Indeed! There is STILL plenty to say on race and whiteness in America, and he could be bold about that, rather than punching down… but here we are. He got wealthy and complacent, I’d argue.
It’s a bummer that “making it” wealth-wise seems to expose some comedians’ limitations.
It doesn’t have at all the same racial/bigoted spin, but David Sedaris has gotten really hard to relate to (and way less funny IMO) in the past few years.
RIP!
And, I don’t follow her closely so may have missed something, but Paula Poundstone seems to still be hilarious and not punching down, and I first saw her as a kid when she was starting in stand-up in the mid-eighties.
OMG I watched some of it by chance on youtube and was only half paying attention to what was on. It was such an off feeling skit for me I was kind of just waiting for it to end. I don’t watch any GOT based stuff so the unexpected reprisal of old Dave Chapelle tropes in that context just almost felt like it was making fun of Dave Chapelle.
This is a quote from Johnny Teague, a candidate for Texas’s House District 7 who lost 63.8% to 36.2% to Democrat Lizzie Fletcher:
Sure He did. He even proclaimed it in Genesis 1:3: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” So obviously He wanted us to use solar power.
Perhaps northern states should offer homeless individuals one-way bus tickets to Texas and Florida. With winter coming, those people are much less likely to freeze to death in the southern states, right?