hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

I'm finding out now that harris wittels is actually his name and not something we call him for fun

i guess i kind of assumed by putting it in a parenthetical with neutral wording it would be clear we weren't like bragging about it???

oh god why am i participating in this thread, sorry,

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Harris Wittels dissing beejoli shah on twitter isn't really something that should be in his obit, because no one fucking gives a shit other than people who work for gawker.

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, February 21, 2015 4:01 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm someone gives a shit

the only solution is prob for everyone to write their own blog post

i mean its not like were dealing with a head of state with a long list of accomplishments and scandals that need to be weighed for relevancy and importance maybe gawker just shdnt have written about him at all

maybe just splitsider shovde taken care of it

or the av club

i mean i can understand ppl being upset with the flippancy of that link but it also just represents the only coverage gawker ever gave the guy and doesnt ultimately warrant the strong negative reactions itt, which are really the only interesting thing about this conversation

I'm glad I saw aziz ansari's very funny and affectionate remembrance of the guy before I saw this thread, yeesh

im glad i saw chelsea perettis tweet of him w his dick out first jk

wait are you serious sd

http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/111613105129

http://media.tumblr.com/a92d94acd138611473ef2729e039a0d1/tumblr_inline_nk3l5bj0el1qz7eiu.jpg

what a genius

i love comedy

Somehow the rest of his tumblr post manages to put it into context

His jokes were so weird, unexpected, often brilliantly dumb that they were in that ultra-exclusive club of ones that made comedy people laugh — and laugh hard.

comedians talking about their craft makes me want to die

"first I look around the room for inspiration. then, when I don't find any, I talk about phallic breakfast foods and people generally like that."

xp try heroin

“One time I said to a guy that, ‘I loved learning new things. I’m a bit of an infomaniac.’ And he thought I said NYMPHOMANIAC….so he fucked me. And I said ‘No, no no…I said INFO. I’m an INFOmaniac’ And he said ‘Well, here’s some info…you just got fucked. Clean yourself up.’”

Hmm, maybe he wasn't the comedy genius nobody in this thread claimed he was and it's not sad at all that he died at 30 years old, good point

the only time i feel like i really am on the same page as lex is when he talks about comedy

i like comedy its funny i just dont want to go behind the scenes, i feel that way abt art/entertainment in general tho, but especially comedy

when did ppl start getting really into the elevation of comedic craft? was it the aristocrats?

imo its part of a wider prosumer entertainment media trend that has made all ilx tv threads unbearable

ppl latch onto craft because its comprehendable not knowing its merely a vehicle in which i transport my genius

showrunner, callback, writersroom

RT and Fav.

1 RT = 1 LOL, fav for hearty chuckle

btw i submitted a humblebrag once and he RTed it

humblebrag was a p brilliant observation imo

People who work in comedy are kind of unique in that they enjoy discussing the thing they've chosen as a career, often with people who also do comedy, which I know is difficult to understand since that's not a thing people in other fields ever do.

um no mr sarcasm the thing thats hard to understand is why you like hearing them discuss it

correction its not hard to understand i just dont like it

I'm sure there are podcasts of geologists discussing geology with other geologists and geology is cool and all but I'm not really interested in that discussion and I'm able to avoid engaging with it and making a big deal about how I don't like it. Except I guess I just did, mea culpa geology fans.

so yr saying i shd just avoid them and not say they are bad, sorry buddy dont u know to always say yes in improv

what a boring thread and topic for all you good posters to be on for so long

actually this is a very good thread topic

actually its about ethics in journalism games

i read the original beef. why was gawker reporting on which nbc writers' scripts tested poorly with audiences? i would be annoyed too if someone, based on stray bits of information from random sources, decided to publicly investigate my job performance

um its called blogging hello

test audience results (as opposed to reviews or ratings) are just kind of a pointless metric, a fair amount of good movies have tested poorly w/ focus groups and shit and plenty of bad movies have tested fairly well

so if the original intent of the piece was to zing him & others it's just a weak barometer of quality I guess

there is nothing nerdier than comedy

there are many things much nerdier than comedy

/checks nerd chart/ no

record reviewing

baseball stats

the settlers of catan

Math