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Toffeepud's avatar

Ooh I'll have to watch this now, I've always liked Chris Rock. Saw the Gervais Netflix special - dull, so dull. He's edgy you know, Ricky, he tells you every 30 seconds. Bit like vegans. As in how do you know someone is? Don't worry, they'll tell you.....I find our humourless desert somewhat grating. I'm autistic, undiagnosed for decades, and part of my attempt to avoid the near constant bullying I experienced as a child was to cultivate a comedic alter ego. Comedy matters. In the darkest of times, laughter can unite people....I have fond memories of my Aunt (part Irish as am I, and a gifted comic) regaling us with stories at my uncles wake. A life without laughter is dreary indeed.

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There is something really sad about the Roxane Gays of the modern media hellscape (not that I would ever feel sympathy for her): you use your truffle-pig snout to root out the best path to media attention and white-guilt patronage (by anointing yourself Official Defender of the Oppressed), become a professional scold and hall monitor, and then have to be known as and constantly perform your role as buzzkill, basically becoming a human version of "There are kids starving in Africa and you won't eat your vegetables!"

Or as usual Wilde said it better: "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

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