What’s up with all these washed up celebrities coming back to the spotlight just to make an ass of themselves?
They were always an ass. That’s the secret.
Nowdays, we just have more visibility into this shit than we did “back in their day”.
Not even necessarily more visibility, go back 20 years and this kind of stuff was popular. Go back another 5 years and anti-gay humour was also still popular. It wasn’t even considered anti-gay because anti-gay was the default option, so it would have just been called “gay jokes”.
Though it makes me wonder what is considered normal today that will be seen as problematic in a decade and popularly opposed in two.
He’s been on this tip for a long while, supporting Ron Paul and being anti-vax. Last Week Tonight did an episode on Vaccines, and he shows up in a no longer valid comparison of RFK Jr on the left, Alex Jones wherever he fits in, and even this guy. I remember him also calling for Ron Paul 2012, but doesn’t seem to be from this one, so hopefully I’m remembering that right.
Still, he’s been libertarian and antivax for a long time, and those communities have been heavily aimed at by fascists for recruitment.
Hire Rob Schneider to do his stand up act. Rob Schneider does his stand up act.
Schneider came out as a clown in 2012.
- “Schneider is a known transphobe and anti-vaxxer”
- “a Canadian medical nonprofit”
- 🤨
- just how many red flags did they ignore?
Don’t sleep, Schneider is also:
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Rob Schneider is… The Bigot! Rated PG-13
Anti-vaxx jokes at a hospital fundraiser. That’s one of the stupider moves I’ve seen today.
Hiring him was the dumb move considering that it’s known he’s a reich-wing fuckwit
Lmao did they have no idea who he was when they booked him? Did someone hire him as a joke? I don’t get why he was even there.
Rob Schneider peaked literally last century with Deuce Bigalow. As if that were not bad enough…
I believe he peaked at “making copies…” on SNL. Deuce just sped up the downhill roll
But what about all those Adam Sandler movies where he shows up for 20 seconds to say ‘‘you can do it’’?
I got blocked by him on Twitter (in 2012!) for mocking his whackjob antivax views. He was espousing shit headed antivax nonsense long before it was fashionable.
Antivax goes back at least a decade before your 2012 blocking. My kid was born in 2001 and the whole vaccines cause autism thing was already big. In fact, I’d suggest it was nearly mainstream at the time.
When the study that suggested the correlation with autism got thoroughly debunked, nay, proven willfully fraudulent, it fizzled out a little bit, but has still stuck around like a raging case of herpes to this day.
I don’t really understand these dipshits. The older I get the more tolerant of others outlook on life I get. I might not agree but I don’t have to trash them to make myself feel better. I certainly don’t begrudge them their own preferences. Perhaps one reason for this is that I have become asexual. Or chaste to use a really old term for not interested.
no mention of what the jokes were at all
They mentioned they were anti-trans and anti-vax. They didn’t repeat them because there is no need to repeat offensive jokes. I’m sure there are Rob Schneider routines on YouTube if you’re curious.
Yes I need to know in order to judge them for myself
I am curious what anti-vaxx routine he thought was appropriate for a medical event
Weird coming from a guy who basically played a transgender person in the Hot Chick and also is a stapler.
Imagine starring in a movie where your character is desperately trying to explain to loved ones that they’re trapped in the wrong body and don’t understand how to navigate this gender that they find themselves in and then come out in the other side being transphobic. Like, he’s so media illiterate that he doesn’t empathize with his own characters. So then it was just hateful jokes the whole time, I guess. Dude stopped maturing at like 15.
Rob Schneider. The SNL guy that had one character, then moved on to being remembered as “The Stapler” on South Park.
What an inspiration.
Edit. Now that I think about it, Schneider is actually being a true comedian through and through here. The golden rule is to always punch up, and Schneider is attempting to do just that.
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I mean, by many measures Alex Jones is more accomplished than me, but I’m very happy to be where I am instead of being Alex Jones.
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Please, give an example of an unbiased news org. They don’t exist. This one just wears its bias on its sleeve.
Edit: putting this here so people will stop going off.
I was trying to respond to this nutcase’s response. I’m saying that bias is fine. But at least this one says what it’s for.
.lgbtqnation just the best news site nobody could ever think they could be biased in any way.
But I guess Lemmy fucked it. So sure, down vote.
AP news, agrigated articles are difficult to all fudge in the same direction. Is there bias in seperate articles? To some degree it’s going to happen, does every single article have heavy bias in exactly one direction? Nope.
BBC, Reuters, NPR, and a few other services generally avoid heavy bias by using similar methods of agrigated content from multiple contributers that aren’t all working in a single location, for one entity, with the same editor, working for the same owners. There’s much less bias found across their platforms, and what’s there in terms of bias isn’t all to one particular US political party.
I don’t know what you are arguing. You can have a bias towards reality. Some have a bias towards centrism, even when one side has lost its mind. My original comment was to an idiot claiming that lgbtq wasn’t news because it has a bias.
My point was that everything has a bias in some way, even a bias towards truth or whatever. It’s still a bias. Lgbtq nation simply tells you what the bias is explicitly. Which is good. I’d rather they be upfront so I can find news not filled with right wing anti gay screed.
I wasn’t arguing. I just took your question about where less biased news could be found seriously, and tried to explain why I thought so on the sources I mentioned.
And what do you think the truth here is? Do you think that the Regina Leader-Post, the local newspaper they got the information from also wears its bias on its sleeve? How about the foundation whose public apology they printed? Is that fake news?
I was trying to respond to this nutcase’s response. I’m saying that bias is fine. But at least this one says what it’s for.
.lgbtqnation just the best news site nobody could ever think they could be biased in any way.
But I guess Lemmy fucked it. So sure, down vote.
How dare a comedian make a joke… You guys are just lame now.
“joke”
If the audience is booing the “comedian”, they must not be funny.
Or… the crowd is soft and cant handle basic critique from a comic. Would you guys be foaming at the mouth is a comic made fun of christians at christian event, and everyone booed? The answer is no, you would be saying how weak the christian were.
Any community can be criticized, but the criticism should be coming from within. Eddie Izzard can make trans jokes, but Rob Schneider doesn’t have an interesting perspective to share. When Ricky Gervais roasted the audience of the 2020 Golden Globes, he did it as a fresh insider.
Would you guys be foaming at the mouth is a comic made fun of christians at christian event, and everyone booed? The answer is no, you would be saying how weak the christian were.
Who’s “foaming at the mouth”? I’m cringing at how lame Rob Schneider is. I don’t want to be in the same room as him because I’ll get second hand embarrassment.
Outsiders always have the most basic, over spoken take on shit. If you want a non political example, take every comedian who flies into to NJ to do a show in NYC and decides to make a joke about how bad NJ smells. While it true that they did smell something bad on the ride in, but that’s hardly representative of NJ.
So I am not allowed to critique a group an organization with humor unless I am apart of it?
You’re allowed to do anything you want and I’m allowed to boo you for it.
Agreed! And that makes you lame, boring, and illogical.
Just dont you dare ever make a joke about a religion you dont belong to, that would be super bad.
Are you suggesting religion and being trans are the same thing?
Because that means you either think both are inherent or both are a choice. So which is it?
Are you kidding? It’s a comedian’s job to read the room and tell when their set isn’t landing for shit and change tactics on the fly. Maybe he’s got his own shit niche but he should learn the basics of tact if he wants gigs.
It’s not the audience’s fault when a comedian bombs. It’s his own damn fool self.
I see a headline, I dont know if it was a real boo, or a “boo” according to the article writer.
Hospitals of Regina Foundation issued a “sincere and unconditional apology” for Scheinder’s comments during his set, which occurred at their Four Seasons Ball. Attendee Tynan Allen told the CBC that “it was just very apparent how uncomfortable everyone felt and how unacceptable the things he was talking about were.”
Maybe read the article along with the headline.
Oh wow, a person or organization caved to pressure, that is super rare…
Your previous comment:
I see a headline, I dont know if it was a real boo, or a “boo” according to the article writer.
The article you didn’t read along with the thing I just quoted that you apparently also didn’t read:
Attendee Tynan Allen told the CBC that “it was just very apparent how uncomfortable everyone felt and how unacceptable the things he was talking about were.”
It sounds more like you don’t want people to have found him offensive. But they clearly did.
You believe everything you read as long as it agrees with you, dont you? There is a news article(s), so they appologized, has happened literally thousands of times, and then there is a quote from a person claiming a thing, literally has happened millions of times. Show me the clip and that is actually a useful thing, artles are literally useless.
If he was telling a bunch of N-- jokes, would you similarly come to his defense?
Sure, if they were done in a way that was actually funny to a reasonable person. If statements are just insults then they were never jokes, the problem is that you guys dont even allow people to make fun of particular groups, you start clutching your pearls and gasping. You guys went from the cool guy in the 90s to being super lame.
What sort of “reasonable person” would find a white person telling jokes that use that word unless the joke criticized the word funny?
Which “cool guy” comedians in the 90s told such jokes? Can you name them?
Trans jokes were not relevant in the 90s. What I am talking about is how in the 90s the general left side was the side that was funny and would tell any joke and the right was the more religious and pearl clutching, now the sides have reversed and you guys the are lame ones.
Your example is a joke talking about how it’s a racist word. Which is not what I asked you to show me. Also, that video was from 8 years ago, not the 90s. So how does that support your point?
That is an example of the joke being funny when teh n word is used. And yes, the aspect of the N word being racist would be central role for when it would be used in a joke. That guy did it in a hilarious way and I defend his use of it to answer your first comment.
This is what I said:
What sort of “reasonable person” would find a white person telling jokes that use that word unless the joke criticized the word funny?
And then you provided me a joke (again, not from the 90s like you were talking about) which criticized the word. So I think you proved my point. Racist jokes aren’t funny and neither are other bigoted jokes.
Is that all you have to add?
I seem to be the only one calling out your silliness, so yes.
You’re so close to getting it.
Thank you!
