“Shot entirely on green screen, The People’s Joker bears a proudly artificial aesthetic that balks at conventional notions of consistency.”

This is the best euphemism for “this movie is cheap and looks crappy” that I’ve ever read.

But tell me this: Do you think Leigh Monson would give Fateful Findings the kind of generous reading that they have granted The People’s Joker? Does Vera Drew’s semi-autobiographical approach to the material and identity as a trans artist mean giving her more critical consideration than white cishet loon auteur Neil…

Given its intensely personal nature, any faults in The People’s Joker are nearly indistinguishable from its appeal.

I guess Vera had a bad time at UCB, but it’s weird to hear this review describe her perspective as being somehow gatekept from the comedy world. From my outside view it seems like her career has been quite successful. She got a job editing for Tim and Eric’s Abso-Lutely Productions, a job many people would be envious…

I do not agree with the political views Cleese has expressed with regard to “cancel culture” or anything else at all, but let’s put the brakes on before we start making Idle out to be some sort of hero here. This whole thing started because he is complaining about not having enough money, including a house he sold for…

Neil Innes wrote all the music for the Rutles and wound up having to sue Idle to get any SPAMALOT money after Idle used his music there, too, so I don’t imagine the Neil Innes estate will be too keen to let Eric go out and perform his stuff.

It’s not that they should avoid it, it’s that this is literally the only part of any story involving him that they have an ounce of interest in. Somehow an article purportedly about Python’s financial state of affairs and general dislike between two of its members ends with two full paragraphs about Cleese’s politics.…

“I was 4 miles from Graybridge when I was caught by the school leopard.”

It occasionally hits those heights - particularly in Tomkinson’s School Days.

Lol to the state of article writing: Eric Idle makes a claim. John Cleese speaks for the Pythons and refutes claim. Author of article rather talk about Cleese being anti-cancel culture instead of headline. Diverts article to talk about that even though it’s completely off topic instead of just writing two separate…

Yes, for pete’s sake, he made it up. There are corroborating witnesses saying that he made it up.

Putting all faults of the Chicago PD aside, for what reason would they create a scenario, of which no evidence pointed to happening, and then frame the central person for whom this nothing happened?  What is even the plot…

No...that is ridiculous 

You left out that it was during the polar vortex when Chicago was like Siberia.

I have the moral high ground because I said let’s not turn this guy into a martyr for Trump era politics until more facts come out. The woke crowd said that was homophobic and he should be believed at face value, then then tried to silence anyone who said the story was fishy.  So yes,  I have the high ground over…

Shit, dude, I believed that Rolling Stone UVA girl :-/

Nailed it. Time to dial down the blustering outrage and focus on reporting stories without your personal politics invading every aspect. You perpetuate division and anger in the most ham-fisted emotionally driven way possible. In 2019 the A.V. Club is no better than a bunch of 15 year olds writing angrily in their…

Remember on the first several reports on this, all the Kinja turds were proudly crowing about how they’d kept most of the Smollet skeptics “in the greys”?

The only “clusterfuck” is the web sites like this that reported this shit as fact, even as it quickly wasn’t adding up... and as more details slowly leaked out anyone with any sense of objectivity could see what this was. But sites like yours, in the face of actual facts and beat reporters in Chicago, double and…

The sad thing is how obviously stupid his story was from the get-go. But the woke warriors put aside all common sense because they wanted it to be true. MAGA dudes recognizing a 3rd tier actor from Empire. Lol. The only way the story could have been better is if he claimed the the guys had yelled, “Arent you that…

Well, I, for one, fully admit to likely being wrong here for being so “it’s not that unbelievable.” I was willing to believe it because, well, I’ve known about the bad shit in this world that has happened to less famous people. But, fuck, man, if it turns out to all have been a hoax, this is absolutely…