Because by being an artist that has a degree of popular acceptance, he has created a power structure that he can only have an exploitative relationship with as it relates to coitus, because it’s dirty and shameful and it makes God cry.

Some trendy rapper needs to sample Living in America for a new song for the the movie, except this time it can be about how fucking awful America is and that we really should have been rooting for Soviet Russia in Rocky IV.

You mean if Roseanne had done an irreverent comedy routine in blackface at a Friar’s Club Roast of Whoopi Goldberg while they were dating 25 years ago, and had absolutely no incidents of racist commentary or behavior before or since?

Yes, we are all clearly forgetting about the thing that gets brought up every single fucking time the AV Club writes an article involving Ted Danson, where he committed the horrible crime of wearing makeup on his face as a bad-taste joke at a Friar’s Roast.

“Words mean things.”

Live happily in your ivory tower of judgement. 

I could’ve, except that I disagree with every single contention put forth here; that a “rape” joke can’t be funny (death can be funny, bigotry can be funny, there are slapstick torture scenarios I’ve laughed about), so clearly I was not wrong about my personal beliefs, and it is flatly impossible for you to suggest I…

No. ‘Jokes’ is a pretty broad term for any attempt to convey humor, dependent on a great many factors that are wildly variable: greater context, audience sensibility, degree of relation to its ostensible subject matter, the list goes on. I don’t know offhand any good Henny Youngman-style rape one-liners to throw at…

“if the joke you make about it is funny” is a very crucial part of the dynamic.

Oh Marijuanna

“alcoholism, addiction, and drug abuse are no laughing matter”

“For the love of God, please stop telling Captain Marvel to smile”

Are you questioning the A.V. Club’s sterling editorial capabilities?

“you never know when Colantoni will get the call for a Just Shoot Me revival.”

When operating within a system as deeply fucked as Russia’s, I don’t think “meaningful insights” is where the bar necessarily needs to be set. Rudimentary provocations might have some utility. 

...that I intend to date rape. 

“The real star of Captain Marvel”

Unacceptable!

OWNAGE

It’s such a big, dumb, boilerplate riff, probably unworkable in a straightforward context, but given so much texture with Patton’s contributions (love the screeching) and the way it keeps falling out and coming back in at unpredictable intervals. Then you’ve got the forceful, Chuck D reminiscent power rapping of the…