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"RATE ME!" Brian Atlas says to Whatever Podcast girls!
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About Dave Chappelle. I think there's an important distinction to be made. And I say this as someone who has been a Dave Chappelle fan for over 20 years. I've followed him since 2003, when Chappelle's Show first aired (I even bought the DVDs), have seen him perform live, and have watched virtually all of his stand-up specials, many of them repeatedly. In my opinion, his 2004 special, For What It's Worth, remains his best work. I also wholeheartedly agree that stand-up comedians should be afforded an enormous amount of latitude.
That said, anyone who has followed his more recent material can see the shift. Half or more of his sets now consist of lengthy, meandering, preachy grievance monologues that are almost entirely devoid of comedy. He seems less interested in eliciting laughter than in convincing the audience of his own profundity. The material increasingly devolves into convoluted, self-indulgent, pretentious lectures. And there's a fairly unmistakable animus toward white people running through much of it.
The distinction I'm making is that there's a difference between telling an offensive joke and using the platform of a comedy special to deliver what is essentially a political or ideological grievance lecture. The fact that someone is standing on a comedy stage doesn't automatically make everything coming out of their mouth a joke, nor does it mean every criticism of their material is an attempt to police comedy.
If Louis C.K. devoted 10 minutes of his set to sincerely espouse and advocate for the merits of National Socialism, then punctuated it with a "HH" and a Roman salute, nobody would simply hand-wave it off under the umbrella of comedic license and leeway.
That said, anyone who has followed his more recent material can see the shift. Half or more of his sets now consist of lengthy, meandering, preachy grievance monologues that are almost entirely devoid of comedy. He seems less interested in eliciting laughter than in convincing the audience of his own profundity. The material increasingly devolves into convoluted, self-indulgent, pretentious lectures. And there's a fairly unmistakable animus toward white people running through much of it.
The distinction I'm making is that there's a difference between telling an offensive joke and using the platform of a comedy special to deliver what is essentially a political or ideological grievance lecture. The fact that someone is standing on a comedy stage doesn't automatically make everything coming out of their mouth a joke, nor does it mean every criticism of their material is an attempt to police comedy.
If Louis C.K. devoted 10 minutes of his set to sincerely espouse and advocate for the merits of National Socialism, then punctuated it with a "HH" and a Roman salute, nobody would simply hand-wave it off under the umbrella of comedic license and leeway.
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To those mad about my tweets. Scott Galloway recently weaponized his audience with his "resist and unsubscribe" campaign. Prof G claims the impact was a $300,000,000+ loss in market cap for the many major corporations he and his audience boycotted. For his egregious remarks about Elon Musk, those who choose to sponsor him should be boycotted.
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