Aziz Ansari releases a new stand up special

[bttrsondaughter]

"For this special shot as a close, intimate, immediate, raw half-hour of comedy, though, Ansari never skirts anywhere close to vulnerability or risk." @kvanaren writes on Aziz Ansari’s new special, "Nightclub Comedian" https://t.co/nrSfoT9IGF
- New York Magazine (@NYMag) January 25, 2022
• If you're anything like me, you forgot that it hasn't been

Comments

[genbu_no_miko24]

"• Ansari questions why people would more quickly buy NFTs than give a dollar to an unhoused person they pass by in public."

I could not have rolled my eyes any further.

Interesting that he picks Nicki and Aaron....two people known for doing anti-vax commentary.

I'm all for empathy but these aren't two for that.

[doriiansz]

Empathy for those assholes? Yeah sure. Let's kumbaya through this pandemic, guys. No, fuck it. I'm not interested in their reasoning, because it's a bunch of bs and it's already done enough harm.

[erin805]

Exactly it’s not flat earth/aliens abducted conspiracy’s they’re using their platform to spread, people are dying bc of the “echo chamber” they’re in, which given the amount of money/resources both possess shows me it’s self enforced

[stillglows]

mte. people are dying because of these assholes, they don't deserve any empathy at all.

[slinkydinks]

He's right that shaming them does not work, though. As much as it can be frustrating--and as much as some of them don't deserve compassion for their selfishness, entitledness, and overconfident incorrectness--we really do have to understand where they're coming from if we want to get them to come to the light.

You have to "earn" trust and demonstrate "shared" values. You can't just hit people over the head with data, because they'll usually a) not understand how to interpret it correctly and b) have their own set of "facts" that are horribly wrong but still "facts" in their minds.

[therearewords]

Sounds like he's still leaning hard on his "I'm just the sidekick"-spiel without taking any responsibility nor being genuine.

[skeetertuskin]

This is going to seem like such a passive aggressive throwaway comment but I cannot stand het male stand up comedians. They’re so painfully unfunny. That’s all.

[vanouria]

mte

[jinxeh13]

I used to really love comedy. My partner and I went to a local open mic night every week, which was a mix of amateurs and seasoned regional comedians. We used to watch standup specials all the time.

Idk when it changed for me, but I'm just so bored with it all now. Whenever he asks me "hey, want to watch a new comedy special?" and it turns out to be a male comedian, I already know it's just going to be an hour of some (likely white) guy going on about how he hates his wife, cancel culture is awful and people need to stop being so sensitive, and how special ~he is despite everything. It's boring, it's unoriginal, I'm over it.

[slinkydinks]

[I have realized after some time, I have increasingly gravitated heavily toward female and queer stand-up comics and comedy writers.] Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, Maria Bamford, Michelle Wolf, Jaboukie, Abbi and Ilana, Josh Thomas, Rhys Nicholson, Hannah Gadsby, Micaela Coel, Tig Notaro, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joel Kim Booster, Julio Torres, Bowen Yang. I think something about their comedy just requires more thought, cleverness, less laziness and that resonates with me more than even a straight male comedian being self-deprecating.

[selina_kyle]

Keep it.