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

loool

i think it's sad that ppl think gawker is cool -- like the ppl who write for it seem like a mix of college student newspaper dorks that felt they were "edgier" than their peers but not extroverted enough to be sketch comedy dweebs

― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, February 20, 2015 4:01 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sarah this is a terrible post! i hate this reductive type of crap that presents itself as super knowing but is never that insightful and like 90% of the time its trying to find meaning in supposedly what kind of person someone was in high school? ew so gross its like a pick up artist routine except for edgy cynicism

lemme guess daddy issues, elite boarding school, mommy too wacked out on pills to even answer the phone, now youre scraping by /waves hand dismissively/ trying to save the world working for some ngo that doesnt pay u shit so u can go home to your craistlist roommate and watch netflix while u drink yourself to sleep /pops ice cube into mouth/ i know the type

difference is ppl only do the second version on bad tv shows

"Right, I'm a bigot, I know, but for the left."

its ironic (irony is still good btw) because gawker often falls into that reflexive cynicism that thinks it knows more about the world than it does

comedy podcasts even worse than av club! it is truly a fallen world

realness

lagoon otmania itt

12" pie with sausage and pepperoni, garlic knots also otm

i feel like all these headlines characterizing harris as a producer is just the media reaching for the most traditionally "impressive" hollywood credential he had, dude was primarily known as a comedian and writer and part of the UCB crowd.

he was also both an "unfettered speech or die" kind of guy, and (as sarah silverman mentioned yesterday) someone who felt very deeply, which makes the "don't be negative in his obit" issue kind of tangled imo.

obvs the idea that u shdnt mention negative infos in a obit is silly and not reflected in the actual practice of obit writing

― lag∞n, Saturday, February 21, 2015 3:31 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it's not "negative infos" it's "hey don't forget that we beefed with him"

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.

Maybe just let sploid handle obits from here on out.

Holy Crap! Harris Wittels is Dead! How the Hell Did This Happen? This Is Messing With My Brain.

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