In 2019, @CAH had one of their Black writers – Nicolas Carter – committed to a mental ward for speaking out against racism.
He not only reveals what transpired during these events, but also links them to white supremacy *and* Capitalism explicitly below.
medium.com/@nicolas.j.car…
He not only reveals what transpired during these events, but also links them to white supremacy *and* Capitalism explicitly below.
medium.com/@nicolas.j.car…
“The state of being an employee has extended beyond the workplace. We are all employees, in and out of our jobs, regardless of the occupation. In the comedy world, every performer is a potential boss or employee.”
“Comedians just want to be able to do what they love and make money doing it. It’s a simple mantra, and seems innocent, but what it means is that they don’t give a shit who’s paying them as long as they’re getting paid. I know that because I was one of those people.”
“When the host of my open mic at the Juicebox told me he was going to accept a job as a staff-writer at CAH, I didn’t blink. He said he needed the job to get out of his oppressive 40-hour workweek. He also replaced me on my improv Harold team at iO as the sole black man.”
“We pretend we’re being forced to compete for these jobs, that we’re artistic minorities struggling to survive like roses in concrete. The reality is that we don’t need these jobs, we don’t need the status.“
“We want it, and those are entirely different types of things in that one of them is a dependent state and one of them is not.
Who is an artist who can’t criticize their bosses? What’s a writer who can’t say what they really think?”
Who is an artist who can’t criticize their bosses? What’s a writer who can’t say what they really think?”
“How can a show like SNL, for example, be a satire when they can’t even criticize their boss?
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Lorne sucks, is a republican, and these so-called ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ comedians like head writer of SNL Michael Che who write these bits for him are embarrassing too.“
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Lorne sucks, is a republican, and these so-called ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ comedians like head writer of SNL Michael Che who write these bits for him are embarrassing too.“
“How is it edgy and cool to be a rich ‘writer’ who says nothing of critical relevance to the society? How do you justify what seems to me to be the utter decadence and egotism of standup for instance thinking their [...] thoughts on airplanes and pot somehow make them ‘cool’?”
“And then they work for Republicans.
I wonder what would happen if the funniest, most persuasive people in the country stopped acting like it doesn’t matter who we work for or what we say. Or that what they do as comedians matters so much.“
I wonder what would happen if the funniest, most persuasive people in the country stopped acting like it doesn’t matter who we work for or what we say. Or that what they do as comedians matters so much.“
“Maybe not as many people would die, maybe some of the kids wouldn’t suffer as much, and maybe some truly important ideas would be argued for convincingly.”
