But that’s not on him or anyone else who puts up those bits. That’s on the people who don’t understand the nature of self-promotion on social media.

Fair point. I just think it’s a little silly that Emma makes the comparison when Rife specifically mentions those two as influences. It’s like she did the research enough to know that but decided to ignore the MTV stuff and denigrate him as a TikTok comedian anyway. Which I ordinarily wouldn’t give a shit about except…

This is a dumb complaint. Cheap, shitty standups have always been around. In the 80s it was bad Seinfeld “What’s the deal” sport coat sleeves rolled up doofuses. The whole cancel culture pander thing is 100% the same as the P.C. pander thing from the 90s. This is not a "these days" issue.

And really underlining the whole "TikTok" thing as though every standup with a passing ability to use social media ISN'T doing crowd work on there.

For sure! I just don't like the specific dismissal of calling him a TikTok comic. For several reasons.

Just because it keeps coming up: Yes, ffs, Rife is very well known for TikTok crowd work videos. So is Jeff Arcuri. So is Matteo Lane. So is Gareth Reynolds. Natalie Cuomo. Taylor Tomlinson. Randy fucking Feltface. EVERY currently working standup comedian is on social media doing crowd work bits. So let’s just…

That’s a fair burn on Wild n Out.

Before. But the BB helped, I’m sure.

Look, if you’re gonna go down that rabbit hole I saw an *awful lot* of my Jewish friends claiming in the immediate aftermath of the initial Hamas attack that ANY criticism of or hesitation about Israel made you a Nazi sympathizer. Thankfully that rhetoric has calmed down among my social circle. If you’re gonna talk…

I’m not at all surprised by this. I’m sure she enjoyed being part of the Scream franchise but it’s *very* obvious to me that Wednesday is her priority. Especially now that she’s a producer. Kind of a shame given that Netflix sucks balls.

And imagine the dunderhead logic of pointing to fucking *South Park* to support this argument.

Regardless of what Rife has done to earn the site’s ire or whether or not I think he’s “funny”, it is kinda disingenuous to act like he came out of nowhere on TikTok. He was a regular on MTV’s Wild n Out, among other MTV shows. He’s been building a mainstream comedy career for a while now.

Setting aside that you’re wrong, your paraphrase is demonstrably different from the various responses to my post... how? Cuz you Fielder stans seem pretty quick to defensively whine.

Are you literate? I have multiple. I don’t expect you to scroll through all the comments so fair enough but don’t dismiss me just because you can’t be bothered to read.

No more boring than what he does.

It was such a good column. She really nailed that difficult balance of lovingly critiquing a genre. I find that too many people who analyze genre are either dyed-in-the-wool devotees and thus unable to be sufficiently critical or ivory tower intellectuals overeager to rip down everything that defines the genre.

Are you really knocking me for surface level analysis in a response where you blatantly surface level read my post?

Setting aside the dumb shit you get wrong here, I remain confused by this running knock about writing a novel, self-published or otherwise. I am not, nor have I ever been, a novelist. I don’t know where you got that idea from. I’ve talked about writing a lot on the various G/O sites over the years but I’m a…

You know, part of what’s fucked here is that there IS NO DISAGREEMENT. Do you really think that anyone who finds this identity politics argument fucking stupid doesn’t ALSO think capitalism is terrible and that the rich fuck over the working class every chance they get? The issue is that for SOME of us it seems like a…

I understand that you’re very convinced of your self-righteous judgmental certainty about another person’s intentions. Which is, imho, pretty fucked.