Accountability in Entertainment • Page 182

Somehow some recent Jim Breuer clips showed up on my Facebook feed and YIKES. He has some bits about making fun of people wearing masks, mocking people who abide to the gatherings of 10 people or less and mocking people who are offended overall.

Is that typically his schtick? I haven't paid attention to him in like, 15-20 years.

 

I thought Breuer’s schtick was to always seem like he’s sniffing glue.

 

Same BBC who made it policy that journalists couldn't attend Pride events in a personal capacity.

Terrific.

 

terf trash

 

he's just another 90s standup/SNL guy trying to stay relevant. he's insufferable. he has a 'residency' at a local venue on long island and how people turn up monthly to watch him baffles me. he's also forced upon me more frequently as a mets fan because he's like the mets official celebrity superfan so they always have him doing videos and shit during the season. truly terrible stuff.

 

Have you ever been to a long Island comedy club boomer central

 

Long Island in general is Boomer Island.

 

it's true

 

this is so painful

 

Jim Breuer has never been funny - not on SNL or Half Baked. He opened for Metallica last year and just basically did a laundry list of classic rock impersonations. I wanted to die.

 

really in my state lol

 

He veers so closely to Tim Heidecker’s parody stuff that it barely feels like parody anymore

 

There is a whole comedy crowd that is just doing the same stuff and having each other on their podcasts and acting like cancel culture is a real thing with victims and that being offended is ruining comedy... and the irony is a lot of these guys used to put out pretty funny stuff but now they’re so focused on being anti pc that their new stuff ranges from complete cringe like that Breuer clip to just xenophobic and cruel without even punchlines. I don’t know who to blame exactly by I choose blame libertarianism in general and Joe Rogan for making it popular to do things like sit around and be casually transphobic and laugh about it.

 

The Joe Rogan effect is a big part of it, but I just think that a lot of it has to do with comics who are just completely out of touch with their audience for a number of reasons (aging, very wealthy, etc.). These comics like Chappelle and Burr used to be celebrated for saying whatever was on their mind, but that isn't the case any more and they don't know how to handle it. So they dig in and lash out against nebulous concepts like "cancel culture" (which isn't a thing) and the "PC crowd" or whatever. Instead of looking inward and realizing that maybe they aren't as universally beloved anymore because they don't have anything to offer other than things like jokes punching down at trans people and mocking the Me Too movement.

 

Ooooofffffff

 

it is so easy to just not talk

 

I’m so, soooooo sorry that you’re offended, please still love me.

 

Good job, Olivia.

 

Get his ass

 

I saw this gaining a lot of attention on Twitter, and I think it’s good that people haven’t forgotten what Ben Roethlisberger has done.

 

eh let’s be honest, given the way our legal system is set up even if he wasn’t an NFL quarterback there’s a good chance he’d still be a free man