Thoughts on Trevor Noah & Tweets & Comedy & Media & And Symbol
How lonely and sad are you to scour back years in someone's tweets? What would you expect to find? Comedy is the rare art form that has to be practiced in front of people to truly hone your work. It's not always perfect, but damning someone's progress is certainly a way to hinder the growth of comedy and (its effects on) our society. You want comedians that are 'edgy' and 'real,' but cannot deal with the fact that no one wakes up one morning Louis CK. It takes an incomprehensible amount of effort to develop a voice. But with comedy, you cannot simply shoot hoops in your backyard and get better. You can't even play 1 on 1. You can't 'miss' quietly, alone. You work out ideas and fragments of ideas and fragments of lines of ideas, and you need to work them out in front of other people.
Dissecting years old twitter, backlash to cell phone footage of underground comedy shows, this is all taking a work in progress and critiquing it as though it's the finished product. No matter that it's comedy, and fuck you for thinking you're so special that your critique of even a finish product matters, but in doing what I mentioned above, the media is looking at a painting that has just started, and saying "I don't like how it turned out." Well fuck you, because it's not done, and even when it is, maybe I'm not painting it for cynical, lazy, backwards twats like you.
If you want to damn an industry, how about journalism and the media, that starts drooling at the idea of the story "New Daily Show Host Makes Inappropriate Fat People Jokes." This is lazy and this is fucking stupid and this is why so many everyday people have lost faith in real journalism, because the whole world as turned into an investigatory, hypersensitive TMZ, treating this as though it's a real, viable, important story. The news is too often dominated by gossip articles, given parallel importance to real stories.
When I read headlines like "New Daily Show Host Already In Trouble," I think "No. Society is already in trouble, and has been."
Also, if you want to take this out of context and write a piece about 'unknown stupid twitter-famous comedian bashes media,' here are some words I didn't use in the status above, in case you want to ellipses them together for a bad quote from me: jews, blacks, women, abortion, hate, feminism, sandwiches, butthole, chic-fil-a, christianity, ted cruz, obamacare.
I'll even make a quote for your blog: "Unknown comedian Kyle Ayers says 'Media...is..jews. Everyday people...hate...blacks. New Daily Show Host Makes...abotion...sandwiches."
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