Accountability in Entertainment • Page 364

Yeah, that he makes stuff up for his specials and that he's shitty to his staff, both are very upsetting to me. But idk, it's not as repulsive as Aziz, for example. I mean, arguably Hasan is about as problematic as Fallon or Kimmel etc, we just don't have a lot of Asian or South Asian rep in talk show hosts so I really looked up to him and hoped he was one of the better ones

 

This reminds me of when I saw Dane Cook and he did the bit about watching TV and a tire flew off during a race and hit a woman in the face. I scoured the internet for that video, only to realize that he made the whole thing up.

I feel like there’s a better way to frame those jokes, where he’s thinking of the hypothetical with the audience. But I don’t know. I don’t want to talk too out of pocket about because I’m just a white guy that will never experiences what he’s talking about. But I feel like they’re bad jokes that take advantage of real problems that, at least in those scenarios, he didn’t face. But that’s also like a lot of stand-up. But again, a lot of stand-ups didn’t host a political talk show and have the audience’s trust like he does.

 

Right, it feels like a betrayal because it's hard for us to reach the level of visibility he has, so we trusted him to represent us in the best light

 

is this a serious take?

 

From everything I have heard the Brand stuff was all an open secret for decades. Crazy how long it takes for this stuff to hit the larger public consciousness in these days.

Been waiting for when "the Jon Hamm sexually assaulted a guy with a hammer during a frat hazing incident at University of Texas in 1990" stuff to get wider attention for years now.

 

Eh there's nothing wrong with making things up for jokes. Outside the anthrax thing which is obviously messed up. Dane stealing that joke was the only problem (although I think it was Louis C.K.'s joke so fuck both of them lol)

 

Nah, he was shitty

 

For all the cancel culture complaints most of this stuff just passes without catching on, especially when people are at the top of popularity like Hamm. Brad Pitt assaulted his ex wife and kids and he just kept right on being one of the most popular actors in the world without even a hint of condemnation or remorse.

 

Back to Brand Firms pull ads from Rumble platform over Russell Brand videos

 

Apparently Dax was a huge dick?

 

Ah yes, love to “just ask questions” about whether a group of people have the right to exist

 

Watching that ABC Tupac investigative piece. Crazy the "he was on the verge of being an Oscar winning megastar! He was gonna be like Denzel, Malcolm X, and Obama combined if he lived!" narrative is still going on about Pac's legacy. Just everyone in this minimizing that he was out on bail awaiting an appeal on a sexual assault charge when he was killed.

Someone in this actually said " it opened the door for us to have conversations about misogyny in hip hop " almost like it was a positive thing for the culture because: discourse.

 

What’s CAOS?

 

Sabrina, he's also on the new The Boys show

 

Wow, did not see that coming

 

no one would be dumb enough to constantly like that shit on their work account haha

 

Well that’s a new one

 

I feel like that's basically what Dan Harmon said

also Echosmith did the same thing when the drummer was creepy to Alabama Barker

 

I thought Neurodivergent was a YA book series like Hunger Games, not an excuse for abusing people.