what is that even a response to?
― budo jeru, Saturday, August 19, 2023 9:21 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 00:53 (eight months ago) link
what his legacy is becoming among reddit people
you can just not care
It was a response to a comment on that DJ Crazy Times video
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 01:19 (eight months ago) link
oh
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 01:39 (eight months ago) link
way off the mark imo.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 01:41 (eight months ago) link
Norms “comedians are not philosophers” take needs more airtime. Big fan of his controversial opinion that comedians should tell jokes
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 02:15 (eight months ago) link
Although I think norm did break his own rules in his post-humous Netflix special. That one did not rub me the right way.
Norm seems less alt-right-free-speech adjacent in his comedy, and more dirtbag-left-let’s-make-fun-of-the-ludicrousness-blinders-the-liberal-media-have-on-without-being-a-redneck-per-se. That, mixed with enjoying shocking people is the totality of his edge (which yeah, I guess “shocking people” is a bit of an alt-right signifier these days).
His appearance on “the view” sums this all up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PP_SWHUQQ
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 02:20 (eight months ago) link
Norm seems less alt-right-free-speech adjacent in his comedy, and more dirtbag-left-let’s-make-fun-of-the-ludicrousness-blinders-the-liberal-media-have-on-without-being-a-redneck-per-se.
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 02:41 (eight months ago) link
I love Norm and I know that "dirtbag left" is probably shorthand here, but it's worth saying that Norm MacDonald was not in any way shape or form of "the left"
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 03:14 (eight months ago) link
hes not much of a political thinker at all so I kinda wonder if he became that way because of the particular era of SNL he was on
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 03:19 (eight months ago) link
I guess it feels like everyone is misunderstanding Whiney here, he's talking about how the work of a comedian is interpreted and how/where it "lives on." Sure, one could just ignore it, that's totally a valid choice.
But I'd guess most people would agree that, on some level, it can be interesting to talk about how someone's body of work is received.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 03:21 (eight months ago) link
well not amongst the biggest dipshits in the YouTube comment section
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 03:22 (eight months ago) link
I guess it feels like everyone is misunderstanding Whiney here
read that again and possibly consider whether "everyone" misunderstanding something is not actually a signifier of whether the point is well made or possibly just wrong altogether
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 06:04 (eight months ago) link
My point is pretty unassailable if you’ve spent five minutes on the aforementioned subreddits and YouTube comment sections
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 06:35 (eight months ago) link
So that’s why it didn’t make sense
― H.P, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 06:52 (eight months ago) link
Anyway, thank you intheblanks
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 07:03 (eight months ago) link
not saying you're wrong whiney im saying its a weird angle to insist on, its a small angle but insofar as it goes sure revisionism from youtube comments is a wild beast and whence it takes us none living can say
im not sure anybody misunderstood the point but it isnt afaict the discussion ppl were having?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 07:27 (eight months ago) link