Marsha Warfield and Chris Titus have had a very good exchange on Twitter
about all of this as well.
I believe Chappelle has pushed boundaries all throughout his career, but
jokes about a violently oppressed minority — regardless of whether
audiences find them funny — isn’t a boundary to be
Andy Kindled and J. Elvis Weinstein have a good discussion on their podcast
about The Closer. Kindled has some rambling thoughts and then Weinstein
makes a great point about comedians being insulated from the real world by
their fans.
https://thoughtspiral.libsyn.com/test-show-227
Ironically, the
That self-perception, that he is the poor helpless victim of the
powerfully, bullying LGBTQ community, is at the heart of his assholitry. It
is the only way he can justify to himself what he is doing.
It is fundamentally dishonest, not just because he inhabits the upper
echelons of financial and
The Trump family handling the situation exactly as you expect they would
https://www.insider.com/donald-trump-jr-sells-alec-baldwin-kills-people-shirts-rust-2021-10
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 11:01 AM Kevin M. wrote:
> Claudia Black, of Farscape and SG-1 fame, wrote a good Twitter thread
> about
I’m sure there are worse ways to be handling the controversy surrounding
his stand up special, but I’ll be damned if I can think of what those ways
could be.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dave-chappelle-netflix-the-closer-trans-employees-1235097068/
Chappelle trying to make himself out to
