While I’m not sure there’s another comedian who so accurately embodies “failing upwards” there are way worse people to get worked up over. 

You know you guys don't have to recap every Hot Ones video, right?

They’re a bunch of pearl-clutching dorks upset that Shane Gillis, who they thought they successfully cancelled, is now bigger and more successful than any of these failed writers or their favorite bland comedians.

There must be a lot of frat bros out there, because episodes get tens of millions of views. Also frat boys apparently have some really varied tastes, based on the guests who come on.

Did Shane Gillis run over the AV Club’s dog or something? This is just pathetic.

I’m not a big Gillis fan, but this is unfair to Sean. His questions were fine. I think you let your personal dislike of Gillis bias you too much here. 

Yep. This is why they have to invent ever more awful sounding crimes (she wants to ERASE trans people, she denies the holocaust etc etc), because the things she actually says are so utterly normal. 

The reality that a lot of terminally online far-left people don’t want to face is that the majority of the population does not consider anything JK Rowling has said to be transphobic or bigoted. Most people agree with her views. The majority of people do not think trans women should be competing in women’s sports…

J. K. Rowling is perhaps our greatest living author today.  I look forward to her next novel.

Transvestites killed by the Nazis were all either gay or Jewish. The idea that people were targetted for being trans in the modern sense when the concept was unheard of at the time is ridiculous.

I follow a Twitter account that details the life of one Jewish holocaust victim each day. It will take 16 thousand years for them to list them all. A similar account documenting trans victims of the Nazis would be finished by Tuesday.

And Hogwarts Legacy was the best selling game of 2023 despite all the internet crybullies demanding a boycott. NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T CARE ABOUT ROWLING’S POLITICS.

He’s a pretty well regarded interviewer, and Conan’s comments weren’t a lie. 

“Show isn’t show I wanted to watch” is always a bad critique.

I’d say an article hyperlinking 24 other gawker stories to the news of a stand up comedian getting a Netflix special that will disappear 2 weeks after it’s premiere is quite an equal oversize response.

“and he just talks like people in real life still talk.”
That doesn’t make it right.

Shane isn’t a “tells it like it is” MAGA type of comic whatsoever and that is absolutely not the reason why he got so popular. It’s because he’s funny and he just talks like people in real life still talk.

Unfortunately for you, Sam, you and the rest of the AV Club histrionic hens will have to accept that your…

Lefty blogosphere: Cancel culture doesn’t exist!

Also lefty blogosphere: WHY ISN’T SHANE GILLIS CANCELLED? WE CANCELLED HIM!

‘...the Joe Rogan crowd...’ because of course anything outside of your temperate outrage cocoon is ‘Joe Rogan’ 

Shut up Sam.