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This reminded that Gibson called his own wife a “moving violation” or somesuch in anger and how outbursts of self-censored anger will always be more entertaining to me than basic prison rape jokes. Anyway, is there a doc on how Dane Cook took over comedy for my generation, id like that explained please

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I can explain the Dane Cook thing: he figured out how to promote himself on file-sharing sites like Napster and Limewire. He found a trick other comics hadn't and he was instantly everywhere.

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Yeah, as someone who experienced the Dane Cook wave (and was a comedy snob even as a college freshman who went from “hey, this is fine” to “oh god, make it stop” inside of two years) it was that he mastered MySpace at a time when comedians didn’t know the internet and had material that appealed heavily to college students.

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I don't think Dane Cook was especially bad (he has some bits that are genuinely good!), I think the main thing is that he was a lot of people's first exposure to stand-up comedy. So they were like "I like this Dane Cook guy" even though what they probably really meant was "I enjoy stand-up comedy." Then they heard different, better comedy and felt embarrassed about liking Dane Cook.

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Man, you must have been drowning in vagina your freshman year.

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The only way I could have been more unfuckable was if I was an Ayn Rand fan

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Ayn Rand inspires so many feelings that people skip past the obvious one for me: she changed her name to "Ayn?" Can you imagine how many times you would have to repeat yourself when you meet a new person when you're name is "Ayn?" "Are you saying 'Anne?' Your name is Ein? Is that German?" What kind of sicko would want that life?

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I wondered if it was a Russian pronunciation jawn.

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I feel the same way about Ryen Russillo.

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Something about the feral way he screams "you should just SMIIIIILEEE AND BLOW MEEEEE" in that voicemail cracks me up all these years later. Like the Christian Bale rant, which I enjoy in the same way, with much less guilt.

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Very much so. Actors getting angry is always hilarious because they go from 0-100 instantly in a way that only people who have done that a thousand times before can.

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The funniest actor outburst is the Tom Cruise one because it was presented as “look at this asshole!” And then you listen to it and he’s being eminently reasonable.

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:sees headline: he’s gonna have to get up pretty early in the morning to get me. Which based on his schedule is when I’m awake so he’s screwed.

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The root of all conservatism, in fact, might be the desire for simple stories (“white hat good, black hat bad”)

I find the corollary interesting - that the root of all Liberalism, in fact, might be the desire for simple stories (“black good, white bad”)

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The root of all thought is that everyone is stupid.

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Everyone else that is. Subjective reality is great.

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Flight Risk looks like it could be a sister screening of Carry-On and a movie I'd like to punch. I also hated Fall Guy, so that's where my tastes lean. I guess what I'm saying is that I'd rather be put in a rose garden by Mel Gibson without even getting to use the jacuzzi than watch it. [huffs and puffs like a lunatic]

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I really enjoyed Fall Guy. The owner from Ted Lasso was a brunette, Baby Goose and Blunt had mad chemistry and there was a French speaking doggie. Wtf els could you ask for?

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*Pauses Remix to Ignition*

Yeah, I too struggle with separating the artist from the art. Unrelated but have you guys seen my Thriller album? I know I left it around here somewhere.

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The “conservatives can’t make art” argument is silly. They can’t make art that parodies the left, but that’s because they don’t actually know what the left believes.

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Yeah it's always been much more a case of "art that glorifies the powerful or asserts pre-existing norms is okay, but don't expect support for anything else unless you get a rich patron." It's no accident that trying to raise and perpetuate barriers to independent arts is one of the conservative touchstones, and gatekeeping via religious or aristocratic service was so prevalent not long ago.

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- My favorite thing about We Live In Time (aside from the birth scene, which was terrific), was that they gave Florence Pugh bangs AND a smoky eye to denote the earliest part of the timeline. Most timeline-jumping movies usually pick hair OR makeup. Fine movie, remember very little a few months later.

- I don't think it was just Tom Green that was overexposed - aside from Jackass, the gross-out comedy phase kicked off by There's Something About Mary, resulting in a bunch of movies that filled up Saturday afternoons on Comedy Central for years, stopped cold with FGF, maybe because no one could top it. I can't believe my mom bought 14-year-old me a ticket.

- How the hell did Topher Grace wind up in Flight Risk, a movie I plan to watch on Starz six months from now? I assumed Mel Gibson movies were for conservative actors and people a few more rungs down the fame ladder. Do you think he mentioned that he was in a Spike Lee movie to Mel?

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Topher Grace has a smug little face and looks like a Trump son, you can't convince me otherwise.

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Topher Grace's role does seem like it should've been Zachary Levi's.

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Too burly to play an accountant.

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