That’s my feeling too. I found him fairly funny but the overly “wow, everyone needs to be more woke like me” persona felt a little cloying and pandering, so the babe.net piece confirmed that for me. Then early reports from these new shows say his pendulum has now swung to the opposite direction of “wow, everyone is…

Netflix has a pretty good range of comedians and comedian-related material nowadays and apparently use that data to make their programming decisions.

For folks who don’t want Ansari to have a comeback, watching a lot of non-Ansari specials and episodes of their stand-up series (Netflix has a bunch of 15 and 30-minute…

He may not have committed a crime, but I still think Ansari made a comedy career based upon a hypocrisy, espousing a philosophy that he did not practice.  And I’d rather focus on comedians who aren’t poseurs.  

It sucks that the tenor of conversation has to be, “he’s a rapist who’s cancelled” vs. “she’s a liar who regretted bad sex.”

It’ll be a hard sell to a lot of women, definitely. It sucks that the tenor of conversation has to be, “he’s a rapist who’s cancelled” vs. “she’s a liar who regretted bad sex.” I think she was coerced into sex she didn’t want to have AND he was oblivious to the power dynamic that made the sex coercive. So, I’m willing…

Worth pointing out that the reason the Boykins was secretly recording other officers was due to their racist behavior and speech, some of it directed at him personally. So not only did the mayor demote him, but in the process essentially covered up some systemic racial issues in the police department. 0/2

Ziti? 

My favorite is Pootie Tang.

The Babadook becoming a gay icon is still one of my favorite things of the past few years.

Are we just not?

Gotta be the opening scene of Dog Day Afternoon. What I especially love is that it subtly lets the cat out of the bag right away - this is a love story. It’s also a great establishing montage.

He is genuinely fucking scary in that movie.

His performance in Sam Raimi’s underappreciated 2000 thriller The Gift is among his best. It’s the film I point to when people say he can’t act

It probably isn’t my favorite, but the role is so rarely mentioned I have to try. Martha Plimpton’s boyfriend in Parenthood. He’s basically there to cause clashes between Martha and her mother (Dianne Wiest), but he has a sincerity and sweetness that keeps the story from becoming exhausting. He also had a scene in his…

Yes, everywhere except Cloud City.

If Exile in Guyville is an A+ album (and for my money, it is), then Whip-Smart and Whitechocolatespaceegg are As.

I worked at a movie theater when this came out. Midwestern red state. You can only imagine the literal busloads of people who were carted in to see it. Here’s a couple of fun stories I remember:

“Not really”?!?!