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| Last Edit: Leon_W 09:52 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| Posted by: Leon_W 09:48 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Pokernight 09:26 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| I do wonder how he went from these terrible racist and frankly dumb and unsophisticated posts to the master of savage and accurate wit that he is these days in a few short years. It’s not like he posted ill advised things at 17 or 18 and now he is 30 and all grown up. I am a fan and have seen his live shows but, not that he or anyone else cares, I find the racial stuff a disappointment. These things make us consider our own history of potential wrong doing. I try to be funny sometimes but I have never called Mexicans lazy or mocked Lesbians as masculine or been cruel to black peoples in the way he did. I always felt I knew hiw discrimination felt because I suffered it as a young gay man and could empathize with other groups. However I did use Tranny before I knew better because many people did routinely including drag queens on the gay scene. | |
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| re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:24 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Leon_W 09:48 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| I gotta say, I think you are being a wee bit generous here. I like Randy's work a lot, but I would not call him a "master of savage and accurate wit"... i'm not even sure what "accurate wit" means. | |
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| re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate | |
| Posted by: Will (tommyjonzie@yahoo.com) 04:40 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Chazwaza 10:24 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| From the little I forced myself to see of him it must mean "witless". | |
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| re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate | |
| Posted by: Leon_W 01:52 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Chazwaza 10:24 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| Accurate - with reference to a weapon, missile, or shot) capable of or successful in reaching the intended target. | |
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| re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:37 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:34 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Leon_W 01:52 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
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| Is anything that can be described as "wit" not also "accurate" inherently? But I think Randy takes popular mainstream notions and criticisms that can be see on the twitter, instagram and comedy show of all liberals, especially gay liberals (of which I am proudly one) and puts it to song. What he does is clever (though a lot of the humor is reused and fairly basic in terms of mainstream satire and gay comedy) and usually very well done in terms of putting it into a lyric to an established and (usually) cleverly chosen song, and especially fun for musical theater people and fans of the sensibility he employees and also to people that don't watch political comedy or satire anywhere else. He does what basically everyone doing it does, he just does it to existing songs. And that is difficult and requires craft and wit. But I don't think he's deserving of words like "master", I don't think he's very savage considering the target and what else is out there in the world of mocking or criticizing this president (well done and correct yes, but I don't think quite "savage", unless calling Trump "girl" and making reference to scandals and widely discussed failings or scandals or faux pas is savage). I mean with Trump and this administration, it's not easy to come up with something original and cutting and decimating etc because it's all SO insane and extreme and every liberal with a social media account, let alone a tv show, makes similar observations and comic jabs. |
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