lol no, ratings were pretty good but he said from the start he didn't want to do more than 3 seasons
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
i mean maybe the line that Kroll chose to end is true, i dunno. his father's a billionaire, he doesn't need to cling to a tv show.
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
i do have to give Comedy Central some credit, for like 10 years they'd quickly cancel anything that wasn't an instant South Park-level hit, when they finally stopped doing that they were able to foster all these shows that grew in popularity over time.
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
i mean maybe the line that Kroll chose to end is true
he said so publicly on a podcast he did w/ grantland right before season 3 started
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I mean I don't wanna give him TOO much credit for realizing his cult show was running on relative fumes and ending it. Cuz he probably makes more money elsewhere and apparently doesn't need it anyway.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
can not even imagine hating my bae jenny slate smh
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I can if someone only knows her from snl - just as I can imagine someone hating mulaney if they only know him from his fox show
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah i didn't like Slate on SNL much but she won me over with Obvious Child/Kroll Show/Married etc
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
I barely remember her on SNL. It's mostly from Parks & Rec and what I've seen of her on Kroll Show and I also think Marcel the Shell is kind of dumb.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Shit. I keep meaning to watch obvious child.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I loved Tina Tina Chaneuse
― DJP, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
dear god Trainwreck is teal and orange
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Amy Schumer's show is pretty good, there's something about it that bothers me and I really can't figure out what it is. I wanna say it's narcissism or navel gazing but it's not that.
as far as CC sketch Broad City is the best of the bunch imo.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
HAS ANYONE SEEN THAT SHOW WITH CUBA GOODING JR oops caps
― Cory Sklar, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty terrible.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
broad city isn't sketch
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
I've seen the last few minutes of several episodes when I change to CC for The Daily Show. It seems equally ambitious and ridiculous, but not enough make me add it to the dvr. xps
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah Big Time In Hollywood, FL is just lame. i don't know how those guys got the budget to do a crazy polished-looking action comedy or how they got Ben Stiller in the pilot or anything but they're just never funny ever.
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
did you see the movie or read a quote or are you just extrapolating from the trailer?― da croupier, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinktrailer― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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trailer
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I love that the discussion continued after this
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
I love that this thread was so usefully spun off from the Comedy Central thread.
is that the show by the Next Time On Lonny guys? Next Time On Lonny was funny and occasionally weirdly expensive-looking. If it is, they probably got Ben Stiller in the pilot because he produces it, like he appeared in a Next Time On Lonny video when he started producing it.
Next Time, On Lonny.
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Amy Schumer responded on Sunday via Twitter to allegations of a racial blind spot in her comedy, writing: “Stick with me and trust me that I’m joking. I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot. That includes making dumb jokes involving race …You can call it a “blind spot for racism” or “lazy” but you are wrong. It is a joke and it is funny … I am not going to start joking about safe material.”
― hunangarage, Sunday, 28 June 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh it was a joke! I get it now
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure irreverence combines all that well with idiocy to produce some very special brand of humor.
― Aimless, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Been a bit weaker since the hiatus
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
After watching 2 long sets of her recent, excellent standup, I'm a big fan.
I bristled against the bits and pieces of her work I'd seen up til now, but maybe every brilliant provocateur provokes this kind of response at first blush.
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
and there were race jokes aplenty in those sets, but none seemed to have true racism/hate at their core
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
True Racism Detective
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
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lol they have run 1 episode since taking 2 weeks off
― some dude, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
nix the "true" qualifier xp
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 June 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Xp yeah and that episode was notably weaker
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 June 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
LMFAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5DSSjTeJZE
― supreme problematics (D-40), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
teaser for next weeks - the timing of this killed me
"i don't think we should see each other anymore""is this about my three buttholes"
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/06/dont-believe-her-defenders-amy-schumers-jokes-are-racist/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
not a great piece or anything but nice to see her being called on her shit
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
America’s soil of racism is fed by jokes and incendiary speeches, by stereotypical images and symbols like the Confederate flag. Just as Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump and other members of the Republican Party regularly disparage people of color and claim they are simply telling the truth, Schumer can use comedy as a protective shroud to deny the harm and hurt caused by her jokes. A joke is considered benign especially when told by a supposed white liberal feminist. We can distance ourselves from the anger, from the harm, from the ideology, and from the hatred of the “extreme,” but also find comfort in the same anger, ideology and hatred that is “just a joke.”
This rhetoric isn’t just ugly. It contributes to a worldview that justifies a broken immigration system, mass incarceration, divestment from inner city communities, that rationalizes inequality and buttresses persistent segregation and violence. Yet nobody wants to take responsibility for spewing rhetoric that breeds the fear that results in soaring gun purchases, that “inspires” monsters like Dylann Roof to craft a manifesto with deadly consequences.
― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
I am no one's Amy Schumer expert but the one standup bit I saw that was being passed around as super racist seemed to me to pretty obviously point towards her as the avatar making the racist statement as the butt of the joke. Everything else I've seen has been funny feminist stuff.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
which bit was that
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
one of these?
for all things Comedy Central
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
ftr i have't worked out a clear response to the argument i quoted above
― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah there's a billion examples of shitty racism covered up with "but it's a joke"
lots of great comedy (or just art in general) done by inhabiting loathsome characters or amplifying the worst aspects of the self
and there are a whooole lot of audiences out there who are looking for the former who will happily enjoy the latter, without "getting it," your old archie bunker problem
― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
She wrote this response on the 'used to date hispanics, now I prefer consensual' joke:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJQN2ijWsAAenRu.jpg
much better answer, imo.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Shakey, I think it was one of those links but none of them are ringing any bells. It seems pretty unambiguous to me though that she as the joketeller is supposed to come across as a terrible person, though?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
that is a much better answer/apology yes
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
isnt this basically the Sarah Silverman persona all over again? haven't heard enough Schumer yet to tell firsthand.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
went over that comparison on the Comedy Central thread but I think Sarah was much less ambiguous about racists/racism being the butt of her jokes. That may just come down to her being better at writing jokes though. I don't really see how some of the Mexican jokes like "nothing works all the time, except Mexicans!" etc. are on the speaker and not the minority.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
struggling to think of an instance where Silverman used such a lazy cliched setup as "utters generic racial stereotype" and tried to pass it off as being on her and not the race being stereotyped. Her material always circled around to implicating the ridiculousness of the stereotype itself.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't see how the "I used to date Hispanic men but now I prefer consensual" makes any sense as a self-aware dig on a "dumb white girl character".
― JRN, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
i was hoping that was just an anomaly
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
it's not the bulk of her material but it is in there, primarily about latinos and asians
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
this sounds considerably less sophisticated than Archie Bunker... i don't know how much old Lenny Bruce y'all have heard, but his bit "How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties," along with eg All in the Family, are clearly meant to roast the bigot. That yutzes willfully don't 'get it' is not the comic/writer's responsibility.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link