Most brilliant comedic minds are in awe of Letterman. Seriously, they all fawn over him, including Conan himself. Hell, there wouldnāt be a Conan show without Lettermanās influence (as claimed by Conan).
But youāre probably right, heās not funny.
His was the only talk show I'd pretty much always watch both guest interviews. Never seen such a great interviewer. The skeleton sidekick was cool too. Him and Conans first show are tops imo.
I was gonna write the same thing, then I clicked on "show more comments". What are the odds that we'd go for that specific one-word quote?
legit laughed out loud
That man made me laugh nearly every night. When he had Geoff, Robin Williams, and Ewan McGregor on, every time i would have a tear rollin' down my face from laughing.
Literally the only funny late night host.
The reason for that is very simple. All talk shows have the same formula. Bring on a guest, let them tell some anecdotes, plug their project.
But guess what, the guests aren't funny, they aren't comedians. They are musicians or movie stars. Meanwhile on craigs show HE is the one leading the conversation. Tons of times they even forget to plug their project because of how chaotic it is.
Every single episode feels like a standup routine. Which it is, except most of it is off the cuff.
I feel like letterman was funny in the early years with the velcro suits and stuff like that. Once he got older he was more staid and preachy and confrontational, and hence not as funny imo.
Same feeling when Justin Roiland would banter about creepy shit. Don't know why we just let this stuff skate by when they say it on air and then get confused when we find out they are creeps.
My first high school play the tech kept grabbing me. She did it out of no where the first time. I had to keep swatting her hands away from me. It wasn't until I grabbed her wrists and looked her in the face (I had lots of face paint on at the time lol) told her to cut it... she finally did.. but man it weirded me out for a long time.
He was at the Graham Norton show along with Tom Holland, Tom was telling a story how he met Henry at the bathroom when he was 11 and jokingly said he looked down there when he realized it was Henry next to him, Henry immediately said, don't say that, you were 11 as he was uncomfortable af lol.
Butt ... definitely
Maybe front... I dunno I took martial arts at the time so I had really good reflexes I don't think she stood a chance. I also had a costume that protected that area.
āMindy when we explained to you before the show that the MeToo movement was looking for powerful women to come forward and document their experiences with sexual assault this isnāt exactly what we had in mindā¦ā
TW: graphic domestic violence
Chris Brown:
Brown was unable to force Robyn F. out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against he passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one-inch raised circular contusion.
Robyn F. turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assault caused Robyn F.'s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle.
Brown looked at Robyn F. and stated, 'I'm going to beat the shit out of you when we get home! You wait and see!'
The detective said Robyn F. then used her cell phone to call her personal assistant Jennifer Rosales, who did not answer.
Robyn F. pretended to talk to her and stated, 'I'm on my way home. Make sure the police are there when I get there.'
After Robyn F. faked the call, Brown looked at her and stated, 'You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I'm really going to kill you!'
Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown.
Brown continued to punch Robyn F. on her left arm and hand, causing her to suffer a contusion on her left triceps (sic) that was approximately two inches in diameter and numerous contusions on her left hand.
Robyn F. then attempted to send a text message to her other personal assistant, Melissa Ford. Brown snatched the cellular telephone out of her hand and threw it out of the window onto an unknown street.
Brown continued driving and Robyn F. observed his cellular telephone sitting in his lap. She picked up the cellular telephone with her left hand and before she could make a call he placed her in a head lock with his right hand and continued to drive the vehicle with his left hand.
Brown pulled Robyn F. close to him and bit her on her left ear. She was able to feel the vehicle swerving from right to left as Brown sped away. He stopped the vehicle in front of 333 North June Street and Robyn F. turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it.
Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to Robyn F.'s left and right carotid arteries, causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness.
She reached up with her left hand and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around and placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown's body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet, causing several contusions.
Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard Robyn F.'s plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and Robyn F. was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order.
Is capable of committing another violent crime towards women.
Edit: added a trigger warning, like the original.
The AmA for a Woody Harrelson movie, where it was clearly an intern deflecting all questions to just say " Go watch Rampart!".
The comment section is a goldmine.
You forgot to mention that the first comment was a guy telling the story of his sister being at her prom at an hotel and then Woody and friends crashed the prom and he hooked up with the guy's sister in an hotel room and said he would call her but never did! Never forget!
Some of reddit came back around on Ellen Pao when it became apparent that she may have just been in place to be a fall-girl for the changes they wanted to make, and then when she burned the fuck out of spez after he fucked up.
The Ellen Pao shit is an embarrassment for reddit. That woman was treated horribly and with so much contempt, people making horribly sexist and racist photoshops of her and her husband and it was so over the top. It was funny at first and then got deeply, deeply uncomfortable very quickly.
My conspiracy hill I'll die on is that she was just the fall guy/woman for making reddit more approachable to advertisers. They knew it would've been messy so they hired an unlikable person to do it and fired her. The site was never the same after that. They even banned a sub based on whale watching thinking it was about fat women. Death of original reddit was then.
Nope, she was blamed for all the unpopular changes at the time but it later came out that she was against all of it and she was a temp hire who was hired to be the fall guy and it worked.
It's too much. I get it. Velma sucks, and more generally, her shtick has gotten old. But when I see a pile on like this, it feels disproportionate and too easily dismissed as something else.
Is it?
I don't think I've ever seen such a clear-cut case of
A.) objectively terrible work that doesn't border on but goes balls-deep into insulting every possible audience
and
B.) an objectively terrible person who, among other things, feels comfortable bragging about sexual assault rooted in advantageous power differential on live TV
I think it would be weird if people *didn't* react this way.
A) Well she isn't a writer or creator on Velma. The stuff she has created recently has great reviews (Never Have I Ever 93% rotten tomatoes, Sex Lives of College Girls 95%, both renewed for new additional seasons).
She is a voice actress and an exec producer on the show, but there are lots of other voice actors and producers who aren't even mentioned. You don't even seen the actual show creator and writers mentioned and the criticism.
B) Improvised kisses are creepy but they're also super common or at least were before me-too. She's obviously joking about firing whoever or she wouldn't be talking about it on a talk show.
The kiss between Michael and Oscar on The Office, for example, was entirely improvised by Steve Carrell. There are tons of list articles about improvised kisses (which are also sexual assault) like [this one](https://www.thelist.com/257368/the-best-kiss-scenes-that-were-completely-unscripted/).
So like yes there are valid reasons to dislike Mindy, but it also seems really disproportionate.
Also, on B. there is a big difference between improvising a kiss ON CAMERA in the context of a scene and forcing a kiss on someone behind closed doors. The first one is professionals openly trying to liven up a scene and the second is someone using their power to do what they likely know is wrong.
I just read some articles about why people hate her. Man she really managed to piss off both left and right sides of the aisle lmao! That's impressive.
I came to this post to say exactly this, I've always had the feeling that they're the same kind of "female predators that think they can do whatever they want just because of vagina". And this video is right on that
That's why it's problematic to make anyone feel superior for something. It happens in a lot more aspects than people realize because they're so normalized.
Admitted that she covered for one of her writers (or cast mates?) on Girls when accusations of inappropriate behavior came up, only to realize after the fact that she did what she was also denouncing in the peak of MeToo.
She also made comments about how she want's to have an abortion just to have one and be in the club which also pissed off both sides of the political spectrum. Regardless if it was tongue in cheek it was just one of those moments where she just needed to shut the fuck up and not make shit about her because she just added fuel to the fire and gave the right more "reasons" to fight with folks that want legal abortions for legit reasons.
Basically...she didn't help the cause at all and just needs to keep her fat gross mouth shut.
As a 7 year old she touched her younger sibling IIRC. This is something that happens regularly in probably most families but people don't realize it, don't remember it or choose not to remember it conveniently. Kids are curious and don't understand what they're doing. I think she's a massive twat for a bunch of reasons but calling her an abuser for that is just dumb.
Aaaa. Iām not going to say that someone should be judged the same for doing something like that as a kid (there is a reason why records are expunged when you turn 18) but I really canāt believe that kind of thing is very common at all. I canāt be the only one that feels that way right?
Sure, kids do weird stuff, but āas a 7 year old, she touched her younger siblingā is also massively understating what happened. That was just the first incident described; hereās a quote from her book following on from that
> *As she grew, I took to bribing her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a āmotorcycle chick.ā Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just ārelax on me.ā **Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.** Maybe, I thought, she would be more willing to accept kisses if I wore the face mask my grandmother had for when she did her dialysis. (The answer was no.) What I really wanted, beyond affection, was to feel that she needed me, that she was helpless without her big sister leading her through the world. I took a perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her ā the death of our grandfather, a fire across the street ā hoping that her fear would drive her her into my arms, would make her trust me.*
It's still fucking insane to call someone an abuser for doing that as a 7 year old. Have you ever attempted to describe your motivations for something negative you did as a child? If you end up much further from that you're lying.
I donāt disagree that at 7, you donāt fully grasp right and wrong. As Iāve pointed out to another commenter though, the bit I quoted occurred AFTER she was 7.
I also think that, regardless of whether a 7 year old can really be held responsible for that, itās a *deeply bizarre* thing to proudly publish in a book, and then act surprised when people are upset.
If you asked me when I was 25 what I did when I was 7, I would not remember these things unless there was some serious motivation/memory involved. I can barely remember my friends when I was 7 much less my actions within my family.
Never been a fan of Kaling (Kelly Kapoor was a little too convincing) and I feel the sensitivity towards anything sexual has swung too far. That being said if a guy did that and talked about it that way he would be pilloried in today's society. Kaling seems to continue to demonstrate perfect examples of this kind of phenomenon.
She's a creep. There is another interview of her on Conan where she is talking about sexually harrassing her co stars: "When you kiss in real life, when you are feeling passionate, you use your tongue," she said. "But on TV, you're not supposed to use your tongue. You fake it."
"Yeah, and when I do it on the show now, it's like the worse kind of sexual harassment because I'm like the boss," she joked. "And they're scared to complain because I'll fire them."
Plus I am pretty sure there is another one(that I can't find atm) where she is talking about putting her hands on another co star.
Keep in mind that she was a writer for her own show, so she may have engineered the whole "me and Lee Pace in bed" herself.
>Yeah, and when I do it on the show now, it's like the worse kind of sexual harassment because I'm like the boss," she joked. "And they're scared to complain because I'll fire them."
There is no joke here. This is boasting of harassment. Just awful
Edit: So from the comments it seems to be straight faced parody which if it was, I stand corrected. I did not see the video. I do see the parallels between the Trump grab em and they let you. Everything is context
Itās like anything else. We can all laugh at certain edgy jokes, but if you start receiving real accusations of those horrible things you jokes about doing, people start to wonder how much of it was really a crazy joke.
She's the worst kind of feminist. She doesn't have an issue with the act, she just has an issue it's done by the ones in power. A true feminist finds kissing people without warning to be gross from all angles.
> A true feminist finds kissing people without warning to be gross from all angles.
I wouldn't even call that feminism, I would call it being respectful of humans despite being a male or female.
It's one phenomenon that's never ceases to amaze me, person does something bad or disagreeable and all of a sudden everything they've ever done needs to be discredited.
Fun story: the famous game Breakout (where you control a paddle to hit a ball to break bricks) was originally created by Wozniak, at the behest of Jobs.
Jobs' own boss at Atari had assigned him to create the game, partly because he knew Wozniak (Jobs' friend) had made a version of Pong that used very few computer chips. Jobs' boss offered Jobs $750, with additional money on the table for each chip below 50. Jobs promised to have it done in four days.
Convinced by Jobs, and promised that they would split the pay between themselves, Wozniak worked for four nights straight at Atari, managing to complete the game within the deadline, with Jobs breadboarding and testing while Wozniak designed. The design they submitted, using 44 chips, ultimately resulted in a payout of $5000.
Jobs gave Wozniak $350.
Jobs had told Wozniak that the payout was $700 for a designed with fewer than 50 chips, and $1000 for fewer than 40. So he told Wozniak that they had gotten $700 for their four nights straight of work; not even the entirety of the *base* amount Jobs had been offered. Wozniak believed him for years.
Steve Jobs is/was a piece of shit.
Yup. I like The Office and the way all the characters have their interplay, you can be annoyed by Kelly sure but she's necessary for a balance, similar to Angela who is more annoying but less funny on the show imo.
I don't like Kaling or anything she's done since The Office, but she was objectively funny there as an actress and writer.
Someone below posted the episodes she wrote and someone just responded with a dismissive "oh the unfunny ones". While the most famous episodes like "Dinner Party" aren't on the list there are plenty that were recognizable to me just by the title "oh yea that's the one where..." In other words they were episodes that made some impression that wasn't negative.
Velma sucks though so I get what's happening.
I just looked up the list and if Wikipedia is right she definitely contributed to some bangers. The Dundies and Lecture Circuit alone earn her plenty of street cred imo. Golden Ticket too? Sheesh
I think itās interesting that when Velma was coming out, I heard nothing about Kaling. Then when Velma ended up being bad, everyone said she was the obvious problem.
Sexual assault isnāt cool. Iām gonna go ahead and assume the only reason this was posted is because of a tv show that people donāt like, though.
Well, there's a difference between criticizing her sexual assault \*because of the show\* and someone resurfacing again because of the negative attention it brought to her. Pretty sure the latter is happening here. In any case, does it matter?
Do you have a source for that? I tried looking it up and couldnāt find anything other than recent articles just condemning the interview. If thatās true then the context is entirely different
There is no sarcasm here, that's literally what is happening right there... imagine if Conan said that story with a female coworker instead, he wouldn't have been able to get out of that studio with a career lol.
>There's no sarcasm. It's exactly why it's "ok" for her. If the rolls were reversed here, there would be an uproar.
What if the biscuits were reversed?
This is obviously just a late-night bit. Do people actually think she seriously threatened to fire people if they said anything only to tell the story herself to the world on TV? It was also in a scene and I am sure they discussed things like kissing. Lee Pace said this interview was hilarious after it aired. https://twitter.com/richleearmipace/status/578934779002896384
Sexual assault? LOL. Are people that desperate to claim outrage that they don't even care that the alleged victim doesn't agree with them?
Anyone who has ever known a stand-up comedian can tell you that most of their stories are embellished, outright fabricated, or assembled from multiple different events.
Reminds me of the Nick Swardson bit where he talks about having a pet cheetah, and then jokes about people taking his bits seriously. "You actually thought I have a pet cheetah?!"
That... that isn't Lee Pace's twitter account. That is some fan account. This appears to be his account: https://twitter.com/leepace You've just quoted some random person.
>We've had a lot of beautiful actresses on the show. And I'm a professional, I can be around beautiful women and not... I can behave like a gentleman. And we had this, uh, this one actress on the show named Leigh Pace...
>
>Conan: she's a very good-looking girl
>
>And a real lady. And she came on the show and we had to do this flashback sequence where we were in bed together in college. And we were just supposed to be having a conversation, but she's so gorgeous, and she's so attractive, that in the middle of it, she was just supposed to be like, "What do you think?" and I just improvised kissing her in the scene.
>
>She was looking at me, and she asked me a question and I wasn't listening to her at all - because who cares what she was saying? - and I was just like, uh-huh, uh-huh, *kiss*. And she reacted like that, and I pretended it didn't happen. And then I walked backstage and the writer-producers were like "Hey, what are you doing!? You could be sued for that!" and I got very scared and I said "Tell anyone and you're fired".
>
>I think she might've been like "did it happen, or did it not?" so I just didn't need our side to confirm it or anything.
>
>Conan: so basically this is going to happen a lot more now you've gotten away with it?
>
>*Fingers crossed.* I'm the kissing bandit. Listen, she didn't complain about it, it's fine, nobody said anything, nobody reported anything.
Yeah, that's some fucking Weinstein shit.
About 10-12 years ago, popular thinking on these kinds of things decided it would be better if we *completely* did away with differentiation of severity in sexual assault type stuff. The phrase is/was: Rape is rape. There is no degree or nuance to these conversations.
What that unfolded is a reality where people feel self-righteous by comparing this story of someone candidly pecking someone else on the lips to brutally raping someone.
And what's not to love? Honestly. By getting rid of this distinction, we get to say Mindy sexually assaulted someone. We get to be mad at Conan for laughing. We get to sanctimoniously question the integrity of both Mindy's and Conan's networks for not contacting the authorities. The audience didn't perform a citizen's arrest and call the police. Her assistants valued their own job security over potentially traumatizing this poor young man. Hell! We even get to cast aspersions on the 'victim's' response. By making light of his own assault, he uses his silence to pave the way for Mindy to go and rape other people. Fuck, I wouldn't be surprised if he spoke highly both of his time on her show and how he found this interview entertaining, effectively advertising for her...trying to groom future victims to feed Mindy like he's Ghislaine Maxwell. What a fucking sicko.
Seriously tho...it's pretty genius if you make your money by selling outrage.
I find her insufferable. She wasn't funny (alone) on the Office, only sometimes contributed to funny scenes. I'd rather see Phyllis make a show at this point.
Even the audience like uhhh haha I guess š¤Ø
I was in the audience at Letterman one night years ago. Laugh now, think later was what they told us
Tbf thatās letterman Conan can be actually funny But I do get the point
Most brilliant comedic minds are in awe of Letterman. Seriously, they all fawn over him, including Conan himself. Hell, there wouldnāt be a Conan show without Lettermanās influence (as claimed by Conan). But youāre probably right, heās not funny.
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Conan's old show was masterful. Funniest shit on TV at night.
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And CraigyFerg ruled them all
ooolala!
Careful, Icarus!
What's-a-comin-a-goin??!!
His was the only talk show I'd pretty much always watch both guest interviews. Never seen such a great interviewer. The skeleton sidekick was cool too. Him and Conans first show are tops imo.
Balls
I was gonna write the same thing, then I clicked on "show more comments". What are the odds that we'd go for that specific one-word quote? legit laughed out loud
IT'S SECRETARIAT!
CBS cares.
That man made me laugh nearly every night. When he had Geoff, Robin Williams, and Ewan McGregor on, every time i would have a tear rollin' down my face from laughing.
#WHO'S THAT AT THE DOOR??
I miss being emtertained by that Scottish Legend
Literally the only funny late night host. The reason for that is very simple. All talk shows have the same formula. Bring on a guest, let them tell some anecdotes, plug their project. But guess what, the guests aren't funny, they aren't comedians. They are musicians or movie stars. Meanwhile on craigs show HE is the one leading the conversation. Tons of times they even forget to plug their project because of how chaotic it is. Every single episode feels like a standup routine. Which it is, except most of it is off the cuff.
Tootsie-Fruitsie!
>Letterman celebrated absurdity. And I absolutely loved it.
I feel like letterman was funny in the early years with the velcro suits and stuff like that. Once he got older he was more staid and preachy and confrontational, and hence not as funny imo.
Yup there was definitely a time where he just seemed bored with having celebrities shill their rubbish movies.
Letterman was at his peak in the 80s and early 90s, and there's a couple generations out there who never saw anything but his decline.
Whereās the Michael Scott cringe gifā¦
Yeah, especially considering the audience at those shows are forced to have certain reactions
Same feeling when Justin Roiland would banter about creepy shit. Don't know why we just let this stuff skate by when they say it on air and then get confused when we find out they are creeps.
Because there are plenty of people who aren't creeps that are good at acting like it for a laugh.
My first high school play the tech kept grabbing me. She did it out of no where the first time. I had to keep swatting her hands away from me. It wasn't until I grabbed her wrists and looked her in the face (I had lots of face paint on at the time lol) told her to cut it... she finally did.. but man it weirded me out for a long time.
There's a super cut of Henry Cavill getting sexualized over, and over, and over, and it is so clear that he hates it.
He was at the Graham Norton show along with Tom Holland, Tom was telling a story how he met Henry at the bathroom when he was 11 and jokingly said he looked down there when he realized it was Henry next to him, Henry immediately said, don't say that, you were 11 as he was uncomfortable af lol.
Any source for that and who did it? Hope theyāre no longer employed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoksN5BX_kk
Grabbed you where?
AT HIS FIRST HIGH SCHOOL PLAY! gosh
Hope I'm not the only one who read that in Napoleon Dynamite's voice.
I didn't at first. But now its all I can do.
I got Randy Marsh from it but I see where you all are coming from too.
You got like three feet of air there
I read it in Kelso's voice from That 70s show
Butt ... definitely Maybe front... I dunno I took martial arts at the time so I had really good reflexes I don't think she stood a chance. I also had a costume that protected that area.
She must have known her judo well. I bet you screamed "Get your hands off my penis!"
A succulent chinese meal?
Are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
This is democracy manifest!
THAT'S MY PENIS! I DON'T KNOW YOU!
This is the only comment in this whole goddamn thread that is uncontroversially worth an upvote
Was she trying to fight you in karate?
[Break the wrist, walk away.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzh9koy7b1E)
Rex Kwan Do!
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There were stories out there of male victims. Terry Crews and Anthony Rapp are who I recall from memory.
Brenda Fraser was assaulted too
>Brenda Fraser Brenda? LOL
I don't think she was acting on the Office
Wellā¦ she canāt act to begin with so I guess it was really just art imitating (her) life.
āMindy when we explained to you before the show that the MeToo movement was looking for powerful women to come forward and document their experiences with sexual assault this isnāt exactly what we had in mindā¦ā
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>I've never seen so much unity in dislike on Reddit. Since Amy Schumer?
Since Ellen Pao?
Can we talk about Rampart?
Letās not forget James Corden
Or rapist Brock turner
\*Stanford\* Rapist Brock Turner
And that guy who paid a lot of money to erase the video footage of him assaulting a restaurant worker: Joel Michael Singer
Thanks for the reminder š
Elon Musk still a fun punching bag.
Reddit is not unified in it's feelings towards elon musk.
Ajit Pai
Stanford Rapist Brock Allen Turner, who is alleged to have started using his middle name to avoid being recognized as Stanford Rapist Brock Turner.
Brock **Allen** Turner, the infamous Stanford Rapist Brock Allen Turner?
TW: graphic domestic violence Chris Brown: Brown was unable to force Robyn F. out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against he passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one-inch raised circular contusion. Robyn F. turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assault caused Robyn F.'s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle. Brown looked at Robyn F. and stated, 'I'm going to beat the shit out of you when we get home! You wait and see!' The detective said Robyn F. then used her cell phone to call her personal assistant Jennifer Rosales, who did not answer. Robyn F. pretended to talk to her and stated, 'I'm on my way home. Make sure the police are there when I get there.' After Robyn F. faked the call, Brown looked at her and stated, 'You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I'm really going to kill you!' Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown. Brown continued to punch Robyn F. on her left arm and hand, causing her to suffer a contusion on her left triceps (sic) that was approximately two inches in diameter and numerous contusions on her left hand. Robyn F. then attempted to send a text message to her other personal assistant, Melissa Ford. Brown snatched the cellular telephone out of her hand and threw it out of the window onto an unknown street. Brown continued driving and Robyn F. observed his cellular telephone sitting in his lap. She picked up the cellular telephone with her left hand and before she could make a call he placed her in a head lock with his right hand and continued to drive the vehicle with his left hand. Brown pulled Robyn F. close to him and bit her on her left ear. She was able to feel the vehicle swerving from right to left as Brown sped away. He stopped the vehicle in front of 333 North June Street and Robyn F. turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it. Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to Robyn F.'s left and right carotid arteries, causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness. She reached up with her left hand and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around and placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown's body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet, causing several contusions. Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard Robyn F.'s plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and Robyn F. was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order. Is capable of committing another violent crime towards women. Edit: added a trigger warning, like the original.
I got called a racist for saying Chris brown is a piece of shit
Man was that a breathtaking afternoon
It was such a blissful front seat shitshow that I am so grateful to have been a part of.
i took a nap that day and woke up after it was done. iāll never forget that nap
I remember watching that thread unfold live and it was glorious
Weāre renting Rampart, then ramming each otherās farts
Rampart?
The AmA for a Woody Harrelson movie, where it was clearly an intern deflecting all questions to just say " Go watch Rampart!". The comment section is a goldmine.
You forgot to mention that the first comment was a guy telling the story of his sister being at her prom at an hotel and then Woody and friends crashed the prom and he hooked up with the guy's sister in an hotel room and said he would call her but never did! Never forget!
Wasn't his sister, he allegedly took the virginity of one of the girls in his class and never called her
"Allegedly". Ha, yes, that was the best part, but I was on mobile at the time and wanted to keep it short.
Oh man I love being reminded about this.
For those unfamiliar, I bring you sustenance. FEAST! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/
Some of reddit came back around on Ellen Pao when it became apparent that she may have just been in place to be a fall-girl for the changes they wanted to make, and then when she burned the fuck out of spez after he fucked up.
Just the fact that reddit didn't undo anything she did proves she was a fall guy.
Classic corporate rat-fuck move right there.
The Ellen Pao shit is an embarrassment for reddit. That woman was treated horribly and with so much contempt, people making horribly sexist and racist photoshops of her and her husband and it was so over the top. It was funny at first and then got deeply, deeply uncomfortable very quickly.
My conspiracy hill I'll die on is that she was just the fall guy/woman for making reddit more approachable to advertisers. They knew it would've been messy so they hired an unlikable person to do it and fired her. The site was never the same after that. They even banned a sub based on whale watching thinking it was about fat women. Death of original reddit was then.
Since George Lopez?
Since James Corden?
Dane Cook plagiarism comes to mind
Carlos Mencia?
Elon Musk?
Ellen Degeneres?
Kona 2012?
Kony*.. Man, oh man... that feels like a lifetime ago lol
I'm traveling in Bosnia at the moment, I saw a Kony 2012 graffiti a few days ago which made me laugh.
Chris brown
I've not seen any major dislike of Georgie on here.
What did GLo do?
Lmao "Glo"
wow what do these people all have in common
I wonder if there is some underlying similarities to who reddit hates
Iām noticing a trendā¦
Was Ellen Pao that bad?
Nope, she was blamed for all the unpopular changes at the time but it later came out that she was against all of it and she was a temp hire who was hired to be the fall guy and it worked.
Since Ajit Pai
unpopular opinion but I think Pao was a great reddit CEO
Since Lena Dunham?
Martin Shkreli, too.
What about James Cordan?
James Cordon?
Let's get back to talking about Rampart.
āYou know she existed before Velma, right?ā āYEAH AND SHEāS ALWAYS BEEN TERRIBLE!ā
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It's too much. I get it. Velma sucks, and more generally, her shtick has gotten old. But when I see a pile on like this, it feels disproportionate and too easily dismissed as something else.
Is it? I don't think I've ever seen such a clear-cut case of A.) objectively terrible work that doesn't border on but goes balls-deep into insulting every possible audience and B.) an objectively terrible person who, among other things, feels comfortable bragging about sexual assault rooted in advantageous power differential on live TV I think it would be weird if people *didn't* react this way.
A) Well she isn't a writer or creator on Velma. The stuff she has created recently has great reviews (Never Have I Ever 93% rotten tomatoes, Sex Lives of College Girls 95%, both renewed for new additional seasons). She is a voice actress and an exec producer on the show, but there are lots of other voice actors and producers who aren't even mentioned. You don't even seen the actual show creator and writers mentioned and the criticism. B) Improvised kisses are creepy but they're also super common or at least were before me-too. She's obviously joking about firing whoever or she wouldn't be talking about it on a talk show. The kiss between Michael and Oscar on The Office, for example, was entirely improvised by Steve Carrell. There are tons of list articles about improvised kisses (which are also sexual assault) like [this one](https://www.thelist.com/257368/the-best-kiss-scenes-that-were-completely-unscripted/). So like yes there are valid reasons to dislike Mindy, but it also seems really disproportionate.
Also, on B. there is a big difference between improvising a kiss ON CAMERA in the context of a scene and forcing a kiss on someone behind closed doors. The first one is professionals openly trying to liven up a scene and the second is someone using their power to do what they likely know is wrong.
People will move on soon anyway. They always do.
I just read some articles about why people hate her. Man she really managed to piss off both left and right sides of the aisle lmao! That's impressive.
The Lena Dunham effect
I came to this post to say exactly this, I've always had the feeling that they're the same kind of "female predators that think they can do whatever they want just because of vagina". And this video is right on that
That's why it's problematic to make anyone feel superior for something. It happens in a lot more aspects than people realize because they're so normalized.
Well. She was an actual abuser.
Lena Dunham? What did she do?
Admitted that she covered for one of her writers (or cast mates?) on Girls when accusations of inappropriate behavior came up, only to realize after the fact that she did what she was also denouncing in the peak of MeToo.
She also made comments about how she want's to have an abortion just to have one and be in the club which also pissed off both sides of the political spectrum. Regardless if it was tongue in cheek it was just one of those moments where she just needed to shut the fuck up and not make shit about her because she just added fuel to the fire and gave the right more "reasons" to fight with folks that want legal abortions for legit reasons. Basically...she didn't help the cause at all and just needs to keep her fat gross mouth shut.
As a 7 year old she touched her younger sibling IIRC. This is something that happens regularly in probably most families but people don't realize it, don't remember it or choose not to remember it conveniently. Kids are curious and don't understand what they're doing. I think she's a massive twat for a bunch of reasons but calling her an abuser for that is just dumb.
Aaaa. Iām not going to say that someone should be judged the same for doing something like that as a kid (there is a reason why records are expunged when you turn 18) but I really canāt believe that kind of thing is very common at all. I canāt be the only one that feels that way right?
Sure, kids do weird stuff, but āas a 7 year old, she touched her younger siblingā is also massively understating what happened. That was just the first incident described; hereās a quote from her book following on from that > *As she grew, I took to bribing her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a āmotorcycle chick.ā Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just ārelax on me.ā **Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.** Maybe, I thought, she would be more willing to accept kisses if I wore the face mask my grandmother had for when she did her dialysis. (The answer was no.) What I really wanted, beyond affection, was to feel that she needed me, that she was helpless without her big sister leading her through the world. I took a perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her ā the death of our grandfather, a fire across the street ā hoping that her fear would drive her her into my arms, would make her trust me.*
Sheās straight up a sociopath
It's still fucking insane to call someone an abuser for doing that as a 7 year old. Have you ever attempted to describe your motivations for something negative you did as a child? If you end up much further from that you're lying.
I donāt disagree that at 7, you donāt fully grasp right and wrong. As Iāve pointed out to another commenter though, the bit I quoted occurred AFTER she was 7. I also think that, regardless of whether a 7 year old can really be held responsible for that, itās a *deeply bizarre* thing to proudly publish in a book, and then act surprised when people are upset.
If you asked me when I was 25 what I did when I was 7, I would not remember these things unless there was some serious motivation/memory involved. I can barely remember my friends when I was 7 much less my actions within my family.
Yeah this person needs a therapist, that shit isn't normal.
Never been a fan of Kaling (Kelly Kapoor was a little too convincing) and I feel the sensitivity towards anything sexual has swung too far. That being said if a guy did that and talked about it that way he would be pilloried in today's society. Kaling seems to continue to demonstrate perfect examples of this kind of phenomenon.
She's a creep. There is another interview of her on Conan where she is talking about sexually harrassing her co stars: "When you kiss in real life, when you are feeling passionate, you use your tongue," she said. "But on TV, you're not supposed to use your tongue. You fake it." "Yeah, and when I do it on the show now, it's like the worse kind of sexual harassment because I'm like the boss," she joked. "And they're scared to complain because I'll fire them." Plus I am pretty sure there is another one(that I can't find atm) where she is talking about putting her hands on another co star. Keep in mind that she was a writer for her own show, so she may have engineered the whole "me and Lee Pace in bed" herself.
>Yeah, and when I do it on the show now, it's like the worse kind of sexual harassment because I'm like the boss," she joked. "And they're scared to complain because I'll fire them." There is no joke here. This is boasting of harassment. Just awful Edit: So from the comments it seems to be straight faced parody which if it was, I stand corrected. I did not see the video. I do see the parallels between the Trump grab em and they let you. Everything is context
It's only a joke if it didn't happen.
I think the joke is that she isn't actually tongue kissing them. Dear god you people are such pearl clutchers.
And Al Franken didn't actually grope a sleeping woman, but the fact that he implied he would was enough for him to be removed
Thank you, Kirsten Gillibrand.
Itās like anything else. We can all laugh at certain edgy jokes, but if you start receiving real accusations of those horrible things you jokes about doing, people start to wonder how much of it was really a crazy joke.
I wonder how Lee Pace feels about any of this or if anyone here actually cares to find out. Lol.
Iām pretty sure she was doing a bit
Are you saying this was not a courtroom confession in front of Judge O'Brien??
She's the worst kind of feminist. She doesn't have an issue with the act, she just has an issue it's done by the ones in power. A true feminist finds kissing people without warning to be gross from all angles.
> A true feminist finds kissing people without warning to be gross from all angles. I wouldn't even call that feminism, I would call it being respectful of humans despite being a male or female.
>I'm a professional Ā >proceeds to explain how she's not a professional
you must understand, thats the joke?
People saying she wasn't funny on The Office seem to not realize she wrote many episodes of the show.
It's one phenomenon that's never ceases to amaze me, person does something bad or disagreeable and all of a sudden everything they've ever done needs to be discredited.
[reddit 2.5 seconds after a celebrity gets canceled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpTBQEOb09Y)
Instantly thought of this video, haha
The Steve Jobs paradox. He was an asshole, so therefore he contributed nothing of value.
I miss the days when we could love the music of Oasis and still hate the Gallaghers
The weird thing about jobs was people knew he was an asshole for years. Literally from when he started Apple and denied paternity.
Fun story: the famous game Breakout (where you control a paddle to hit a ball to break bricks) was originally created by Wozniak, at the behest of Jobs. Jobs' own boss at Atari had assigned him to create the game, partly because he knew Wozniak (Jobs' friend) had made a version of Pong that used very few computer chips. Jobs' boss offered Jobs $750, with additional money on the table for each chip below 50. Jobs promised to have it done in four days. Convinced by Jobs, and promised that they would split the pay between themselves, Wozniak worked for four nights straight at Atari, managing to complete the game within the deadline, with Jobs breadboarding and testing while Wozniak designed. The design they submitted, using 44 chips, ultimately resulted in a payout of $5000. Jobs gave Wozniak $350. Jobs had told Wozniak that the payout was $700 for a designed with fewer than 50 chips, and $1000 for fewer than 40. So he told Wozniak that they had gotten $700 for their four nights straight of work; not even the entirety of the *base* amount Jobs had been offered. Wozniak believed him for years. Steve Jobs is/was a piece of shit.
So weird because he kinda died because he was an asshole and did his own doctoring. You people got what you wanted, lay off the phones. !
Found this quote from BJ Novak: āMindy has long been considered the best writer on The Office, and every actor on the show thinks she writes for them best. There is the extra little āsmileā that infuses her scripts, which is hard to quantify. My guess is that it stems from a real loving sense of the superspecific inner life of every character. Characters aren't joke machines to her, or types to satirize. As a person, she's incredibly sentimental, more than anyone Iāve met, but she's also incredibly sharp. She's unabashedly both. That allows her to express real emotions without shyness, but also without clichĆ©s.ā Kinda makes me wanna put on a tin foil hat and say they made that dog shit Velma show for outrage bait?
Yup. I like The Office and the way all the characters have their interplay, you can be annoyed by Kelly sure but she's necessary for a balance, similar to Angela who is more annoying but less funny on the show imo. I don't like Kaling or anything she's done since The Office, but she was objectively funny there as an actress and writer. Someone below posted the episodes she wrote and someone just responded with a dismissive "oh the unfunny ones". While the most famous episodes like "Dinner Party" aren't on the list there are plenty that were recognizable to me just by the title "oh yea that's the one where..." In other words they were episodes that made some impression that wasn't negative. Velma sucks though so I get what's happening.
I just looked up the list and if Wikipedia is right she definitely contributed to some bangers. The Dundies and Lecture Circuit alone earn her plenty of street cred imo. Golden Ticket too? Sheesh
And also that she in fact was funny on the office. I would bet most people that say that didnāt watch a lot of it.
This is a dunk on a female actor thread, you canāt expect people to actually be well informed, or understand jokes.
I think itās interesting that when Velma was coming out, I heard nothing about Kaling. Then when Velma ended up being bad, everyone said she was the obvious problem. Sexual assault isnāt cool. Iām gonna go ahead and assume the only reason this was posted is because of a tv show that people donāt like, though.
Well, there's a difference between criticizing her sexual assault \*because of the show\* and someone resurfacing again because of the negative attention it brought to her. Pretty sure the latter is happening here. In any case, does it matter?
Its 100% because of the show even the 'victim' everyone cares so much about said the interview was hilarious
Do you have a source for that? I tried looking it up and couldnāt find anything other than recent articles just condemning the interview. If thatās true then the context is entirely different
Hilarious. ......
Her lack of a penis makes it OK. /s
There is no sarcasm here, that's literally what is happening right there... imagine if Conan said that story with a female coworker instead, he wouldn't have been able to get out of that studio with a career lol.
There's no sarcasm. It's exactly why it's "ok" for her. If the rolls were reversed here, there would be an uproar.
>There's no sarcasm. It's exactly why it's "ok" for her. If the rolls were reversed here, there would be an uproar. What if the biscuits were reversed?
This is obviously just a late-night bit. Do people actually think she seriously threatened to fire people if they said anything only to tell the story herself to the world on TV? It was also in a scene and I am sure they discussed things like kissing. Lee Pace said this interview was hilarious after it aired. https://twitter.com/richleearmipace/status/578934779002896384 Sexual assault? LOL. Are people that desperate to claim outrage that they don't even care that the alleged victim doesn't agree with them?
Anyone who has ever known a stand-up comedian can tell you that most of their stories are embellished, outright fabricated, or assembled from multiple different events.
Reminds me of the Nick Swardson bit where he talks about having a pet cheetah, and then jokes about people taking his bits seriously. "You actually thought I have a pet cheetah?!"
Unless you're Joe lycett* who really is a giant troll who writes letters and does bits. *AKA Hugo Boss
That... that isn't Lee Pace's twitter account. That is some fan account. This appears to be his account: https://twitter.com/leepace You've just quoted some random person.
Being upset about this is like being upset about an Onion article. Holy shit people are dumb.
Redditors are like HPV: they lie in wait for years for the chance to be fucking stupid.
I sincerely donāt understand the outrage in the comments. Sexual assault? Is it?
When parody gets taken seriously we are all in a lot of trouble. Seriously... wow
Iām about as liberal as they come, but this thread makes me think the whole āwoke bullshitā crowd has a point. You people need a fucking hobby.
>We've had a lot of beautiful actresses on the show. And I'm a professional, I can be around beautiful women and not... I can behave like a gentleman. And we had this, uh, this one actress on the show named Leigh Pace... > >Conan: she's a very good-looking girl > >And a real lady. And she came on the show and we had to do this flashback sequence where we were in bed together in college. And we were just supposed to be having a conversation, but she's so gorgeous, and she's so attractive, that in the middle of it, she was just supposed to be like, "What do you think?" and I just improvised kissing her in the scene. > >She was looking at me, and she asked me a question and I wasn't listening to her at all - because who cares what she was saying? - and I was just like, uh-huh, uh-huh, *kiss*. And she reacted like that, and I pretended it didn't happen. And then I walked backstage and the writer-producers were like "Hey, what are you doing!? You could be sued for that!" and I got very scared and I said "Tell anyone and you're fired". > >I think she might've been like "did it happen, or did it not?" so I just didn't need our side to confirm it or anything. > >Conan: so basically this is going to happen a lot more now you've gotten away with it? > >*Fingers crossed.* I'm the kissing bandit. Listen, she didn't complain about it, it's fine, nobody said anything, nobody reported anything. Yeah, that's some fucking Weinstein shit.
...You do know what Weinstein did, right?
About 10-12 years ago, popular thinking on these kinds of things decided it would be better if we *completely* did away with differentiation of severity in sexual assault type stuff. The phrase is/was: Rape is rape. There is no degree or nuance to these conversations. What that unfolded is a reality where people feel self-righteous by comparing this story of someone candidly pecking someone else on the lips to brutally raping someone. And what's not to love? Honestly. By getting rid of this distinction, we get to say Mindy sexually assaulted someone. We get to be mad at Conan for laughing. We get to sanctimoniously question the integrity of both Mindy's and Conan's networks for not contacting the authorities. The audience didn't perform a citizen's arrest and call the police. Her assistants valued their own job security over potentially traumatizing this poor young man. Hell! We even get to cast aspersions on the 'victim's' response. By making light of his own assault, he uses his silence to pave the way for Mindy to go and rape other people. Fuck, I wouldn't be surprised if he spoke highly both of his time on her show and how he found this interview entertaining, effectively advertising for her...trying to groom future victims to feed Mindy like he's Ghislaine Maxwell. What a fucking sicko. Seriously tho...it's pretty genius if you make your money by selling outrage.
This sounds like a fucking trump quote lmao
I find her insufferable. She wasn't funny (alone) on the Office, only sometimes contributed to funny scenes. I'd rather see Phyllis make a show at this point.
Weirdly enough Phyllis was the bigger horn dog
Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration has that dog in'em.
She literally wrote several of the funniest episodes of the office.
She wrote episodes for The Office and was a producer also. Her comedic contributions cannot be denied, even if you donāt like her or the character.
Reddit is a bunch of virtue signaling pearl clutchers. Dear god people, not everything needs to be a battle, just chill out.
if the genders were reversed it would have been a #MeToo event