I've never 'got'

As anaemic as that is in a televised format - he’s joking... it’s sort of a joke. One he would probably have written in a little opinion piece or something. Although he is a sort of professional malcontent (like we used to enjoy Woody Allen being before he morphed into something abhorrent)... so if malcontent humour isn’t your thing then fair enough of course.

it was recorded little over a month ago. don't know about you, but making a joke out of having people fired in the middle of a pandemic, in a country where employment is directly related to your ability to access healthcare - FOR REASONS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE HE WANTS FIRED, is fucking awful and about as far from a "joke" as you can get.

fuck him and his privileged, comfortable liberal fuckery. there's people dying out here.

Honestly. Not reading it that way myself but I hear you.

I think there’s bigger stinkers out there..

I’m fascinated by the format... is it some sort of religious program or something?

it's on CBS i think.

it would make more sense on FOX...

Ah yeah, it's the small print.
Or online sometimes, the non-existant print.

By the by, bamboo, when used for clothing is plastic that's made using the same process as rayon. So rayon could be considered 100% organic in the same way as long as the trees were wild harvested : )

Have you read anything he's ever written?

cunt's on the radio often enough. insufferable.

Shame. I read a lot of his earlier essays back in the 90s when he was brought to the fore by Esquire US. I really enjoyed his writings of that era but sort of lost track of his work. I was aware he did other things but stopped paying attention.

I also used to be more interesting in the 90s and am now an insufferable old man.

I also used to be more interesting in the 90s and am now an insufferable old man.

If there were an LFGSS OG motto, that'd be it.

Get off my lawn?

i mean... did you check out the firing people thing? it's fucking Morrissey level "yeah i'm out" atrocious.

Just watched it. Check your satire meter, it may be broken.

CBS Sunday morning was something I used to watch with my Grandfather. Those commentary pieces often have a very current satiric bent. It's not a show I've seen in a long time but the format is identical to the one used innthe 70s/80s/90s

Do you have context for what whas happening when that aired? On it's own it's just odd, but there may be more based on something topical for that week.

Check your satire meter, it may be broken.

good satire never punches downwards.

nah, man's an asshole.

I read a couple of his books years ago. Proper laugh out loud funny, taking the piss out of himself and his prissy, over-dramatic personality, more than anything else. Then read a later one - it was lost on me, but inoffensive. Can’t watch this link tho, be a shame if he’s gone to the dark side.

Matt Berry.

it was recorded little over a month ago. don't know about you, but making a joke out of having people fired in the middle of a pandemic, in a country where employment is directly related to your ability to access healthcare - FOR REASONS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE HE WANTS FIRED, is fucking awful and about as far from a "joke" as you can get.

fuck him and his privileged, comfortable liberal fuckery. there's people dying out here.

OK, seen it now, it's a little whimsy about poor customer service and his fantasised reaction to it, seemingly removed from the COVID world. It's a bit meh, and very comfy middle-class, but the overwrought panto anger is a bit silly here.

I enjoy him in certain things. He's great in What We Do In The Shadows. I agree that he's generally a bit over the top and annoying but he suits certain roles.

watching millionaires, even in "jest", talking about those less fortunate than themselves as individuals that exist merely to indulge the vagaries of the wealthy really gets my "fuck you, karen" gland all swole.

it's the same sort of edgy "it's just a joke, man" horseshit the right tries to pull when they're punching downwards in the direction of those they deem less worthy.

jeremy clarkson for people that have read a book or two.

jeremy c***kson is for people that wouldn’t read a book

Shrink wrapped and unread I see ;)

Wipe clean

The only thing i know about Sedaris is from his published diaries that I've read and his descriptions of poverty, racism and homophobia in his youth are far from the person you describe in this thread.

then maybe you should give his latest outpourings a listen.

Just watched that Sedaris Sunday Morning monologue.

It's shit.

Used to read his stuff when I was younger, mainly to appear 'with it', don't remember ever thinking 'this guy is good'.