Tickle him!”

He wasn’t exactly a villain; he didn’t make crass and racist jokes because he was ideologically driven. David Brent tells jokes because he just wants people to like him, and he often knows when he’s crossing a line.

People were so laudatory of his Golden Globes monologue a few years back, treating his digs at streaming services (which he works with) like some huge truth-to-power moment; as though he hadn’t been invited and the monologue certainly vetted by the network beforehand.

It can be. The problem is none of them work at the AV Club anymore.

“Less snark” is absolutely a resolution that needs to be enforced for the AVC in 2024.

To be fair, I checked his comment history earlier and he does have at least one anti-trump/capitol riot comment.

...calling your production shingle ‘One Race’ doesn’t really seem like a good idea.

I mean, we all did that with Rhodey, didn’t we? Worked like a charm. 

I’d be very surprised if Marvel hadn’t already made the decision to re-cast him and just haven’t announced it yet.

Good, take out the trash. Why so many rich and powerful men think it’s ok to hit their girlfriends and think that no one will find out is absolutely infuriating. Your actions have consequences, asshole.

“As of this writing...” You just know the Marvel team is throwing offers out to a half-dozen replacement actors. OR, shifting their narrative focus away from Kang.

OK nice list but the nerve of talking of buggy games while your site runs on this pile of overbloated undersupported kinja shit. 

Reading it is enough I think. I don’t think I have it in me right now to listen to it.

Yes, it is. It isn’t even a *little* subtle.

Isn’t this like, textbook emotional abuse? The instant your partner seems to have a credible complaint about your behavior that someone might sympathise with, pivot immediately to suddenly crashing self-esteem and threats to kill yourself?