the fash have no respect for sailor mercury it seems
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
In my experience, best way to handle Infowars creeps is to just reply "that's what THEY want you to believe" to anything they say and if they ask you to clarify mumble about the deep state.
xpost flappy bird no need to dignify the 'bag with an answer
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
dasha calling her 'honey,' looking at her phone the whole time, and the last exchange - "what question? / healthcare / free healthcare" - she wins
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
oh yeah wait lmao how could i forget "you people have worms in your brain"
is this the same dasha thats dating adam?
― flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
yeah
she's really great in a new movie called Wobble Palace, that's why she was at SXSW
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
she's very charming
dating that damn bug tho lol
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
The best thing about the actress drinking iced coffee is that she’s repeating chapo memes on camera so I end up not seeing her as an elite.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
given that the de facto leader of chapo is a native manhattanite son of a new yorker editor i don't think they really lend a non-elite cred? nor is that the appeal of the show?
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
but being an actor is obviously beyond the pale, as is drinking ice coffee
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
havent you guys heard actors have really reliable and lucrative streams of income, it's like guaranteed $$$
― gbx, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
i put out a resume to be in the next marvel movies, fingers crossed :)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Hollywood dumped me, my family disowned me, religion is now a crime, and any sense of community has been completely corrupted. We have become a dog eat dog world. The less trust we have, the smaller our forces. And the more we feel alone, the less we are a threat.— Ashton Whitty (@ashtonbirdie) March 13, 2018
getting disowned by my family to own the libs
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
what chapo memes did dasha say? all she said was that health care should be free. and that infowars employees have worms in their brains
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
They bring up Venezuela like four times in the full clip
https://youtu.be/febVuHWGx5Y
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
venezuela isn't a chapo meme also dasha is only in like a minute of it
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, I didn't mean that in response to you. I just thought it was amusing that they kept bringing up Venezuela.('They' = the Infowars people)
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
o right
hell yea
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
did you know they eat rats for dinner there?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
I agree her dismissiveness is the best way to handle an infowars gotcha thing and just laughing at/refusing to engage with the Venezuela questions as well is pretty much perfect. I think I was just seeing a lot of fawning on my twitter feed this morning.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 15 March 2018 08:03 (six years ago) link
Her deadpan reactions remind me of this classic(from _thirty-two_ years ago, christ)
https://youtu.be/8ISil7IHzxc
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
thingfish
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 16 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Fans of Adomian’s Gorka should check out the newest Comedy Bang Bang where he appears
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
The return of Frost/Christman
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Brendan James chronicles the decline of Ricky Gervais
https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-happened-to-ricky-gervais-james
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
Or, "Those of us who hated him since The 11 O'Clock Show Are Totally Vindicated."
Meanwhile, his previously neglected contemporaries have all risen up: Iannucci conquered America with Veep, Steve Coogan got an Oscar nomination for writing Philomena, and Chris Morris made the best comedy in twenty years with Four Lions.
Struggling to see how any of that trio were 'neglected' in any form?
― carson dial, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
I think he's speaking strictly from an American POV.
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah, at the height of Gervais' success Ianucci and Morris were definitley cool insider things to be into outside the UK (Coogan's profile a bit higher, I think).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 09:24 (six years ago) link
fwiw I had to Google Iannucci and I've watched 4 seasons of Veep and had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
not to get all corny uk fuxx0r here but time spent catching up on the chris morris ouevre is time well spent
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
even if the current hellscape of broadcast news makes brass eye look a bit redundant nowadays
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Brass Eye is essential viewing. (xp!)
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
blue jam is i think my favourite of his tv stuff, but four lions is the best thing he's ever done imo
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
FL doesn't quiiiiite come together for me but I appreciate the effort to communicate how silliness and horror can coexist
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
I think I love the animals episode of <i>Brass Eye</i> best of all. It's an experience where you you're still processing one joke and another has already passed.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I honestly think the first time I saw the pyramids reveal is the hardest I've ever laughed at anything
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:44 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same. here in the US, Chris Morris is just a mediocre NBA player from the 90s.
― evol j, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Four Lions was released in the US, it's okkkkkkkk
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
get brass eye watched, wee fucks
― ||||||||, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
four lions is fantastic
― ogmor, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
i was just recommending 4L to someone yesterday. idk if it's quite as funny or insightful as ppl claim but it's pretty unique imo in its subject matter and its handling of subject matter.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
It's a good movie but I was a bit disappointed by how naturalistic it is compared to his more structurally inventive TV work. I understand that's probably adequate for the story he wanted to tell tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
I held Nathan Barley about as high as Brass Eye for a long time.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
Nathan Barley was decent but I can't agree with that assessment at all. Also it's only directed by Morris iirc.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Funnily enough I rewatched the Crime episode of brass eye last night - I love how it can be so absurdly broad and yet minutely memetic within the same sketch. This Ted Maul segment on youth crime ends with an interview with a family on benefits that is practically identical to most UK media treatment of the unemployed in 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RS_yEI7IM
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Xp Morris cowrote barley with brooker
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
And of course I meant to type mimetic there, memes are rotting my brain
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:26 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doh
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
“I’m a really big fan of Bernie. However, in many ways, I respect Cynthia even more because, while she shares a similarly progressive platform, she’s more courageous than Bernie ever was in seizing the Democratic party name and agenda,” 26-year-old data analyst Adam Sasson, who thinks Bernie will be the next president, explains. “Cynthia started her campaign by questioning if Cuomo is a ‘Real Democrat.’ This immediately shifts the frame of the conversation and attempts to take control of the party platform.”
Will Menaker, 34, co-host of the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, also admires Nixon’s vision and jokes that he identifies as a #CynthiaMan. (He is listed on Wikipedia as someone who has endorsed her, although he says tweeting “Cynthia Nixon is going to beat Cuomo and be the next governor of New York” was not an official endorsement.)
Menaker cites her “solid social democratic politics” and “fairly consistent and strong stances against a neoliberal turn” in her party. “I did see a speech of hers where she said it’s not enough to just say Trump is awful, you need to offer a compelling vision, a competing vision that engages in people’s hopes and imaginations for a better future,” he says. “To get there, we’re going to have to get rid of Democratic party hacks like Andrew Cuomo and much of the New York State Democratic party, much less the national one.”
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/bernie-supporters-back-cynthia-nixon-for-governor.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link