One only wonders that if one has never before spent even a few minutes thinking about the topic. People tolerate all sorts of abuse in order to work in showbiz, or even near showbiz. People tolerate abuse for all sorts of other reasons. It doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.

Eh, I have all the respect in the world for the man and his films, but Scorsese can fuck himself on this one. Build in a goddamn intermission. If every scene of your film is so important that it has be 3.5 hours long, then your choice is either building in an intermission or expecting theatergoers to miss several…

“People say it’s three hours, but come on, you can sit in front of the TV and watch something for five hours...”

JFC. Hasan Minhaj’s prom story isn’t just a bit from a standup special. It’s included in a collection of stories entitled “All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown,” published by the Moth, the non-profit that promotes true storytelling. Minhaj accepted an award from the Moth earlier this year. He knows…

How many times are you gong to post this lazy, uninteresting, uninformed take? FFS

Yeah, like...we’ve been here before. Anyone else remember National Report?

What I feel is missing from a lot of these reports on the study (beyond how weird it is to lump 10 year-olds’ opinions on this with 24 year-olds) is the fact that there’s less sex in film than ever, yet erotic content is more at our fingertips; it feels like a lot of people conflate the availability of porn with the…

Because most stand-up comedians aren’t attempting to clout-up and parlay that into being the face for certain movements OR, if they do, they’re open about the fact that they’re making up details.

Also most don’t doxx people in their stories, lie to their partners about it, and implicate serious shit like how anthrax…

A storyteller’s job is to tell a story.

For humor? Yes. I don’t think Eddie Murphy’s mother could really throw her shoe like a boomerang and take him out from two rooms away. But Minhaj saying his daughter ended up in the hospital because someone sent an envelope of Anthrax to his home was not an effort to heighten the comedy.

Oh my god again the idiots are out in full force with some form of “Comedian tells joke that’s fake, news at 11”.

They can, they just don’t want to because it’s more validating for them to make bad-faith arguments in the comments for likes.

there’s a difference between joking and lying.

Can’t people see the difference between a comedian like Steven Wright who actually tells jokes that are funny in order to make the audience laugh, and a comedian like Hasan Minhaj who tells stories that aren’t funny in order to make the audience clap and nod in agreement? Don’t you think people would be understandably…

So, everything the New Yorker said was true, Hasan just thinks he had a really good reason for it?

“Emotional truths” sounds a bit to me like “Alternative facts”.

Larger emotional truths don’t count if you’re embellishing a victimhood situation for sympathy. Doing so for “effect” just wrecks your credibility and generally makes more people call bullshit about these types of claims next time around.

This is an idiotic take.

Was Minhaj actually told he’s not getting the job, or is that just a funny story he made up for a new stand up routine?

Sounds good to me. He should definitely cough up some money for being such a shitbag. Hey, maybe being forced to do big cash payouts will be good for his “process,” right?